Versant Healthcare Competency Solutions

Attention, PNAA members. Please vote for our fellow Filipino-American nurse, Larissa Africa, for the AONL Region 9 Board of Director position. Voting is from Sept 16 to 27, 2022.

Larissa Africa is the CEO & President of Versant Healthcare Competency Solutions and is responsible for its strategic and operational leadership. Larissa has spent two decades implementing, managing, and leading strategies to develop nursing organizations. Larissa has developed a competency-based nurse residency program, considered a gold standard in the industry. As a pioneer in the transition to practice space, she led the deployment of a competency-based model that integrates and standardizes nursing workforce development across the entire healthcare continuum, addressing high-demand areas such as long-term care, home health, and advanced practice nursing. Larissa’s collective work continues to change how healthcare organizations integrate and sustain workforce retention and practice solutions.

Larissa holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Mount St. Mary’s University, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration: Health Care Management from the University of Phoenix, and an Executive Women in Leadership certificate through Cornell University. She is an author of numerous highly recognized publications and book chapters and a national and international speaker. Larissa was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in 2021.

To view her CV, please click this link:https://www.aonl.org/system/files/media/file/2022/08/CV_Larissa_Africa_region_9_0.pdf

To view her video, please click this link: http://www.versant.org/wp-content/uploads/LAA-AONL-Region-9.mp4