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Academy and the SYNC interprofessional
leadership program, both offered through the
Virginia Nurses Foundation.
4. Two memberships for the price of one!
When you join VNA, you ​also​become a member
of the American Nurses Association. For one
membership rate, you receive the membership
benefits of both organizations! More
importantly, you join with nurses across the
country as well as in Virginia, speaking with
one strong voice on behalf of your profession
and your patients.
5. Significant Discounts on Continuing
Education!
As a VNA member, you will have access to
free and discounted continuing education,
specialty journals, and our highly acclaimed
conferences! You already know how critical
these can be to your continuing competency,
which in turn can lead to better patient
outcomes, systems improvements, and personal
career advancement.
VNA has a variety of high quality educational
programming options to fit your busy schedule.
Much time and effort has been dedicated to
offering web-based CE modules available
on demand, and we also offer live-stream
distance-learning programs. All of these
learning opportunities are in addition to our inperson
conferences and chapter meetings. As
a CE provider, we continue to look for ways to
offer our members CE at a reasonable cost (and
in many cases, ​free​).
Don’t forget: ​members receive a significant
discount​ on all continuing education
opportunities and receive access to membersonly
free online continuing education through
VNA and ANA.
6. Stay informed!
Stay up to date on the news and issues
affecting nursing through our free, members’
only publications and members’ only website
areas. Members receive exclusive access to
interviews, evidence based research, and much
more.
Here’s a sampling of what our members receive:
• VNA News Brief,​our weekly e-news – a
compilation of important national and
statewide news, relevant articles, and the
latest goings on at VNA.
• Virginia Nurses Today - Print and Digital
– b​eginning in May 2020, Virginia Nurses
Today i​s going green! All RNs will continue
to receive a digital version, but we will
continue to provide a print version of VNT
for members only!
• Legislative Updates – weekly ​email
briefs during the legislative session with
up-to-the-minute news on our legislative
activities.
• American Nurse Today ​—Monthly journal
(six print/six electronic) featuring peerreviewed
clinical, practical, practiceoriented,
career and personal editorial.
• OJIN—The Online Journal of Issues in
Nursing – Peer-reviewed, posted online
three times a year
• CINAHL®​ ​– access to a database with
more than 2.6 million records dating back
to 1981, covering nursing, biomedicine,
health sciences librarianship, alternative/
complementary medicine, consumer health
and 17 allied health disciplines.
• Navigate Nursing​webinars – webinars on
current and emerging topics provided free
or at significant savings to members.
7. We advocate for nurses!
Nurses make up the largest group of healthcare
providers in the state, and so it’s essential
that we have a voice in policy making and
engage in the political process. The perceived
time needed to engage in policy involvement
or development outside of daily “nursing work”
as well as the resources to develop skills
in policy participation has often hampered
nursing from becoming involved in advocacy.
Yet, ​when it comes to advocating on behalf of
nurses, VNA makes advocacy easy. We are the
only organization speaking for the 110,00+
nurses throughout Virginia. Our lobbyist,
leadership, and members work passionately to
educate our legislators and state policymakers
on issues crucial to the advancement of the
nursing profession. We update our members
weekly during our legislative calls and send
legislative e-blasts with breaking news during
the legislative session.