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Nurses, Share Your Stories

Your experiences as a nurse are powerful, not just for our nursing community, but for everyone.

AAACN would like to give you a voice, so we are asking all nurses to share your COVID-19 stories and experiences, which we will present on our digital and print platforms.

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We invite you to share your COVID-19 experiences with AAACN. Type a story you want to share in the box below or answer one of the questions. Please limit text to 150 words.

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What has inspired you most during the pandemic?
What has changed about your daily practice?
How are you and your colleagues supporting each other?
What successes and challenges have you experienced?
What are you doing to take care of yourself?
How has your community honored your resilience and courage?

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HEALTH BYTES: Patient Safety Awareness Week

March 10-16 is Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW). The focus this year is on improving safety in the ambulatory setting. A free webcast entitled Advancing Patient Safety Beyond the Hospital will be held on March 13, 2019. The webinar will address the state of ambulatory patient safety in the United States...

Exciting News on Ambulatory Care Nurse-Sensitive Indicators

The identification and measurement of nurse-sensitive indicators (NSIs) is critical in describing the contributions and value of registered nurses (RNs) in ambulatory care settings. Since 2015, AAACN has partnered with the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes (CALNOC) to develop and pilot test ambulatory care NSIs. We are pleased to share an exciting step forward in this work. Press Ganey has acquired the CALNOC registry, including the CALNOC database, nursing measures and indicators...

HEALTH BYTES: 50 States Ranked by Amount of NPs

California contains the most professionally active nurse practitioners in the U.S. with 15,374 NPs, according to a ranking from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The ranking is based on October 2018 ... In total, 164,914 professionally active NPs are working in the U.S...

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The American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN) is a welcoming, unifying community for registered nurses in all ambulatory care settings.

If you practice in a setting other than a traditional inpatient arena, you are an ambulatory care nurse and we’re here for you.

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Nurses, Share Your Stories

Your experiences as a nurse are powerful, not just for our nursing community, but for everyone.

Tell Us Your Story

HEALTH BYTES: Patient Safety Awareness Week

Exciting News on Ambulatory Care Nurse-Sensitive Indicators

HEALTH BYTES: 50 States Ranked by Amount of NPs

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