The Delaware Nurses Association is the ONLY state organization that advocates for nurses regardless of nursing specialty or practice setting. We believe that nurses are the gateway to a healthier nation. Join us in advocating for a safer and healthier workplace for nurses AND a safer and healthier Delaware!
- Participation in the activities of the DNA, such as the many conferences provides the opportunity for networking with colleagues and many nursing notables.
- The DNA fosters professional development and enhances the concept of teamwork through the work of its members.
- Supporting the development of the Delaware Nursing Foundation will provide scholarships for those entering the nursing profession, nurses advancing their education and for local continuing education programs.
- Participation in the DNA serves to "re-energize" the professional nurse, through networking, cooperative action and first hand knowledge of our activities and our accomplishments.
Full DNA/ANA Membership Benefits
Advocating at the State and National Level
Lobbying at the federal level on issues important to nursing and healthcare such as staffing, nursing workforce development, overtime pay, and access to care
Protecting Delaware's Nurse Practice Act
Nursing representation at a variety of agencies/institutions such as the Environmental Proctection Agency, Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the World Health Organization
Ensuring Nurse Quality and Safety
Maintaining the Code of Ethics for Nurses
Develops and publishes Scope and Standards of Practice for nursing and many of its specialties
Data collection that link nurse staffing levels to quality nursing care through National Database on Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI)
Addressing workplace hazards such as workplace violence, safe patient handling, safe needles and latex allergies
Professional Development
Members save up to 45% on DNA conference registration
Discounts to national conferences and educational events
Members save up to $140 on certification through ANCC
Discount or free online continuing education through e-leaRN, ANA online Continuing Education, iStudySmart, CEULectures.org
Discounts to ANA's nursesbooks.org
Networking and Leadership Oportunities
Participate on committees, both nationally and locally
As a DNA leader, opportunities for influencing the direction of nursing, both at the nation and state levels
Visit ANANurseSpace-ANA's social online network
Join DNA on Facebook
Publishing oportunities and alerts for interviews from various publications
• Save 10% on liability insurance**
• Save 10% on personal accounting fees
• Email alerts
• Publishing opportunities and discounts
• Much more!
Delaware State-Only Membership
• Save up to 45% on conference registration
• Free or 15% off online continuing education
• Save 10% on personal accounting fees
• Email alerts
• Publishing opportunities and discounts
• State leadership opportunities
• Much more!
American Nurses Association Only Membership
• ANA Smart Brief
• ANA NurseSpace
• Federal lobbying
• Discount to national conferences
• Save on ANCC certification
• Free and discounted publications
• Much more!
ANA Resource Benefits
ANA Edition of Mosby’s Nursing Consult
The American Nurses Association (ANA), launched a comprehensive new online tool available exclusively to ANA members. The customized ANA Edition of Mosby’s Nursing Consult, developed jointly with Elsevier delivers robust clinical information to ANA members like never before, in an organized, easy-to-use format. The ANA Edition of Mosby’s Nursing Consult delivers – all in one integrated, user-friendly online application – a compendium of monographs, practice guidelines, and peer-reviewed clinical updates representing the best, most current work of nursing experts and thought leaders throughout the profession.
The compilation includes the following:
- 50 evidence-based nursing monographs containing a concise review of the current evidence available on common clinical problems (including current practice and synopses of current literature), and presenting specific recommendations for nursing care
- Practice guidelines to help locate best-practice recommendations for more than 400 common health care diagnoses, conditions, and procedures – including both current safety alerts (if any) and any official organizational position statements relating to the topic
- Nearly 80 clinical updates – original, peer-reviewed, best-practice clinical articles, written by nurse experts, focusing on specific areas of patient care For more information concerning the ANA Edition of Mosby’s Nursing Consult, visit the members-only section of Nursing World at www.nursingworld.org/membersonly.
To access ANA’s “Mosby’s Nursing Consult” feature, click here.
PubMed
PubMed is a U.S. National Library of Medicine database that includes over 19 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. ANA’s “PubMed Citations for You” feature will automatically display new bibliographic records added to the PubMed database via RSS feed, so ANA members will have easy access to the latest citations in eleven different areas: Ethics, Standards, Education, Informatics, Environmental Health, Quality, Safety, Autonomy, Workplace, Occupational Health, and Professional Practice. Full citations and abstracts when available are displayed for each record.
To access ANA’s “PubMed Citations for You” feature, click here.
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Membership Options
Full DNA/ANA membership dues
$229 per year/$19.59 monthly, electronically
- Employed-full time/part time
DNA State-Only membership dues
$149 per year
- Employed-full time/part time
ANA National-Only membership
$179 per year
Reduced membership dues
$114.50 per year/$10.04 monthly, electronically
- Full time student
- New graduate from basic nursing education program, within 6 months after graduation (first year
membership only)
- 62 years old or over and not earning more than social security allows
- Not employed
Special membership dues
$57.25 per year/$5.27 monthly, electronically
- 62 years of age and no employed
Dual membership dues
$95 per year
- RN holding membership in ANA through another state; proof of membership required
