Courses in 2025:

August 27 - September 10, 2025 — Virtual Foundations Finance Course

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ACNL is taking a step into the future with its new virtual finance course. Join instructor and ACNL President-Elect Jeffery Hudson-Covolo, to learn how to create budgets, calculate expenses, and more.



The course will be conducted through Zoom, ensuring a seamless and interactive learning experience. Upon registration, participants will receive an email providing detailed instructions on how to access the course materials and join the sessions.

The course will run every Wednesday from August 27 to September 10, consisting of three sessions that cover different finance topics. Each session will be about three hours long and will be held from 1 to 4 pm.

Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable financial skills!

November 10-14, 2025 — Garden Grove
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Our health care environment is changing rapidly. Health care reform, pay for performance, HCAHPS, value-based purchasing, quality, patient safety and other critical initiatives are vital to the success of your healthcare organization and your ability to provide optimal patient care.

Foundation for Leadership Excellence is a five-day intensive program to help you develop long-lasting, effective leadership skills. Whether its human resource issues, customer-service concerns, implementation of quality and patient safety initiatives, budget analysis, cost-saving mandates or building your influence as a leader, you will gain new perspectives and solutions for the difficult challenges you face on a daily basis. 

Course Objectives Include:

• Explore innovations in nursing practice and leadership.
• Identify and grow your personal leadership style to increase your influence and effectiveness.
• Develop strategies to build a positive work environment with motivated employees where optimal inter-professional practice flourishes.
• Examine proven approaches to enhance customer service and patient engagement to increase HCAHPS and CGCAHPS scores.
• Utilize business plans and financial reports to drive decision-making.
• Integrate performance-improvement, regulatory and accrediting principles into your leadership role.
• Discover the nurse leader’s role in health care reform and the institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing vision. 
• Discuss implications of policy decisions on nursing practice and patient care. 
• Develop proficiency in providing meaningful feedback to employees. 
• Devise strategies to effectively lead and manage change. 
• Re-energize your spirit to be the best leader possible.