The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital are being recognized with the 2023 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Exemplary Academic-Practice Partnership Award. It is one of three academic-practice partnerships that will be acknowledged during the upcoming AACN Academic Nursing Leadership Conference October 28-30 in Washington, DC.
Established in 2016, this innovative partnership enabled advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) at Le Bonheur to transition to full-time faculty roles in the College of Nursing at UTHSC while maintaining full clinical practice. The APRNs who are clinical faculty members maintain a role that is 95% clinical practice and 5% teaching. Forty APRNs at Le Bonheur are on the clinical faculty at the college, and several others serve as volunteer faculty.
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