American Nurses Association

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Hockenberg, S.J., American Nurses Association position statement on promotion of comfort and relief of pain in dying patients, Plast. Surg. Nurs., 12, 32, 1992. 

American Nurses Association. Advanced practice programs advanced diabetes management exams. http //www.ana.org/ancc/CERTIFY/cert/ exams03.htm ADMP, accessed June 26, 2003. 

Garing for patients and the opportunity to save lives is what professional nursing is all about, and disaster events provide nurses with an opportunity to do both. According to the American Nurses Association (ANA), the aim of nursing actions is to assist patients, families and communities to improve, correct or adjust to physical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, and environmental conditions for which they seek help and definitions of nursing have evolved to acknowledge six essential features of professional nursing (ANA, 2003, pp. 1-5) ... 

American Nurses Association (ANA). (2003). Nursing s socialpol-icy statement (2nd ed.). 

Nurses ethical obligations come from many different sources, but one formal source is the professional code of ethics. The American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics for Nurses (see Table 6.1) proscribes the ethical obligations of nurses, is nonnegotiable in nature, and expresses the profession s commitment to society (ANA, 2001). Nurses can also turn to the broader field of bioethics for additional resources. 

American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nursee... 

Source Reprinted with permission from the American Nurses Association (2001). Code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements. Washington, DC Author. 

Association of State and Territorial Directors of Nursing. (1999). Public health nursing A partner for healthy populations. Washington, D.C. American Nurses Association. 

In 1994, the ASHP, the American Medical Association (AMA), and the American Nurses Association (ANA) generated the following system of recommendations to prevent ADRs in health care systems ... 

Recently, several agencies collaborated on a new pnblication to help increase awareness of food-borne illnesses among physicians. The primer. Diagnosis and Management of Foodborne Illness A Primer for Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals, was prodnced by the AMA, the American Nurses Association (ANA), the CDC, the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition... 

Standards of Care. Nurses provide patient care using professional standards of care, which define the appropriate use of the nursing process in patient care as well as the standards of performance. The standards of performance address quahty of patient care, nursing education, collegiality, collaboration, ethics, performance appraisal, research, and resource utilization. The American Nurses Association has also established position papers that address key concerns of nurses, such as access to universal health care or global health. 

The latest health and safety smvey from the American Nurses Association (ANA) makes it clear that the efforts to protect nurses from occupational injuries remain a crusade-in-progress. The survey indicated that hospitals appear to be safer workplaces today than 10 years ago, when the last ANA survey was conducted. Safe needle devices and patient-lifting equipment are more available today than a decade ago. However, responses of more than 4500 RNs that participated in the ANA 2011 Health and Safety Survey indicated the same top three concerns were identified by the 2001 participants and in slightly higher percentages ... 

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