May 31, 2021 AMSN's Advocacy News - What's New in Policy The latest on AMSN's Advocacy News

The federal agency charged with carrying out $140 million worth of programs for nurse and health care professional mental health following the COVID pandemic should incorporate and engage medical-surgical nurses in their implementation, says a May 21 letter from AMSN to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

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May 10, 2021 Advocacy News - Make Your Voice Heard Now Strengthening the nursing workforce is AMSN’s top legislative priority & your voice is needed!

With AMSN support, a bill intended to protect health care workplace safety passed the US House of Representatives on April 16 by a vote of 254-166.

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May 04, 2021 Who Doesn’t Like Something For Free? Let’s not leave any money on the table!

I don’t think I have ever met a nurse, or really anyone for that matter, who doesn’t like when they can get something for free.

Whether it is a giveaway in the cafeteria, chechakoes from a conference, or ink pens from, well, anywhere — we can’t get enough. I am not any different. Maybe it is my Dutch heritage that makes me so thrifty, or it could have been growing up as the youngest of four kids — which means I received all of the hand-me-downs.

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May 04, 2021 CEO's Corner - May 2021 May is Nurses’ Month: Can This Year Be Different?

National Nurses’ Week is celebrated every May 6-12th. It ends on the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birthday.

Most of us know Nurses’ Week is each May because our employers will provide us with a small gift of recognition. Lunch perhaps, or a t-shirt/sweatshirt or something similar, to thank us for our service that year. Oftentimes, there are lots of signs, banners, balloons, and the like, to celebrate the occasion.

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May 04, 2021 Through the Turbulence I'm So Excited to Wish YOU A Happy Nurses Month!

We are still working our way through this pandemic, and no one deserves to set aside some time to celebrate more than nurses. I hope you and your medical-surgical colleagues are showered with gratitude, find time and activities to rejuvenate, and receive an immense amount of meaningful recognition.

Here at AMSN, we could not appreciate you more, and we look forward to giving away prizes and applauding you this month.

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April 29, 2021 Survivorship Clinics Long Haul Support for Patient Survivors, Families, and a Return to Fulfilling Lives

For the last 15 or so years, improvements in health care have enabled very sick patients to actually survive and return home to a life that is very different than before they got “sick.” Such patients have either undergone arduous medical therapies, often for cancer diagnoses, and/or have been cared for in Intensive Care Units (ICUs).

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March 31, 2021 CEO's Corner - April 2021 Trauma: Why We Need Connections More Than Ever

As nurses, we understand the word trauma and the implications of the resulting damage. I would guess you immediately envisioned a trauma bay in an Emergency Department, with someone with catastrophic injuries swarmed by a team of professionals working in orchestrated chaos to preserve life.

Every single team member has a job to perform, and oftentimes the life of the patient requires every single team member performing in concert, to have a chance at survival.

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March 31, 2021 Compassion, Commitment, Connection AMSN’s tagline is Compassion, Commitment, Connection! AMSN’s tagline is Compassion, Commitment, Connection, and we know medical-surgical nurses display these traits every day. Medical-surgical nurses show empathy and compassion to patients and their family members every shift they work.
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March 16, 2021 Nursing Certification: Past & Present National Certified Nurses Day was established in 2006 in honor of Dr. Margretta Madden Styles, EdD, RN, FAAN.

She was an American nurse, author, educator, and nursing school dean who transformed the profession of nursing. Dr Styles was instrumental in developing stricter criteria and credentialling standards for nursing. She helped conceive and establish comprehensive standards for the national certifications of nurses. Certified Nurses Day is commemorated annually on her birthday March 19.

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March 07, 2021 CEO's Corner - March 2021 The Ongoing Need for DEI Initiatives

AMSN first spoke out on issues of DEI with an anti-racism pledge in June 2020. We committed to doing more and we have been working to make that happen. I wanted to provide an update on the work we have been doing and our next steps. Before I do that, though, I thought I would share some data on why this work remains critically important for AMSN.

Asian hate crime is on the rise. According to two recent news articles, Asian hate crime spiked to unprecedented levels last year, with one source citing hate crimes were up almost 150% in 2020 compared to the year before.

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