Patsy L. Maloney is a teaching professor at the University of Washington Tacoma. She served in the Army Nurse Corps for over 20 years in a variety of clinical areas and leadership positions, from nurse manager to chief nurse. She is a past president of the Association for Nursing Professional Development, co-editor of the Nursing Professional Development (NPD): Scope and Standards of Practice, 3rd edition, and 4th edition, and the NPD Anthology: Making a Difference, and served as the editor of the ANPD Update column and currently serves as the editor of the Scope and Standards Column for the Journal for Nurses in Professional Development. She served as the section editor for Foundations of Practice in the Core Curriculum for Nursing Professional Development, 3rd & 4th editions, and as a contributor to the 5th edition. Dr. Maloney has participated in and published several national nursing professional development research studies as either a principal or co-investigator. Dr. Maloney earned her BSN from the University of Maryland (Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing), her MSN and MA in Behavioral Science from the Catholic University of America, and her doctorate from the University of Southern California.