2000 Press Releases from
the American Nurses Association

ANA Applauds Funding For Health Care (Released: December 20, 2000)

AAN Press Release: The John A. Hartford Foundation Trustees Award 6.6 Million To Five Centers of Geriatric Nursing Excellence (Released: December 14, 2000)

ANA Calls On Newly Elected Leaders To Address Health Care Needs Of The Nation (Released: December 14, 2000)

American Nurses Association Launches Nationwide Survey To Assess Nurses' Working Conditions (Released: December 11, 2000)

ANA Leter: ANA President Questions Gideon's Crossing Portrayal of Nurse Practitioners (Sent: December 5, 2000)

ANA Condemns Actions By Renegade Group In Massachusetts (Released: December 4, 2000)

ANA President Mary Foley Elected To National Patient Safety Foundation (Released: November 16, 2000)

American Nurses Association Applauds Release Of Ergonomics Standard (Released: November 14, 2000)

American Nurses Association Endorses Many Election Winners (Released: November 10, 2000)

AAN Honors Four Fellows as Living Legends (Released: November 10, 2000)

Massachusetts Nurses Choose Unity Over Disaffiliation (Released: November 10, 2000)

ANA Calls Pact a Win for Nurses and Patients: Tentative Agreement Reached in DC Nurses Strike (Released: November 6, 2000)

American Nurses Association Celebrates Signing of Needlestick Prevention Law (Released: November 6, 2000)

ANA Celebrates Senate Passage of Needlestick Prevention Legislation (Released: October 26, 2000)

Rally and Flashlight March (Released: October 18, 2000)

Maine Nurses Stay Strong and United with ANA (Released: October 14, 2000)

American Nurses Association Promotes Political Action (Released: October 10, 2000)

ANA Applauds House Passage of Needlestick Prevention Legislation (Released: October 4, 2000)

ANA Media Advisory: 2000: ANA to Picket U.S. Nursing Corp. (Released: September 28, 2000)

ANA Letter: to the edior New York Times - Mandatory Overtime (Sent: September 22, 2000)

Nurse Lobbyists Gathering Targets Staffing Concerns (Released: September 20, 2000)

ANA Supports Washington Hospital Center Nurses in Efforts to Ensure Safe Patient Care (Released: September 19, 2000)

ANA Letter urging NJ Governor Christine Todd Whitman not to veto bill prohibiting mandatory overtime for nurses (A2607/S122) (Sent: September 15, 2000)

ANA Press Release: Chicago Tribune Series Echoes ANA's Concerns About Consequences of Cuts in Nurse Staffing And Training (Released: September 15, 2000)

ANA Op-Ed Chicago Tribune To Protect Patients' Safety, Nursing Care Needs to be Strengthened, not Eroded (Sent: September 15, 2000)

American Nurses Association Applauds Introduction of Bill to Restrict Overtime for Nurses and Other Health Care Workers (Released: September 15, 2000)

ANA Applauds Introduction of New Needlestick Prevention Legislation (Released: September 15, 2000)

Powers Named Chief Operating Officer of American Nurses Association (Released: September 11, 2000)

American Nurses Association Statement before the National Summit on Medical Errors and Patient Safety Research - Panel 3: Particular Systems Issues: Hospital Staffing Issues (Presented: September 11, 2000)

American Nurses Association Endorses Gore/Lieberman Ticket (Released: August 31, 2000)

ANCC Press Release: West Boca Medical Center Receives National Recognition For Excellence in Nursing Services (Released: August 22, 2000)

Nurse To Participate On Health Care Panel at Democratic National Convention (Released: August 14, 2000)

ANA Statement: before the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Regulating Occupational Exposure To Tuberculosis (Presented: August 7, 2000)

ANA Letter to the Editor: U.S. News & World Report Regarding Medical Errors (Released: July 20, 2000)

AAN Nominates New Fellows (Released: July 17, 2000)

American Nurses Association Denounces Efforts to Stall OSHA Ergonomics Standard (Released: July 12, 2000)

ANA House of Delegates Calls for Improvements in RN Working Conditions and Patient Safety (Released: July 12, 2000)

Speeches from 2000 ANA Convention, ANA House of Delegates and UAN National Labor Assembly (June 23-25, 2000)

American Nurses Association Elects Foley as President (Released: June 29, 2000)

ANA House of Delegates Sends Strong Message on Mandatory Overtime and Nurse Staffing (Released: June 28, 2000)

United American Nurses, the Labor Arm of the American Nurses Association, Votes to Continue Affiliation Talks with the AFL-CIO (Released: June 25, 2000)

American Nurses Association Welcomes Tipper Gore and Highlights Major Health Care Topics at Its 2000 Biennial Convention (Released: June 24, 2000)

ANCC/IREC Press Release: 2000: Institute Offers Adult Nurse Practitioner Review Course Manual (Released: June 22, 2000)

Tipper Gore to Address ANA Convention (Media Advisory Released: June 19, 2000)

Fighting to Save Nurses Lives – ANA Urges Congress to Pass Needlestick Prevention Legislation (Released: June 19, 2000)

Study in JAMA Predicts Aging of Registered Nurse Workforce May Lead to Nursing Shortage (Release, June 14, 2000)

Linda Stierle Named Executive Director And Chief Executive Officer of American Nurses Association (Release, June 12, 2000)

ANA Response: ANA President Mary Foley letter to Avis' CEO (Response: May 25, 2000)

ANA Convention Brings Hot Topics in Health Care to the Forefront (Released: May 22, 2000)

ANA Calls Pact a Win for Nurses and Patients - Tentative Agreement reached in Mass. Strike (Released: May 12, 2000)

ANA Executive Summary on Nurse Staffing and Patient Outcomes In the Inpatient Hospital Setting (Released: May 4, 2000)

New ANA Study Provides More Proof of Link Between RN Staffing and Quality Patient Care (Released: May 2, 2000)

Op-Ed: Ration Nursing Care – And Patients Pay (Released: May 2, 2000)

ANA Letter to the Editor: U.S. News & World Report Regarding OSHA's Proposed Ergonomics Standard (Released: April 26, 2000)

Media Advisory: ANA to Release Study on Impact of RN Staffing on Patient Recovery - Hosts Nurse Staffing Summit (Released: April 24, 2000)

ANA Calls Hospital Staffing Practices Unsafe: Nurses Being Forced to Regularly Work Excessive Over Time (Released: April 20, 2000)

ANA Identifies Indicators for Community-Based, Non-Acute Care: Pilot-testing is next step (Released: April 20, 2000)

Statement on the Pain Relief Promotion Act (H.R. 2260) (Presented: April 6, 2000)

ANA/NNii Press Release: Health Professionals Urge Parents, Policy-Makers Not to Lose Sight of Immunizations Successes (Released: April 4, 2000)

Hennage Steps down as ANA Executive Director (Released: Mar. 30, 2000)

Safe Needles Save Lives: ANA to Offer Educational Focus During National Nurses Week (Released: Mar. 20 2000)

Linda Stierle Named Chief Operating Officer of American Nurses Association (Released: Mar. 15 2000)

ANA Gears up For National Nurses Week (Released: Mar. 6, 2000)

ANCC to Make Certification Available to All Registered Nurses Through Open Door 2000 Program - Reflects Growing Recognition of Certification as an Indicator of Competence (Released: Feb. 25, 2000)

ANA Reaffirms Commitment to BSN for Entry into Practice - Supports New Certification Program to be Offered by ANCC (Released: Feb. 25, 2000)

ANA Response: Aetna U.S. Healthcare advertisement (Letter sent: Feb. 16, 2000)

ANA Statement: Medical Errors and Health Care Quality (Presented: Feb. 22, 2000)

ANCC Press Release: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Nationally Recognized for Excellence in Nursing Services (Released: Feb. 18, 2000)

Ethnic Minority Fellowship Program Deadline Extended to March 1, 2000 (Released: Feb. 16, 2000)

Susan Bianchi-Sand Named Director of United American Nurses (Released: Feb. 15, 2000)

Certified Nurses Report Fewer Adverse Events - Survey Links Certification With Improved Health Care (ANCC Press Release - Released: Feb. 11, 2000)

American Nurses Association Supports Hikes in Health Care Included in FY'01 Budget (Released: Feb. 11, 2000)

Art Imitates Life: TV Show, "Er," Highlights Threat of Workplace Violence (Released: Feb. 9, 2000)

ANA-PAC Endorses Hillary Clinton for U.S. Senate (Released: Feb. 8, 2000)

ANA Echoes Clinton's Call to Bolster Health Care System (Released: Jan. 28, 2000)

ANA Proposes Universal Medicare Program as Solution to Fragmented Health Care System (Released: Jan. 13, 2000)

Nurse Clinging to Life; ANA/INA Fights to Protect All Nurses (Released: Jan. 10, 2000)

Study in JAMA Shows Nurse Practitioners Provide Quality Primary Care On Par with Physicians (Released: Jan. 4, 2000)

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