If you are a member of the ANA...

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I joined the ENA because I wanted to be somehow active in nursing but am still figuring out if the ENA has something I can be active in.

I am looking into also joining the ANA but $200 is a lot of $ to spend for a membership right now...if you are a member of the ANA, what has it done for you? Are there ways to be active?

Jessica

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Absolutely not. The ANA doesn't represent all or even most nurses. They represent their special interests. Those aren't MY interests.

If their memberships were free, I wouldn't be a member.

I'm a member of the Amer Assoc of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN).

~faith,

Timothy.

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I was a member for 8 years and then cancelled (a) for financial reasons, and (b) because I felt they really weren't doing anything for me.

Even the journal is sent to members and non-members alike!

I might reconsider in the future.

DeLana

P.S. I will rejoin my specialty organization, ANNA - American Nephrology Nurses Association, now that I'm working in dialysis again. Among other things, they puplish a very useful clinical journal.

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Specializes in Day Surgery/Infusion/ED.

I was, but got tired of paying several hundred dollars a year to be insulted since my education is deemed inferior to them (just a puny diploma grad). I get more out of membership from specialty organizations.

The ANA has lately been so focused on advanced practice nurses that the little guy at the bedside is almost irrelevant.

I am a member of the CNA (California Nurses' Association); I'm hoping they can make some inroads in PA.

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