ANA Principles
ANA excels at being a leader in nursing, creating guides to help create a safe environment for patients and medical professionals alike. Reports include principles and guidelines on various issues, designed to inform and instruct. Included here are these principles, created by ANA on important aspects of the nursing practice.
The ANA Principles
The American Nurses Association and the American Organization of Nurse Executives developed these "Principles of Collaborative Relationships" to enhance highly effective practice environments. The Principles guide clinical nurses and nurse managers on functioning as teams to deliver on their shared goal of high value patient care.
Online social networking facilitates collegial communication among registered nurses and provides convenient and timely forums for professional development and education. It also presents remarkable potential for public education and health guidance, contributing to nursing’s online professional presence. At the same time, the inherent nature of social networking invites the sharing of personal information or work experiences that may reflect poorly on a nurse’s professionalism. ANA’s Principles for Social Networking and the Nurse: Guidance for the Registered Nurse provides guidance to registered nurses on using social networking media in a way that protects patients’ privacy and confidentiality and maintains the standards of professional nursing practice. These six essential principles are relevant to all registered nurses and nursing students across all roles and settings.
Today, in response to variations in the quality of health care and rising health care costs, many policy makers and purchasers of health care services are exploring and promoting pay-forperformance (P4P) or value-based purchasing (VBP) systems.
There are multiple variations of Pay for Quality programs all with designs and strategies to refocus the health care system on costeffective quality care. At the core of any program are the measures used to rate the provider’s performance. ANA’s Principles of Pay for Quality: Guidance for Nurses presents ten principles to guide the nurse in any Pay for Quality discussion.
The ANA Principles for Nurse Staffing focus on the complexity of nurse staffing decisions and identifies the major elements to consider when evaluating the safety and appropriateness of nurse staffing. These principles serve to guide nurses and other decision makers in identifying or developing better tools and processes to improve nurse staffing.
Nurse staffing needs are complex and making a staffing plan can be difficult. For this reason, ANA developed this guide for creating safe staffing plans that meet all the needs of nurses and patients.
Clear, accurate, and accessible documentation is an essential element of safe, quality, evidence-based nursing practice. The RN and the APRN are responsible and accountable for the nursing documentation that is used throughout an organization. This publication identifies six essential principles to guide nurses in this necessary and integral aspect of the work of registered nurses in all roles and settings.
This document is designed to provide overarching principles and guidelines for practice in situations where registered nurses delegate tasks to others. The purpose of this document is to define relevant principles and provider registered nurses with practice strategies when delegating patient care to nursing assistive personnel.
Nursing as a health care profession and environmental health as a public health discipline share many of the same roots. This document articulates and expands on ten principles to guide registered nurses in providing nursing care in a manner that is environmentally safe and healthy. By doing so, this document challenges nurses to rediscover their profession’s traditional environmental health roots and to operation from these roots and principles in their roles as health care advocates and providers.
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