I just returned from the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses (AANN) 55th Emerald Anniversary Celebration at the annual conference in Orlando, Florida. The conference truly was a celebration of neuroscience nursing with amazing content and invigorating presenters who truly did provide inspiration. The opening ceremony and presidential address by Pat Lane echoes her recent reflections and sparked my neuroscience passion.1 My role in supporting communities, team members, and AANN is to continue to lead forward and support neuroscience excellence. The conference also provided highlights around the need to continue to understand my leadership impact to support the spark and cultivate the passion in our new neuroscience nurses.

Judiciously presenting additional content to provide constructive guidance geared toward the vigilance of leadership when a passion or spark needs to be fanned to continue to grow. Neuroscience leaders face evolutionary challenges that could benefit from additional content that grows foundational practice, strengthens our neuroscience community collaboration, and creates a sustained culture of inclusion; overcomes the challenges tomorrow may bring; and builds a culture of respect and trust among the neuroscience community. In your most recent Editorial, you clearly highlight our need to "share wisdom, knowledge, and insight."2 Adding content or column within our neuroscience community to spark additional collaboration and growth in leadership by sharing knowledge around neuroscience leadership, tidbits for successful coaching and mentoring, will continue to support the energy that the AANN conference created, which leads to continued inspiration and passion as we celebrate the impact of neuroscience nurses to the communities we serve.

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