AACN's Latest Advocacy, Coalition, and Policy Efforts
December 5: AACN signed onto an American Academy of Pediatrics letter expressing concerns with the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)’s decision to downgrade recommendations for vaccinations of all newborns against hepatitis B at birth.
December 2: AACN signed onto letters from American Indian/Alaska Native Health Partners to the House and Senate supporting funding for the Indian Health Professions Account and Indian Health Service in Fiscal Year 2026.
November 14: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) letter to Congress outlining the NCC’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 appropriations requests. These include at least $303.472 million for the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs and at least $197.693 million for the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), as outlined in the bipartisan Senate Appropriations Committee-passed FY 2026 Labor, Health and Humans Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS-ED) appropriations bill.
November 5: AACN signed onto a Health Professions and Nursing Education Coalition (HPNEC) letter to the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, urging them to provide the highest possible funding levels for the Health Title VII Health Professions and Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs in FY 2026.
October 31: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) letter to U.S. Department of Education, urging the Department’s Reimagining and Improving Student Education (RISE) Committee to explicitly include post-baccalaureate nursing programs in the regulatory definition of “professional degree programs” when implementing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
October 31: AACN signed onto a letter along with a broad coalition of health professions, education programs, and professional associations to the Department of Education’s (ED) Reimagining and Improving Student Education (RISE) Committee asking the Department to adopt a clear and consistent standard for defining "professional degrees" in the health professions sector including classifying all professions under CIP Code 51-Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences as "professional degrees."