Nurses--one body, one voice.(Editorial) AORN Journal (5/1/2004)
...Spirits, Touching Lives." The American Nurses Association (ANA), along with many specialty...including AORN, supports nurses and nursing. This year, National Student Nurses Day and National School Nurse Day also will be ...

Nurses Across Country Send Messages by Participating in Job Actions. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (4/23/2001)
...Business News Apr. 23--Nurses trading medical equipment...chairperson of the United American Nurses (UAN), the labor arm of the American Nurses Association. Work stoppages involving...according to the United ...

Nurses: building a healthy America.(Wisconsin Nurses Association) STAT Bulletin (4/1/2009)
...primarily from a shortage of nurse educators, according...data released by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing...400 advanced practice nurses in the United States...approximately 144,200 are nurse practitioners, 69...practice ...

Nurses may join big union ; State's locals seek lobbying power The Boston Globe (10/29/2009)
...Cambridge Hospital nurse who took over...Massachusetts Nurses Association, which represents...within the American Nurses Association, a professional...group, United American Nurses - to form ...

Nurses ache for aid: Workers and hospitals at odds over how to cure chronic labor shortage. Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) (1/30/2006)
...may say I need one nurse for one patient...employing more nurses "would result in...relations at the American Hospital Association. "But the challenge...million replacement nurses by 2012. That...doesn't create nurses, she ...

Nurse Life Care Planning.(ONA News) Oklahoma Nurse (6/1/2007)
...future. To understand the concept of Nurse Life Care Planning, nurses must look at the foundation of their...practice--what it means to be a nurse and the nursing process. The American Nurses Association (ANA) defines ...

Nurses head to court; Lawsuits allege hospitals conspired to underpay.(The Week In Healthcare) Modern Healthcare (6/26/2006)
...conspired to depress nurse wages. The lawsuits...each was paying its nurses through phone calls...Washington counsel of the American Hospital Association, dismissed the...teleconference that nurses in each of the involved...the hospitals. ...

Do nurse/patient ratios work? Nurse/patient ratios have always been contentious. But the experience of two states--one Australian, one American--which have legislated nurse/patient ratios shows they have a positive impact on nurses' professional esteem and ability to give the patient care they want to provide, and on nurses' political savvy. Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (4/1/2006)
...of Victoria has had mandated nurse/patient ratios since 2001...Federation (ANF). California's nurse/patient ratios have had a...application. The California Nurses' Association (CNA) fought for nurse/patient ratios for a decade...

NURSES' WEEK; SHORTAGES MEAN APPRECIATION AND ACTION NEEDED MORE THAN EVER.(Editorial)(Editorial)(Letter to the editor) The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) (5/2/2007)
...Coleen Balch As nurses, we want to alert...many thousands of Americans. And it is happening now. The American Association of Colleges of...survey by the American College of Health...Journal of the American Medical ...