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  1. Section Editor(s): Mains, Cheryl MBA, BSN, RN, ONC, CNOR

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As an orthopaedic nurse, you make a difference every workday. What if you want to make an even bigger impact and engage with other nurses beyond your workplace? National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses (NAON) and the NAON Foundation offer numerous ways for you to play an influential role in shaping the future of orthopaedic care.

 

Volunteer-NAON becomes stronger every time a member chooses to share their time, skills, and expertise. There are endless ways you can use your orthopaedic nursing skills to improve patient care, support fellow nurses, build your leadership skills, and most importantly, transform the way the world cares for patients with musculoskeletal conditions. Through NAON, there is the Acquiring Interested Members (AIM) Committee. The AIM Committee strives to match the skills of interested members with volunteer positions within the organization. Reach out and volunteer with your chapter.

 

Impact your Orthopaedic Nursing Practice-The NAON Foundation needs your help by donating toward scholarships for nurse attendance at NAON's annual congress. We hear from NAON members that their workplace is offering less and less financial support to attend educational seminars. At NAON's annual congress, orthopaedic nurses have the opportunity to achieve the following:

  

* Implement practice changes based on evidence-based practice, professional development and research in the care of the orthopaedic patient,

 

* Impact patient outcomes through adoption of best practices and innovation, and

 

* Contribute to a professional environment that encourages collegiality and networking among participants associated with advancement in orthopaedic nursing education, practice, and research.

 

Advance your Career-The NAON Foundation has created affiliations with universities' online RN to BSN or MSN programs. These programs are highly recognized in the healthcare industry for offering outstanding programs for practicing nurses who are seeking to further their education. These affiliations allow choices for our members as potential opportunities to consider for returning back to school. In addition, our NAON members are able to receive a discount.

 

Decide to Give-Give to the NAON Foundation. The NAON Foundation offers you the only place in the world to give directly to nurses who advance musculoskeletal care and improve patient outcomes. One hundred percent of your donation is applied toward scholarships for orthopaedic nurses.

 

Your donation to the NAON Foundation, a national public, nonprofit, tax-exempt, charitable organization, makes it possible to help nurses receive access to education, research, and professional development, improve patient care, and advance the orthopaedic nursing profession. Since 1994, the NAON Foundation has provided hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding to support orthopaedic nursing awards, grants, scholarships, and educational initiatives. Please consider giving a gift to help the next generation of orthopaedic nurses. Contributions are essential to create opportunities and empower the careers of skillful and compassionate orthopaedic nurse caregivers.

 

Scholarships available through NAONFoundation.org

 

Research-Gigi Veillion Research grant

 

Chapter Scholarships-DJO Chapter Scholarships

 

Leadership-Past president's Leadership Scholarship

 

Congress Scholarships-Bruemmer Pediatric Nurse scholarship; NAON Foundation scholarships; Novice Nurse scholarship; Rothman Orthopaedic Nurse scholarship; Stauffer Kimbrough Foundation scholarship.

 

Make a difference and give today to help provide scholarships orthopaedic nurses. Go to http://www.NAONFoundation.org to give.

 

In your service,

 

The NAON Foundation Trustees