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
Rounds with Leadership: Making Progress with Advancing DEI AACN recognizes that advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is critical to developing a nursing workforce prepared to provide high-quality, equitable, and culturally appropriate health... Wednesday, November 30, 2022 | Rounds with Leadership
Rounds with Leadership: Turning 10:Celebrating the Graduate Nursing Student Academy In October 2012, AACN officially launched the Graduate Nursing Student Academy (GNSA) at its Fall Semiannual Meeting – now the Academic Nursing Leadership Conference – in Washington, DC. Though... Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | Rounds with Leadership
Rounds with Leadership: Integrating Nursing Education and Practice As the work to transition to the 2021 AACN Essentials moves ahead at schools nationwide, we encourage academic nursing leaders to use this opportunity to make new and stronger connections with... Wednesday, September 28, 2022 | Rounds with Leadership
Rounds with Leadership: In Memory of Donald Jonas: Nursing Advocate, Leader, and Friend On July 23, the academic nursing community was saddened by the news of the passing of Donald Jonas at the age of 92. As the co-founder of Jonas Philanthropies along with his wife Barbara, Mr.... Wednesday, August 31, 2022 | Rounds with Leadership