Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses

The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) is a nonprofit membership organization whose mission is to improve and promote the health of women and newborns and to strengthen the nursing profession through the delivery of superior advocacy, research, education and other professional and clinical resources to nurses and other health care professionals.  ACNM and AWHONN, along with other organizations,  have collaborated on numerous projects including the Coalition for Quality Maternity Care, and the documents Quality Patient Care in Labor and Delivery: A Call to Action, and Multidisciplinary Guidelines in the Care of Late Preterm Infants.  ACNM also served as content validator for the AWHONN OB Triage Algorithm.