Membership Dues Increase

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: 2024 NACN-USA Membership Dues Increase Effective March 1, 2024 Shortly after the celebration of the Epiphany, the National Association of Catholic Nurses, USA (NACN-USA) Board of Directors held their monthly meeting to discuss strategic outreach goals for the 2024 calendar year. The Board voted to approve a modest, but long overdue increase in the annual general membership dues effective March 1, 2024. Membership renewals and new memberships can occur as listed in the chart below. This increase in dues will allow the NACN-USA to further optimize state, national, [...]

2025-06-05T19:49:33-04:00January 31, 2024|News|

Catholic Nurse Rosary Video

A gift to the Blessed Mother and to you. Catholic Nurses from across the United States and the world pour their hearts out to the Blessed Mother in this beautiful, multiligual, prayer to Jesus through Mary.  Join us in prayer and subscribe to our channel. Watch our Rosary Video on Youtube

Establishment of Catholic Nursing Associations

April 8, 1938 Pizzardo, G. Cardinal. April 8, 1938. Letter to U.S. bishops. Retrieved from the Archives of The Catholic University of America.  ACUA, Aquinas Hall storage. November 2018. Retrieved from http://archives.lib.cua.edu/recman.cfm Records shelved in the archives storage facility in Aquinas Hall. November 2018. Retrieved from http://archives.lib.cua.edu/infostaff.cfm (Located by Dr. Cheryl Hettman, PhD, RN, Chair, Archives & History Committee, National Association of Catholic Nurses, USA and Past President 2010-2012). Read and Print the full letter here from Cardinal-Pizzardo-Letter-Addendum_C.Hettman_4-8-1938 Your Excellency, In the year 1935, as Your Excellency may recall, the [...]

2023 Vatican Christmas Card to Our Members

Below is your Christmas Card from the Vatican to CICIAMS / NACN-USA Members From: The Dicastery of Integral Human Development, Vatican City To: International Catholic Committee of Nurses and Medico-Social Assistants (CICIAMS), Vatican City NACN-USA is the national Catholic Nursing organization representing the USA within CICIAMS.

Letter from His Holiness Pope Francis

Letter from His Holiness Pope Francis with greetings to CICIAMS Members (and thereby all NACN-USA Members)   Translation: Vatican 27 June 2023 Dear, I would like to thank you for your kind letter and for the expression of your spiritual closeness. I encourage all members of CICIAMS to continue this important service with love, generosity, and joy. Thank you for your witness and for the good you do throughout the world. Keep up the good work. May the Lord bless you and the Madonna keep you. Please [...]

NACN-USA Sponsors 60th Celebration at Madonna University

NACN-USA was a proud sponsor of the celebration at Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan on Saturday, February 25, 2023.  The nursing program titled, "Celebrating 60 years of Nursing Education Excellence" highlighted the care and compassion of the educators whose founders are Felician Sisters and their student graduates. Members of NACN-USA in attendance included Zachary McAllister, Madonna University staff member, CeeLee Pavlak, President, Kalamazoo Diocese Local Council, Janet Munday, Regional Director and Diana Ruzicka, CICIAMS General Secretary. During an open mic portion of the evening, Diana Ruzicka spoke about the special [...]

2025-06-05T19:55:35-04:00May 24, 2023|Integration Of Faith And Health, News|

National Association of Catholic Nurses 2023 Vote-Open

The following positions and candidates are presented for the 2023 ballot and annual election. The LAST DAY TO CAST YOUR VOTE IS JUNE 28, 2023 Treasurer (Term July 2023 thru June 2025) Candidate: Dr. Anne T. Reeser, DNP, MSN, APRN-BC Anne was awarded a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from The Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, D. C. and continues to work at CUA teaching in their online DNP program. She earned a Nurse Practitioner (NP) degree, an MSN, and a BSN from Florida International [...]

2025-06-05T19:49:33-04:00May 17, 2023|News|

OSV Interview of Patricia Sayers

OSV Interview of President Patricia Sayers, DNP, RN for National Nurses Week 2023

2025-06-05T19:49:33-04:00May 16, 2023|News|

Parental Rights Letter to Chairwoman Foxx

The NACN-USA Board of Directors agreed to co-sign on a Parental Rights letter dated March 21,2023. Read the entire letter here. The letter was addressed to the Honorable Virginia Foxx Chairwoman House of Representatives Committee on Education & the Workforce where it identified concerns of protecting Parental Rights towards the health and well being of all children. The House of Representatives agreed to create a "Parents Bill of Rights" acknowledging the rights of parents to view school curriculums including topics on health education, fundamental right of parents to direct their [...]

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 [...]

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