Due August 17, 2018 ANA Seeks Public Comment on Updates to Principles of Staffing & Workforce Management

July 12, 2018


Since the original 1999 publication of ANA's Principles for Nurse Staffing, staffing issues facing the profession have reached multidimensional heights in complexity. ANA believes that the interaction where care is given—the encounter between a nurse and patient/health care consumer, family, or community—is where staffing concerns need to be addressed and solutions developed. The Principles document affords a framework to help all nurses address questions about appropriate staffing levels, provide measurable criteria to assess the sufficiency of staffing and skill mix, as well as criteria for evaluating workforce staffing systems.
Please use this opportunity to contribute to ANA's focus on transparency and recognition of the important insights of public examination of its products. Feel free to share this announcement with colleagues, students, health care consumers, and other stakeholders.