The American Nurses Association is the only
full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.2 million
Registered Nurses through its 53 constituent associations. ANA advances
the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice,
promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace,
projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the
Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses
and the public.
 ANA Nursing
Information and Data Set Evaluation Center Now Operational - Applications
Being Accepted (Released December 22, 1997)
ANA Launches
National Labor Agenda - Board Approves Funding for Labor, Workplace
Advocacy, and Other Core Areas (Released December 15, 1997)
Argene Carswell Named
as ANA Interim Executive Director (Released December 15, 1997)
ANA Praises HHS
Appropriation Bill (Released November 20, 1997)
ANA President, Quality
Commission Propose Patient Bill of Rights (Released November 20, 1997)
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Named Magnet Facility by American Nurses
Credentialing Center (Released November 20, 1997)
Leaders & Policymakers
Convene to Advance Healthcare Policy & Legislative Initiatives (Released October 28,
1997)
ANA Applauds Introduction of Health Worker Protection Act of 1997
(Released October 29, 1997)
ANA Applauds New
Mammography Standards (Released October 25, 1997)
ANA Joins Other National Health Care Organizations in New Patient Safety
Partnership (Released October 6, 1997)
Letter of Support for
Surgeon General Nomination (Released September 11, 1997)
ANA Applauds 9th Circuit Court Decision
in Alaska Hospital Dispute (Released August 21, 1997)
American Nurses Association Supports
Striking Teamsters and Their Battle to Highlight Threats to All Workers (Released August
15, 1997)
ANA Applauds Passage of Reconciliation
Spending Bills (Released July 31, 1997)
ANA Calls for Standardized Definition of Regulated Medical Waste, Less Emission of
Dioxin (Released July 25, 1997)
American Nurses Credentialing Center Extends Certification Deadline Requirements to
Registered Nurses (Released July 25, 1997)
ANA House of Delegates Works
to Protect Nurses, Patients (Released July 3, 1997)
First Lady Praises Nation's Nurses
For Improving Patient Care (Released June 27, 1997)
ANA
Praises US Supreme Court Decision on Physician-Assisted Suicide (Released June 26,
1997)
Read President Clinton's reaction
Patient Advocates Speak out
about Unsafe Care and Whistle-blowing Retribution (Released May 7, 1997)
ANA Protests Low Funding of Nurse Education, Asks House Subcommittee to Restore to
1997 Level (Released April 24, 1997)
ANA
President Appointed to National Commission on Health Care Quality (Released March 27,
1997)
ANA President Calls for Labor/Management Cooperation to End Workplace Violence in
Health Care Settings (Released March 27, 1997)
ANA Applauds
Introduction of Patient Safety Act of 1997 (Released March 26, 1997)
ANA Endorses
Genetic Anti-discrimination Bill (Released February 26, 1997)
ANA Praises President Clinton's Medicaid
Directive on "Gag" Clauses
(Released February 19, 1997)
Clinton Budget Contradicts State of the
Union
Message, Says ANA
(Released February 7, 1997)
Consumers' Concerns about Health Care
Echo
Nurses' Warnings Says ANA
(Released Jan. 31, 1997)
ANA Calls for Appropriate Funding of
Graduate
Nurse Education
(Released Jan. 29, 1997)
Statement by ANA on Measuring the
Quality
of Care at the End of Life
(Released Jan. 7, 1997)
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