Michelle L. Collins is the Vice President, Nursing Excellence for Christiana Care Health System. Dr. Collins has created, implemented, and evaluated nursing excellence infrastructures including a re-envisioned nursing professional practice model, governance structures, and a center for nursing innovation. She led the development and application of new ChristianaCare nursing practices such as virtual acute care nursing and nurse well-being programs to address organizational outcomes. She leads ChristianaCare's Magnet® redesignation work for Christiana and Wilmington Hospitals, ambulatory care, and home health. Dr. Collins speaks on nursing excellence, well-being, and virtual acute care nursing. She established the national Virtual Acute Care Network® for healthcare organizations to present and discuss their virtual care models. Dr. Collins is on the Advisory Board for the Coalition for Nurse Well-Being and the Nurse Wellbeing Consortium. She is actively involved with the ANA and its Innovation community, the Delaware Nurses Association, is president of the Delaware Organization of Nurse Leaders, and a member of American Organization for Nursing Leadership’s Virtual Care Model Learning Community. Dr. Collins received her doctorate in nursing practice and executive leadership from Wilmington University. She holds a MSN in adult health/Clinical Nurse Specialist and a BSN from the University of Delaware.