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Periodicals
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- Journal
of Professional Nursing
(Six issues per year, included in dues for AACN members)
Nonmember rates vary for individuals, institutions, and
students. Contact the publisher Elsevier at 877-839-7126
or usjcs@elsevier.com
to initiate a subscription or visit their Web site at www.professionalnursing.org.
Keep
pace with continuing changes in legislative, regulatory,
ethical, and professional standards that affect your career
with this bimonthly scholarly journal. Each issue presents
observations by nursing leaders on the diverse roles of
baccalaureate- and graduate-prepared nurses, as well as
insightful columns on clinical, legislative, regulatory,
ethical, and other concerns of vital interest to nursing
educators, researchers, and practitioners.
- Syllabus
- AACN's bimonthly newsletter is now available online in
PDF format.
Bimonthly
reporting on association activities and developments in
nursing higher education. This valuable news source includes
in-depth interviews with leading policymakers, news on federal
legislation, announcements of funding opportunities, and
a discussion forum for exploration of timely issues.
- AACN
Issue Bulletin
Each
examining a single critical topic, AACN Issue Bulletins
provide in-depth, insider perspective on nursing education
developments that are shaping the nation's health care agenda.
Full texts available free, here online.
Books,
Education Standards, Reference Guides, and Reports
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- Academic Leadership in Nursing:
Making the Journey ($30)
Academic Leadership in Nursing: Making the Journey is now
available from AACN. This 256 page monograph provides support
for the journey to the deanship/directorship through the
writings of those who have faced the decisions and lived
the experience. The four sections—Getting There, Getting
Started, Staying There, and Moving On—are organized
into the natural stages in the career of one assuming the
top academic leadership position in nursing.
- Peterson's
Guide to Nursing Programs:
Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Education in the U.S.
and Canada ($26.95
- call Peterson's at 1-800-338-3282 to order)
Produced
by Peterson's, the
leading publisher of college guides, in collaboration with
AACN, this resource is the only comprehensive guide to accredited
bachelor's- and graduate-degree nursing education programs
available today. The guide profiles more than 3,600 nursing
programs offered by more than 700 colleges and universities.
Updated for 2006, it's a must for those considering a career
in nursing and for education and guidance professionals.
- The
Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing
Practice ($12 members/$15
nonmembers; bulk rates available)
The
publication that defines the essential elements of baccalaureate
education for professional nursing practice. Provides an
important framework for designing and assessing baccalaureate
education programs for professional nursing practice. Published
in 2008. News
Release.
- Nurse Faculty Tool Kit for The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing
Practice ($5)
The tool kit provides integrative learning strategies, opportunities for program enhancement, and resources that will assist faculty with the integration of the Baccalaureate Essentials throughout the nursing curriculum. This kit includes a review of the nine Baccalaureate Essentials followed by Integrative Learning Strategies, Opportunities for Program Enhancement, Web Links, AACN Presentations, and References. Published in 2009.
An
important framework for designing and assessing master's
education programs for advanced practice nursing. This publication
includes a curriculum model for master's nursing education,
an outline of essential curriculum contents, graduate core
curriculum content, advanced practice nursing core curriculum,
and much more. News
Release
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The
Essential Clinical Resources for Nursing's Academic Mission
(free, pdf download)
AACN's landmark publication that defines the essential
elements of clinical support for the full spectrum of
academic nursing- undergraduate and graduate education,
faculty practice and research. Identifies the facilitators
and barriers to clinical access in nursing education,
describes essential clinical-site learning experiences
both for undergraduate and graduate nursing students,
and outlines the clinical resources necessary for faculty
practice and research to develop and flourish. News
Release
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AACN
2008 Annual Report (free)
This report highlights AACN's programs and policy initiatives
to address the needs of a dramatically transformed health
care landscape.
- Distance
Technology in Nursing Education (AACN White Paper)
(free, available online)
Prepared by an AACN task force in 1999, this examination
reviews how distance technology is reshaping nursing higher
education and what nursing schools need to know in implementing
distance-technology-based instruction. News
Release
- A
Guide to Grassroots Activism ($5)
This indispensable guide shows nurse
educators how to influence congressional leaders to support
federal funding of nursing education, research, and other
programs of concern to schools of nursing. Designed as a
handy pocket-sized book, this 28-page resource can be used
during visits to Capitol Hill or when preparing correspondence.
- Meet
the Media...and Succeed! Effectively Handling the Media
Interview ($8
members/$10 nonmembers; bulk
rates available)
Prepared specifically for nursing deans,
faculty, and graduate students, this AACN handbook presents
techniques for communicating your message effectively in
newspapers, magazines or on the airwaves.
This 56 page "how-to" guide is a culmination of the Enhancing Curriculum grantees' achievements and a great resource for nursing faculty who want to increase gerontology content in their school's curricula.
This guidebook is intended to assist nursing faculty transition
to community-based pedagogy in the undergraduate nursing
curriculum. Included with the guidebook is a CD that demonstrates
how students or faculty can perform a walk-through of a
neighborhood using an environmental survey tool.
- Women's
Health in the Baccalaureate Nursing School Curriculum
(up to 10 copies can be obtained
for free by calling 1-888-ASK-HRSA)
Based
on a 1999 AACN survey of schools of nursing with entry-level
baccalaureate nursing programs, the report describes the
women's health content included in entry-level baccalaureate
nursing curricula. This report was published in collaboration
with five federal agencies, including the Health Resources
and Services Administration's Office of Women's Health,
the National Institutes of Nursing Research, and the Division
of Nursing.
Conference
Proceedings
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- Envisioning
Doctoral Education for the Future
($12)
This
publication contains presentations from AACN's 2001 Doctoral
Education Conference, held in Sanibel Island, Florida.
Presentation topics include clinical nursing leadership,
models of fast-track doctoral programs, a discussion on
the degrees of doctor of philosophy (PhD) and doctor of
nursing science (DNSc), and re-envisioning doctoral programs
in nursing.
- Faculty
Practice: Essential or Extraneous to the Mission?
($12)
This
publication contains presentations from AACN's 2000 Faculty
Practice Conference, held in San Francisco. Presentation
topics included application of service learning, integrating
faculty practice and research, a conceptual overview of
faculty practice and research, and implications of service-learning
for nursing education.
- Quality
MSN Programs: Fantasy or Fact?
($12)
This
publication contains presentations or portions of presentations
from AACN's 1999 Master's Education Conference. Presentations
focused on such topics as distance education, setting a
framework for a quality MSN program, and guidelines for
assessing quality.
- Hallmarks
of Scholarly Nursing Practice ($10)
This monograph is the proceedings of
AACN's 1999 Faculty Practice Conference. Included are a
special report on faculty evaluation, and presentations
that deal with a dean’s perspective on funding faculty practice,
and distinguishing features and guiding principles of scholarly
practice. A total of twelve presentations are offered.
Data
Reports
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Form or Purchase Online)
Every
year, AACN's Institutional Data Systems and Research Center
(IDS) -- AACN's authoritative national databank -- reports
the most current statistics on student enrollment, graduations,
and faculty salaries in baccalaureate and graduate nursing
programs:
- 2009-2010
Enrollment and Graduations in Baccalaureate and Graduate
Programs in Nursing ($45 AACN members, $90-non-members)
- 2009-2010
Salaries of Instructional and Administrative Nursing Faculty
in Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing ($55 AACN members, $110-non-members)
- 2009-2010
Salaries of Deans in Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs
in Nursing ($35 AACN members, $70-non-members)
- Master's-Level
Nurse Practitioner Educational Programs ($35)
(Findings from the 2000-2001 Collaborative Curriculum Survey)
Position
Statements
Full texts of AACN Position
Statements are available free online.
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