Patricia Blair Dr. Patricia Blair is an exemplary nurse, nurse attorney and professor of nursing. Introduced to correctional nursing in law school,...

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It seems hard to believe, but ACNA has been active and growing for 5 years! We started out in March 2020 during the same week that the U.S. entered...

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21. Heather Norman Chief Nursing Officer, Wellpath Heather Norman is a highly experienced healthcare leader with over 20 years of dedication to the...

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Join us for an evening kick-off for building new collaborations followed by a 1-day symposium to spark action and build a community of corrections...

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Patricia Blair, Ph.D., LLM. JD, MSN, CNE, CCHP-RN, CCHP-A is a founding member of ACNA, an Associate Professor of Nursing at UTMB and the recently...

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Call for 2025 Correctional Nurse of the Year Nominations – Due August 1 We are looking for correctional nurses who advocate for the specialty...

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To All Correctional Nurses, As we celebrate National Nurses Week, May 6-12, 2025, the American Correctional Nurses Association (ACNA) extends our...

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Greetings awesome ACNA members, Over the past two years since ACNA began, we have had a few people ask about either auto-renewal or multi-year...

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