Happy Holidays from All of Us at AACN! From all of us at AACN, we send our warmest wishes for a joyful holiday season filled with celebration, reflection, and gratitude. Thursday, December 19, 2024 | Membership Announcements
2024 Champions of Compassionate Care Honored by the Gold Foundation and AACN The Arnold P. Gold Foundation and AACN are pleased to announce the 2024 winners of the AACN-Gold Interprofessional Humanism in Healthcare Award, which recognizes high impact collaborations between nurses and physicians. This year’s recipients – Robert Pitts, MD and Charles Yee, BSN,... Wednesday, December 18, 2024 | Membership Announcements, Press Release
Rounds with Leadership: A Time to Revel, Reflect, and Renew As we approach the close of 2024, it’s important to take time to celebrate our successes and reflect on all that we learned this year. In academic nursing, we have much to celebrate. Wednesday, December 4, 2024 | Rounds with Leadership
Inside Syllabus - Q&A with GNSA Leadership Council Co-Chairs Now in its 12th year, the Graduate Nursing Student Academy (GNSA) provides high value programs, services, and resources to students enrolled in master's and doctoral programs at AACN member schools as they prepare for their future careers. The GNSA’s programming and priorities are... Tuesday, November 26, 2024 | Newsletter, Syllabus, Student News
AACN’s Foundation for Academic Nursing Awards Funding to Study the Impact of Simulation on Student Transition to Practice The Foundation for Academic Nursing, the philanthropic arm of AACN, is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 recipients of the AACN Faculty Scholars Grant. Thursday, October 31, 2024 | Foundation, Membership Announcements, Press Release
Rounds with Leadership: Seeking Solutions to the Faculty Shortage For nearly two decades, AACN has worked to quantify the shortage of nurse educators and its impact on pathways into the profession and nursing school enrollments. Released on October 3, AACN’s most recent survey of faculty vacancies in schools with baccalaureate and higher degree programs... Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | Education, Enrollment, Rounds with Leadership
AACN Rounds with Leadership: Boosting Your Capacity to Lead As nurse educators, we understand the importance of preparing new members of our profession to serve as expert caregivers, system innovators, and patient advocates. To thrive in these roles, nurses must develop as leaders in clinical settings, in boardrooms, and in all places where nurses impact... Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Professional Development, Rounds with Leadership
Explore AACN's Data Products and Services AACN’s Research and Data Center is the nation’s leading resource for data on baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs and trends in academic nursing. Annually, it collects and...
New AACN Data Points to Enrollment Challenges Facing U.S. Schools of Nursing New data released today by AACN show that sustaining student enrollment in baccalaureate and graduate programs continues to be a challenge at U.S. schools of nursing. Though enrollment in...
Data Spotlight: A Closer Look at PhD in Nursing Program Enrollment and Graduations In 2023, AACN reported a 4.1% decline in enrollment and a 4.8% decrease in graduation rates for research-focused doctoral nursing programs from 2021 to 2022, with the North Atlantic region...
Data Spotlight: Changes in Master’s Program Enrollments and Graduations In May 2023, AACN aacnounced a second consecutive year of decline at 9.45% on average, with the western region experiencing the most significant drop at 12.49%. Historically Black Colleges...
Data Spotlight: Declines in RN-to-BSN Program Enrollments For the fourth year in a row, enrollment in RN to Baccalaureate (RN-to-BSN) program have decreased. The 2022-2023 school year saw a 16.9% decline (19,871 students) in RN-BSN programs in schools...
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...