AACN Board
July 2017-June 2020
AACN Certification Corporation Board
July 2019-June 2020
Justin DiLibero, DNP, RN, APRN-CNS, CCRN-K, CCNS, ACCNS-AG, serves a three-year term as a director on the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) board of directors from July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2020. He also serves a concurrent one-year term on the AACN Certification Corporation board from July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020.
A clinical nurse specialist in neuroscience and surgical critical care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, DiLibero also has experience as a staff nurse and an educator. His focus is on continuous improvement in quality of nursing practice supported by the best available evidence and achieving optimal patient outcomes.
He has been a member of AACN's CSI Advisory Group since 2016, including serving as founder and co-chair of the Massachusetts CSI Nursing Delirium Collaborative since 2015 and participating on Beth Israel's CSI Academy team from 2012-2014. He was a member of the APRN Item Writing Committee in 2016 and is a frequent presenter at AACN's National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition.
Additional professional affiliations include membership in the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses and Eastern Nursing Research Society. DiLibero is also founder and chair of the planning committee for Thinking-A-Head: Annual Regional Neuroscience Nursing Symposium. He served as Northeastern University's liaison to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing from 2014-2017.
DiLibero has published multiple research and quality improvement articles in Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, American Journal of Critical Care and Nursing Management.
Among his many awards, he received Beth Israel's Excellence in Advanced Practice Nursing Award in 2016 and Excellence in Medical Critical Care Nursing Award in 2011.
DiLibero earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice at Northeastern University, Boston, in 2017, a Master of Science in Nursing at University of Cincinnati in 2013 and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from University of Phoenix in 2009.