LIAISON ACTIVITIES

• ANSR Alliance - Americans for Nursing Shortage Relief
• AWHONN - Cardiovascular Health for Women Initiative
  A multifaceted education and awareness program aimed at primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women.
• Johnson & Johnson - The Campaign for Nursing's Future
• National Strategies for Health Care Providers: Pesticide Initiative
• NEETF - National Environmental Education & Training Foundation
  The NEETF Pesticide Initiative is a model plan for Integrating Environmental Health into Health Care Provider Education and Practice.
• NHLBI Cardiovascular Information
• Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow Coalition
• Nurses House
  Nurses House is the only national charitable foundation dedicated to helping nurses in need - regardless of race, color, creed or gender, in all 50 states. The much needed work of this voluntary organization has been supported by the generous contributions of nurses, and by the friends and families of nurses, who recognize that sometimes those who spend their lives caring for others need to be cared for too.
• The Nursing Community
  Represents more than 850,000 registered nurses, advanced practice nurses and nursing faculty, executives and students. The Nursing Community advocates for healthcare reform to improve quality, reduce cost and increase access. It champions federal funding for nursing education, practice and retention. The community supports legislation to improve and advance nursing practice education and research.
• http://nursingworld.org/naf/ - American Nurses Association
• WomenHeart
  WomenHeart is the only national organization founded by women with heart disease dedicated to reducing death and disability among the 8,000,000 American women living with heart disease.

AACN Health Policy and Liaison Activities

January 1 - June 30, 2009

• HL7 - Bridging the Chasm Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 19-21 -- Connie Barden
• ACCP Quality Improvement Committee, April 14 -- Cindy Munro
• The National Nursing Research Roundtable, March 17 -- Justine Medina and Pamela Shellner
• American College of Chest Physicians Capitol Hill Caucus, March 9-10, Washington, DC -- Mary A. Stahl and Kathryn Roberts
• Spring 2009 ABNS Assembly Meeting, March 6-7 -- Maria Shirey
• AACN (Colleges) National Stakeholder's Teleconference on the Essentials of Master's Education for Advanced Generalist Nursing Practice, March 6 -- Kathy Stephens Williams
• Promoting Lifelong Learning in Medicine and Nursing: From Research to Practice - A Consensus Conference jointly sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Alexandria, VA, February 9-10 -- Justine Medina
• American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Critical Care (SOCC) Executive Committee Meeting, Nashville, TN, Feb. 1 -- Debbie Brinker
• Society of Critical Care Medicine 38th Critical Care Congress, Nashville, TN, Jan. 31 - Feb. 2 -- Beth Hammer
• Interagency Collaborative on Nursing Statistics (ICONS), Chicago, IL, Jan. 21-22 -- Linda Bell
• American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), Northbrook, IL, Jan. 16-18 -- Linda Bell

July 1 - December 31, 2008

• Nursing Organization Alliance (NOA), Albuquerque, NM, Nov. 20-22 - Wanda Johanson, Beth Hammer & Caryl Goodyear-Bruch
• U.S. Critical Illness & Injury Trials Group Meeting, Washington, DC, Nov. 18 - 19 - Tom Ahrens
• American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Conference, Philadelphia, Oct. 25 - 27 - Wanda Johanson, Caryl Goodyear-Bruch
• ACCP Quality Improvement Committee, Philadelphia, PA, October 26 - 27 - Mary Lou Sole & Cindy Munro
• CAMTS Board of Directors Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 16 - 18 - Mary Holtschneider
• Section on Critical Care (SOCC), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Boston, MA, October 12 - Debbie Brinker
• Fall 2008 ABNS Assembly Meeting, October 3 - 4 - Maria Shirey
• Cardinal Health Summit Meeting, Washington, DC, Sept. 9 - 10 - Kathy McCauley
• Chasing Zero Summit, Washington, DC, September 8 - 10 - Kathy McCauley
• American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington, DC, August 13 - 14 - Denise Thornby
• Medication Safety Symposium, Chicago, IL, August 5 - 7, Chicago, IL - Celi Mateo, Phyllis Cerone & Cindy Ruiz
• IV Safety Summit, sponsored by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Rockville, MD, July 14 & 15, Kathy McCauley
• Interagency Council on Nursing Statistics (ICONS), Washington, DC, July 10 & 11 - Linda Bell
• Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems, Charleston, SC, July 7 - 12 - Mary Holtschneider
• Physician's for Human Rights Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, Cambridge, MA, July 9 - Justine Medina

January 1, 2008 - June 30, 2008

• Interagency council on Nursing Statistics (ICONS), Washington, DC, July 10-11 - Linda Bell
• The Joint Commission, 16th Annual Invitational Forum, Oakbrook Terrace, June 23-24 - Linda Bell
• Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence Long View Conference, Denver, CO, June 11 - Mary Stahl
• Association of Organ Procurement (AOPO) 25th Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, June 10-13 - Justine Medina
• Medbiquitous, Baltimore, MD, May 13-15 - Pamela Shellner
• Second Rapid Response System Afferent Limb Consensus, Toronto, Canada, May 6-7 - Marilyn Hravnak
• American College of Chest Physicians Capitol Hill Caucus, Washington, DC, April 7-8 - Janice Wojcik
• Coalition for Patients' Rights (CPR), Silver Spring, MD, April 2, 2008 - Nancy Munro
• CAMTS Board Meeting, Alexandria, VA, March 14-16 - Mary Holtschneider
• Excellence and Evidence in Staffing - An Invitational Round Table, San Diego, CA, March 10 & 11 - Pamela Shellner & Justine Medina
• National Nursing Research Roundtable, Bethesda, MD, March 7 - Kathy McCauley
• ANA Safe Staffing Saves Lives Summit, Silver Spring, MD, March 3 - Janice Wojcik
• American College of Nurse Practitioners, Washington, DC, Feb. 7-8 - Nancy Munro
• Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, New York, NY, Feb. 7-8 - Michelle Sawicki
• Hospital Diabetes Roundtable, Atlanta, GA, February 5-6 - Lynn Schallom
• Academy Health, Washington, DC, Feb. 4-5 - Nancy Munro
• CAMTS, San Diego, CA, Jan. 18-20 - Mary Holtschneider
• Cardiovascular Advocacy Advisory Board Meeting, Parsnipanny, NJ, Jan. 8-9 - AnneMarie Palatnik

July 1, 2007 - December 31, 2007

• American Academy of Pediatrics Core Section Meeting, Dec. 6 - Debbie Brinker
• Nursing Organizations Alliance Fall Summit, Nov. 15-17, 2007, Milwaukee, WI - Caryl Goodyear-Bruch
• American College of Chest Physicians Quality Improvement Committee, Chicago, IL, October 24 - Mary Lou Sole
• ACCP Board of Regents Meeting (Oct. 19, 2007); CHEST Program, Oct. 20-25 - Dave Hanson
• ANA Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics (CNPE), Silver Spring, MD, Sept 30-Oct 1 - John Dixon
• CAMTS Board of Directors Meeting, Sept. 13-15, 2007, Tampa, FL - Mary Holtschneider
• Surviving Sepsis Campaign Meeting, July 25 - Tom Ahrens
• Interagency Council on Nursing Statistics (ICONS), Washington, DC, July 19 & 20 - Linda Bell
• The Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, IL, July 10 & 11 - Linda Bell
• American College of Chest Physicians Board of Regents Meeting, July 6-7 - Mary Fran Tracy

January 1, 2007 - June 30, 2007

• Emergency Nurses Association: Procedural Sedation Stakeholders Meeting, June 18 - Caryl Goodyear-Bruch
• American College of Chest Physicians Quality Improvement Committee, June - Mary Lou Sole
• AACN Certification Liaison to: Quality and Safety Education for Nursing (QSEN) in Lansdowne, VA (Washington, DC), April 18-19 - Rebecca Long
• CAMTS Board of Directors Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March 30 - April 1 - Mary Holtschneider
• American College of Chest Physicians 14th Annual Capital Hill Caucus, Washington, DC, March 5 & 6 - Beth Hammer
• The American Association of Colleges of Nursing National Nursing Stakeholders Meeting, Washington, DC; February 27 - Janie Heath
• American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) Meeting, Washington, DC; February 23 - Nancy Munro
• National 2007 Health Policy Conference Report, Washington, DC; February 12-13 - Nancy Munro
• ANA Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics (CNPE) Meeting, Silver Spring, MD; February 9 & 10 - John Dixon