NAON Celebrates Orthopaedic Nurses Week 2025
We loved seeing the photos and stories our members shared during our favorite week of the year! Your teams, decorations, and celebrations truly showed the heart of our ortho nursing community. Most of all, thank you for everything you do! Your hard work and compassion make such a difference for your patients every day. NAON is proud to celebrate YOU not just during Ortho Nurses Week, but all year long!
46th Annual NAON Congress
Registration is now open NAON’s 46th Annual Congress! Take advantage of Early Bird Registration Pricing now through January 4. With over 40 CNE credits offered, this Congress is set to be the best yet! Register Now >
New Webinar Available!
The latest NAON webinar, “Injectables in Orthopaedics: From Cortisone to Cutting Edge” presented by Dr. Jessica Pelkowski, DNP, APRN, AGPCNP-BC, ONP-C, FAANP, FNAON, is now available! Offering 1 Category A CNE Credit, this webinar is FREE for NAON members. Find out more here >
NAON ONE Award
The NAON Orthopaedic Nursing Excellence (ONE) Award honors nursing professionalism by recognizing outstanding patient care, quality outcomes, teamwork across disciplines, and commitment to professional growth. Units with specialty nursing certification, particularly Orthopaedic Nursing Certification (ONC), are also celebrated. Apply or Nominate >
2026 NAON Research Grant Program
The deadline is quickly approaching for the 2026 NAON Research Grant Program. This program was created to support and encourage innovative research in orthopaedic nursing. We invite all members interested in advancing orthopaedic nursing research to submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) by December 1, 2025.
Get Involved With NAON!
Share Your Expertise
Do you have a great idea for a NAON webinar, online course, or publication? We are always looking for contributors to NAON’s educational initiatives! Contribute your clinical insights, research or innovative practices to help shape orthopaedic nursing education for our community!
Why share?
- Reach a National Audience: Your content can be featured through NAON’s education programs, helping you build your professional reputation and visibility.
- Professional Growth & Networking: Collaborate with NAON’s Education Committee and encourage Q&A with fellow orthopaedic nurses.
- Impact the Field: Your work will help advance best practices, promote evidence-based care, and support the professional development of orthopaedic nurses.
- CV & Career Boost: Presenting or authoring content for a respected organization like NAON adds valuable experience to your resume or professional portfolio.
- Volunteer Opportunity: Share your knowledge in a meaningful way by giving back to your profession and contributing to quality education.
What We’re Looking For
- Webinars (live or recorded): you can use PowerPoints or recorded files from Zoom or other video conferencing platforms.
- Online courses or publications: Fill out NAON’s Education Planning Table with any ideas, draft documents, presentations or learning material that you’d like to share.
How to Submit
Complete the form on our Share Your Expertise page, upload your materials, and our Education Committee will review and follow up!
NAON Blog
An Attitude of Gratitude
As we come closer to the holidays, many feel gratitude for family, friends and all the wonderful things, but how can we make this last all year long?
Being grateful-
- Helps you acknowledge the goodness in your life
- Can connect you with something bigger than yourself
- Positive emotions can improve health, lower blood pressure, and cortisol
- Gratitude can help build strong relationships
- The is “no negative side effects of feeling gratitude!”
How can you build up an attitude of gratitude?
- Write or say thank you- express appreciation to anyone and everyone; it's free!
- Thank your loved ones each day- even in your heart can bring joy
- Journal- gratitude a day keeps the boos away; count your blessings
- Mindfulness meditation or prayer- take note of the air we breathe and our ability to choose gratitude!
- Seeing the good and acknowledging the source of good- not always just trying to fix what we don’t like!
- Thank yourself! Be compassionate to yourself like you would your best friend
I hope everyone has a wonderful, peaceful Thanksgiving full of laughter and gratitude!
Valencia, G. (2024). An attitude of gratitude: What science says about being thankful. FIU