ANA Membership Webinar  Managing a Successful Transition to a New Role: Key Strategies for Nurses

October 3, 2017

If you're an RN about to transition to a new role or started a new role within the last six months, you won't want to miss the next ANA Membership Webinar, Managing a Successful Transition to a New Role:  Key Strategies for Nurses.

Throughout your nursing career, it is highly likely that you will transition to a new nursing role at least once.  You may change specialties, get promoted, change your work setting, or decide to leave full-time clinical nursing to teach in a school of nursing.

All of these exciting transitions are a sign of success in your career. But do you know how to make the best of these positive but also challenging, daunting and a little bit scary transitions?

Join our presenter, Kristy Chunta, PhD, RN, ACNS, BC,  

for a FREE webinar on

November 7, 2017 from 1 pm to 2:30 pm ET

To learn more and to register, click here.

This live and interactive webinar will provide practical tools that you can apply immediately to your real-world transition and give you a solid foundation for ongoing success in your new role.

PLUS, register before October 25 and you will receive our digital packet American Nurse Today: Forging a new career path.

American Nurses Association Call for  Connected Health/Telehealth Professional Issues Panel 

October 3, 2017

The American Nurses Association (ANA) Department of Health Policy seeks a diverse group of applicants for the Connected Health/Telehealth Professional Issues Panel  to be convened in January 2018. This panel will convene for approximately 6-8 months in order to review and update ANA’s twelve Core Principles on Telehealth. Registered nurses in current practice with experience and/or training in connected health, telehealth, and telenursing are invited to apply. Applicants must be ANA or a member of a Premier Organizational Affiliate.

Do you have experience in connected health—telehealth, telenursing, telemedicine, or mobile health (mhealth)?

Do you engage with patients and health care consumers using technology? Do you have experience with the policy issues surrounding connected health, such as coverage and reimbursement, licensure, safety, privacy, and security?

 If these descriptions sound like you, please consider submitting an application by November 5^th for consideration as a panel participant.

Throughout the first half of 2018, the panel will work toward the following goals: 

·         Identify current understanding of the use of Connected Health tools by practicing nurses (including but not limited to hospital, long-term care, education, administration, education, research).

·         Review and update of ANA’s Core Principles on Telehealth.

·         Leverage the Advisory Committee to identify best practices, exemplars, and innovative strategies to illuminate how the principles are applied in practice settings.

·         Collaborate with the ANA Center for Ethics and Human Rights to determine if the updated Principles for Connected Health may be mapped to the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (the Code) and ANA’s Position Statement: Privacy and Confidentiality.

 Applicants must be ANA members or a member of a Premier Organizational Affiliate with an ANA login credentials. The deadline for applications is November 5, 2017. Notifications of selection will be sent by mid-December 2017. Questions can be sent to [email protected]. Please do not send applications to this email address. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise in support of the American Nurses Association.

Thank you,
Department of Nursing Programs
American Nurses Association

Community Paramedics (CP) & Community Integrated Health Care Services Agency (CIHCS) Rules Hearing October 19, 2017

September 27, 2018

Save the Date

Disaster Relief - Message from Tim Porter-O'Grady

September 28, 2017

Dear Colleagues,

An overwhelming number of nurses acted in response to our message about the Texas Nurses Foundation’s appeal for contributions in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Thank you for your generous support. 

With more disasters such as Hurricane Irma affecting our communities this fall, the American Nurses Foundation has now created a broader ‘Disaster Relief’ fund. 

This fund will support nurses in their disaster response and recovery efforts in southeastern Texas, the Virgin Islands, Florida and other states affected by the recent disasters. 

Donate here 

The American Nurses Foundation and the entire ANA Enterprise stand in solidarity with those affected. We encourage you to join with the power of nurses everywhere to help. 

We join you in sending positive thoughts and wishes for strength to nurses and the whole community. Thank you for your help. 

Sincerely,  

 Tim Porter-O’Grady, DM, EdD, APRN, FAAN 

Chair, Board of Trustees 

American Nurses Foundation