In honor of her nearly two decades of service on faculty at Frontier Nursing University (FNU), Victoria Burslem, MSN, CNM, CNE (cl), FACNM, was named a recipient of FNU’s Lifetime Service Award. The award was presented at the FNU Alumni Hall of Fame and Service Awards Dinner on Thursday, September 25, at the Kentucky Castle in Versailles, Kentucky.
The Lifetime Service Award recognizes an individual or organization providing long-standing support and commitment to the mission and work of Frontier Nursing University.
Burslem holds an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and attended graduate school at the University of Illinois Chicago. She worked at The Birth Center in Wilmington, Delaware, for several years until she was invited to become an instructor at Frontier in 1989.
Burslem went on to be an instructor in the Frontier Community-Based Nurse-Midwifery Education Program (CNEP) for seven years before returning to her own full-scope clinical practice. She served in full-scope midwifery practice for over 35 years.
She returned to the FNU faculty in 2015. She currently serves on Frontier’s Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning faculty team and is Co-Coordinator for the Labor Skills Workshop. She is also Co-Chair of FNU’s Admissions Committee.
Burslem is a Fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) and was the 2013 recipient of ACNM’s Dorothea M. Lang Pioneer Award. She is also a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
“Receiving this recognition and honor of an award from colleagues, those who know you well and have served alongside you in the trenches through the years, is the highest professional honor one can receive,” Burslem said of the FNU Lifetime Service Award. “I receive this Lifetime Service Award humbly, for it truly does take a village, and with gratitude for the gift that the Frontier community has always been to me professionally and personally. I do not take lightly the privilege I have been given to educate and impart to the next generation of nurse-midwives and nurse-practitioners the mission, principles, and practices that Frontier holds dear.”
