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American Nurses
Association - Strategic Plan Highlights
Core Ideology and Envisioned Future
- Adopted by House of Delegates, June 2002
Strategic Philosophy
- Adopted by the Board of Directors, June 2005
Strategic Imperatives
- Adopted by the house of Delegates, June 2002
- Amended by the Board of Directors, June 2005
Strategic Plan
- Revised and Adopted by the Board of Directors on August 2-3, 2002
- Revised by the Board of Directors on November 21, 2002
- Revised by the Board of Directors on August 14, 2004
- Revised and adopted by the Board of Directors, June 2005
Core Ideology & Envisioned Future
Core Ideology
Core Purpose: Nurses advancing our profession to improve health for all.
Core Values:
- Excellence
- Unity
- Respect
- Diversity
- Integrity
Envisioned Future
Overarching Goal: Nursing will be the acknowledged unifying force advancing quality health for all.
Outcomes:
- Nurses are universally valued as central to optimal health.
- Nurses are a recognized political force with a prominent seat at health policy tables.
- Nurses are actively shaping safe and secure practice environments.
- Nurses, nursing organizations, and the public value ANA as the indispensable primary voice of nursing and builder of coalitions for health advocacy.
- Every nurse has a connection to ANA.
- Nursing is among the most frequently chosen careers.
Strategic Philosophy:
In order for ANA to fulfill its mission and to pursue its vision for the future, it must be strategically agile to take advantage of opportunities and to respond to challenges. ANA recognizes that the environment in which it must operate and do business is dynamic and demanding. Due to thedynamic nature of the environment, ANA invariably finds itself faced with unforeseen external pressures or circumstances; either in the form of opportunities, which may be key in moving the profession forward, or in the form of challenges, which stand to weaken the profession.
As such, ANA must and will, through continuous environmental scanning, position itself to anticipate or identify these unforeseen pressures and to rapidly change its tactics in resource allocation to realize such opportunities and to deter such challenges.
Strategic Imperatives, 2004 - 2006
- Professional practice and excellence
ANA successfully champions professional nursing excellence through standards, code of ethics, and professional development, such as credentialing and lifelong learning.
- Healthcare and public policy
ANA is an acknowledged leader in the formulation of effective healthcare and public policy as they affect the profession and the public.
- Knowledge & research
ANA is the recognized source for accurate, comprehensive health policy information based on knowledge from research.
- Unification
ANA facilitates unification and advancement of the profession.
- Advocacy for Work force and Workplace
ANA with its partners and through its organizational relationships is the leader in promoting improved work environments and the value of nurses as professionals, essential providers and decision makers in all practice settings.
- Organizational effectiveness
ANA improves its organizational structure and resources to pursue its vision, achieve its mission, and address the needs of its constituents, structural units, related entities, associate organizational members and organizational affiliates.
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