Our Nurse of the Year Award honors a member who makes a difference to AAPPN by helping members, promoting AAPPN, recruiting new members, working on a committee, or cultivating chapters. Kristine Highlander fulfills those roles with a love for the profession and enthusiasm for the vision of AAPPN.
Under Kristine’s leadership, AAPPN’s Membership Committee has built connections with academic programs for student member outreach, started up Seattle member mixer events, conducted a member phone check-in, started the AAPPN Facebook Group, and began creating a new graduate toolkit. Oh yeah, her committee also played a key role in AAPPN’s 30 percent membership growth in the past two years.