WELCOME TO THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NEONATAL NURSES

The purpose of the “Association” shall be to promote the highest standards of neonatal nursing practice and education, to assist the neonatal nurse in advancing professional development and economic welfare.

The goals of the “Association” shall be to: Facilitate an exchange of information between nurses in the neonatal field; make available to its members a forum for continuing education; and to establish a communication network among nurses working in the neonatal field.

President's Message

On behalf of the Board of Directors for the Northern California Association of Neonatal Nurses, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for visiting our newly renovated website. We would like to express a warm welcome to our current members, NANN members, friends and sponsors.

NCANN has a long history of providing the highest quality of neonatal education to professionals in Northern California committed to the care of the tiniest patients and their families. Our organization has been ever changing and ever growing. We recently celebrated the winter holidays in San Francisco with one of the largest turnouts in years (over 100 guests)! The origin of NCANN began nearly twenty years ago, as the Neonatal Nurses of Northern California and was instrumental in the development of our national organization NANN. We became an active chapter for NANN in the early 1990’s. Our diverse membership extends from the fertile Salinas Valley to dramatic San Francisco, the prosperous East and South Bays to the rural Central Valley, the rolling hills of the eastern Sierra to the vines of the Sonoma/Napa Valleys. Our current membership is over 150 strong including nurses, practitioners, clinical specialists, and respiratory therapists from normal newborn nurseries to tertiary level III NICUs.

I am honored to be part of such a dynamic and professional group. The NCANN Board has worked very hard over the last year to rejuvenate our membership, update our website, develop creative and interesting newsletters and provide stimulating and important educational opportunities.

My ties to NCANN go back many years to the early 1990’s. Being an active NCANN member became an integral part of my early professional development as a neonatal nurse. Now as a neonatal nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist working in a community level III NICU in Modesto, I am pleased to say NCANN still has a strong and special place in my clinical and professional life.

Amy Paradis, RNC, MS, NNP, CNS

NCANN President, 2006-2008

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