Ora L. Strickland

Career Strickland has been a professor at the University of Maryland at Baltimore, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro. In 2011 she moved to Florida International University where she was named dean. Strickland's writings include the textbook, Measurement of Nursing Outcomes, which been published as multiple volumes. She also wrote a column for The Baltimore Sun that was called "Nurse's Station".

Strickland's research has examined the existence of Couvade Syndrome in expectant fathers in the United States, and its relationship with social determinants of health, paternal emotional stated and pregnancy planning. She has also investigated premenstrual syndrome.

Strickland played a leadership role in founding the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Nursing Research (subsequently named institute for Nursing Research.

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Honors and awards She was named a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 1978. She received honorary doctorates from the Ohio Medical College in 1992 and from Grand Valley State University in 1997. In 2016 she was inducted in to the International Nursing Research Hall of Fame.