Apple, two-term commissioner of government relations for the VNA, is among the state's most dogged supporters of legislation to protect and support nurses.

The hundreds of Virginia nurses who took part in VNA's 2025 Lobby Day included 9 School of Nursing students and their professor, policy nerd Ashley Apple.

Assistant professor Ashley Apple and several fellow nurse practitioners speak about what NPs' growing autonomy in Virginia means - and is so important.

Apple, who teaches health policy, is two-term VNA commissioner on government relations and routinely brings students to Virginia's General Assembly.

On the National Transgender Day of Remembrance, prof. Apple urges fellow nurses to support transgender youngsters and not 'violate our ethical duties.'

A group of nursing students and their prof went to VA's House of Delegates to get a look at what nurse advocacy looks like, earning applause along the way.

Thanks to a transformational $20M gift in 2020, our first-ever cohort of Accelerated BSNs have arrived. And already, they're looking a lot like nurses.

Nursing and activism need not live in separate silos, says Ashley Apple, assistant professor. 'They actually go together, and should go together.'

The complex's old garden got demolished. So nursing students and resident youngsters rolled up their sleeves this spring and got growing.

For her capstone project, DNP student and nurse practitioner Ashley Apple convened a two-day forum with nurse legislators and leaders in Richmond.

Welcome to the world of nursing amid COVID-19 as educators, learners, and practitioner adjust, invent, create - and flourish.

Apple, who sold her coffee shop in 2003 to pursue nursing, talks Hurricane Harvey, ER Nursing, work and motherhood, and why she chose UVA's RN to BSN program.