Workplace Advocacy
Center for American Nurses — The Center offers workforce advocacy tools, services and strategies designed to make nurses their own best advocates in their practice environments.
The Center for American Nurses equips nurses with the means to be their own best advocates in the workplace. The Center’s tools, services and strategies support nurses at all levels of experience who are striving to:
- Improve their practice environments
- Meet their personal and professional goals
- Promote excellence in patient care.
Safe Staffing Saves Lives
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has launched a new web site dedicated to the issue of safe staffing. The new site educates nurses about ANA’s history of advocacy on the issue, provides updates on the newest information and developments, and gives nurses tools to get involved.
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Principles for Nurse Staffing
"Adequate nurse staffing is critical to the delivery of quality patient care. Identifying and maintaining the appropriate number and mix of nursing staff is a problem experienced by nurses at every level in all settings. Regardless of organizational mission, tempering the realities of cost containment and cyclical nursing shortages with the priority of safe, quality care has been difficult, in part, because of the paucity of empirical data to guide decision-making... "
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Telehealth: Issues For Nursing
The growing use of and interest in the use of telecommunications technologies in the delivery of health care services has led to far-ranging discussions on telehealth (or "telemedicine") and its potential role in the health care system. The American Nurses Association (ANA) is committed to the use of telemedicine/telehealth in a manner that enhances access to quality, affordable health care services.
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5 Million Lives Campaign
The American Nurses Association has been working as a strategic partner with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in the Saving 100,000 Lives Campaign, which aims to educate nurses and others on ways to enhance patient safety in the hospital setting. That partnership continues with the advent of the 5 Million Lives Campaign which will dramatically reduce incidents of medical harm in US hospitals.
Coalition for Patients' Rights
The Coalition for Patients’ Rights (CPR) consists of 34 organizations representing a variety of licensed health care professionals who provide a diverse array of safe, effective, and affordable health care services to millions of patients each year.
CPR seeks to counter efforts by the AMA Scope of Practice initiative that is designed to limit patients’ choice of health practitioners. In the face of organized medicine’s latest divisive efforts to limit these professionals’ abilities to provide the care they are qualified to give, the CPR was formed for the sake of patients—to ensure that the growing needs of the American health system can be met and that patients everywhere have access to quality health care providers of their choice.
“Scope of practice” can be defined as the range of health care-related activities and services which a health care professional is educated, certified or licensed to provide. Please read CPR’s joint statement and return here for more information from the coalition members.
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