About
Meet Dr. Beth Moran
Dr. Beth Moran, DNP, RN, NE-BC, brings more than 26 years of nursing experience and more than 23 years of progressive nursing leadership experience to Nurse Leadership Advisory.
Her leadership career was built from the frontline up.

Beth began her career in direct patient care and spent approximately 10 years as a Charge Nurse on a 32-bed medical-surgical, telemetry, and hospice unit.
That experience gave her a firsthand understanding of what it means to lead without yet holding the formal manager title—coordinating care, supporting staff, managing competing priorities, responding to clinical issues, and becoming the person others look to when decisions need to be made.
Her leadership experience has extended well beyond a single nursing unit.
As an off-shift administrative leader, she held responsibility for nursing care and patient safety across hospital operations, including staffing, bed assignments, resource allocation, patient relations, and service recovery. She also served as a Nursing Supervisor at a 305-bed Magnet-designated Level II trauma hospital, functioning as an off-shift hospital administrator.
As an Assistant Nurse Manager, Beth oversaw a multidisciplinary healthcare team of approximately 70 professionals while managing daily clinical operations including staffing, payroll, quality management, and patient satisfaction.
As a Patient Services Manager in geriatric psychiatry, she led a team of approximately 50 healthcare professionals while managing the complex clinical, operational, employee, quality, and patient-care responsibilities of an inpatient behavioral health environment.
She understands both sides of the leadership interview table.
She also understands the progression many aspiring nurse leaders are trying to make— because she made it herself.
That experience is at the heart of Nurse Leadership Advisory.
Progressive leadership roles
- Hospital Nursing Supervisor
- Off-Shift Administrative Supervisor
- Assistant Nurse Manager
- Patient Services Manager / Nurse Manager
Nursing background
- Medical-surgical nursing
- Telemetry
- Hospice
- Psychiatry
- Geriatric psychiatry
- Acute care
- Hospital operations
Beth has personally
- Interviewed and evaluated nursing candidates
- Hired healthcare professionals
- Coached and developed nurses
- Mentored emerging leaders
- Managed employee performance concerns
- Led multidisciplinary healthcare teams
- Managed staffing and operational challenges
- Led quality-improvement initiatives
- Addressed patient and family concerns
- Managed service recovery
- Supported employee engagement
- Navigated complex healthcare systems
Leadership Journey
Leadership Built From the Frontline Up
Dr. Moran's leadership experience was developed progressively across more than two decades—not learned only from a classroom, certification program, or coaching course.
- 1
Bedside Registered Nurse
Built a strong clinical foundation in medical-surgical, telemetry, hospice, acute care, and behavioral healthcare.
- 2
10 Years as a Charge Nurse
Led nurses from the frontline, coordinated patient care, supported staff, managed competing priorities, and made real-time clinical and operational decisions.
- 3
Hospital Nursing & Administrative Supervisor
Advanced into hospital-wide leadership with responsibility for staffing, patient safety, bed management, resource allocation, patient relations, and off-shift hospital operations.
- 4
Assistant Nurse Manager
Oversaw a multidisciplinary healthcare team of approximately 70 professionals while managing staffing, payroll, quality, patient satisfaction, and daily clinical operations.
- 5
Patient Services Manager / Nurse Manager
Led approximately 50 healthcare professionals in a complex inpatient geriatric psychiatry environment with responsibility for people, operations, quality, patient care, and organizational priorities.
- 6
DNP + NE-BC + Published Scholar + Peer Reviewer
Advanced her leadership expertise through doctoral education in Healthcare Systems Leadership, ANCC Nurse Executive board certification, peer-reviewed publication, and scholarly peer review.
Quality & Evidence-Based Practice
Leadership Grounded in Outcomes
Dr. Moran's experience extends beyond managing people and operations. Her career has included implementing evidence-based practice and quality-improvement initiatives designed to improve patient safety, patient experience, clinical reliability, and nursing practice.
Her individualized music work later became the focus of peer-reviewed scholarly publication, bringing together clinical practice, quality improvement, leadership, and doctoral nursing scholarship.
Representative work
- Daily leadership rounding
- Fall TIPS fall-prevention implementation
- High-reliability rounding
- Patient-safety initiatives
- Patient-experience improvement
- Individualized music intervention for hospitalized patients living with dementia
Scholarship
Published Scholarship
Published in Geriatric Nursing
Dr. Moran's scholarly work examined an individualized music listening intervention designed to reduce agitation among hospitalized patients living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
Belenchia, E. J. (2023). An individualized music listening program to reduce agitation in hospitalized patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Geriatric Nursing, 52, 157–164.
View Published ResearchPublished under a prior professional name.
Credentials
Education & Professional Credentials
Doctor of Nursing Practice
Healthcare Systems Leadership
Chamberlain University
Master of Science in Nursing
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Sacred Heart University
NE-BC
ANCC Nurse Executive – Board Certified
Recognition
Professional Recognition
2018
Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing
Recognized for excellence in professional nursing practice.
Credentials
Experience Behind the Advice
26+ Years in Nursing
Clinical nursing, healthcare leadership, and hospital operations experience across multiple specialties.
23+ Years Progressive Nursing Leadership
Approximately 10 years as a Charge Nurse followed by more than 13 years in formal nursing leadership roles.
Led Teams of Up to 70
Experience overseeing large multidisciplinary healthcare teams and complex clinical operations.
Hospital-Wide Administrative Leadership
Experience overseeing staffing, patient safety, bed management, resource allocation, patient relations, and off-shift hospital operations.
Doctor of Nursing Practice
DNP in Healthcare Systems Leadership from Chamberlain University.
NE-BC
ANCC Nurse Executive – Board Certified.
Published Nurse Scholar
Published in the peer-reviewed journal Geriatric Nursing.
Peer Reviewer
Experience contributing scholarly expertise to the evaluation of professional nursing literature.
Nightingale Award Recipient
Recipient of the 2018 Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing.
Nurse Leadership Advisory was created to give nurses access to practical, experienced guidance from someone who understands the nursing leadership journey from the bedside, to charge nurse leadership, to hospital-wide supervision, to formal management, and into the scholarly environment.