1999 Press Releases from
the American Nurses
Association
The American Nurses Association is the only
full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.6 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.
Beverly Malone Appointed to Key Federal Position: Named Deputy Assistant Secretary at HHS (Released: December 21, 1999)
Mary Foley Assumes Presidency at ANA (Released: December 21, 1999)
ANA Applauds White House for Steps to Reduce Medical Errors (Released: December 8, 1999)
Letter to ABC's "20/20": Segment on "Disappearing Nurses" (Released: December 1, 1999)
ANA Commends Institute of Medicine for Medical Errors Report (Released: December 1, 1999)
Statement: OSHA Ergonomic Standard (Released: November 22, 1999)
ANA Supports OSHA Ergonomic Standard (Letter: November 22, 1999)
American Academy of Nursing to Induct New Fellows (Released: November 18, 1999)
ANA's "Safe Needles Save Lives" Campaign Scores Important Victory With Release of New OSHA Directive (Released: November 17, 1999)
United American Nurses Announces Founding Members (Released: November 5, 1999)
ANA Lauds Clinton Administration Initiative on Health Care Records Privacy
(Released: October 29, 1999)
Letter to Philip Morris: ANA Joins Fight Against Smoking (Letter: October 28, 1999)
USA Today Letter to the Editor: Putting Patients Before Profits May Improve Staffing (Letter to Editor: October 28, 1999)
Outcry in October: Nurse Staffing Concerns Prompt Actions from Coast to Coast (Released: October 22, 1999)
Statement: Family Violence Prevention Fund (Released: October 15, 1999)
California's New Nurse Staffing Mandate Highlights Crisis in Nurse Staffing Nationally (Released: October 13, 1999)
Advocate for Children's Health Coverage – Press Conference With Vice President Gore, Nursing Organization and Emergency Response Executives (Media Advisory: October 01, 1999)(ANA Statement)
ANA Joins Coalition Formed to Promote Nursing (Released: Sept. 28, 1999)
Director Appointed to the American Academy of Nursing (Released: August 13, 1999)
ANA Endorses Bipartisan Managed Care Bill: ANA Encourages Congress to Continue Working Together & Pass Bipartisan Bill
(Released: August 11, 1999)
OSHA Respiratory Protection Standard Upheld: Tremendous Victory For Nursing (Released: August 5, 1999)
A View From Bed-Side: A Survey of Doctors and Nurses on Their Patients' Experiences With Health Plans – a Kaiser Family Foundation briefing for health care journalists and policymakers (Media Advisory: July 28, 1999) ANA Statement, Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Physicians and Nurses
American Nurses Association Calls Senate Action on Managed Care Reform an Empty Promise
(Released: July 16, 1999)
ANA Applauds Clinton Proposal to Add Prescription Drug and Preventive Screenings to Medicare Program (Released: June 29, 1999)(ANA's Medicare reform plan, released March 1999.)
ANA Supports AMA's Move to Create a Professional Union For Doctors (Released: June 24, 1999)
ANA House of Delegates Acts on Critical Practice & Health Policy Issues (Released: June 23, 1999)
American Nurses Association Supports Ergonomic Standard to Prevent Back Injuries to Nurses (Media Adivsory: June 22, 1999)(ANA Statement)
ANA House of Delegates Approves
Significant Reshaping of the Association (Released: June 21, 1999)
American Nurses Association Renews Call for Gun Control in Wake of Pennsylvania Nurse Shooting (Released: June 19, 1999)
Two Registered Nurses Appointed To Federal Positions (Released: June 11, 1999)
Fighting to Save Nurses' Lives — ANA Urges Congress to Pass New Needlestick & Sharps Injury Prevention Act (Released: May 20, 1999)
Statement: Introduction of New Needlestick & Sharps Injury Prevention Act
American Nurses Association Applauds Reintroduction of Patient Safety Act (Released: May 12, 1999)
Statement: Reintroduction of Patient Safety Act
Statement by ANA President to launch the National Patient Safety Partnership's Preventable
Adverse Drug Events Initiative
(May 12, 1999)
American Nurses Association Applauds Release of Report That Hospitals Will Reduce Threat by Eliminating Mercury from Health Care (Released: May 6, 1999)
Americans Support Rigorous Standards for Nursing Care (Released: May 6, 1999)
ANA/ANF Launch New Continuing Education Web Site (Released: May 6, 1999)
ANCC Institute to offer Review Courses (Released: April 30, 1999)
ANA Media Advisory: ANA/ANF To Launch New Continuing Education Web Site (Released: April 29, 1999)
ANA Media Advisory: ANA To Testify on FY 2000 Budget for Nursing Education (Released: April 21, 1999)
ANA Media Advisory:
Kids in the Crosshairs: Registered Nurses Address the Causes and Consequences of School Violence (Released: April 20, 1999)
Population Diversity
Requires More Minority Registered Nurses (Released: April 16, 1999)
RNs On Strike at Largest Hospital in Alaska (Released: April 15, 1999)
ANA Launches Menopause Health Educators Program (Released: April 15, 1999)
ANA Urges Congress to Enact a "Real" Patients' Bill of Rights: ANA Encourages Nurses, Other Health Care Professionals and Public to Sign Online Patients' Bill of Rights Petition (Released: April 9, 1999)
Responding to Public Concern, Nation's Largest IV Products Manufacturer to
Phase Out Vinyl IV Bags
(Released: April 6, 1999)
Registered Nurses and Their Patients: Hundreds of Untold Stories
From the Front Lines of Health Care (National Nurses Week) (Released: April 2, 1999)
House Republicans May Block OSHA's Latex Allergy (Released: March 22, 1999)
ANA Releases Proposal to Fix Ailing Medicare Program (Released: March 9, 1999)
Media Digest: School Risks, Y2K Risks, Medical Incinerator Risks (Released: March 4, 1999)
ANA Warns That IV Bags Pose Patient Risk (Released: Feb. 22, 1999)
American Nurses Association Applauds Release of Economic Policy Institute Studies Focusing on Nursing and Delivery of Quality Care (Released: February 10, 1999)
American Nurses Association Gives High Marks to Administration's
FY 2000 Budget (Released: February 2, 1999)
ANA Echoes Clinton’s Call to Bolster Health Care System (Released: January 20, 1999)
