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"Not interested in the ANA? Consider joining one of these groups to promote nursing practice...
Obtained 4/26/01 from the ANA website of course. Link to any group can be found at:
http://www.nursingworld.org/rnindex/snp.htm
Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy, formerly the Association for Health Services Research
Academy of Medical Surgical-Nurses (AMSN)
American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
American Assembly for Men in Nursing
American Assisted Living Nurses Association
American Association for the History of Nursing
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
American Association of Diabetes Educators
American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
American Association of Occupational Health Nurses
American College of Nurse-Midwives
American College of Nurse Practitioners
American Medical Informatics Association
American Holistic Nurses Association
American Nephrology Nurses Association
American Nursing Informatics Association
American Paralysis Association
American Pyschiatric Nurses Association
American Radiological Nurses Association
American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgical Nurses (ASPRSN)
American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN)
Ask the Experts (Medscape site for Nurse Practitioner questions)
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
AORN Perioperative Nursing Data Set
Association of Women's Health, Obstetric & Neonatal Nurses
Atlanta Reproductive Health Center
Best Practices Network
Best Practices Search Conducted for the Health Care Financing Adminstration to find the Best Practices in coordinated care for
people with chronic illness
The Center for Telemedicine Law
Claire M. Lintilhac Nurse-Midwifery Service
Dermatology Nurses' Association (DNA)
Emergency Nurses Association
Flight Nursing: The Seaox Air-Medical Homepage
Heart Surgery Forum
Home Health Care Nurse
International Society of Nurses in Genetics
Intravenous Nurses Society
Jobs for Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Midwives, Nurse Anesthetists and other Advanced Practice Nurses
Last Acts (end of life care)
National Association of Neonatal Nurses
The National Association of Nurse Massage Therapists
National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners
National Association of School Nurses, Inc.
National Black Nurses Association
National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators
National Gerontological Nursing Association
National Nurses Society on Addictions
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties
New York University John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing
NP Central: Information For and About Nurse Practitioners
Nurse-Midwifery and Women's Health Nursing
Nursing Organization Liaison Forum (NOLF) members
Oncology Nursing Society
Porifice Resources (nursing theory)
QualPage: Qualitative Research
Renalnet: Nephrology Nurses
Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates (SUNA)
Trauma Information Pages
Worldwide Congress on Pain
Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society">>Quote from NrsKaren
NrsKaren, my apologies to you for copying these from your posting. I just thought this was too good of a list to be buried at the bottom of another posting.
[This message has been edited by Jenny P (edited April 28, 2001).]
I agree.I'm a staunch opponent of the ANA - they don't represent me. The ANA only represents 35% of nurses: BSN and AP nurses. They don't represent ADN nurses and actively advocate for their elimination. They also don't represent LVNs/LPNs and won't even let them join. It's not a national nurses organization. It's a national BSN/AP organization.
But I am a member of the Amer Assoc of Critical-Care Nurses. Their annual conference is such an experience. While I don't agree with everything AACN says (open-visitation comes to mind) they haven't made it their mission to denigrate their prespective member base.
I'm going to my third straight NTI conference in Anaheim next month. What a treat.
~faith,
Timothy.
I've heard quite a few nurses spout off "I hate the ANA... BLAH BLAH BLAH" but what I like about your point is that you clearly articulate why you dislike the ANA and you describe how you have sought alternative professional organizations that represent your interests and/or personal nursing philosophy. Well said friend.
!Chris
Personally I do not like the ANA because they actively fight against staffing ratio laws like the ones in California. They instead advocate for staffing by acuity; while that sounds nice it is far too vague to do much good against management who is trying to cut staffing at every opportunity. ANA does not seem to represent the average bedside nurse.
NNOC/CNA has made real progress by the ratio laws they have gotten passed (among other things) and that is why I have chosen to donate money to them. Imagine having it be against the law to have 12+ patients on day shift when another nurse clocks out for lunch. Crazy that unsafe things like that are still allowed in this day and age!
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