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A Global Enterprise. . .Caring for Those Who Care
Core Ideology
Core PurposeNurses advancing our profession to improve health for all.
Core Values Excellence DiversityUnity Integrity
Respect
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Envisioned FutureOverarching GoalNursing will be the acknowledged unifying force advancing Quality health for all.
Outcomes Nurses are universally valued as central to optimal health. Nurses are a recognized political force with a prominent seat
at health policy tables. Nurses are actively shaping safe and secure practice
environments. Nurses, nursing organizations, and the public value ANA as
the indispensable primary voice of nursing and builder of coalitions for health advocacy.
Every nurse has a connection to ANA. Nursing is among the most frequently chosen careers.
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2005-2006 Strategic Imperatives1. Professional Practice Excellence
ANA successfully champions professional nursing excellence through standards, code of ethics, and professional development, such as credentialing and lifelong learning.
2. Healthcare & Public PolicyANA is an acknowledged leader in the
formulation of effective healthcare and public policy as they affect the profession and the
public.
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2005-2006 Strategic Imperatives[Continued]
3.Knowledge & Research
ANA is the recognized source for accurate, comprehensive health policy information based on knowledge from research.
4.Unification ANA facilitates unification and advancement of the
profession.
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2005-2006 Strategic Imperatives[Continued]
5. Advocacy for Workforce & Workplace Issues
ANA with its partners and through its organizational relationships is the leader in promoting improved work environments and the value of nurses as professionals, essential providers and decisions makers in all practice settings.
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2005-2006 Strategic Imperatives[Continued]
6. Organizational Effectiveness ANA improves its organizational structure
and resources to pursue its vision, achieve its mission, and address the needs of its constituents, structural units, related entities, associate organizational members and organizational affiliates.
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ANA’s Cornerstone Work
●Code of Ethics for NursesANA’s commitment to advance the profession’s foundational work revolves around ethics and standards. In this role, the ANA owns and promotes the Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements and develops and maintains standards of practice.
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ANA’s Cornerstone Work[Continued]
●Scope and Standards of PracticeThe new Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice is a complete revision of the 1998 edition and delineates the professional activities and accountabilities of all practicing registered nurses in any care settings.
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ANA’s Cornerstone Work[Continued]
●Nursing’s Social Policy StatementThe second edition of Nursing’s Social Policy Statement details: nursing’s relationship with society; the profession’s contributions to healthcare; and, nurses obligation to recipients of care.
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ANA’s Core Issues
●Nursing ShortageANA actively addresses the complex factors that affect the supply and demand of nurses. ANA is initialing strategies to retain and recruit nurses by improving work environments, increasing educational opportunities, increasing compensation and advocating for laws that strengthen the profession.
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ANA’s Core Issues[Continued]
● Appropriate StaffingANA leads the way in research, policy and practice, and workplace strategies to ensure that the number and mix of staff are appropriate – protecting patients and nurses.
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ANA Core Issues[Continued]
●Workplace RightsANA protects, defends and educates nurses about their rights as employees under the law.
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ANA Core Issues[Continued]
● Workplace Health and Safety
ANA fights for a safer workplace by addressing the growing number of occupational hazards that threaten nurses, such as needle-stick injuries, latex sensitivity, back injuries and violence.
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ANA Core Issues[Continued]
●Patient Safety/AdvocacyANA advances its ultimate goal, quality patient care, by effecting positive change around issues that are critical to nursing and its future. Today’s environment demands action to ensure that patient safety and quality are priorities.
PARTNERS in ACTION
Tri-CouncilAmerican Association of Colleges of Nursing
American Nurses AssociationAmerican Organization of Nurse Executives
National League for Nursing
OrganizationalAffiliates
American Association of Colleges of NursingAmerican Association of Critical-Care NursesAmerican Association of Nurse AnesthetistsAmerican Nephrology Nurses’ AssociationAmerican Psychiatric Nurses Association
Association of Nurses in AIDS CareAssociation of periOperative Registered Nurses
Association of Rehabilitation NursesAssociation of Women’s Health, Obstetric & Neonatal Nurses
Emergency Nurses AssociationInternational Nurses Society on Addictions
National Association of Clinical Nurse SpecialistsNational Association of School Nurses
Oncology Nursing SocietyPreventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association
Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society