Other Resources
AACN encourages its member deans, faculty, students, and public stakeholders to advocate on behalf of issues impacting the healthcare community and America’s patients. The tool kit below provides resources to help you succeed in your advocacy efforts.
AACN is a nonpartisan organization that serves to educate and advocate for sound policy that improves nursing education, research, and practice. AACN views federal advocacy as having an integral role in the ability to shape, advance, and promote a professional nursing workforce that meets America’s healthcare needs.
View the priority areas to learn about their corresponding principles for sound policies to advance health care and higher education. Spanning across these four priority areas are Core Values that serve as the foundation for this agenda.
Capitol Hill can be a confusing place for a first time advocate. This map will help you navigate the area and get to your meetings in a timely manner.
There are many commonly used terms on Capitol Hill that are associated with the legislative process and hard to understand for many advocates. This document has a list of those terms and can serve as your personal “Capitol Hill Dictionary.”
- House Nursing Caucus (Coming Soon)
- Senate Nursing Caucus (Coming Soon)
- Senate NIH Caucus
Become an AACN Advocate
Sign up to become a member of AACN’s Grassroots Network in order to receive AACN Action Alerts, and our weekly newsletter, Washington Weekly. If you have any questions regarding this toolkit or AACN’s Grassroots Network, please contact Judy Ly, Government Affairs and Policy Manager, at JLY@aacnnursing.org.