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AACN Update
2014
A nurse’s everyday work is the work
of AACN because our mission is
lived at the point of care.
Our Mission
Patients and their families rely on nurses at the most vulnerable
times of their lives.
Acute and critical care nurses rely on AACN for expert
knowledge and influence to fulfill their promise to patients and
their families.
AACN drives excellence because nothing less is acceptable.
We Are
• A community … of exceptional high acuity and critical care nurses.
• A connection … to shared expertise, wisdom, resources and standards,
so our community can provide excellent care to patients and their
families.
• A resource … that helps us learn and develop expertise.
• A sounding board … when we’re faced with a tough patient care or
work situation.
We Believe
• Nurses make a vital contribution … to patients, families and
society.
• Nursing isn’t a job, it’s a calling … a distinguished profession, an
indispensable career.
• Nurses have an obligation … to be the best they can be and protect
the contributions of nursing.
We Believe
• Nurses must be agents of positive change … in their
organizations.
• We need to work together … each individual member, member
volunteers, boards of directors and staff — to steward our mission.
This Year’s Strengths and
Accomplishments
Membership and Recognition
Membership and Recognition
• Grew membership to more than 102,000, further
strengthening the community and voice of high acuity and
critical care nurses. Membership has grown by 40 percent
since July 2008.
Membership and Recognition
• Named Dana Woods as the new CEO of AACN to provide
leadership and strategic vision to implement the work of
AACN and AACN Certification Corporation.
• Honored Wanda Johanson with the Marguerite Rodgers
Kinney Award for a Distinguished Career for her contributions
as CEO for 14 years and 40 years as a local, regional and
national volunteer, including service as AACN president.
Membership and Recognition
• AACN members elected new members to the Board of
Directors and Nominating Committee for 2014
– AACN president-elect: Karen McQuillan
– AACN directors: Deborah Klein, Megan Brunson, Paula
McCauley and Nancy Freeland
– Nominating Committee: Alvin Jeffery, Anna Dermenchyan
and Erica DeBoer
Membership and Recognition
• Awarded 46 continuing professional development
scholarships, including 16 health policy scholarships to attend
2014 Nurse in Washington Internship program.
www.aacn.org/scholarships
• Awarded 10 entry-into-nursing scholarships through the
National Student Nurses Association Foundation.
www.nsna.org
Membership and Recognition
• Presented three Flame of Excellence Awards and 25 Circle of
Excellence Awards during NTI 2014.
www.aacn.org/awards
• Selected Dr. Elizabeth Bridges as the 2015 Distinguished
Research Lecturer for her significant contributions to acute
and critical care research.
www.aacn.org/drl
Membership and Recognition
• Collaborated with more than 1,000 volunteers on
review panels, work groups and advisory teams:
www.aacn.org/volunteers
Healthy Work Environments
Healthy Work Environments
•
Completed national survey of 8,400 nurses to evaluate the
current state of critical care nurses’ work environments. Preliminary
results were presented at a healthy work environments conference
of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International.
•
Published a summary report online in May 2014 in Critical
Care Nurse. Analysis of direct care nurses’ perceptions of leadership
competence was published in the June 2014 issue of Nurse Leader.
www.aacn.org/hwe
Healthy Work Environments
• Initiated a comprehensive literature review of HWE
standards to guide an update of AACN’s standards document
and develop new resources and advocacy activities.
www.aacn.org/hwe
Professional Practice and
Programs
Professional Practice and Programs
• Awarded three Impact Research Grants, with up to three
grants to be awarded in 2015.
www.aacn.org/grants
• Awarded 122 Beacon Awards for Excellence™ — Gold: 34,
Silver: 72, Bronze: 26 — to units that distinguished
themselves by improving every facet of patient care.
www.aacn.org/beacon
Professional Practice and Programs
• Expanded AACN Clinical Scene Investigator (CSI) Academy —
a hospital-based nurse leadership and innovation training
program — to 42 hospitals.
• AACN is investing $1.25 million over three years to fund
national implementation at partner hospitals to measurably
improve patient outcomes with bottom-line impact to the
hospital.
www.aacn.org/csi
Professional Practice and Programs
• The total fiscal impact from the first of the initial AACN CSI
Academy cohorts exceeds $20 million. These results were
presented at Innovation Conferences in North Carolina,
Indiana and Massachusetts.
• Developed the AACN CSI Academy Innovation Database to
provide access to a compilation of CSI team results and
documentation.
Professional Practice and Programs
• Reached more than 52,000 nurses during calendar year
2013, — including more than 37,000 unique learners — with
conferences and conference-related programs.
• Held the 41st annual National Teaching Institute & Critical
Care Exposition (NTI) in 2014 in Denver, attended by more
than 6,000 high acuity and critical care nurses.
Professional Practice and Programs
• Presented Clinical Priorities (formerly Slice of NTI)
conference for in Las Vegas, 2014.
• Presented the third annual AACN Nurse Manager Priorities
and AACN Progressive Care Pathways conferences in Las
Vegas, 2014.
• Both conferences continue, Sept. 28-Oct. 1, 2014, in
Nashville.
www.aacnconferences.org
Professional Practice and Programs
 Attracted an average of more than 2,000 participants per
event, including nearly 300 new-to-AACN participants each
month, through AACN’s popular monthly Critical Care
Webinar Series. These free, live monthly presentations by
nationally known speakers cover timely clinical topics.
www.aacn.org/webinars
Professional Practice and Programs
• Launched the ACCNS-AG Certification Review Course to help
adult-gerontology clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) better
prepare for the ACCNS-AG certification exam. The new course
fully aligns with the ACCNS-AG certification exam introduced
last year, the only exam currently available for this CNS
specialty that aligns with the new standards of the Consensus
Model for APRN Regulation.
Professional Practice and Programs
• Joined the Healthcare Technology Safety Institute and other
leading healthcare organizations to present a series of free
webinars on managing clinical alarms. The seven-part Alarm
Systems Management Webinar Series focused on preparing
multidisciplinary healthcare teams to comply with The Joint
Commission’s new National Patient Safety Goal on alarm
management.
Professional Practice and Programs
• Released two new AACN Practice Alerts: “Alarm
Management,” to reduce false or non-actionable alarms and
improve the effective use of these monitoring aids, and
“Assessing Pain in Critically Ill Adults,” to standardize how
nurses evaluate patients for pain, especially when patients are
unable to speak.
www.aacn.org/practicealerts
Professional Practice and Programs
• Brought the bold voice of high acuity and critical care nurses
to national tables through liaison activities, collaboration and
shared expertise.
• Supported Choosing Wisely®, an initiative of the ABIM
Foundation intended to spur conversations between patients
and healthcare providers on what tests and procedures are
really necessary.
Professional Practice and Programs
• Updated “AACN Scope and Standards for Acute Care Clinical
Nurse Specialist Practice” to reflect the specialty’s evolving
role in an ever-changing critical care landscape. The new
edition incorporates advances in scientific knowledge, clinical
practice and technology, and aligns with the “Consensus
Model for APRN Regulation” — also called the LACE Model.
Publications and Social Media
Publications and Social Media
• Published the third editions of “AACN Essentials of Critical
Care Nursing” and “AACN Essentials of Progressive Care
Nursing” in April 2014. Excellent resources to help prepare for
the CCRN and PCCN certification exams, these texts offer the
latest and most essential information on guidelines, case
studies and best practices for treating patients across the
spectrum of high acuity, progressive and critical care.
www.aacn.org/essentialsbooks
Publications and Social Media
• The AACN peer-reviewed journals American Journal of Critical
Care and Critical Care Nurse were once again finalists in
several categories for the Western Publishing Association’s
prestigious 2014 Maggie Awards.
Publications and Social Media
• Facebook and Twitter presence for AACN, NTI, American
Journal of Critical Care and Critical Care Nurse continues to
grow substantially. At the end of April 2014, Facebook “likes”
were aacnface: 34,890, ntiface: 4,731, ajccface: 3,783,
ccnface: 6,562. AACN had 8,988 aacnme Twitter followers.
Certification
Certification
• Increased nurses certified by AACN Certification Corporation
to more than 85,000.
• Launched Web-based tools for program directors to submit
Education Eligibility Forms and track graduate performance.
• Provided financial support to sponsor the Institute of
Medicine workshop, Future Directions of Credentialing
Research in Nursing, in September 2014.
Certification
• Aligned all AACN Certification Corporation certification
exams for advanced practice nurses with the requirements of
the Consensus Model for APRN Regulation. With the launch of
a new credentialing exam for clinical nurse specialists (CNSs)
who care for neonatal patients (ACCNS-N), AACN Certification
Corporation now has four Consensus Model-aligned advanced
practice exams.
Certification
• Completed exam development to launch new PCCN exam
forms based on the 2012 Progressive Care Study of Practice.
Practice exam questions with rationale were developed, and
AACN launched new online certification review courses for
the PCCN exam.
• Offered special 50 percent discount on review course for
PCCN exam candidates.
www.aacn.org/pccn
Certification
• Implemented exam and resource development for:
o ACCNS-AG — Launched the new exam in July 2013 and developed a
new ACCNS-AG practice exam booklet. AACN developed an ACCNS-AG
review course, provided free to registered exam candidates.
o ACCNS-P — Launched the new exam in July 2013 and developed a new
ACCNS-P practice exam booklet.
o ACCNS-N — Launched the new exam in February 2014.
www.aacn.org/certification