Nelson Tuazon, MAEd, MSN, MBA, RN, NE-A, CPHQ, FACHE is the Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer at East Orange General Hospital in East Orange New Jersey. He joined EOGH in 2005 as Vice President of Patient Care Services and CNO. Prior to his tenure at EOGH, Tuazon has served in various management and leadership roles in acute care hospitals and academia for over 20 years. In 2007, Tuazon served as the President of the New Jersey Board of Nursing, after having been on the board for 9 years. He was a past President of the Philippine Nurses Association of New Jersey and currently serves on the Nursing Advisory Board of Felician College, Lodi, New Jersey. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Organization of Nurse Executives of New Jersey and co-chairs the Membership Committee. He has been a Magnet Appraiser for the American Nurses Credentialing Center and serves as a Magnet Mentor for new appraisers.
Tuazon has been a recipient of numerous awards including the Governor's Nursing Merit Award, Excellence In Administration Award from the New Jersey State Nurses Association and from the Philippine Nurses Association of America. In 2002, the Institute of Nursing honored Tuazon as a Don in Nursing. In 2007, he was the recipient of the Community Leader Award from the Concerned Black Nurses of Newark.
Tuazon’s Fellowship project will focus on evaluating community outreach programs. His interests in conducting cost-effective analysis on community outreach programs are in line with the mission of East Orange General Hospital. This is also in alignment with EOGH’s current two-year grant with RWJF’s New Jersey Health Initiative’s Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care, which the hospital received in 2007. Tuazon is the Project Director for this grant.
Tuazon’s selection as a RWJF Executive Nurse Fellow complements his achievements as a Fellow of the American College of Health Care Executives (FACHE) and as a Fellow of the National Academies of Practice (FNAP). Tuazon is a graduate of the Angeles University (MAEd), Seton Hall University (MSN), and Monmouth University (MBA). He is a board certified nurse administrator (NEA-BC)