We are excited to announce our yearly nursing scholarship for student members is now open. Our thanks to the Sforza family who established this special gift in honor of Eula Sforza. EULA SFORZA SCHOLARSHIP $1000 NACN-USA Scholarship Award Deadline to receive complete applications is June 30th, 2023. Submit the letter of intent and read about the required supporting documents here. Kathryn "Katie" Grauerholz, MSN, ANP-BC, Awards & Scholarship Committee Chair
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Enjoy this whimsical coloring page of Blessed Hanna of Poland as a gift to our local councils and members. This project was commissioned by NACN-USA with graphic designer and illustrator, Emma Cassani. Emma's work can be seen each month in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati monthly magazine Catholic Telegraph.
Bonnie Blachly MSN, RN, Certified End of Life Doula, Catholic Nurse and Regional Director for Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands & American Samoa was interviewed on Dan Kennedy's Life Talk NW on Sacred Heart Radio. Bonnie shares her end-of-life class, Birthing Your Soul into Eternal Life, which she co-developed to train lay persons, parishioners, and healthcare professionals on preparation for death, dying, grief, mourning and bereavement. The class is just a portion of the ministry, Momento Mori which Bonnie also presented at the CICIAMS World Congress [...]
Sponsorship Opportunities The World Congress offers a variety of opportunities to showcase your business, organization or apostolate. As a sponsor, you will also help to make our event a possibility for Catholic Nurses throughout the world that suffer from poor wages, lack of equipment and harsh working conditions. Many of our fellow Catholic Nurses around the nation and the world yearn to interact with other Catholic Nurses who strives for healthcare focused on the dignity of the human person, freedom of conscience and religious freedom. As a group of professional [...]
We are excited to announce the keynote speaker for the 2022 World Congress of Catholic Nurses this year is Peter Cardinal Turkson, former Prefect, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. Cardinal Turkson will also be the main celebrant for the opening Mass. Don't miss this incredible event with Catholic Nurses from around the globe. We currently have Nurses coming from: Kenya Nigeria Eswatini Ireland United Kingdom South Korea Poland Canada Mexico Ireland Netherlands Pakistan Singapore Italy Japan Come join the excitement! Get More Info Now!
NACN-USA TASK FORCE ON MANDATES & RIGHT OF CONSCIENCE Welcomes you to join us in a discussion with Author Pamela Acker on VACCINATION: A CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE Description of Live Web Event Pamela Acker is a devout Catholic with a master’s degree in Biology from the Catholic University of America. Pamela worked in the field of vaccine development, specifically with viral vector vaccines, and is very familiar with the controversy regarding the use of the HEK-293 cell line in the development of vaccines. Ms. Acker proposes that the ongoing justification of [...]
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