Please help us congratulate Michelle Kidd, MS,RN, ACNS-BC, CCRN-K, a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Critical Care here, for recently being elected secretary of the national board for the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, the largest specialty nursing organization in the world with more than 100,000 members. She is serving the second year of a three-year term as director.

the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses: Founded in 1969 and based in Aliso Viejo, California, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) is the largest specialty nursing organization in the world. AACN represents the interests of more than half a million acute and critical care nurses and has more than 200 chapters throughout the United States. The organization’s vision is to create a healthcare system driven by the needs of patients and their families in which acute and critical care nurses make their optimal contribution.

As a board member of the AACN, Michelle has represented the nursing profession as a presentation at national conferences, most recently in May at the AACN's National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition.

We are so proud of you, Michelle!