Karen Grigsby, RN, PhD

Karen Grigsby is a director of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, having been elected in 2005 to serve a four-year term. Since becoming an honor society member, she has served in numerous chapter-, regional- and international-level positions. Specifically, she served as chapter president, chapter counselor, chapter program committee, abstract reviewer, Region 3 mentor counterpart, Region 3 Coordinator (2 terms), Key Award judge, and member of the international-level By-Laws committee (2 terms). She also has served on a committee to establish a nursing honor society for a school of nursing, site visitor for a petitioning honor society, an induction speaker, and speaker for Chapter Leader Academy sessions.

Most recently, she was a member of the international Futures Advisory Council, served as Board liaison to the Leadership Succession Committee, and represented STTI for the TIGER initiative. Grigsby is a Virginia Henderson Fellow and a Billye Brown Fellow. She maintains membership in Gamma Pi Chapter at Large.

As director, Grigsby hopes to foster leadership development for members and chapters, build community among members and chapters throughout the world, encourage members and chapters to work in partnership, promote the development of clinical scholarship, and respect diverse ideas, roles, and cultures while working to achieve future goals and to sustain the viability of Sigma Theta Tau International.

Grigsby is an associate professor at The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Cincinnati, her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Colorado, and her Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Texas at Austin.