Position Statements Listed Alphabetically

ANA Positions

• Abuse of Prescription Drugs

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 4/5/91

• Additional Access To Care: Supporting Nurse Practitioners In Retail-Based Health Clinics

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/11/09

• Adolescent Health

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 9/30/00

• Assuring Patient Safety: Registered Nurses’ Responsibility in All Roles and Settings to Guard Against Working When Fatigued 

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/8/06

• Assuring Patient Safety: The Employers’ Role in Promoting Healthy Nursing Work Hours for Registered Nurses in All Roles and Settings 

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/8/06

• Assuring Safe, High Quality Health Care in Pre-K Through 12 Educational Settings

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 3/16/07

• Care Coordination and Registered Nurses’ Essential Role

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 06/2012

• Competencies for Nurse Practitioners in Emergency Care

  
  ANA Endorsed Position Statement from Emergency Nurses Association - Endorsed 2008

• Constituent/State Nurses Associations (C/SNAs) as Ethics Resources, Educators, and Advocates 

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 11/11/11

• Credentialing and Privileging of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses

  
  ANA Position Statement - 10/11/06

• Cultural Diversity in Nursing Practice

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 10/22/91

• Delegation

  
  Joint ANA and National Council of State Boards of Nursing Position Statement - 2005

• Determining a Standard Order of Credentials for the Professional Nurse

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/11/09

• Discrimination and Racism in Health Care

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 3/26/98

• Drug Testing for Health Care Workers

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/8/94

• Education and Barrier Use for Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV Infection

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 9/6/91

• Electronic Health Record

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/11/09

• Electronic Personal Health Record

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 10/2012

• Elimination of Manual Patient Handling to Prevent Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders

  
  ANA Position Statement - Revised 3/14/08

• Elimination of Violence in Advertising Directed Toward Children, Adolescents and Families

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 7/13/07

• Emergency Care Psychiatric Clinical Framework

  
  

• Equipment/Safety Procedures to Prevent Transmission of Bloodborne Diseases

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 9/6/91

• Establishing a Culturally Competent Master’s and Doctorally Prepared Nursing Workforce (Members Only) 

  
  Position Statement Endorsed by ANA - Approved 11/09

• Foregoing Nutrition and Hydration 

  
  ANA Position Statement - Revised 3/11/11

• Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, and Aid in Dying 

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 04/2013

• HIV Disease and Correctional Inmates

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 9/11/92

• HIV Exposure from Rape/Sexual Assault

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 4/2/93

• HIV Infection and Nursing Students

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 4/3/92

• HIV Testing

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 9/6/91

• Position Statement Background Information: Immunizations 

  
  NAPNAP Position Statement Endorsed by ANA - 11/05

• In Support of Patients’ Safe Access to Therapeutic Marijuana 

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/12/08

• Just Culture

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 1/28/10

• Lead Poisoning and Screening

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 4/8/94

• Mercury in Vaccines

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 6/21/06

• Needle Exchange and HIV

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 4/2/93

• Non-punitive Alcohol and Drug Treatment for Pregnant and Breast-feeding Women and the Exposed Children 

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/09/11

• Nurses' Role in Capital Punishment 

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 1/28/10

• Nursing Care and Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) and Allow Natural Death Decisions 

  
  ANA Position Statement - Revised 3/12/12

• Nursing Leadership in Global and Domestic Tobacco Control (Members Only) 

  
  Position Statement Endorsed by ANA - 12/08

• One Perioperative Registered Nurse Circulator Dedicated to Every Patient Undergoing A Surgical or Other Invasive Procedure

  
  ANA Endorsed Position Statement from the Association of Operating Room Nurses Official Statement - 3/12

• Patient Safety: Rights of Registered Nurses When Considering a Patient Assignment

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 3/12/09

• Personnel Policies and HIV in the Workplace

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 9/6/91

• Pharmaceutical Waste

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/9/10

• Placebos for Pain Management in Patients with Cancer

  
  ANA Position Statement - 12/1996

• Post-Exposure Programs in the Event of Occupational Exposure to HIV/HBV

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 9/6/91

• Privacy and Confidentiality

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/8/06

• Procedural Sedation Consensus Statement

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 3/20/08

• Professional Role Competence

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 5/28/08

• Promoting Safe Medication Use in the Older Adult

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 3/12/09

• Promotion and Disease Prevention

  
  ANA Position Statement - 7/2/95

• Reduction of Patient Restraint and Seclusion in Health Care Settings 

  
  ANA Position Statement - Revised 3/12/12

• Registered Nurses' Rights and Responsibilities Related to Work Release During a Disaster

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 6/24/02

• Registered Nurses' Roles and Responsibilities in Providing Expert Care And Counseling at the End of Life 

  
  ANA Position Statement Approved - 6/14/10

• Registered Nurses Utilization of Nursing Assistive Personnel in All Settings

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 7/13/07

• Reproductive Health

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 3/10

• Risk and Responsibility in Providing Nursing Care 

  
  Position Statement - Approved 6/21/06

• RN First Assistants

  
  ANA Approved Position Statement from the Association of Operating Room Nurses Official Statement - 3/10

• Safe Practices for Needle and Syringe Use

  
  American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Position, endorsed by ANA - 1/09

• Safety Issues Related to Tubing and Catheter Misconnections

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 10/10/07

• Sexual Harassment

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 4/2/93

• Stem Cell Research 

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 1/10/07

• The Doctor of Nursing Practice: Advancing the Nursing Profession

  
  ANA Position Statement - Revised 4/20/2011

• The Mayday Fund Report: A Call to Revolutionize Chronic Pain Care in America: An Opportunity in Health Care Reform (Members Only) 

  
  ANA Endorsed Report - 11/4/09

• The Nonnegotiable Nature of the ANA Code for Nurses with Interpretive Statements

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/09/94

• The Nurses' Role in Ethics and Human Rights: Protecting and Promoting Individual Worth, Dignity, and Human Rights in Practice Settings 

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 6/14/10

• The Role of Registered Nurse in Ambulatory Care

  
  ANA Endorsed Position Statement from the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing - 2012

• Violence Against Women

  
  ANA Position Statement - 3/24/00

• Work Release During a Disaster - Guidelines for Employers

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 6/24/02