2018 AAACN Accomplishments

As 2018 comes to a close, we’re pleased to share some AAACN accomplishments from the past year, as well as exciting initiatives planned for 2019. Thanks to the support of our members and tireless contributions of our volunteer leaders, AAACN continues to grow and thrive!

HEALTH BYTES: The Importance of Medical Touch

It can show gentleness and compassion or carelessness and incompetence. It started, as it does for thousands of women every year, with a routine mammogram, and its routine process of having my breasts — like a lump of dough — manipulated by another woman’s hands and placed, albeit gently, into tight compression. It’s never comfortable, but you get used to it because you have to. Read the full article in the New York Times.