April 2010 Nursing Insider

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• ANA Provides Nurses with Health Care Reform Legislation Guides

  
  Visit www.nursingworld.org/healthcarereform to review helpful resources for nurses to explain legislation.

• What’s New on NursesBooks.org?

  
  Sign up for e-newsletter for ANA's Online bookstore...

• CDC Health Advisory: Potential for Dengue Infection

  
  Read official CDC Health Advisory

• ANA Urges Nurses to Nominate in Modern Healthcare's "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare"

  
  Nominations for inclusion on the ballot will be accepted Monday, April 5 through Friday, May 7.

• Nationwide Insurance and ANA Announce Business Alliance

  
  Read ANA Press Release

• Earth Day Message from ANA President Rebecca M. Patton

  
  Read ANA Press Release

• CleanMed 2010 - Creating Healing Environments

  
  May 11-13, 2010 in Baltimore, MD

• 32 Positions for Election on ANA’s Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics

  
  ANA Members can elect for 32 positions on ANA’s Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics

• April 16 National Healthcare Decisions Day 2010

  
  ANA Patricipates in National Healthcare Decisions Day 2010 - Read ANA Press Release

• ANA Appointed to National Committee Providing Immunization Guidance

  
  ANA has been selected as one of only two nursing organizations on the only U.S. government committee that makes recommendations for the administration of vaccines to children and adults to control vaccine-preventable diseases. - Read ANA Press Release

• Environmental Health Webinar Series

  
  The Connecticut Nurses Association, the Rhode Island State Nurses Association and the New York State Nurses Association are sponsoring a four part environmental health webinar series entitled “Your Health, Your Environment…They Matter.

• ANA Urges Support of the “Safe Chemicals Act of 2010”

  
  Read ANA Press Release

• ANA Announces Formal Recognition of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Specialty Nursing Practice

  
  Read ANA Press Release

• Call for Applications IOM Scholar-in-Residence Program – a Partnership of ANA/ANF/AAN

  
  Applications are now being accepted - Find Out How to apply...

• First Do No Harm: Partnership for Patient Safety Through Environmental Sustainability and Evidence-Based Design

  
  April 22, 2010 Georgetown University

• American College of Nurse-Midwives Joins ANA as Organizational Affiliate

  
  Read ANA Press Release

• CDC Interim Results: H1N1 2009 and Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Health-Care Personnel

  
  See CDC survey results...

• 2010 ANF Nursing Research Grants - Deadline May 3, 1010

  
  The 2010 ANF Nursing Research Grant application is now available online. - May 3, 2010 Deadline

• March/April The American Nurse

  
  ANA Members Read Mar/Apr10 The American Nurse and Web Extra

• ANA Urges Nurses to Vote in Modern Healthcare's "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare"

  
  

• ICN Calls for Plan to Ensure a Sound New UN Women’s Agency

  
  Read International Council of Nurses Press Release and additional information regarding the UN Woman's Agency

• Environmental Health Mini-Grant Available

  
  The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, through the University of Maryland School of Nursing, is announcing a mini-grant opportunity.

• ANAImmunize.org Web Site Launched

  
  Read ANA Press Release

• CDC Reports Uptick in Hospitalizations for Severe H1N1 Influenza

  
  Read CDC April 2, 2010 H1N1 Flu U.S. Situation Update

• Reminder Deadline for 2010 Health & Aging Policy Fellows Program

  
  The application deadline for the 2010-2011 fellowship year is April 15, 2010.

• Online Poll Reports Majority of Health Care Facilities Use Public Report Cards

  
  Find Out Poll Results