/ en Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:28:41 -0600 Fri, 21 Nov 25 12:24:53 -0600 /The-AACN-AONL-Academic-Practice-Partnership-Playbook h2{ margin-top: 0px; } p.center_Intro { color: #002855; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 30px; margin: 10px 0 25px 0; font-weight: 700; font-size: 2em; } p.center_Lead { color: #63666A; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 21px; } <div class="row spacer"><div class="col-sm-8"><h2>The AACN/ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúAcademic–Practice Partnership Playbook: From Shared Vision to Action<br> </h2><h4>November, 2025</h4><p>ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúhas partnered with <a href="https://www.aacnnursing.org/">American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)</a> to announce the release of a new playbook to guide academic and practice leaders as they develop successful, sustainable partnerships. The AACN/ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúAcademic-Practice Partnership Playbook: From Shared Vision to Action was developed by the joint AACN/ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúAcademic-Practice Advisory Committee and combines practical strategies with exemplars, financial models, and more. The Playbook will be available online on November 24, 2025.<br> <br>Additionally, AACN and ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúhosted a <a href="https://www.aacnnursing.org/conferences-webinars/online-learning/on-demand-webinars">webinar</a> to showcase the Playbook, highlight early implementation successes, and preview the committee’s exciting next steps.<br><br> </p></div><div class="col-sm-4"><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/APP-Playbook-AONL-AACN-Cover.png" data-entity-uuid="450dfbdb-7a64-4916-9353-222faaf1d5ad" data-entity-type="file" alt="APP Playbook Cover" width="686" height="851"><p><br><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://www.aacnnursing.org/conferences-webinars/online-learning/on-demand-webinars" target="_blank" title="Go to Webinar">Access Webinar</a> <a class="btn btn-primary" href="/system/files/media/file/2025/11/AACN-AONL-Academic-Practice-Partnership-Playbook.pdf" target="_blank" title="ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúAACN Playbook">Download Playbook</a></p><p> </p></div></div> Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:24:53 -0600 Other Resources /resources/workforce/ROI-calculator h2{ margin-top: 0px; } p.center_Intro { color: #002855; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 30px; margin: 10px 0 25px 0; font-weight: 700; font-size: 2em; } p.center_Lead { color: #63666A; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 21px; } <div class="row spacer"><div class="col-sm-8"><h2><span>ROI as a Strategic Tool for Nursing Leaders</span></h2><p><span><strong>Purchase a one-year subscription to the ROI Calculator!</strong></span></p><p><span>Members:<strong> $499 | </strong>Nonmembers:<strong> $799</strong></span></p><p>The ROI Calculator helps nurse executives and hospital leaders turn nursing workforce investments into measurable financial outcomes by financially quantifying the impact of turnover and hospital-acquired conditions. Built in partnership with the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), using research-backed benchmarks, the tool translates span of accountability decisions or other nursing services investments into savings projections and long-term value, utilizing net present value, internal rate of return, and inflation-adjusted models that align with the needs of healthcare financial colleagues. With just a few inputs, leaders can generate instant, customized ROI reports that strengthen business case development, support value-informed decision-making, and demonstrate how nursing investments directly improve patient work and care.</p><p><strong>Questions?</strong><br>If you have any questions about the ROI Calculator, contact <a href="mailto:AONL@aha.org">AONL@aha.org</a>.<br><br> </p></div><div class="col-sm-4"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025-10/AONL%20ROI%20SOA%20Tool%20computer%20500x320.png" data-entity-type="file" alt="Computer with ROI Calculator on Screen" width="1080" height="691"><p><br><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://ams.aha.org/eweb/?ahabu=AONL&Action=Add&ObjectKeyFrom=1A83491A-9853-4C87-86A4-F7D95601C2E2&WebCode=ProdDetailAdd&DoNotSave=yes&ParentObject=CentralizedOrderEntry&ParentDataObject=Invoice%20Detail&ivd_formkey=69202792-63d7-4ba2-bf4e-a0da41270555&ivd_prc_prd_key=d3c51cc2-4dba-4101-86c6-154ec33735a3" target="_blank" title="Go to Calaulator">Purchase Calaculator</a></p><p> </p></div></div> Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:03:46 -0500 Other Resources /An-Early-Warning-System-for-Nurse-Burnout-Metrics-and-Strategies h2{ margin-top: 0px; } p.center_Intro { color: #002855; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 30px; margin: 10px 0 25px 0; font-weight: 700; font-size: 2em; } p.center_Lead { color: #63666A; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 21px; } <div class="row spacer"><div class="col-sm-8"><h2><a href="/system/files/media/file/2025/10/AONL-Laudio-Insights-Early-Warning-System.pdf">An Early Warning System for Nurse Burnout: Metrics and Strategies</a></h2><h4>October, 2025</h4><p>The American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) and its Workforce Committee are leading a national effort to understand and address nurse leaders’ key workforce challenges. A major objective of the work is to illuminate these challenges and identify specific strategies to elevate and support nurse leaders in addressing them.</p><p>As part of this effort, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúhas partnered with Laudio, a purpose-built software and analytics company whose mission is to inspire and amplify the people who deliver great healthcare. Frontline leaders and executives use Laudio to streamline work for leaders and help drive large-scale change through everyday human actions.</p><p>ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúand Laudio Insights, Laudio’s dedicated analytics group, partner on biannual reports (spring and fall) highlighting data and best practices to inform decision-making for frontline leaders and their executives. The Spring 2025 report, <a href="/Early-Tenure-Nurse-Retention-Trends-and-Leader-Strategies">Early-Tenure Nurse Retention: Trends and Leader Strategies</a>, coupled data on trends in new hire retention with the voices of nurse executives and managers who shared their strategies for early tenure retention and engagement.<br> </p></div><div class="col-sm-4"><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/AONL-Laudio-Early-Warning-System-Cover_0.png" data-entity-uuid="ac72ae7a-0f51-49ef-86c8-5fbbea627fe9" data-entity-type="file" alt="Nurse Burnout Report" width="782" height="1025"><p><br><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/system/files/media/file/2025/10/AONL-Laudio-Insights-Early-Warning-System.pdf" target="_blank" title="ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúx Laudio Nurse Manager Report">Download Report Now</a></p><p> </p></div></div> Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:41:32 -0500 Other Resources /Early-Tenure-Nurse-Retention-Trends-and-Leader-Strategies h2{ margin-top: 0px; } p.center_Intro { color: #002855; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 30px; margin: 10px 0 25px 0; font-weight: 700; font-size: 2em; } p.center_Lead { color: #63666A; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 21px; } <div class="row spacer"><div class="col-sm-8"><h2>Early-Tenure Nurse Retention: Trends and Leader Strategies | Laudio Report</h2><h4>April, 2025</h4><p>The American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) and its Workforce Committee are leading a national effort to understand and address nurse leaders’ key workforce challenges. A major objective of the work is to better illuminate these challenges and identify specific strategies to elevate and support nurse leaders. </p><p>As part of this effort, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúhas <a href="/press-releases/AONL-and-Laudio-New-Report">partnered</a> with Laudio, a software company whose mission is to inspire, empower and connect the people behind great health care. Frontline leaders and executives use Laudio’s software platform to streamline work for leaders and help drive largescale change through everyday human actions. </p><p>ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúand Laudio Insights, Laudio’s dedicated analytics group, partner on biannual reports (spring and fall) highlighting data and best practice to inform decision-making for frontline leaders and their executives. The Spring 2024 report, Quantifying Nurse Manager Impact, evaluated the impact of nurse managers’ purposeful interactions with their team members. The Fall 2024 report, Trends and Innovations in Nurse Manager Retention, combined nurse manager retention data trends with insights into managers’ priorities from one-on-one manager interviews.<br> </p></div><div class="col-sm-4"><a href="/system/files/media/file/2025/04/Early-Tenure-Nurse-Retention-Trends-and-Leader-Strategies.pdf"><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Early-Tenure-Nurse-Retention-Cover.png" data-entity-uuid="4471657b-69e3-433d-87b9-afe32558d626" data-entity-type="file" alt="Early-Tenure Nurse Retention: Trends and Leader Strategies" width="636" height="823"></a><p><br><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/education/webinars/Nurse-Manager-Impact" target="_blank" title="Go to Webinar">View Webinar</a> <a class="btn btn-primary" href="/system/files/media/file/2025/04/Early-Tenure-Nurse-Retention-Trends-and-Leader-Strategies.pdf" target="_blank" title="ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúx Laudio Nurse Manager Report">Download Report Now</a></p><p> </p></div></div> Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:00:34 -0500 Other Resources /Trends-and-Innovations-in-Nurse-Manager-Retention h2{ margin-top: 0px; } p.center_Intro { color: #002855; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 30px; margin: 10px 0 25px 0; font-weight: 700; font-size: 2em; } p.center_Lead { color: #63666A; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 21px; } <div class="row spacer"><div class="col-sm-8"><h2>Trends and Innovations in Nurse Manager Retention: Laudio Report</h2><h4>October, 2024</h4><p>The American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) and its <a href="/resources/Nurse-Leadership-Workforce-Compendium">Workforce Committee</a> are leading a national effort to address nurse leaders’ workforce challenges. A major objective of the work is to better illuminate and elevate the challenges and opportunities of nurse managers.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this effort, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúhas <a href="/press-releases/Laudio-and-AONL-Release-New-Report-on-Nurse-Manager-Retention">partnered</a> with Laudio, a software company that was founded with a goal of elevating the role of front-line leaders in health care. Front-line leaders and executives use Laudio’s software platform to create large-scale change through everyday human actions. </p><p> </p></div><div class="col-sm-4"><a href="/system/files/media/file/2024/10/AONL-Laudio-Trends-and-Innovations-in-Nurse-Manager-Retention_0.pdf" title="ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúx Laudio Nurse Manager Retention" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-10/AONL-Laudio-Trends-and-Innovations-in-Nurse-Manager-Retention_Page_01.jpg" alt="Nurse Manager Retention Cover" width="100%" height="100%"></a><p> </p><p><br><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/system/files/media/file/2024/10/AONL-Laudio-Trends-and-Innovations-in-Nurse-Manager-Retention_0.pdf" target="_blank" title="ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúx Laudio Nurse Manager Report">Download Report Now</a></p><p> </p></div></div> Mon, 21 Oct 2024 16:05:00 -0500 Other Resources /Quantifying-Nurse-Manager-Impact h2{ margin-top: 0px; } p.center_Intro { color: #002855; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 30px; margin: 10px 0 25px 0; font-weight: 700; font-size: 2em; } p.center_Lead { color: #63666A; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 21px; } <div class="row spacer"><div class="col-sm-8"><h2>Quantifying Nurse Manager Impact: Laudio Report</h2><h4>March, 2024</h4><p>The American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) and its Workforce Committee are leading a national effort to address nurse leaders’ workforce challenges. With the 2023 release of their <a href="/resources/Nurse-Leadership-Workforce-Compendium">Workforce Compendium</a> and ongoing research, a vital objective of the work is to quantify nurse managers’ impact on health system outcomes.</p><p><br>As part of this effort, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúhas <a href="/press-releases/AONL-and-Laudio-New-Report">partnered</a> with Laudio, a software company whose mission is to elevate the role of frontline leaders in health care. Frontline leaders and executives use Laudio’s software platform to create large-scale change through every day human actions. The platform includes workflows to strengthen interpersonal connections and improve outcomes, such as increased employee retention, engagement and patient experience.<br> </p></div><div class="col-sm-4"><a href="/system/files/media/file/2024/04/Quantifying%20-Nurse-Manager-Impact_Spring-2024-Final.pdf" title="ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúx Laudio Nurse Manager Report" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-03/Quantifying-Nurse-Manager-Impact-619x805.PNG" alt="Nurse Manager Report Cover" width="100%" height="100%"></a><p><br><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/education/webinars/Nurse-Manager-Impact" target="_blank" title="Go to Webinar">View Webinar</a> <a class="btn btn-primary" href="/system/files/media/file/2024/04/Quantifying%20-Nurse-Manager-Impact_Spring-2024-Final.pdf" target="_blank" title="ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúx Laudio Nurse Manager Report">Download Report Now</a></p><p> </p></div></div> Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:11:06 -0500 Other Resources /about/board-election Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500 Other Resources /foundation/strategy <h2>Strategic Plan and Goals</h2> <p><strong>Vision Statement:</strong> A healthier tomorrow advanced through nursing leadership.</p> <p><strong>Mission Statement: </strong>To provide resources that create opportunities to bridge science and practice to shape the future of nursing leadership.</p> <p><strong>Research and Education Focus:</strong> The ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú supports its vision and mission by focusing on:</p> <ul> <li>Optimizing Leadership Effectiveness</li> <li>Achieving Equity in Health Care</li> <li>Improving the Health Care Experience</li> </ul> <p>Using the research priorities for nursing leadership and health systems sciences identified in the joint ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú and Association for Leadership Science in Nursing (ALSN) study <em>Setting the Research Agenda for Nursing Administration and Leadership Science a Delphi Study:</em></p> <ol> <li>Nurses' Health, Well-being, Resilience/Safety in the Workplace.</li> <li>Developing and Managing a Nursing Workforce to Meet Current and Future Health Care Needs.</li> <li>Healthy Work and Practice Environments for Direct Care Nurses.</li> <li>Healthy Work and Practice Environments for Nurse Leaders.</li> <li>Quantification of Nursing's Value Across the Health Care Delivery System.</li> <li>Nurse Leaders Development and Essential Competencies.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <p><strong>Goal 1:</strong> A sustainable $10 million Foundation fund is developed by 2025 to support research, education, and annual operations. Note: the fund will need to grow beyond that point in subsequent years to achieve desired fund distribution levels.</p> <p><strong>Goal 2:</strong> Greater than 90% of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúmembership has high awareness and appreciation of the Foundation’s impact by 2024, and greater than 20% of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúmembership supports the Foundation through personal giving.</p> <p><strong>Goal 3:</strong> A significant increase of rigorous nursing leadership studies published in peer-reviewed journals, averaging three articles per year, is achieved by funding a minimum of two studies each year.  </p> <p><strong>Goal 4: </strong>A forum/mechanism is established to coordinate and curate existing and new nursing leadership research findings and leverage the collective ongoing knowledge and efforts of nurse leaders.</p> <p><strong>Goal 5: </strong>At least 20 individual educational scholarships (financial assistance) are awarded to attend ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúeducation events from 2019 through 2025.</p> <p><strong>Goal 6: </strong>The dissemination of nurse leadership knowledge is accelerated through partnerships/collaboration.</p> Wed, 12 Jun 2019 08:48:58 -0500 Other Resources /educational-preparation-nurse-leaders <p>Evolving from the increasingly complex role of the professional nurse, AONL has advanced and supported key works on the future of the professional nurse.</p> <p>AONL has an articulated position on the role and educational preparation of the nurse of the future and supports the ongoing educational advancement for all nurses.</p> Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:41:55 -0500 Other Resources /nursing-informatics-executive-leader <p>Technology is revolutionizing the manner in which health care is delivered. Health systems are incorporating high-speed data networks, wireless solutions, handheld devices, automated exchanges between organizations/clinicians and patients and various forms of social media into their daily interactions.</p> <p>Adapting to these new environments requires a shift in expectations for how care is delivered and communicated. This shift necessitates a greater understanding of the constant evolution of new solutions into practice.</p> <p>Nurses are at the core of these changes and are the care providers with the greatest amount of direct patient contact; therefore the nursing informatics leadership roles provide a significant backdrop towards achieving organizational informatics goals and priorities.</p> Tue, 23 Apr 2019 18:46:20 -0500 Other Resources