AONL

Content by and about the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL).

Nurses seeking leadership certifications should consider their responsibility level, the continuing education hours required to keep the certification current and their organization’s preference in determining which ones to pursue, states an article posted to Sermo, a physician-community website.
AONL encourages nurses to apply for Johnson & Johnson and TIME’s inaugural Healthcare Champion of the Year Award. The award will honor “an individual healthcare professional whose leadership and impact reflect the highest calling of the profession.”
AONL and 56 other Nursing Community Coalition members urged the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs leaders to advance the Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act of 2025 (S. 3296).
AONL will host a webinar on its refreshed Nurse Leader Competency Framework on Aug. 13 at 1:00 ET. AONL recently updated the core leadership competencies to reflect healthcare’s growing complexity and evolving leadership expectations.
Every nurse leader I know can point to a moment in time when a colleague's encouragement, a mentor's counsel, or a room full of peers changed their career trajectory. For thousands of AONL members, those moments happen in our local state and regional chapters.
The 2026 AONL Nurse Leader Competency Framework provides a modern, evidence-based roadmap for leadership development across nursing roles, practice settings and career stages
This webinar will examine how nurse leaders are approaching LPN/LVN integration as part of broader care model redesign.
Nurse leaders are increasingly expected to connect workforce decisions, operational realities and financial outcomes.
A survey instrument developed by researchers at Penn Medicine is helping healthcare leaders better understand how emergency nurses perceive their safety in the workplace, particularly regarding patient violence.
Pregnant women and parents of young kids said they would rather receive the maternal respiratory syncytial virus vaccine during pregnancy to protect their child against the virus, a national survey published in JAMA Network Open found.