Dr.
Vicky Stone-Gale is an Associate Professor at
Frontier Nursing University, and also practices in primary care in
Plantation, Florida. She is a co-founding member and President of the
South Florida Council of Advanced Practice Nurses, Chair of the North
Probable Cause panel for the Florida Board of Nursing, and 1ST VP of Legislative Affairs for Florida Nurse Practitioner Network. She is a past Board
member for Florida Nurses Association, past Chair of the Florida Board
of Nursing and member of the Florida Board of Nursing Controlled
Substance Formulary Committee. She was also recently appointed to the Florida APRN Autonomous Practice Council to develop standards of practice. She has testified in front of legislators
on the state level on many NP issues and worked
effortlessly over the past 20 years with many colleagues on the NP
controlled substance prescribing bills, finally seeing the successful
passage of the Barbara Lumpkin Prescribing Act. She has also
visited many legislators on the national level regarding NP issues in
Florida. She has a BSN and MSN from Barry University, and a DNP from the
University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she was awarded the Doctoral
Student of the Year. She is a recipient of numerous awards including
NONPF 2022 Outstanding Policy Award, AANP 2022 State of Excellence award, Broward County Nurse-of-the-Year and Nurse Practitioner-of-the-Year on
multiple occasions. Dr. Stone-Gale has been a preceptor for many APRN
students attending various universities in the South Florida area and
encourages these students to be politically active in their profession.
She also lectures on licensure and malpractice issues pertaining to
APRN's.