August 08, 2022 MSNCB President’s Message Looking Forward To What The Fall Season Will Bring I hope that you have spent time this summer taking care of yourself. I cannot believe the season is almost over! Besides taking a vacation myself this summer, I had the amazing opportunity to present a few AMSN PRISM Awards® to nursing units around the country.
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August 03, 2022 AMSN President’s August Message You Make an Impact Locally, Nationally, and Globally There are many ways we impact the healthcare environment as individual nurses on a national level. If you are a member of a national professional organization like AMSN, you are impacting the products and services that are provided to members of the organization.
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July 04, 2022 AMSN Hill Day: Advocating for Medical-Surgical Nurses

On June 27^th, the AMSN Legislative Committee visited Washington, D.C. and members of Congress to advocate for legislative issues important to medical-surgical nurses. This visit was AMSN’s second ‘Hill Day’ and first one in person because our 2021 Hill Day was completely virtual due to COVID-19. Some committee members had visits with congressional staff in person and others held Zoom meetings with their state legislators.

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June 30, 2022 AMSN President’s July Message See You in San Antonio!

Even though we are in the middle of summer, autumn will be here before we know it and it will be time for our annual convention. This year the convention will be held September 29-October 2 in San Antonio, Texas.

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June 12, 2022 Certification Central President’s Message

Hello everyone and happy summer!

I do hope that you are able to take time this summer to relax and reflect on your nursing career and the value of your certification. The past two years have been incredibly exhausting, and while things are slowly returning to normal, all of us are still facing challenging times in our careers.

A former mentor of mine used to say, “better days are coming” and I know that is a true statement still today. Please remember that the great work you are doing matters to our patients and their loved ones.

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June 05, 2022 AMSN Premier Partners Mutually Achieving our Strategic Goals Our Premier Partners are completely dedicated to the expertise of medical-surgical nurses and want to bring education, programs, services, and products that improve your ability to excel at work.
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June 01, 2022 AMSN President’s June Message for the AMSN Blog It is Time to Embrace Turnover

Nursing turnover is a constant in healthcare and produces many challenges including a high cost because the cost to replace an individual nurse can range from $33,000 to $64,000 depending on the specialty area. When a nurse leaves their practice area, no matter what the reason, it is most often seen negatively.

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May 10, 2022 Lillian Wald Nurses Week Spotlight - Biography

Lillian Wald was born on March 10, 1867, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was born into a life of privilege and received an excellent education. When Wald was sixteen, she applied to Vassar in order to continue her education but was denied entry as officials at Vassar believed she was too young.

She spent the remainder of her teen years traveling the world and working as a newspaper correspondent.

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May 09, 2022 Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown Nurses Week Spotlight - Biography

Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown was born on October 10, 1927, in West Chester, Pennsylvania as Hazel Johnson. She became interested in nursing at a young age and applied to nursing school when she became an adult. However, her application to Chester County Hospital School of Nursing was denied because she was black.

In 2004 Johnson-Brown told National Public Radio, “The director of nursing met us [Johnson-Brown and her sister] and said to her and myself, ‘We’ve never had a black person in our program, and we never will.’”

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May 05, 2022 Happy Nurses Month Let’s Celebrate Nurses Month Differently This Year

CEO’s May Message for the AMSN Blog.

National Nurses month is here. It’s the third year in a row that it has been celebrated for one month instead of one week.

Normally a time to recognize and celebrate the hard work nurses do every day of the year, this year’s celebration feels different, somehow. Maybe it’s the two years of the pandemic.

Maybe it’s the perception that we’ve gone from being heroes to being ‘actors’ lying about the severity of COVID, being verbally and physically assaulted for administering vaccines and doing our jobs.

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