Randall Steven Hudspeth PhD, MBA, MS, APRN-CNP, FRE, FAANP
Randall Hudspeth has been a NP since 1986. He has been in executive management in large hospitals as the Chief Clinical and Nursing Officer or deputy since 1988. He retired after 5 years with the Cleveland Clinic Health System where he was CCNO for their international operations in Abu Dhabi. Prior to working with the Cleveland Clinic, he served 10 years as the nursing director for APRN practice at Saint Alphonsus RMC in Boise, Idaho, where he was privileged in pain management and addiction services, palliative & hospice care and administratively supervised other NP and CNS services.
Prior to that he was Deputy CNO and Head of Cardiovascular and Critical Care at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for 11.5 years.
He started his own private consulting LLC in 2016 that is focused on clinical practice and regulation related to pain management and addiction recovery. He is particularly interested in nursing regulation and safe opioid prescribing.
He holds bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees in nursing in addition to an MBA. The focus of his graduate work was practice and regulation. He served 8 years as the APRN on the Idaho Board of Nursing either as vice chair or chairman of the board. He served 6 years on the National Council of State Boards of Nursing APRN Committee and 3 years on the NCSBN board of directors as a director and treasurer. He is a fellow in both the American Institute of Regulatory Excellence (FRE) and the AANP (FAANP). He served as the Idaho State AANP Representative and is a founding member of Nurse Practitioners of Idaho.
He has been certified as an Adult NP by ANCC since 1987 and is also certified in Pain Management and Nursing Administration. He was previously certified as an Adult Medical Surgical CNS.
Professional recognitions include the AANP state (Idaho) award for excellence in clinical practice in 2004; Luther Christman Award for outstanding contributions to nursing by a man from the American Assembly of Men in Nursing in 2008, Distinguished alumni and the Professional Achievement Recognition Award from Idaho State University 2010, March of Dimes Nurse of the Year in 2005, and the Syracuse University research award in 1996. In Dec 2021 he was recognized as one of Idaho's top 25 most influential people in healthcare by the Idaho Business Review.
He served on the editorial board of Nursing Administration Quarterly for 10 years, and on the Journal of Nurse Practitioners for 5 years and is a regular reviewer for JNP and JAANP. He has published more than 156 peer reviewed articles on practice and regulation, 1 book chapter on nursing and politics, 1 book chapter on Pain Management, 1 book chapter on international nursing focused on American nurses in the middle-east and 1 book on Idaho nursing history (Charting Idaho Nursing History).
He coordinated the efforts to remove the physician supervision language from the Idaho Nurse Practice Act and to achieve full practice authority for APRNs in Idaho in 2003. In 2019 He was appointed by Idaho Governor Little as the only NP (only nurses) on the Healthcare Transformation Council of Idaho, and in 2020 he began serving on the Governor's COVID advisory committee.