Granting health care professionals, institutions, and insurers the ability to use conscience-based objections to refuse treatment or deny access to health care coverage results in violent discrimination and violates the human rights and dignity of these communities and the main tenants of nursing care.
In celebration of National Nurses Month, the American Nurses Association (ANA) President Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, PhD, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, made a special community visit with nursing students at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) School of Nursing.
ANA strongly opposes any legislation or effort that would prohibit diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) programs or dictate how history is taught.
The Public Health Emergency (PHE) that was activated at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020 ends today. This comes days after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end of the COVID-19 emergency on May 5.
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is launching the inaugural Mary Eliza Mahoney Lecture Series, sponsored by its Racial Reckoning program, in honor of the first professionally licensed African American nurse and pioneer within the nursing community.
The ANA Enterprise has announced the retirement of its Chief Executive Officer, Loressa Cole, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN.
The American Nurses Association is kicking off its annual celebration of National Nurses Month on May 1st by encouraging the public to show their gratitude to nurses by donating through the Text-to-Thank a Nurse campaign.
Advocacy to protect reproductive health and justice must continue.
The ICAN Act would remove numerous administrative and practice barriers for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), so that will be able to care for their patients at the fullest extent of their abilities.
The Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the U.S. Senate. This legislation would curb rising rates of on-the-job assaults against nurses and others health care professionals.
As COVID-19 retreats, we remain in lockstep with all nurses.
This ruling is yet another threat to basic reproductive health and human rights.
