NurseZone.com interviewed member Carol Rutenberg, RNC-BC, MNSc, about AAACN's support of the Nurse Licensure Compact. Carol served as chair of AAACN's Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Position Statement Task Force which recently completed AAACN's position statement on the NLC. In the Nursezone.com article, Carol says, "Without the adoption of the Nurse Licensure Compact, it puts nurses in a tenuous position.

AAACN has just added more value to your membership -- You may now receive free Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) contact hours for all CNE articles published in ViewPoint! This new member benefit begins with the September/October 2009 issue of ViewPoint and applies to all future issues of the newsletter. Another bonus – you will receive free CNE contact hours for past ViewPoint articles beginning with the January/February 2009 issue for any evaluations (posttests) completed in the Online Library.

The Joint Commission has revised the 2010 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs), and pre-publication versions for all applicable programs are now available on The Joint Commission Web site.

On June 25th, Health Care for America NOW (HCAN) will host a rally on Capitol Hill around health care reform. The American Nurses Association is one of more than 500 organizations that belongs to HCAN, a grassroots campaign dedicated to passing health care reform in 2009. You can read HCAN's Statement of Common Purpose here.

AAACN is proud to recognize the value of nursing certification with Certified Nurses Day. AAACN encourages nurses and health care professionals to join in the campaign to have March 19 officially declared as Certified Nurses Day. March 19 was chosen because it is the birthday of former ANA president Margretta "Gretta" Madden Styles, RN, EdD, FAAN. "Gretta" Styles is widely recognized as the "Mother of Nurse Credentialing." She was the architect of the first comprehensive study of nurse credentialing.