Current Issue January 2012, Vol. 28, No. 1

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News from AACN

  • New American Association of Colleges of Nursing Data Show Significant Enrollment Increases in Baccalaureate, Master’s, and Doctoral Nursing Degree Programs
    January 2012(Vol. 28 | No. 1 | Pages 3-4)

    Bill O'Connor

Original Articles

  • How a Faculty Group's Peer Mentoring of Each Other's Scholarship Can Enhance Retention and Recruitment
    January 2012(Vol. 28 | No. 1 | Pages 5-12)

    Kathleen T. Heinrich, Melinda G. Oberleitner

  • Is Eligibility for Tenure Possible for the Doctor of Nursing Practice-Prepared Faculty?
    January 2012(Vol. 28 | No. 1 | Pages 13-17)

    Robert H. Nicholes, Jean Dyer

  • Nursing as the Most Trusted Profession: Why This Is Important
    July 2011 (Vol. 27 | No. 4 | Pages 193-194)

    Ellen Olshansky

  • Is There Still a Nursing Shortage?
    September 2010 (Vol. 26 | No. 5 | Pages 255-256)

    Ellen Olshansky

  • The Future of Nursing Report: Let's Resolve to Keep Up the Momentum
    January 2011 (Vol. 27 | No. 1 | Pages 1-2)

    Ellen Olshansky

  • Are we ready for the future?
    November 2002 (Vol. 18 | No. 6 | Pages 305-307)

    Eleanor J. Sullivan

  • What Is Your Life's Work?
    November 2010 (Vol. 26 | No. 6 | Page 322)

    Laurel Archer Copp

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The Journal of Professional Nursing the practice, research, and policy roles of nurses with baccalaureate and graduate degrees, the education and management concerns of the universities in which they are educated, and the settings in which they practice. Reports of original work, research, reviews, and policy papers focusing on professional nursing are published.

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The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is the national voice for university and four-year-college education programs in nursing.

AACN's educational, research, governmental advocacy, data collection, publications, and other programs work to establish quality standards for bachelor's- and graduate-degree nursing education, assist deans and directors to implement those standards, influence the nursing profession to improve health care, and promote public support of baccalaureate and graduate education, research, and practice in nursing–the nation's largest health care profession.