Celebrate Nursing Week with us by taking advantage of our wide range of courses designed specifically for nurses seeking to earn continuing education credits.  The American Nurses Association is celebrating National Nurses Week 2024 May 6 - May 12, and throughout May.

Northwest AHEC hosted the 41^st Annual Gravidas at Risk Conference on November 15-16, 2023 at the Hickory Metro Convention Center in Hickory, North Carolina. A diverse group of 150 healthcare professionals, including nurses, educators, providers, and care managers, from all corners of the state, came together to participate in the enriching two-day conference.

Building on the 2022 Annual Celebration of Rural Nursing, this year’s conference will focus on key topics that cover demographics from the infant to end-of-life healthcare spectrum for each generation. Content experts will discuss topics relevant to prevention and compassionate care for rural health disparities across the lifecycle. Program education topics will include: Infant mortality, adverse childhood experiences (ACES), suicide prevention for youth and adults, advance care directives, and hospice & palliative care.

Northwest AHEC Nurse Educators Alana Dodson, MBA, RN and  Stephanie Yoder, MSN attended the North Carolina Nurse’s Association (NCNA) Annual Convention on September 14-15 at the Benton Convention Center in Winston-Salem, NC.

Excitement filled the air on June 8th, 2023, as the AHEC Nurse Educators embarked on a journey to Iredell County for their first in-person visits since the pandemic. This momentous occasion allowed the nurses to connect with valuable partners within the Northwest AHEC region at Iredell Health System and Iredell Health Department, setting the stage for productive collaborations and discussions.

Live Webinar on May 24, 2023 - Register Today! The goal of this conference is to enhance the health care professional's understanding of current management techniques in providing care to the high-risk infant.

The NC AHEC Nurse Council and the NC Community College System invite you to join us!

This partnership strategy serves as a viable strategy to provide professional development to experienced registered nurses. Without enough nurse educators to teach the increasing number of nurses that are needed, the health of North Carolina residents is at stake. Northwest AHEC has been collaborating for 16 years with key partners, Novant Health, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and our local Forsyth County based nursing academic programs at Forsyth Technical Community College and Winston-Salem State University’s School of Health Sciences’ Nursing Program. Together we have educated 420 active nurses to potentially serve as Clinical Teaching Associates to precept nursing students. Join us this December for the next workshop!

We hope you can make plans to join us in Myrtle Beach, SC for this Interprofessional Conference.

The purpose of this activity is to enable the learner to identify strategies that focus the learner to become socialized to the role of the nurse educator.