ANA will work aggressively to advance job and career security strategies for all registered nurses, and to prepare and position registered nurses for emerging health care environments. Registered nurses participation as full partners in workplace redesign decisions. Promotion of the role of registered nurses to educate corporate management that registered nurses are skilled, cost effective practitioners of safe, quality patient care. Additional education for registered nurses to apply their skills to new or enhanced patient care environments. Collaboration with SNAs to vigorously resist work redesign models to the detriment of patient safety.
Public information campaigns to raise consumer awareness about quality and patient outcomes.
Collaboration with nursing organizations, agencies, and private sector to address key issues to strengthen local and state collective action toward common goals of safe quality care. References American Hospital Association. Hospital Statistics 1991-92. Quality, thy name is nursing care, CEOs say, Hospitals, p. 32. The 1994 Layoffs Survey conducted for the American Nurses Association by Decision Data Collection, Inc., McLean, Virginia.