It was founded in 1969 and their purpose is educating new ICU nurses. Back to 1967, nurses recognized ICU nurses need more continuing education opportunities. There were more than 400 nurses attended the first cardiac nursing symposium that conduced by AACN. I agree with AACN stated that Critical and acute care nurses need expert knowledge and patients need knowledgable nurses. There is a reason for AACN drive excellence because doing less is unaccepting. AACN values ethical accountability & integrity, excellence & innovating, and collaboration (AACN, …show more content…
Thus, promoting excellence in patient care. AANN set high standards and supporting neuroscience nurse to achieve goals. I like AANN that they have a clear and specific vision of the future. They anticipate opportunities; their courses are to innovative nurses and encourage nurses to be forward thinking. They see the “big picture” and “think outside of the box” (AANN, n.d.). In a journal that talk about Nurse-led round in a stoke care unit, authors stated a nurse-led ward round had improve patient care by evaluating oral care, skin integrity, and bowel and bladder management of the patients. During round, the nurses address issues and make goals in timely manner. Also, the nurse-led ward round improves clinical communication between nurses and doctors and nurses between patients. Thus, it empowered nurses and had a great impact on preventing stroke complication and patient safety (Catangui & Slark,