AACN North Alabama Chapter

11/23/2025

Advanced practice nurses are essential to patient care, especially in rural areas of out state. Making it harder to afford these programs will have a direct impact on our patients. Please sign and share!

AACN and national nursing organizations are leading the effort to ensure nursing is recognized as a professional degree as the Department of Education advances new proposed definitions that will determine federal loan limits. To protect post- baccalaureate nursing students’ access to essential federal loans, we’re urging the Department to recognize nursing as a professional degree. It's imperative to act now. Add your name to the petition: https://ana.quorum.us/campaign/professionaldegreepetition/

11/21/2025

Exciting news! The Beacon Award Program is pilot testing Perianesthesia Care and Cardiac Cath Lab Patient Outcome Modules in 2026, and your PACU or Cath Lab can join at no cost. By participating, you’ll help shape the future of Beacon recognition and contribute to national benchmarking for specialty care units. You can also receive formal recognition!
✅ Complete the Healthy Work Environment Assessment (HWEAT-Team) by Dec. 31, 2025: https://shorturl.at/j0EYu

📧 Email tao.zheng@aacn.org to register your unit

Tag or share with other units in your specialty who might want to participate!

11/21/2025

Our bimonthly meetings have been the foundation of this rebuilding era in our chapter. We have been fortunate to work with amazing sponsors ( Gebauer’s PainEase)
that have brought great educational topics, provided dinner, and created a space for us to network and learn.

If you have a product/topic that you’d like to share with a great group of critical care nurses, or just want to sponsor a holiday meal, please email us at northalaacn@gmail.com

🥒 Members, please share this post! 🥒

11/19/2025

When nurses thrive, organizations do too! Magnet status now factored into measuring hospital excellence 🙌🏼

Newsweek elevates nursing excellence.
The American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Recognition Program® has just been named a key factor in Newsweek’s 2026 Best-in-State Hospitals list — marking an important shift in how hospital excellence is measured.

This recognition underscores the growing evidence that when nurses thrive, organizations do too.

Read the full announcement, including insights from ANCC leadership and new national findings:
👉 https://ow.ly/RazE50XtPIm

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11/18/2025

Make your voice heard!

🌟 Registration is NOW OPEN! 🌟
🗓 ASNA Nurses Day at the Capitol
📅 February 3, 2026
📍 Gordon Persons Auditorium, Montgomery, AL

Alabama nurses—this is YOUR day to stand up, speak out, and make a difference! Join us for a powerful day of advocacy, education, and connection at the heart of our state government. 🏛️💬

👩‍⚕️ Meet your legislators, appointment in advance required
📚 Learn about critical policy issues
🤝 Network with nursing colleagues from across Alabama
📣 Raise your voice for nursing and patient care

🔗 Register now: https://bit.ly/43xftym

Let’s make nursing’s voice heard! 💙

11/17/2025

If you didn’t get to see Barbara McLean speak at the last chapter meeting, you really missed out! I came across this free webinar from Nicole Kupchik Consulting & Education that might give you a taste

The Discussion is designed for critical care nurses, where we delve into the critical topics surrounding the structure, function, and epidemiology of the kidney. This presentation will explore how hospital-acquired kidney injury (AKI) can develop in ICU settings and the significant consequences of A...

11/15/2025

Thank you so much to Huntsville Hospital Trauma Services for inspiring excellence in critical care and supporting our chapter! As always, the Trauma Critical Care Conference was entertaining and informative. It’s always a good day when you learn new things and see old friends.

11/14/2025

Great deals on great resources! Especially for nurses new to ICU or studying for a certification 📚

11/13/2025

If you’re at the Trauma Conference in Huntsville tomorrow, come see me (Libby Diaz) for a pin so you can rep our chapter!

AACN Region 6

11/12/2025

Now that our Facebook has been brought back to life (no CPR involved😉) we’d like to reintroduce ourselves!

Meet your 2025-2026 Board of Directors! 🥳

We’re here to support and serve YOU!🫵🏻 Exciting things are happening, stay tuned! 🌟

11/11/2025

Take action for nurses’ well-being on Nov. 12. Your advocacy can help prevent workplace violence and support nurses’ mental health. Join fellow nurses, nursing students and advocates by sharing your voice and amplifying nurses’ impact during ANA’s Nurses Day of Action 2025: https://aacn.me/49Rn6TU

American Nurses Association

03/11/2021

In February the North Alabama Chapter of the AACN met to greet the newest Board members and distribute cookies to all of the HH Huntsville and Madison ICU nurses!! Thank You ICU nurses for all you do!!!!
First picture L to R:
Mr. Preston Miller, Treasurer-Elect
Dr. Anna Aultman, President-Elect
Dr. Gennifer Baker, Treasurer
Mrs. Geneva Llewellyn, Board Member (served in every board position during her tenure!!!)
Dr. Pamela O’Neal, President