Experts from across the nation will be available to reporters for phone interviews on and after July 15. Perhaps most horrifying of all, they carefully plan their attacks. Nurse researchers are working to better determine what places certain children with some or all of these profile factors at particular risk of killing. America wants answers, and no health care professionals are more urgently involved in working to obtain these answers than registered nurses.
Nurses bring keen observational and assessment skills to school and research settings.
Prevention of public health crises such as school violence is nursing's reason for being. RNs are on the front lines in schools, in emergency rooms, as professionals providing care and psychotherapy to victims, and as forensic investigators. ANA's Biennial Convention and Exposition is being held in San Diego, CA, June 26 - July 1 at the San Diego Convention Center. Several of the San Diego sessions focus on violence prevention and research. ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.