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Teaching and Learning in Nursing (TELN), the official journal of the Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, is celebrating significant growth in its scholarly influence, manuscript submissions, and editorial leadership. Journal Impact Factor Rises to 2.5 TELN achieved a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.5, up from 1.7, representing a 47 percent increase and a significant [...]
The Organization for Associate Degree Nursing (OADN) welcomes the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) decision to expand membership eligibility to licensed practical nurses and licensed vocational nurses. Approved during ANA’s annual Membership Assembly, the bylaw change recognizes the essential role LPNs/LVNs play in patient care and strengthens professional representation across the nursing workforce. OADN applauds this [...]
OADN proudly congratulates Audria G. Denker, DNP, RN, FAADN, ANEF, and Jennifer D. Eccles, PhD, MSN, MEd, RN, FAADN, on their selection for induction into the American Academy of Nursing’s 2026 Class of Fellows. Fellowship in the Academy is one of the nursing profession’s highest honors and recognizes leaders whose work has made substantial and [...]
The Organization for Associate Degree Nursing (OADN) continues to monitor federal actions that could significantly affect access to advanced nursing education. OADN is an Organizational Affiliate of the American Nurses Association (ANA) and supports efforts to ensure that nursing is appropriately recognized as a professional degree and that students pursuing advanced nursing education maintain access [...]
Mission Health, part of HCA Healthcare’s North Carolina Division, has removed the requirement that newly hired registered nurses and clinical nurse coordinators hold or obtain a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Effective July 1, an associate degree in nursing will serve as the minimum educational requirement for both roles across Mission Health’s six hospitals and [...]
A Changing Landscape and How OADN Is Here to Help Dear Colleagues, Marilyn McGhee PhD - Public Director, OADN Board of Directors The work you lead has rarely been more consequential. Across the more than 1,100 community-based college nursing programs OADN represents, you prepare the nurses who staff rural hospitals, behavioral health, long-term care, and [...]