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ANA Underscores Urgency for Safe Staffing Solutions, Minimum Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

The American Nurses Association (ANA) underscores the urgency for Congressional leaders, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and other key stakeholders to advance efforts in implementing safe staffing standards, including minimum nurse-to-patient ratios. The nurse staffing crisis demands a national […]

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Former Nashville nurse RaDonda Vaught on trial for fatal medication error.

ANA Responds to Criminal Trial of RaDonda Vaught for Fatal Medication Error

On Wednesday, the American Nurses Association (ANA) released a statement to express nurses’ concerns regarding the trial of former Nashville nurse RaDonda Vaught. Former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught is being charged with reckless homicide and abuse of

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Exhausted young nurse. Gen Z nurses are struggling with stress and trauma.

Gen Z Nurses Report Struggles with Stress, Trauma, and Workplace Violence

On Tuesday, the ANA American Nurses Foundation (the Foundation) released new survey findings from nearly 12,000 nurses nationwide, revealing that younger nurses are struggling more with mental health challenges and that nurses are experiencing an increase in workplace violence as the nation

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ANA Announces 2022 Innovation Award Winners

The American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Nurses Foundation (the Foundation) have announced the winners of the 2022 ANA Innovation Awards sponsored by Stryker, a leading global medical technology company. The ANA Innovation Awards highlight, recognize and celebrate exemplary nurse-led innovations that improve

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New Survey Reveals Disturbing Facts About Racism Within the Nursing Profession

According to the findings of a new national survey of nurses by the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing (the Commission), nearly half reported that there is widespread racism in nursing, demonstrating a substantial problem within the profession. Comprised

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Gallup 2021: Nurses Continue Their Reign as America’s Most Trusted Professionals

Nurses seem to have a lock on the #1 spot in Gallup’s annual Most Honest and Ethical Professions Poll. Since 2001, the American public has rated them the highest among a host of professionals, including medical doctors, grade-school teachers, and

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Meet the 2021 ANCC Magnet Nurses of the Year®

From the NICU to the OR, five exemplary representatives of nursing excellence received the 2021 National Magnet Nurse of the Year® Awards at the 2021 ANCC National Magnet Conference® and the ANCC Pathway to Excellence Conference® in Atlanta. The awards recognize

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ANA, AHA, AMA Launch New Digital Ad to Thank Nurses and Other HCPs

SILVER SPRING, MD – On Monday, November 22 the American Nurses Association (ANA), the American Hospital Association (AHA), and the American Medical Association (AMA) released a new television and digital ad campaign to thank health care workers during the holiday

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Ernest J. Grant. PhD, RN, FAAN, president of the American Nurses Association.

Grant: ANA Applauds White House COVID-19 Action Plan

The American Nurses Association (ANA), representing the interests of the nation’s 4.3 million registered nurses, supports the actions included in President Joe Biden’s multi-pronged COVID-19 Action Plan, “Path out of the Pandemic” released last Thursday, in particular the new requirements

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ANA Letter to HHS: Time to Declare Nurse Staffing Shortage a National Crisis

“The nation’s health care delivery systems are overwhelmed, and nurses are tired and frustrated as this persistent pandemic rages on with no end in sight. Nurses alone cannot solve this longstanding issue and it is not our burden to carry.

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