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.
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 twenty-five percent (25%) 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 (.pdf)
For questions regarding the affiliate process, please contact the NACNS Office at info@nacns.org or the Affiliate Advisory Committee at affiliates@nacns.org.
Current Affiliates
- Alabama Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
- contact at alcns.affiliate@gmail.com
- Arkansas Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists – NEW
- contact at arcns.affiliate@gmail.com
- Alaska Clinical Nurse Specialist Association
- contact at akcns.affiliate@gmail.com
- California Association of CNSs
- contact at cacns.affiliate@gmail.com
- 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 – NEW
- contact at delawarevalley.affiliate@gmail.com
- Florida Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
- contact at facns.affiliate@gmail.com
- Georgia CNS
- contact at gacns.affiliate@gmail.com
- Michigan Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist
- contact at micns.affiliate@gmail.com
- 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
- North Carolina Affiliate of National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
- contact at ncnacnsboard@gmail.com
- Northeast Ohio CNS
- contact at neocns.affiliate@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
- Pacific Northwest CNS – (formerly Washington State CNS)
- contact at wacns.affiliate@gmail.com
- Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania NACNS Affiliate
- contact at pacns.affiliate@gmail.com
- Texas Clinical Nurse Specialists
- contact at txcns.affiliate@gmail.com
- VA Virtual (Veteran’s Administration)
- contact at Kathleen.Ellstrom@va.gov
- Virginia Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
- contact at virginiacns@gmail.com
- Wisconsin Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
- contact at wicns.affiliate@gmail.com
- Western New York (WNY) NACNS
- contact at wnycns.affiliate@gmail.com