A BIG Congratulations goes out to these outstanding NACN-USA members!
On August 9, 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya, two members of NACN-USA were elected by the International Catholic Committee of Nurses and Medico-social Assistants (CICIAMS) General Council to represent Catholic Nursing on the global healthcare stage. Elevated to international leadership were Dr. Anne T. Reeser, DNP, MSN, APRN-BC and Iveth Mavarez de Tarantino MS(c), RN, DNP Student / Multilingual Physician (Trained Overseas). Their talents, skills, hard work, and professionalism are positioned to impact religious liberty and right of conscience world-wide. As they share our Catholic faith and values with healthcare [...]
Hot off the Press…New NACN-USA Bylaws Passed by our membership!
Message from the NACN-USA President Dr. Patricia Sayers Click to view the 2024 NACN-USA Bylaws
NACN-USA at the 2024 10th National Eucharistic Congress
The National Association of Catholic Nurses wants to thank you for participation at our booth and we look forward to working with you.
Happy Nurses Week 2024!
We at the National Association of Catholic Nurses - USA want to wish ALL nurses everywhere a Blessed Nurses Week - May 6 to May 12, 2024 "We are He, in that we are His members, in that we are His Body, in that He is our Head, in that whole Christ is both Head and Body." - St. Augustine of Hippo
NACN-USA Educational Session-“Why Patients Declared Brain Dead Are Really Brain Injured.”
Please take some time to watch this video. NACN-USA offered this presentation to their membership in April 2023. Click the link below to view the presentation: https://youtu.be/eGWhmkOldHo
“Why Patients Declared Brain Dead are Really Brain Injured.”
Why Patients Declared Brain Dead are Really Brain Injured Join us in this special presentation by Mr. Michael Arthur Vacca, JD who will present why patients declared brain dead are really brain injured. Mr. Vacca is a Catholic Lawyer, Certified Catholic Bioethicist and Spiritual Director, Chairman of Healthcare Civil Rights Task Force at Christ Medicus Foundation. He will present on: The history of “brain death” and why it was invented by doctors at Harvard The medical, philosophical, and theological reasons why “brain death” is not the actual death of the [...]
CICIAMS Quarterly Newsletter Spring 2023
Read international Catholic Nurse news from around the world. In this Spring 2024 Newsletter read about: From the International President’s Desk – Dr. Rosemary Khosi Mthethwa, MPH, PhD, RN Meet CICIAMS’ International Ecclesiastical Assistant Divine Mercy Sunday April 16, 2023 CICIAMS Executive Board Meeting February 18-19, 2023, Rome, Italy Easter Vigil 2023 – Excerpt from the Homily of His Holiness Pope Francis Are you a Nurse who is Catholic or a Catholic Nurse? Regional Presidents in Action – Featured Africa Region CICIAMS Representing Catholic Nurses and Member Associations Internationally NWGI [...]
Nurses Fight to Protect Freedom and Conscience
Catholic Nurses are fighting to protect religious freedom and conscience rights in providing care with a recent co-authored statement to the Biden Administration's Health and Human Services. Public Comment Opposed to Some of the Provisions in “Safeguarding the Rights of Conscience as Protected by Federal Statutes" [RIN 0945-AA18]1 Doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals must be free to practice their professions in accordance with their professional judgment and ethical beliefs. Without religious freedom and conscience protections such as were provided for in the 2019 Final Rule, healthcare professionals throughout the [...]
Pope Speaks on Human Trafficking
February 8, 2023 marks the memorial of Saint Josephine Bakhita, patron saint of victims of human trafficking. Join Pope Francis in celebrating the Ninth International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking, on the theme “Journeying in Dignity”. Read the Pope's message.