NACNS provides the opportunity for state-level and regional common interest groups to become NACNS Affiliates. NACNS Affiliates must be independent organizations that have mission and goals similar to NACNS.
NACNS Affiliates are not in a chapter relationship with NACNS.
Current Affiliates:
The 2023 Affiliate Annual Report is now available. Please complete your report by January 15, 2024.
Become Affiliated
Is Your Group Interested in Affiliation with NACNS?
Benefits to you as an Affiliate:
- Become visibly linked to the national organization
- Gain the benefit of NACNS resources
- Gain opportunities to influence the positions, activities and resources of NACNS
- Link your local CNSs to all CNSs in the United States
- Market your affiliate groups’ accomplishments in the CNS Journal and NACNS Newsletter
- Affiliation is free!
Benefits of your affiliation to NACNS:
- Increase the organization’s authority to speak to issues of concern to CNSs nationwide
- Enhance the national organizations ability to target services and programs needed by affiliates and their members
- Helps NACNS identify qualified CNSs for national leadership positions
- Allows the organization to gather quick assessments of how members stand on emerging issues such as regulation
Requirements to become an NACNS affiliate:
The criteria for affiliation include:
(1) at least fifty percent (50%) or greater than 100 members of the group’s members are Members of the Association;
(2) the Bylaws of the state organization have been reviewed and approved by the Board of Directors; and
(3) the group and the Association have entered into an agreement of affiliation.
For more details about affiliation and learn about how to get started, Click here for the Affiliate Application and application for Merging Affiliates (.pdf).
For the NEW NACNS Affiliate Toolkit, click here.
For questions regarding the affiliate process, please contact the Affiliate Advisory Committee at affiliates@nacns.org.
Current Affiliates
- Alabama Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
contact at aacns2017@gmail.com
Facebook - Alaska Clinical Nurse Specialist Association
contact at akcns.affiliate@gmail.com - Arkansas Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
contact at arcns.affiliate@gmail.com - Armed Forces Affiliate
contact at stacey.m.brundrett.mil@mail.mil and david.bradley@usuhs.edu - California Association of CNSs
contact at president@cacns.org
Facebook - Central Indiana Organization of Clinical Nurse Specialists
contact at ciocns.affiliate@gmail.com - Chesapeake Bay Affiliate of NACNS
contact at cbcns.affiliate@gmail.com - Delaware Valley Affiliate of NACNS
contact at Erin.marinchak@towerhealth.org - Florida Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
contact at facns.affiliate@gmail.com
Facebook - Georgia CNS
contact at info@georgiacns.org - Michigan Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist
contact at micns.affiliate@gmail.com
Twitter - Minnesota Affiliate of National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
contact at mncns.affiliate@gmail.com - Mo-Kan Clinical Nurse Specialists (Missouri-Kansas)
contact at mkcns.affiliate@gmail.com - New York Metro Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
contact at nymetronacns@gmail.com - North Carolina Affiliate of National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
contact at ncnacnsboard@gmail.com - Northeast Ohio CNS
contact at northeastohiocns@gmail.com - Northwest Affiliate
contact at moffittb7@gmail.com - Oklahoma Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
contact at info@oacns.org - Oregon Council of Clinical Nurse Specialists
contact at orcns.affiliate@gmail.com - Pennsylvania State Affiliate of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
contact at pacns.affiliate@gmail.com - Rhode Island Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
contact at riclinicalnursespecialists@gmail.com - Texas Clinical Nurse Specialists
contact at txcns.affiliate@gmail.com
Facebook - VA Virtual (Veteran’s Administration)
contact at Kathleen.Ellstrom@va.gov - Virginia Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
contact at virginiacns@gmail.com
Facebook - Wisconsin Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
contact at wiacns06@gmail.com
Facebook - Western New York (WNY) NACNS
contact at wnycns.affiliate@gmail.com