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Achieving Greater Satisfaction in Your Neuroscience Nursing Career
Why Join a Professional Society
Engaging in your wider professional community will advance your career and the profession through:
Exposure to essential learning and compelling experiences;
Guidance in career planning and change management;
Enhancement of your on-the-job relationships and development of your leadership skills.
American Association of Neuroscience Nurses Founded in 1968. Works for the highest standards of care for
neuroscience patients by advancing the science and practice of neuroscience nursing.
Sets the standards through publication of its bimonthly peer-reviewed JNN, the Core Curriculum for Neuroscience Nursing, and the Scope and Standards for Neuroscience Nursing Practice.
American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
Dynamic network of peers and experts at the local, state, national, and international level.
Peers who share your enjoyment of the complexity and intellectual challenge of neuroscience nursing.
Benefits of Membership
Subscriptions to the association’s print and electronic media:
the Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, AANN’s peer-reviewed bimonthly journal
the Synapse, AANN’s bimonthly newsletter the AANN Virtual Community, an exclusive
member Web site e-mail discussion lists, clinically-focused listservs
for easy networking
Benefits of Membership
Access to peers at the local, national, and international level through
the AANN Annual Meeting, held in the Spring Special Focus Groups, clinically-focus networking AANN affiliations – the chapter network, volunteer
opportunities electronic vehicles – online membership directory,
bulletin boards, e-mail discussion lists membership in the World Federation of
Neuroscience Nurses
Benefits of Membership
Access to recognition opportunities such as a discounted rate to sit for the Certified
Neuroscience Registered Nurse (CNRN) exam the AANN Awards Program recognizing
professional distinction professional development awards offered through
the Neuroscience Nursing Foundation
Benefits Recap
As a valued member of the AANN professional community, you receive
information about your profession; access to your colleagues; recognition of your achievements through a
wide variety of benefits and association programs;
early notification about and discounts on the powerful resources AANN offers.
The CNRN Edge The Certified Neuroscience Registered
Nurse (CNRN) credential represents specialized experience and knowledge in the care of patients with neurological trauma and illness.
With the first exam offered in 1978, today approximately 2,000 neuroscience nurses have earned and maintain the credential.
Administered by ABNN.
The CNRN Edge
The CNRN credential assists your patients, peers, and hospital administrators in recognizing your unique abilities in caring for a very special patient population.
AANN members receive a discounted rate to sit for the CNRN examination as well as discounts on continuing education offerings counting towards recertification.
Professional Developmentand Research AANN and the Neuroscience Nursing Foundation
(NNF) work in concert to promote the art and science of neuroscience nursing.
In 1993 AANN established the foundation to generate and maintain a funding base to support neuroscience nursing education and research.
NNF programs assist neuroscience nurses through educational scholarships and travel grants to attend the AANN annual meeting as well support of research studies on a wide variety of neuroscience nursing-related topics.
Visit www.AANN.org
Engage yourself in the professional community for neuroscience nurses by joining AANN today. For more information on AANN contact our offices at:
888/557-2266847/375-4733
info@aann.orgwww.aann.org
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