Nurse Leader Membership Criteria
Nurse Leader Candidates must:
- Be legally recognized to practice nursing in his/her country
- Have a minimum of a baccalaureate degree or the equivalent in any field
- Demonstrate achievement in nursing
How to Join: Click here to submit an application
Examples of Achievement in Nursing:
- Creativity/Innovation in clinical practice
- Leadership qualities contributing to improved health care
- Teaching
- Administration
- Curriculum development
- Improvement of the status of nursing organizations
- Innovative student-focused learning approaches
- Research development utilization
- Entrepreneurial skills
- Staff development
- Mentoring of colleagues
- Innovative professional recognition of programs
List of Sample Achievements from Previous Candidate Forms:
- Nursing faculty member for 23 years
- Writing articles for Nursing Spectrum magazine
- Recognized for outstanding care of treating special patients in Saudi Arabia
- Adjunct instructor, write monthly health columns for local newspaper
- Began precepting newer nurses
- Developed classes to help educate the staff on certain areas
- In charge of a 24 bed open heart surgery unit
- Team leader of a critical care ambulance
- Care of indigent, homeless, migrant patients
- Developed and ran nursing health education services for rural education
- Increased nursing services with Medicaid grants
- Team researcher in Distance Learning Project
- Reviewer of "The Journal of Nursing Education"
- Forensic nurse who forged collaboration between police, rape crisis interviewers and medical teams
- Expert witness in area of forensic medical evaluations
- Senior leadership as a nurse in the Navy for 33 years
- Received military medal for excellence
- Spoke at a convention of a national organization
- Advocates for the profession in state government
- Received award from AANP (or other national organization)
- Nominated as Nurse of the Year by ________ organization
- Served on various task forces, staff retention teams, and councils
- Held executive offices in nursing organizations
- Served as an undergraduate curriculum committee representative
- Experienced lecturer on topic of expertise
- Developed cancer screening programs to meet the needs of the under insured and those in rural communities
- Serve on the board of directors of nursing or other organization
- Worked on developing policy, procedures and nurse position statements to improve patient care