Dr. Vivienne Pierce McDaniel
DNP, RN, FADLN
Season 10 - Episode 02
Dr. Vivienne Pierce McDaniel, DNP, RN, FADLN
Vivienne Pierce McDaniel, DNP, RN, FADLN, is a visionary leader and an effective change agent with almost two decades of nursing leadership experience and more than 30 years advancing health equity, inclusion, and social justice in healthcare. She is an executive nurse consultant, adjunct nursing professor, and the ambassador for Inclusive Excellence at James Madison University School of Nursing. She served as interim executive director of the National Black Nurses Association, Inc. (NBNA) from September 2023 to March 2024.
Dr. Pierce McDaniel is the immediate past president of the Central Virginia Chapter NBNA and is the vice chair of the NBNA Health Policy Committee. She was the inaugural chair of the Virginia Nurses Association and Virginia Nurses Foundation (VNF) Diversity Equity and Inclusion Council and served on the VNF’s Board of Trustees for five years as the health equity ambassador. She currently serves on the Henrico, Parham, and Retreat Doctors’ Hospitals’ Board of Trustees, and the Brightpoint Community College Nursing Advisory Board. A prolific advocate for justice, Dr. Pierce McDaniel also chairs the Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action Council for Health Equity and Climate Justice. In addition, she chairs the Governance Committee on the Sigma Theta Tau Chi Alpha at-Large Chapter Board of Directors.
Dr. Pierce McDaniel is a Fellow of the 2021 inaugural American Association of Colleges of Nursing Diversity Leadership Institute. In 2024, she was inducted into the inaugural Academy of Diversity Leaders in Nursing. She is the recipient of the VNF 2020 Year of the Nurse Award, the 2022 American Nurses Association’s (ANA) Leadership in Ethics Award, and the 2024 NBNA’s Presidential Founders Spirit Award for demonstrating outstanding leadership in nursing.
Dr. Pierce McDaniel, a national presenter, has authored several publications that focus on healthcare and nursing in the Black community. She is co-host of the Melt the Ice podcasts series addressing racism and she is the brainchild behind the ANA Mary Eliza Mahoney Lecture Series honoring the first Black nurse to complete nursing school in America and the significance of activism.
Dr. Pierce McDaniel earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice from Walden University, her Master and Bachelor of Science in Nursing degrees from American Sentinel University and her Associate in Applied Science degree with a major in nursing from Thomas Nelson Community College. She resides in Virginia with her husband, retired SMSgt Hilton McDaniel. They both are Veterans of the United States Air Force.
