We are the Armed Forces Section of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN). The Armed Forces Section is a group of military nurses, active duty, retired, and reserves, specializing in women's health , and the health of the newborn. Our goal is to promote the health of women and newborns within the military community through the utilization of the core values of AWHONN:

GENERATIONS OF CARING . . . 
The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is a not-for-profit association of 22,000 health care professionals in the United States, Canada and abroad who are dedicated to establishing and promoting the highest standards of nursing practice.  AWHONN members practice in a variety of settings such as hospitals, home health agencies, physician’s offices, universities or public health agencies and perform a variety of roles in the care of women and newborns. They are staff nurses, nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, professors, nurse scientists, administrators, managers and entrepreneurs. It is this rich diversity of skills, settings, and experience that makes AWHONN the leading association dedicated to the of health women and newborns. 

Women’s Health
As women live longer and look to prevent chronic disease and debilitation, AWHONN is committed to providing nurses with topical resources that enhance their practice and ensure healthy patient outcomes. Through research based practice projects, clinical publications, and continuing education programs, AWHONN addresses health issues across the life span such as incontinence, osteoporosis,  and menopause. A key component of AWHONN’s program is reproductive health. AWHONN publications and programs address such issues as limited ultrasound, perinatal education, critical care intrapartum nursing, perinatal home care, postpartum depression, and management of preterm labor. AWHONN’s renowned Fetal Heart Monitoring Principles and Practices program not only provides thousands of nurses the critical skills necessary to correctly perform fetal assessment, but also offers members the opportunity to become instructors, enhancing their skills and their marketability.

Newborn Health 
By advocating longer newborn hospital stays, AWHONN recognizes that newborns and families need care, assistance, education and training in the days following a birth. AWHONN’s neonatal nursing guidelines, Core Curriculum Neonatal Intensive Care book, and research based practice project on transitioning the infant to the open crib are excellent examples of AWHONN’s influence on neonatal nursing and its commitment to quality newborn health. In addition, AWHONN’s fourth research-based practice project, Neonatal Skin Care, has generated data on more than 3,000 newborns and is providing valuable new information on how to best care for newborns' delicate skin. In partnership with the National Association of Neonatal Nurses, RBP4 has offered many of AWHONN’s neonatal nurses the opportunity to actively participate in this investigative process.