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July 11, 2001

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ANA/NursingWorld.org Launches Health and Safety Online Survey for Nurses

Washington, DC --The American Nurses Association (ANA) and its website, NursingWorld.org, have launched a nationwide online survey to poll nurses on the health and safety conditions in their health care facilities. The ANA/NursingWorld Health and Safety Online Survey is being conducted until mid-August. The survey gives nurses the opportunity to provide information about their schedules and the hazards they face while trying to provide quality care to patients in today’s stressful health care environment.

The survey follows on the heels of ANA’s first online survey, the ANA/NursingWorld Staffing Survey, the results of which were released in February 2001. Nearly 7,300 nurses responded to the first survey answering questions regarding inadequate staffing and quality of care. The nurses’ responses to that survey were disturbing, noting that the time available for direct patient care has decreased, the quality of nursing care has declined due to inadequate staffing and nurses are compromising their own safety and health care for patients.

Because nurses and other health care workers face excessive risks for back injuries, physical assaults, occupational asthma and infection by deadly bloodborne pathogens, ANA remains committed to improving nurses’ health and safety. For the last three years, the association has made workplace health and safety one of its five core issues to be addressed through education, advocacy and policy initiatives. Similar to the first survey, the ANA/NursingWorld Health and Safety Online Survey will provide ANA with concrete data that will enable the association to better educate the public and legislators.

Results from the health and safety survey will be tabulated by early September, in time for ANA’s Call to the Profession scheduled for September 8-11, 2001. The Call to the Profession is designed to bring nursing leaders and organizations together to address the current nursing shortage and the value and image of the profession. The data collected will help set priorities and identify strategies to improve current working conditions and attract more people into the nursing profession.

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The American Nurses Association is the only full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.7 million Registered Nurses through its constituent member state nurses associations. The ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.

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