Help Us Chart the Future!
Charting the Future Together is a collaborative discovery and exploration journey, and we’d love to have you join us in shaping the future of our nursing community! With our mission of driving excellence in acute and critical care nursing, AACN aims to inspire every nurse in our community to discover personal connections, pursue clinical advancement, and cultivate a deeper sense of purpose in your support of patients and families. In doing so, we can collectively advocate for and drive toward our vision of a healthcare system driven by the needs of nurses, patients and families.
The Goal: With Charting the Future Together, the goal is to gather a wide range of input from our diverse community, including members, non-members, and nursing students, to understand the current and future needs of the profession. We hope to involve as many individuals as possible throughout the different stages of this program and we will keep you updated on developments as they progress.
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Our Partner: We are excited to be partnering with Hackworks to create and deliver this experience. The Hackworks team brings years of experience in the innovation program space and are leaders in leveraging co-creation to deliver meaningful results.
How to Participate: This journey consists of four main phases taking place virtually. Each phase involves input and feedback from the acute and critical care nursing community. You can choose how you would like to be involved - you have the option to participate in live group sessions or share your thoughts independently on the website. We invite you to consider joining us for one (or more) of these phases to share your perspectives and expertise - it's not too late to join us in this journey! Your participation in these workshops and exercises will be instrumental in guiding our efforts to better support you.
- Phase 1:Understand and Define (2-4 hours between July 22 - August 2)
- Phase 2:Ideate (2-4 hours between September 16 - 27)
- Phase 3:Decide and Prototype (2-4 hours between November 11 - 22)
- Phase 4:Validation (1-2 hours between January 6 - 31)
Journey So Far: We’ve successfully completed Phase 1 engaging nurses across a variety of roles and experiences to understand what matters to them and their vision for the future. Since then, we’ve validated the most common findings to identify the ideal future states that resonate most with this community. As we move forward in this journey, our goal is to continue gathering a wide range of input as we further explore the desired future states and identify effective and impactful solutions to achieve them.
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Have any questions? Please email aacn-collab@hackworks.com