Sister Remy Angela Junio

Sister Remy Junio is the co-founder of the GSA program in the Philippines. The genesis of the GSA program was in March of 2000 when Todd Bol, the Company's founder, began discussing the growing global nursing shortage with Sister Remy Angela Junio from St. Paul's University in Manila, Philippines. Sister Remy told Mr. Bol of the Philippine's rapid loss of nurses, including hospital middle management and educators, to developed countries. It became clear that the conventional international recruiting methods were unsustainable.

Together, Todd Bol and Sr. Remy, with input from nursing, church and educational leaders throughout the Philippines, conceived of a sustainable model for replenishing the world's supply of nurses, nurse leaders, and nurse educators. They could not stop the exodus of nurses, but they could create an "ecologically sound" model that developed Philippines nurses as nursing educators and leaders to help develop the next generation of nurses globally and within the Philippines.

Pauline Taglialavore Johnson, PhD, RN

Dr. Johnson is a Professor Emeritus at Baylor University. She retired from Baylor in May, 2005 after serving for 13 years as the Director of the Graduate Program in Nursing at the Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing.

She received her BSN and MSN from Northwestern State University in Louisiana and her doctorate from Texas Woman’s University. Dr. Johnson has been in nursing education for 30 years, 26 of those in graduate education. She taught at Northwestern State University in Louisiana prior to joining the Baylor faculty in 1990. While at Northwestern she was a member of the Graduate Faculty specializing in Nursing Administration and Adult Nursing, and was the Coordinator of Nursing Continuing Education.

At Baylor University, Dr. Johnson taught graduate research and leadership. She was actively involved in research and her work has been cited in The Neuman Systems Model and Nursing Theorists and Their Work. Her area of research involved school-aged asthmatics, collaborating with the Baylor University Medical Center’s Martha Foster Lung Care Center. Dr. Johnson has numerous publications and grants and served as a Distinguished Lecturer from 1989-1995 for Sigma Theta Tau International.

Dr. Johnson also served as a site evaluator for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. She has received numerous awards for her achievements in education. In 2000, she was selected as an Outstanding Tenured Professor at Baylor University and in 2003 as an Outstanding Faculty in Scholarship for the University. In 1987, the Louisiana State Nurses Association selected Dr. Johnson as the Outstanding Nurse Educator for Louisiana.

Dr. Johnson’s efforts at GSA focus on the design and implementation of permanent nurse staffing solutions for hospitals that have significant nurse staffing needs. The focal points of her efforts are to optimize the use of available nursing school resources in the design of recruitment and retention programs intended to produce the next-generation of evidence-based practitioners. Dr. Johnson is encouraged that all of GSA’s programs are respectful of the global nursing eco-system.