{"id":4136,"date":"2016-04-27T11:55:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2016-04-27T11:56:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:56:27","slug":"nursing-students-present-at-regional-national-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2016\/04\/27\/nursing-students-present-at-regional-national-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing Students Present at Regional, National Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Leg summit 2016\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Leg-summit-2016.jpg?resize=888%2C377\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_19292\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19292 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/AACN-Policy-summit-2016.jpg?resize=239%2C300\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/AACN-Policy-summit-2016.jpg?resize=239%2C300 239w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/AACN-Policy-summit-2016.jpg?resize=768%2C964 768w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/AACN-Policy-summit-2016.jpg?resize=816%2C1024 816w\" alt=\"AACN Policy summit 2016\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: Dr. Martha Buckner, associate<br \/>\ndean of nursing, Rice and Cook<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Doctor of Nursing Practice students Angie Cook and Justin Rice were recently selected to attend the AACN Nursing Policy Summit in Washington D.C., two of only four Tennessee nursing students who were selected to attend. During the conference, the students were\u00a0immersed in didactic program sessions focused on federal policy processes and nursing\u2019s role in professional advocacy. They also visited with legislative staff from Senator Alexander and Corker\u2019s offices to advocate for nursing in patient health improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Following the summit, more than\u00a090 Belmont nursing students participated in the Tennessee Nurses Association Legislative Summit. Undergraduate, RN-BSN and graduate students gathered in the War Memorial Auditorium with other Tennessee nursing students to learn about the state\u2019s legislative processes. This year\u2019s keynote speaker was ANA president Dr. Pam Cipriano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L to R: Dr. Martha Buckner, associate dean of nursing, Rice and Cook Doctor of Nursing Practice students Angie Cook and Justin Rice were recently selected to attend the AACN Nursing Policy Summit in Washington D.C., two of only four &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2016\/04\/27\/nursing-students-present-at-regional-national-summit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chs","category-nursing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4138,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions\/4138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}