NRS-430V Topic 5 Assignment: Professional Association Membership – The Society of Pediatric Nurses

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP 5 Most nursing associations are organizations dedicated to professional and personal development of nurses. Professional nurses devoted to their fields can benefit in joining an organization to help advance in their profession. Most organizations have a mission to uphold the best standard of care and safety by applying evidence-based practice to uphold this standard. The emergency nurse association (ENA) “mission is to advocate for patient safety and excellence in emergency nursing practice. We envision our self to be the global emergency nursing resource and advocate for Safe Practice and Safe Care” ("Emergency Nurses Association (ENA)," n.d.). Most nursing organizations want to improve health care and safety by ensuring nurses are accountable for improving their education and decisions. Evolving in a nursing specialty can be accomplished by joining a professional nursing association whose vision is the same vision that one will be practiced everyday. The ENA main vision “is to promote advocacy, diversity, and excellence of emergency nursing practice”. Advocacy is considered one of the pillars of the nursing profession because nurses “use their position to support, protect, or speak out for the rights and interest of one another” ("Speak to be heard: Effective nurse advocacy - American Nurse Today," 2017). The ENA encourages excellence of emergency nursing practice by helping to better the professional environment of emergency nursing by improving education and public awareness. The ENA website provides information the trauma nursing core course, emergency nursing pediatric course, certification for emergency nurses and certification for pediatric emergency nurse. Emergency nurses are part of the critical team gaining the knowledge from TNCC can be beneficial to emergency nurses to apply the best quality care. Furthering your position as Registered nurse to certified registered emergency nurse can provide a personal satisfaction by increasing confidence and personal growth. The New York State ENA provides a strategic plan for educational opportunities. Aside