American Nurses Association
{{short description|Professional organization for nurses in the United States}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = American Nurses Association
| abbreviation = ANA
| purpose = To advance and promote the improvement of health standards and the standards of nursing and to stimulate and promote the professional development of nurses and advance their economic and general welfare."[https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2017/131/893/2017-131893923-1027e4e5-9O.pdf Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax]". American Nurses Association Inc. Guidestar. December 31, 2017.
| subsidiaries = American Nurses Foundation Inc (501(c)(3)),
American Nurses Credentialing Center (501(c)(6)),
American Academy of Nursing (501(c)(3)),
Institute for Nursing Research and Education (501(c)(3)),
ANA PAC (PAC) Nurse Marketplace Inc (For-profit),
ANA Service Corporation Inc (For-profit),
| image = ANA logo (2024).svg
| image_size = 200px
| founded = February 11–12, {{start date and age|1897}}
| headquarters = Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.
| coordinates = {{coord|38.994879|-77.026850|display= inline, title}}
| leader_name = Loressa Cole"[https://www.nursingworld.org/ana/leadership-and-governance/board-of-directors/ Leadership]". ANA. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
| leader_title = ANA Enterprise Chief Executive Officer
| leader_name2 = Jennifer Mensik Kennedy
| leader_title2 = President
| employees_year = 2017
| volunteers_year = 2017
| revenue_year = 2017
| expenses_year = 2017
| status = 501(c)(6)
| type = Nonprofit professional association
| formerly = Nurses Associated Alumnae
| website = {{URL|https://www.nursingworld.org}}
}}
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is a 501(c)(6) professional organization to advance and protect the profession of nursing. It started in 1896 as the Nurses Associated Alumnae and was renamed the American Nurses Association in 1911.{{Cite web|url=http://www.healthfinder.gov/orgs/hr1565.htm|title=American Nurses Association, ANA|publisher=Health Care Finder|access-date=2009-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010062011/http://healthfinder.gov/orgs/HR1565.htm|archive-date=2012-10-10|url-status=dead}} It is based in Silver Spring, Maryland{{Cite web|url=http://nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/ContactUs.aspx|title=ANA Contact Us|publisher=American Nurses Association|access-date=2009-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110213417/http://nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/ContactUs.aspx|archive-date=2014-11-10|url-status=dead}} and Jennifer Mensik Kennedy is the current president.
The ANA states nursing integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence. Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human responses and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations in recognition of the connection of all humanity.{{cite web| url=http://www.nursingworld.org/EspeciallyForYou/What-is-Nursing|title=What is Nursing?
|publisher= The American Nurses Association, Inc. |access-date=2024-08-13}}
History
=19th century=
Initial organizational plans were made for the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States of America on September 2, 1896, at Manhattan Beach Hotel near New York City.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/AboutANA/History/BasicHistoricalReview.pdf|title=BasicHistoricalReview.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201041155/http://www.nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/AboutANA/History/BasicHistoricalReview.pdf|archive-date=2016-02-01|access-date=2016-03-05}} On February 11–12, 1897 those plans were ratified in Baltimore at a meeting that coincided with the annual conference of the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses.{{cite news| title =To Meet Here Next Week| newspaper =Baltimore American
| date =February 4, 1897
| url =https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aeBdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3F4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=4697,4169296&dq=nurses+associated+alumnae+of+the+united+states+and+canada&hl=en
| access-date =July 1, 2012}} Isabel Hampton Robb served as the first president. A major early goal of the organization was the enhancement of nursing care for American soldiers.{{cite news| title =Nurses for Peace and War | newspaper =New York Times
| date =May 7, 1899 | url =https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1899/05/07/100442283.pdf
| access-date =July 1, 2012}}
ICN was founded in 1899 by nursing organizations from Great Britain, the ANA for the United States, and Germany as charter members. The first ever ICN Congress was held in Buffalo New York in 1901.{{cite web| title= Forming the First Constitution|publisher=International Council of Nurses|url=https://icntimeline.org/1899-1909/0006.html|access-date=October 5, 2020 | page=29}}
=20th century=
In 1947, the next congress, the Ninth ICN Quadrennial Congress in 1947, was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Attended by over 5,000 delegates representing 250,000 nurses in 32 countries, it was a major step forward in re-establishing international peacetime relations in the healthcare community. ANA leadership made all arrangements including locating lodgings for attendees among local residents, and raising funds to cover travel costs.{{cite news| title= Nurses Congress Delegates Named – Eight Will Represent State At Meeting Opening Monday At Atlantic City|work= Wilmington Morning News|location=Wilmington, Delaware|date=May 10, 1947 | page=3}}{{cite news| title= Nurses Of 32 Nations Will Meet in May|work= Dayton Daily News|location=Dayton, Ohio|date=March 27, 1947 | page=29}}{{refn|group=note|''The Farewell': When this great postwar Congress came to a close, the ties harshly strained by war had been reknit and greatly strengthened.".{{cite journal| title=The Program|journal=American Journal of Nursing |publisher=The American Journal of Nursing |volume=47|number=7|url=https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Citation/1947/07000/The_Program_The_Opening_Session.4.aspx|access-date=October 4, 2020 |date=July 1947|pages=437–451}}}}{{cite web| title= Ninth ICN Congress, Atlantic City, USA|publisher=International Council of Nurses|url=https://icntimeline.org/1940-1949/0007.html|access-date=October 4, 2020 | page=29}}
In 1970, Mattiedna Johnson spoke at an ANA convention on the lack of representation of African American nurses. She believed it was a major issue which led to the founding of National Black Nurses Association in 1971.
=21st century=
In February 2022, ANA partnered with Congresswoman Deborah Ross and Congressman Dave Joyce on the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) Act, which is designed to address the nation-wide shortage of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) and improve care for survivors of sexual violence. It bill was also endorsed by RAINN and the National Network to End Domestic Violence.{{cite web|url=https://ross.house.gov/media/press-releases/representatives-ross-joyce-introduce-bipartisan-bill-address-shortage-sane|title=Representatives Ross, Joyce Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Address Shortage of SANE-certified Nurses, Improve Care for Survivors of Sexual Violence|website=Congresswoman Deborah Ross|date=February 15, 2022|access-date=December 15, 2022}}
Mission
The association is a professional organization representing registered nurses (RNs) in the United States through its 54 constituent member associations.{{Cite web|url=http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/American+Nurses+Association|title=American Nurses Association|publisher=Medical Dictionary|access-date=2009-03-24}} The ANA is involved in establishing standards of nursing practice, promoting the rights of nurses in the workplace, advancing the economic and general welfare of nurses.{{Cite web|url=http://www.discovernursing.com/nursing-organizations|title=Nursing Organizations|publisher=Discover Nursing|access-date=2009-03-24| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090403011840/http://www.discovernursing.com/nursing-organizations| archive-date= 3 April 2009 | url-status= live}}
Statements by ANA have been featured in publications arguing against mandatory nurse-to-patient ratios. The American Nurses Association says it has "real concerns about the establishment of fixed
The ANA also has three subsidiary organizations, the American Academy of Nursing, formed to serve the public and nursing profession by advancing health policy and practice through the generation, synthesis, and dissemination of nursing knowledge, the American Nurses Foundation, the charitable and philanthropic arm, and the American Nurses Credentialing Center, which credentials nurses in their specialty and credentials facilities that exhibit nursing excellence.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/AboutANA/WhoWeAre/ANAsStatementofPurpose.aspx|title=ANA Statement of Purpose|publisher=American Nurses Association|access-date=2009-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211014243/http://nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/AboutANA/WhoWeAre/ANAsStatementofPurpose.aspx|archive-date=11 February 2009|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
Publications
- American Nurse Today
- The American Nurse{{cite web | title = About | publisher = American Nurse | url = https://www.myamericannurse.com/about-us/ | access-date = 9 October 2020}}
- OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing{{Cite web|url=http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals.aspx|title=AANA Periodicals|publisher=American Nurses Association|access-date=2009-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201040010/http://nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals.aspx|archive-date=2009-02-01|url-status=dead}}
Notable members
- Katharine Jane Densford, president 1944–48.{{cite web| title=Expanded Historical Review of Nursing and the ANA|url= https://www.nursingworld.org/~4ab5e0/globalassets/docs/ana/ana-expandedhistoricalreview.pdf |publisher=American Nurses Association |access-date=August 21, 2020 | page=17}} Densford testified before Congress during World War II regarding wartime nursing recruitment.{{cite magazine| title=Head of Nurses Group Opposes Draft Law | magazine=The Evening Sun|location=Baltimore, Maryland|date=February 13, 1945| page=4}}{{cite magazine| title= Today's Birthday: Katharine Jane Densford|magazine=News-Pilot|location=San Pedro, California|date=December 7, 1949 | page=16}}
- Lavinia Dock, nursing educator, public health advocate, author, and suffragist.{{Cite web |last=Sklar |first=Kathryn Kish |date=2000 |title=Dock, Lavinia Lloyd (1858-1956), nurse, suffragist, and social reformer |url=https://www.anb.org/display/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1500182 |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=American National Biography |language=en |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1500182}}
- Mary Keys Gibson, involved in desegregation efforts in 1948{{Cite news|last=Kennedy|first=Bud|date=16 March 2019|title='Mary Keys Gipson Is Just as Important as Amon Carter': One Man's Mission to Remember a Pioneer Nurse|work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram|url=https://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/bud-kennedy/article227833844.html|access-date=13 May 2020}}
- Mary Eliza Mahoney, a founder of the former National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses in 1908.{{Cite web |last=Prieto |first=Laura |date=2022-02-24 |title=Activism in Black and White: Mary Eliza Mahoney, Pathbreaking Nurse and Voter {{!}} Boston.gov |url=https://www.boston.gov/news/activism-black-and-white-mary-eliza-mahoney-pathbreaking-nurse-and-voter |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=www.boston.gov |language=en}}
- Helen Maria Roser, nursing educator, worked for ANA's Professional Counseling & Placement Service, 1945 to 1953
- M. Elizabeth Shellabarger, Wyoming State Nurses' Association, president{{cite book|last1=Binheim|first1=Max|last2=Elvin|first2=Charles A|title=Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America|date=1928|url=https://archive.org/details/womenofwestserie00binh|access-date=8 August 2017}}{{PD-notice}}
- Vera Blanche Thomas, Arizona State Nurses' Association, president 1927-28
See also
Notes
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References
External links
- {{Official website|http://nursingworld.org}}
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Category:Nursing organizations in the United States
Category:International Council of Nurses