Academic-Practice Partnerships Resources

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The following resources are available for nursing leaders looking to develop and sustain effective academic-practice partnerships.

 

 

Guiding Principles
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Implementation Tool Kit
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Expectation and Outcome Matrix
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Exemplars
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Award Opportunities
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Webinars
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Congratulations to the 2024 Exemplary Academic-Practice Partnership Award Winners

This annual award recognizes AACN member institutions involved in highly productive and model academic-practice partnerships.

  • The College of St. Scholastica 
    Partner: Essentia
     
  • The University of Minnesota School of Nursing
    Partner: Collaboratory of Collaboratories
     
  • The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing
    Partner: Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans’ Hospital

Award Recipients will be recognized at the AACN Academic Nursing Leadership Conference

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AACN/AONL Dialogue Report

AACN & AONL: Working Together to Address Shared Challenges

Earlier this year, leaders and member representatives from the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) held a series of conversations to build a better understanding of the challenges facing nurses in practice and academia as well as opportunities for collaboration. With discussion centered on workforce supply, faculty shortages, and budget constraints, challenges shared among nurse leaders across settings include:

  • Advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
  • Recruiting nurses from diverse backgrounds
  • Developing leadership
  • Strengthening the image of nursing
  • Maximizing the impact of rapidly changing technology (e.g., simulation labs, online learning, EHR/EMRs)

Click the link below to download the summary report that shows AONL and AACN's shared commitment to address these complex concerns and to continue dialogue.

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Featured Resource

What Practice Partners Need to Know About the AACN Essentials

Preparing practice-ready nurses to thrive across all healthcare settings is a top priority for academic nursing. Sweeping changes in healthcare delivery, including new models of care delivery, emerging technology, and health system restructuring call for a new approach to how nurses are educated and transitioned into the workforce. The transformational work can only be achieved through close collaboration among nurses in academia and practice

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New Era Report

New Era Report

AACN's report titled Advancing Healthcare Transformation: A New Era for Academic Nursing addresses how baccalaureate and higher degree schools of nursing can amplify their role in improving health and health care at the local, state, and national levels.

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