Rounds with Leadership: The State of the Nursing Workforce As academic nursing leaders, we recognize the value of surveying the healthcare and higher education landscape to better understand workforce trends and employment projections. Having a clear... Tuesday, March 26, 2024 | Education, Rounds with Leadership
Rounds with Leadership: Building a Culture of Belonging Developing diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible environments where there is a collective sense of belonging is critical to achieving academic nursing’s mission and priorities. When... Wednesday, February 28, 2024 | Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Rounds with Leadership
Rounds with Leadership: Focusing Federal Investments on Nursing In response to workforce concerns, the National Advisory Council on Nursing Education and Practice (NACNEP) issued its 19th report to Congress and the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health... Wednesday, January 31, 2024 | Policy & Advocacy, Rounds with Leadership
Rounds with Leadership: A Season of Joy and Peace As a community of leaders, we worked together to address a wide spectrum of concerns ranging from workforce shortages, faculty vacancies, changing student expectations, and threats to our... Wednesday, December 27, 2023 | Rounds with Leadership
Rounds with Leadership: Setting a New Standard for Interprofessional Education AACN has long recognized the need to strengthen interprofessional education to the benefit of clinicians and the recipients of their care. Embedded in AACN’s 2021 Essentials is a strong... Wednesday, November 29, 2023 | Rounds with Leadership
Rounds with Leadership: Standing Against Violence and Hate AACN unequivocally condemns all acts of terrorism, violence, and discrimination. The war in Israel has resulted in a wave of antisemitic and anti-Muslim acts of aggression in the United... Wednesday, October 25, 2023 | Rounds with Leadership
Rounds with Leadership: Practice Ready or Not? Preparing practice-ready nurses to thrive across all healthcare settings is a top priority for academic nursing. Disruptive developments in health care call for reconsidering how best to educate... Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | Education, Essentials, Rounds with Leadership
Rounds with Leadership: Helping to Meet Your Enrollment Targets Given last fall’s enrollment declines and new concerns about the impact of the Supreme Court decision on race-conscious admissions, many academic leaders are anxious about what the new fall... Wednesday, August 30, 2023 | Enrollment, Rounds with Leadership
Rounds with Leadership: Preparing Graduate Nursing Students to Lead Developing individual competency and encouraging professional engagement are critical to the formation of a nurse leader. Schools moving to implement the 2021 Essentials are being intentional... Wednesday, July 26, 2023 | Education, Rounds with Leadership
Rounds with Leadership: Scanning the Higher Education Landscape Several concerns are generating much conversation in academic circles these days, including the increasing costs of higher education, the impact of the pandemic on student mental health and... Wednesday, June 28, 2023 | Education, Rounds with Leadership
Rounds with Leadership: A Closer Look at the AACN Data Earlier this month, AACN released findings from our Fall 2022 annual survey, which show declining student enrollment across nursing program levels. AACN staff are working to discern the causes of... Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | Enrollment, Research & Data, Rounds with Leadership
Rounds With Leadership: A Milestone for Baccalaureate Nursing Education For the first time in our history, more than 70% of registered nurses (RNs) are educated at the baccalaureate or higher degree level, according to new data released earlier this month via... Wednesday, April 26, 2023 | Research & Data, Rounds with Leadership
Rounds with Leadership: Facilitating Transformation At the Deans Annual Meeting held earlier this week, transformation in nursing education was a common theme threaded across many conversations. Most agree that the time is right to re-envision our... Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | Rounds with Leadership
Rounds with Leadership: Focusing on the Future of Faculty For more than two decades, schools of nursing nationwide have experienced an unrelenting shortage of faculty, which has frustrated efforts to meet nursing workforce needs. AACN has led the effort... Wednesday, February 22, 2023 | Rounds with Leadership
Rounds with Leadership: Celebrating the Season AACN made great progress this year in advancing our mission to serve as a catalyst for innovation and excellence in academic nursing. Our member schools – the deans/directors, faculty, students,... Wednesday, December 21, 2022 | Rounds with Leadership