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February 8 at 2:00 pm (ET)
February 16 at 2:00 pm (ET)
February 23-25, 2023
Lake Buena Vista, FL
February 27 at 2:00 pm (ET)
March 9 at 2:00 pm (ET)
March 17, 2023
Durham, NC
March 24-25, 2023
Washington, DC
March 25-27, 2023
April 10-12, 2023
Nashville, TN
April 26-28, 2023
Captiva, FL
Announcement— February 3, 2023
AACN applauds the Department of Justice for shutting down a corrupt scheme involving three fraudulent nursing schools in Florida engaged in selling p...
Student News— February 1, 2023
Last summer marked the last in-person professional conference I attended for 2022. The Graduate Nurse Student Academy (GNSA) conference, held in Wash...
News, Newsletter— February 1, 2023
On January 31, 2023, the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing posted a new series on Addressing Disabilities in Healthcare as open access content fo...
Advocacy, Policy— February 1, 2023
Inside this edition of Washington Weekly: AACN Submits Comments to the Department of Education on Improving Income-Driven Repayment AA...
News, Newsletter, Rounds with Leadership— January 25, 2023
When AACN membership endorsed the latest iteration of the Essentials in April 2021, we knew the transition to this new model and framework for nurs...
Interview with Dr. Susan Bakewell-Sachs from Oregon Health & Sciences University at the 2017 Academic Nursing Leadership Conference.
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