Becoming a nurse is more than just performing patient assessments, passing medications and charting. When entering the nursing profession, one should feel a sense of pride, an ethical obligation, and a desire to uphold a certain image nurses want to display. To its members, guide nursing behaviors, are instrumental in clinical decision making, and influence how nurses think about themselves (Creasia & Friberg, 2011, p. 49) . The profession's values give direction and meaning a new graduate nurses are overwhelm with learning the technical components of nurses and the desire to uphold the image of the nursing profession can be placed on the back burner. As nurses pass the novice stage of the career their core values provide the desire to expand their scope of practice, or clinical autonomy. Becoming a member of a professional nursing organization allows nurses to expand their clinical autonomy and "provide a structure for the exercise of autonomy and accountability to ensure that quality services will be provided by competent professionals"  (Creasia & Friberg, 2011, p. 63). A professional organization is "an organization of practitioners who judge one another as professionally competent and have banded together to perform social functions which they can perform in their separate capacity as individuals  (Creasia & Friberg, 2011, p 63. A professional nursing organization such as the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses requires its members to display specific core values and guiding principles that contribute to the "advancement of neuroscience nursing as a specialty through the development and support of nurses to promote excellence in patient care  (American Association of Neuroscience Nurses). The members of the AANN share values such as excellence, innovation, collaboration, integrity, and visionary. AANN members also think strategically in order to achieve the organization's goals of advancement in nursing, are res