GRADED A+
✔✔American Nurses Association (ANA) - ✔✔- Professional organization that represents
all registered nurses.
- 1896
- also labor union
social policy statement
- does not believe nurses should participate in assisted suicide
✔✔Social Policy Statement (ANA) - ✔✔- It is about the relationship the social contract
between the nursing profession and society and their reciprocal expectations
- knowledge base for nursing practice
- scope of nursing practice
✔✔regulation of nursing practice (ANA) - ✔✔- professional regulation
Legal regulation
- Institutional Policies and Procedures
- self- regulation
✔✔American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) - ✔✔- Organization created by the
ANA to provide certification for nurses in various specialties
- certification indicates expert knowledge in practice area
- 1973
✔✔Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) - ✔✔- National honor society for nursing
- goal of this organization is to foster nursing scholarship, leadership and research.
- 1922
- membership is by invitation to baccalaureate and graduate nursing students as well as
nurse leaders
✔✔international council of nurses - ✔✔- international voice of nurses and serves to
bring nurses together world wide
- nurses who want to practice in a country not where they earned their license may
contact ICN to learn requirements
✔✔National Student Nurses Association (NSNA) - ✔✔- This organization developed the
on-going Image of Nursing program designed to improve and protect the image of
nursing.
- for students, financed and ran by students
- act as public voice for all nursing students
- major project: recruit and maintain minorities
- enrollment open to students from all programs
, ✔✔National League for Nursing (NLN) - ✔✔- advances excellence in nursing education
to prepare nurses to meet the needs of a diverse population in a changing health care
environment
- 1893
- provides accreditation to nursing programs- primarily to associate degree programs
✔✔American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) - ✔✔- National voice for
baccalaureate- & higher-degree nursing education programs
- Establishes quality standards for baccalaureate- & graduate-degree nursing education
- assists in implementation of those standards
- 1969
✔✔Benefit of inter professional collaboration - ✔✔- decreased fragmentation of care
- effective use of multiple types of expertise
- decreased replication of services
- increased creative solutions
- provision of motivation
- sharing responsibility
- empowerment of members
✔✔critical components of effective teams - ✔✔- communication
- collaboration
- coordination
✔✔communication - ✔✔- effective communication takes practice and awareness
-important of organizational culture and relational coordination
- assertivness vs. aggression
- suggestions for improving assertiveness
-nonverbal messages
- using SBAR within the team
✔✔collaboration - ✔✔- The act of working together in a joint intellectual effort.
- value/ ethics
- roles/ responsiblities
- interprofessional communication
- teams and teamwork
✔✔benefits of collaboration - ✔✔- improved care for diabetics
- improved emergency patient satisfaction
- reduced emergency care error rates
- improved management of care in domestic violence cases
- improved emergency care culture
-increased collaborative team behavior
- improved mental health practitioner compnatencies