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Is Your Group Interested in Affiliation with NACNS?

Benefits to you as an Affiliate:
  • Become visibly linked to the national organization
  • Gain the benefit of NACNS resources
  • Gain opportunities to influence the positions, activities and resources of NACNS
  • Link your local CNSs to all CNSs in the United States
  • Market your affiliate groups' accomplishments in the CNS Journal and NACNS Newsletter
  • Affiliation is free!
Benefits of your affiliation to NACNS:.
  • Increase the organization's authority to speak to issues of concern to CNSs nationwide
  • Enhance the national organizations ability to target services and programs needed by affiliates and their members
  • Helps NACNS identify qualified CNSs for national leadership positions
  • Allows the organization to gather quick assessments of how members stand on emerging issues such as regulation

Requirements to become an NACNS affiliate:

Before you can be recognized by the NACNS Board of Directors:
  • Submit a roster of the CNS members of the group
  • Submit the Affiliation Agreement with signature of the group leader
  • Validate that at least 25% of the CNSs in the group have dual membership with NACNS. That is, with respect to the CNS members of an advanced practice nurse group, at least 25% of the CNS members must be NACNS members
After recognition by the NACNS Board of Directors:
  • Submit a yearly report to the NACNS Board of Directors regarding affiliate activities
  • Annually confirm that at least 25% of the CNS members of the group are dual members of NACNS
  • Submit Affiliate’s operational guidelines (if they exist)including changes durng the year

For questions regarding how to become an affiliate, please contact NACNS Executive Director Christine Filipovich at Christine@nacns.org

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