Nancy Albert, Cleveland Clinic senior director of nursing research and innovation, receives national honor from American Association of Critical-Care Nurses for her significant contributions to high acuity and critical care research.
AACN Certification Corporation establishes and maintains high standards of practice for nurses who care for acutely and critically ill patients and their families. Pamela Bolton, Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, leads national board as chair.
AACN announces new leadership and members of its national board of directors for fiscal year 2013. Kathryn E. Roberts, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, begins term as AACN board president.
Sections of the draft version of the new edition of “AACN Scope and Standards for the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner,” can be reviewed and comments submitted confidentially via an online survey through July 8, 2012. AACN to release updated practice guidelines this fall.
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses begins national implementation of AACN Clinical Scene Investigator (CSI) Academy hospital-based nurse leadership and innovation training program, with selection of six hospitals in Indianapolis.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Critical Care Societies Collaborative announces awards recognizing 12 hospitals and healthcare facilities for efforts to prevent — and eventually eliminate — healthcare-associated infections.
AACN National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition features evidence-based best practices in patient care, newest healthcare technology and more, May 19-24 in Orlando.
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses hosts its annual National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition May 19-24 in Orlando, Fla. The Critical Care Exposition is the largest and most comprehensive trade show specifically for acute and critical care nurses.
Thousands of nurses who care for high acuity and critically ill patients and their families gather May 19-24 in Orlando, Fla., when the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses hosts its annual National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition.
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses to present ICU Design Citation to Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, during 2012 National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition.
Kathleen Puntillo, from the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, to be recognized for her landmark research on pain in critically ill patients, during AACN's 2012 National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition.
Norma Metheny — associate dean for research, Saint Louis University School of Nursing — will be honored for her pioneering research and its impact beyond nursing practice into health policy, during AACN's National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition.
Peter Pronovost — senior vice president of Patient Safety and Quality for Johns Hopkins Medicine — to be honored for his work making hospitals and healthcare safer for patients, during AACN's 2012 National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition.
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses will present Circle of Excellence Awards to 25 acute and critical care nurses at its 2012 National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition, Orlando, May 19-24.
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses will present a Flame of Excellence Award to Margaret "Meg" Campbell, Detroit Receiving Hospital and Wayne State University College of Nursing, for influencing palliative care nursing practice.
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses will present a Flame of Excellence Award to Barbara Erickson for her work as a clinician, educator and researcher in cardiac nursing across the life span.
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses will present a Flame of Excellence Award to Carol Jacobson for her efforts to provide accessible cardiac nursing education programs to high acuity and critical care nurses.
The DAISY Foundation will receive an AACN-GE Healthcare Pioneering Spirit Award to honor its efforts to provide meaningful recognition to nurses, during AACN's 2012 National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition.
Emerging trends in patient care combine with advances in healthcare technology as thousands of nurses who care for acutely and critically ill patients gather in Orlando, Fla., at the AACN National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition, May 19-24.
AACN releases new versions of its popular Basic ECG Interpretation and Essentials of Pediatric Critical Care Orientation E-Learning courses, conveniently delivering the latest clinical information, tools and resources to nurses and other healthcare professionals.
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses to launch AACN Clinical Scene Investigator (CSI) Academy, with the goal of equipping staff nurses with enhanced leadership skills and greater understanding of the fiscal impact of nursing interventions.
AACN joins other healthcare groups to celebrate contributions of certified nurses March 19. More than 71,000 certified acute and critical care nurses in the U.S. bear AACN Certification credentials such as CCRN, PCCN, CCRN-E, CCNS, ACNPC, CNML, CMC and CSC.
Brigit Carter, assistant clinical professor at Duke University School of Nursing, receives $50,000 AACN Impact Research Grant to conduct benchmark research about feeding intolerance in preterm infants.
Jean Anne Connor, pediatric nurse researcher at Children’s Hospital Boston, receives $50,000 Impact Research Grant from AACN to examine how children’s hospitals measure quality of care provided by pediatric cardiovascular nurses.
Implementing early assessment, prevention and detection protocols can reduce delirium risk factors and improve patient outcomes, according to a new evidence-based AACN Practice Alert™ from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and Elsevier | MC Strategies launch online nursing course -- AACN: Critical Care Pharmacology -- to help bedside clinicians further develop competencies in the safe administration of medications used in critical care settings.
New AACN Practice Alert™ offers a checklist for aspiration prevention, including head-of-bed elevation, assessment of sedation levels and feeding-tube placement. Preventing aspiration may reduce risk of pneumonia, complications in critically ill patients.
A new Practice Alert™ from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses stresses the use of pre- and post-catheterization assessments to gauge proper catheter use and to monitor early signs of infection.
Report from Critical Care Societies Collaborative and U.S. Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group provides the first comprehensive agenda intended to guide critical care research across healthcare disciplines.
Describing family, friends and other supporters as “partners in care,” a new AACN Practice Alert™ outlines administrative and practical considerations for nurses to implement less-restrictive access to the bedside within adult ICUs.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Critical Care Societies Collaborative invite healthcare institutions and teams of critical care professionals with a record of reducing or eliminating healthcare-associated infections to submit their best practices by Dec. 19 for consideration for national awards program.
AACN names Martha A.Q. Curley, RN, PhD, FAAN, as its 2012 Distinguished Research Lecturer for her contributions to pediatric critical care nursing. Curley is a nursing professor at Penn and a nurse scientist at Children’s Hospital Boston.
Damon Cottrell, St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, Lewiston, Maine, leads AACN Certification Corporation board as chair. AACN Certification Corporation provides comprehensive credentialing for acute and critical care nursing and certifies more than 68,000 nurses.
AACN announces new leadership and members of its board of directors for fiscal year 2012. Mary Stahl, a clinical nurse specialist with Saint Luke’s Hospital, Kansas City, Mo., begins her term as board president, effective July 1, 2011.
American Journal of Critical Care and Critical Care Nurse improve on-the-go access for iPhone, Android users. For a limited time, the journals’ mobile-friendly websites can be accessed from iPhones or Androids without logging in.
Applications for AACN research grants, with awards ranging from $1,500 to $50,000, due by Nov. 1. Two AACN Impact Research Grants, with funding up to $50,000 each, support inquiry and drive change in high acuity and critical care nursing practice.
The Beacon Award for Excellence lauds top U.S.-based hospital units that employ evidence-based practices to improve patient, family outcomes and align those practices with AACN’s six Healthy Work Environment Standards.
HHS recognizes 37 hospitals and healthcare facilities for their efforts to prevent HAIs. Inaugural recipients share best practices May 2 at AACN's National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition.
AACN National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition features evidence-based best practices in patient care, newest healthcare technology and more through May 5 in Chicago
AACN to present its Pioneering Spirit Award to Ada Sue Hinshaw, dean and professor, Graduate School of Nursing, Uniformed Services University. Among her many accomplishments, Hinshaw also served as first director of the NIH National Institute for Nursing Research and dean of nursing at the University of Michigan.
AACN will present its Pioneering Spirit Award to Mary Naylor, gerontology professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Naylor led development of an innovative evidence-based approach to addressing the needs of high-risk chronically ill elders and their caregivers.
Donna Bertram — former vice president/chief nursing officer, Arlington Memorial Hospital, Texas — to receive a visionary leadership award for her career contributions to critical care and AACN mission, vision.
Janet Marvin — a pioneer in caring for burn patients -- to be honored with Distinguished Career award from AACN. Marvin's efforts contributed to advances in pain management and wound care and helped establish graduate nursing programs for burn and trauma nurses.
Barbara Drew — professor, School of Nursing, University of California San Francisco — honored for her contributions to improving cardiac monitoring of patients in hospital and pre-hospital settings.
Elizabeth Bridges — associate professor, University of Washington and USAF Colonel, USAF Reserves — recognized with AACN award for advancing the care of critically ill and injured patients from the battlefield, at the bedside and in the classroom.
Mary Jo Grap — professor, School of Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond — to receive AACN Flame of Excellence Award. Grap helped to develop an improved sedation scale to assess agitation in critically ill patients.
AACN will present its Flame of Excellence Award to Barbara ‘Bobbi’ Leeper – cardiovascular clinical nurse specialist, Baylor University Medical Center. Leeper is a nationally recognized leader in cardiovascular care and hemodynamic monitoring.
AACN Circle of Excellence Awards recognize excellent outcomes in the care of acute and critical patients and their families.
Emerging trends in patient care combine with advances in healthcare technology as an anticipated 6,000-plus nurses who care for acutely and critically ill patients gather in Chicago April 30-May 5 for AACN's National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition.
Thousands of critical care nurses will meet in Chicago for AACN National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition April 30-May 5. The 500-plus sessions will cover evidence-based best practices in patient care, advances in medical technology and more.
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