Meet TNA’s New Executive Director

We are happy to announce that Cindy Zolnierek, PhD, RN was recently appointed the Executive Director of the Texas Nurses Association.

Cindy has been a “career-long member” of the American Nurses Association, and is passionate about the nursing profession. She served as TNA’s Director of Practice from 2007 to 2011.

Cindy has worked in the nursing profession for over 30 years, as a staff nurse, a clinical nurse specialist, and in nurse executive positions in Michigan and California. She is an expert in adult psychiatric/mental health nursing. Her dissertation entitled The lived experience of non-psychiatric hospitalization for people with severe mental illness explored the experience of people with severe mental illness in medical-surgical settings, as well as how nurses can better serve this population.

Please join NOEP in welcoming Dr. Zolnierek to the Texas Nurses Association family!