Schools of Nursing Receive Free Shipping on Foundation Package
08/31/06
Nursing schools ordering 15 or more copies of ANA's Foundation of Nursing Package will receive free shipping until October 31. The offer does not apply to online orders, and must be received on a special free shipping order form; otherwise regular shipping charges will apply. This offer cannot be used with any other discounts and must be received before October 31, 2006. The free-shipping order form can be downloaded from nursesbooks.org.
Needlestick Prevention Experts Identify Need for Better Safety Syringe Design
08/31/06
Six years after passage of the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act, nursing and infection control leaders say there is significant room for improvement to protect healthcare workers from needlestick injuries, which can result in exposure to bloodborne pathogens such as hepatitis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Read Press Release...
NDNQI 2007 Conference - Call for Abstracts
08/30/06
ANA is hosting the first annual National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) Data Use Conference on January 30-31, 2007 in Las Vegas, NV. Proposals are being sought for presentations or posters which must be submitted by September 30, 2006. More...
ANA Coming to You... Fall Sessions
08/29/06
Not able to spend the time and money to attend national meetings? Want quality education about nursing's hottest issues? Well, the American Nurses Association is proud to continue its series "ANA Coming to You."
- Developing Nurses’ Competency in Caring for Older Adults - Sept 13 - Austin, TX
- Safe Staffing in the 21st Century - Oct 16 - Cincinnati, OH
More info and registration...
Have You Done Your Wellness Assessment Yet?
08/25/06
As part of their new Web site devoted to helping nurses "Age well and stay healthy, the Center for American Nurses offers its members access to a comprehensive online Wellness Assessment Tool. Users can evaluate their current health as part of developing a "Wellness Plan."
Visit The Wellness Site
Final Days of Review for CNPE Position Statements
08/24/06
August 31, 2006 is the deadline, to send comments reqested by the ANA Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics (CNPE) on the following ANA position statements:
- Privacy and Confidentiality
- Assuring Patient Safety: The Employers’ Role in Promoting Healthy Nursing Work Hours
- Assuring Patient Safety: The Registered Nurses’ Responsibility to Guard Against Working When Fatigued
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1,000th Hospital Joins ANA NDNQI® Program
The American Nurses Association announced that the 1,000th hospital joined its National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®) program this week. More...
One Week Left to Have Your Say on Health System Reform! ANA's Comments on the Interim Recommendations
08/23/06
ANA has submitted a detailed response to the Citizens' Health Care Working Group regarding Interim Recommendations on health system reform. A week remains for you to get your own response in to the Working Group; the deadline for comments is August 31st. More...
NQF on Nursing
08/22/06
The National Quality Forum (NQF) is leading an effort to understand more fully the extent to which nurses contribute to improved patient safety and healthcare outcomes and promote nursing care quality. The NQF site www.qualityforum.org/nursing/default.htm provides an overview of NQF activities in this area and supports a growing community of stakeholders—including healthcare professionals, researchers, consumers, public and private purchasers, employers, health plans, accrediting bodies, labor organizations, and organizations involved in healthcare research or quality improvement—that are interested in collaborating in this endeavor.
Thanks to OJIN Reviewers
08/18/06
OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing would like to offer many thanks to the reviewers who volunteered their time, effort, and expertise to review manuscripts during 2004-2006. More...
New Features Added to Nurse's Career Center
08/17/06
Nurse’s Career Center has launched several exciting new features for job seekers, including a new Résumé Builder and the ability to create your own personalized employment Web site.
More information...
Influenza & PPV Pocket Guides
08/17/06
For the fourth consecutive year, the National Influenza Vaccine Summit is planning to produce the "Influenza Vaccination Pocket Information Guide" for use by healthcare providers nationwide. The purpose of the guide is to provide front-line healthcare personnel with information about indications and contraindications for the injectable and intranasal influenza vaccines, information on targeted populations to be vaccinated, and details on how to administer the vaccines. These guides are not intended for patient use.
More than 1/2 million influenza pocket guides were distributed last year by major medical, nursing, and pharmacist organizations, specialty societies, state health departments, Indian Health Service Area facilities, QIOs, community vaccinators, and others.
But wait! There's more! Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) has also produced the "Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccination Pocket Guide" as a logical adjunct to the influenza guide. It is similarly designed and is printed in lime green and black.
Both pocket guides are available at no cost to your agency or organization. We encourage you to distribute the pocket guide(s) to your members or constituents along with your encouragement to use the guide(s) to avoid missed opportunities.
To order either or both of these guides for your agency or organization in quantity, go to www.immunize.org/pocketguides by August 30, 2006. Shipping occurs in early September.
Honor Society Takes a Lead Role in the Development of Historic Documentary - Premiers on WE tv Friday August 18
08/17/06
Vietnam Nurses with Dana Delany, premiering on WE tv this weekend, reveals the emotional story of women whose lives were forever changed by the casualities of war. What they saw, what they did and what it cost them is a true tale of American heroism.
The documentary is based on the forthcoming book from the honor society, The Fine Art of Nursing Care: Lessons in Healing from War and Art, by Margaret Carson, RN, PhD and Linda Finke, RN, PhD.
Produced by Creative Street Entertainment, the documentary premiers at 10 p.m. EDT, Friday, 18 August, with limited commercial interruption. An encore presentation airs the next evening at 6 p.m., EDT, Saturday, 19 August.
For more information regarding the production of this documentary, view the Sigma Theta Tau International official press release.
A DVD of this documentary will be available through Nursing Knowledge International in the near future. A portion of the proceeds from the purchase of this DVD will go to the Vietnam Women's Memorial.
Free Shipping to Schools of Nursing on the Foundation Package
08/15/06
From August through the end of October, nursing schools ordering 15 or more copies of ANA's Foundation of Nursing Package will receive free shipping. The offer does not apply to online orders, and must be received on a special free shipping order form; otherwise regular shipping charges will apply. This offer cannot be used with any other discounts and must be received before October 31, 2006. The free-shipping order form can be downloaded from nursesbooks.org.
New Audio Independent Study Module Available for ANA Members
08/14/06
"Focusing Your Resources: Prioritizing the Work of the Association" is the newest online CE offering from ANA. This audio independent study module is based ANA's Engaging Leaders Conference Call Series. The original teleconference took place on Februrary 13 and 14th, 2006. The purpose/goal is to provide information to Constituent Member Association elected leaders regarding methods of prioritizing resources and focus of the association, including obstacles to be aware of and ways to overcome those barriers. After listening to the audio file of the call and viewing the slide presentation, members can print a certificate of successful completion and receive 1.2 contact hours.
The CE module is available Free to ANA members in NursingWorld's Members Only area. Members must create an online account in order to access the module. Go to Members Only. If you haven't done so yet, set up your online account now.
Comment on the Interim CHCWG Recommendations
08/11/06
These recommendations on health care and improving the health care system in the United States are based on what the Citizens’ Health Care Working Group (CHCWG) heard from the American people. Over 25,000 people from around the country shared their ideas. Out of these ideas, the six interim recommendations were developed. Be a part of the solution. We need your input.
ANA needs your input on the CHCWG's six interim health care policy recommendations before they are finalized and sent to Congress and the President. Take one minute to learn more and see the video...
Promote HCW Vaccination
08/10/06
The CDC has recently updated posters and flyers for healthcare worker (HCW) vaccinations, “Healthcare Workers! Are your vaccinations up-to-date?” The updated materials reflect the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP’s) new pertussis vaccine recommendations. They can be downloaded and printed in black and white or commercial quality color from www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/#healthcare
Appropriate Staffing Issues
08/09/06
Nurse Fatigue and The Older Registered Nurse Worker
are two new items that have been added to the Appropriate Staffing web site on NursingWorld. Read More...
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Woodhull Medical Center- Open House
08/09/06
Open House August 24, 2006, Noon to 6pm for New Grads & Experienced RNs. More...
ANA CE Contact Hour Credit Changes
08/08/06
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC). As required by new ANCC criteria, on January 1, 2007, ANA will begin offering 60-minute contact hours and will no longer provide 50-minute contact-hour credit. According to ANCC, “This change brings greater consistency with the accreditation processes of other disciplines and increases the understanding and intuitiveness of the awarding of contact hours.”
To estimate the number of contact hours for an educational activity, total the minutes of didactic or clinical experience and evaluating the activity and divide by 60. For example, 60 minutes = 1 CH, 150 minutes = 2.5 CH, etc. If you need information about re-certification or re-licensure CH requirements, please contact your certification board or state board of nursing. For questions about ANA’s change to a 60-minute contact hour, please e-mail valerie.restifo@ana.org. ANA's Online CEs...
CDC Needs Pilot Testers
08/07/06
CDC has an ongoing need for volunteers to pilot test immunization training courses. Volunteers are particularly needed in the following occupations: physicians, pharmacists, health educators, medical assistants and nurses. To learn more about becoming a pilot tester, please send an email to nippilot@cdc.gov.
New Impaired Nurses Resource Center
08/04/06
The Impaired Nurses Resource Center is the newest addition to NursingWorld, ANA's official Web site. The Resource Center offers assistance not only to those nurses who have chemical dependencies, but to those who wonder if they might. It provides ethical guidance for the individual, regarding obligations not only to the patient, but also that one has to one’s self, as well. It offers ethical guidelines, also, for co-workers who suspect a colleague of impaired practice.
Links are provided to ANA’s constituent member associations, many of which offer “peer assistance” or “alternative to discipline” programs in conjunction with the state boards of nursing, to which we also offer links. We have also included some of the exemplary programs offered by nursing specialties, with more to be added. Lastly, the new webpage offers dozens of links to resources for impaired nurses, including those organizations specializing in addiction and recovery, emphasizing programs for nurses. Visit The Resource Center
"Hospital Compare" Web Site To Offer Valuable Resources
08/03/06
Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) has announced that between 2007 and 2009, it will add new content to the “Hospital Compare” Web site. This new information will cover surgery, asthma in children and ICU care, as well as additional information about heart attack, heart failure and
pneumonia. Read The HQA Press Release
ANA Supports Covering Kids & Families Campaign
08/02/06
More than 8 million children in the United States do not have health coverage. Most of these children are eligible for Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), but their parents may not realize that the children qualify. ANA has joined Covering Kids & Families, a national initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation designed to increase the number of children and adults who benefit from federal and state health coverage programs.
On August 9, 2006, Covering Kids & Families will kick off its seventh annual Back-to-School Campaign to encourage parents to enroll their eligible, uninsured children in Medicaid or SCHIP as an important part of getting them ready for the new school year. During August and September, events will take place in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and will include public service announcements, media outreach, and corporate and organizational partnerships to get the word out to parents that low-cost or free health care coverage may be available for their uninsured children. The campaign and its partners reach millions of families
If you are interested in getting involved in this important campaign in your state, visit the Covering Kids & Family Web site at http://coveringkidsandfamilies.org/whatyoucando/ to see what you can do. Check out the events page to see what is happening in your state.
Free Shipping to Schools of Nursing on the Foundation Package
08/01/06
From August through the end of October, nursing schools ordering 15 or more copies of ANA's Foundation of Nursing Package will receive free shipping. The offer does not apply to online orders, and must be received on a special free shipping order form; otherwise regular shipping charges will apply. This offer cannot be used with any other discounts and must be received before October 31, 2006. The free-shipping order form can be downloaded from nursesbooks.org. Download the form
