What are the purposes of the professional nursing organizations? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Professional
Standard of practice
Ethical conduct of members
Ensure high quality
Leadership opportunities
Meet present and future challenges
What are the benefits of belonging to a professional nursing organization? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Develop leadership skills
Certification
Research opportunities
Defining practice standards and redefining policies
Legislative lobbying power
Publications
Health/Life/Malpractice insurance
Continuing education
Discounts
Networking with peers
What are the purposes of the American Nurses Association (ANA)? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Broad
purpose organization
National Student Nurses Association
Improve health standards and availability of health care for all people
Foster high standards of nursing
Stimulate and promote the professional development of nurses
Advance the economic and general welfare of nurses
What is the Magnet Recognition Program? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A program of the American Nurses
Credentialing Center, a subsidiary of ANA
, Recognizes health care organizations that provide nursing excellence
Provides a vehicle for disseminating successful nursing practices and strategies
Recognizes quality patient care
Recognizes innovations in professional nursing practice
Provides consumers with the ultimate benchmark to measure the quality of care that they can expect to
receive
Describe the functions of the National Student Nurses Association? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Promotes
professional growth
Discounts on products
Voice for nursing students
Promote development of skills
Advocate high quality health care
What are the purposes of the National League of Nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Oldest organization
for nurses (since 1893)
Advances quality nursing education
Concerned with quality nursing for all types of nursing programs:
~Practical nursing
~Associate Degree nursing
~Baccalaureate Degree nursing
~Master Degree nursing
What is the most important statutory law affecting nurses in each state? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅State
Nurse Practice Act
List 4 important things that the "Nurse Practice Act" does for nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Defines
the practice of nursing
Sets educational qualifications/requirements for licensure
Legal titles/abbreviations nurses can use