ANA’s work focuses on five Core Issues: Nursing Shortage, Appropriate Staffing, Workplace Rights, Workplace Health and Safety and Patient Safety/Advocacy. Media backgrounders, covering subject matter in these five areas, appear below and may include press releases and/or ANA position statements. Articles on these topics, appearing in The American Nurse (TAN), are especially rich sources of background information. For more information, contact ANA media relations staff.
Handle with Care
- ANA’s national safe, patient-handling campaign
RNnoharm
- ANA’s environmental initiatives
Nurse Competence in Aging
- Promoting the geriatric activities of national specialty nursing associations
- National gerontological nursing certification outreach
- Developing a Web-based comprehensive geriatric nursing resource center
Tobacco-Free Nurses
- Supporting and assisting smoking cessation efforts of nurses and nursing students
- Providing tobacco control resources for use in patient care
- Enhancing the culture of nurses as leaders and advocates of a smoke-free society
Safe Needles Save Lives
- Caring for Those Who Care: Join ANA in the Fight for a Safer Workplace
- Fact sheets
- Press releases and statements
- Legislation
- Coverage in the American Nurse
RNs & the Health of Young People
- Child & Adolescent Health Issues
- School Health Issues
- The Health of America's Children at School
- Kids in the Crosshairs: RNs Confront the Causes & Consequences of School
Violence
National Nurses Week
Press Releases
