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In December 1990, the American Nurses Association Board of Directors approved the creation of the Magnet Hospital Recognition Program for Excellence in Nursing Services. . The program was based on an earlier study by the American Academy of Nursing which identified 14 characteristics of healthcare organizations that excelled in recruitment and retention of registered nu
Bobbie Berkowitz is an American professor of nursing and dean emeritus of the School of Nursing at Columbia University. She is best known for her contributions improving public health nursing and health systems with a focus on health disparity. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The National League for Nursing (NLN) is a national organization for faculty nurses and leaders in nurse education. It offers faculty development , networking opportunities, testing services, nursing research grants, and public policy initiatives to more than 45,000 individual and 1,000 education and associate members.
Healthy Work Environments Best Practice Guidelines In July 2003, RNAO commenced the development of evidence-based best practice guidelines aimed at creating a healthy work environment for nurses. This was achieved with funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, working in partnership with Health Canada's Office of Nursing ...
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association (ANA), is a certification body for nursing board certification and the largest certification body for advanced practice registered nurses in the United States, [1] as of 2011 certifying over 75,000 APRNs, including nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists.
Evidence-based nursing (EBN) is an approach to making quality decisions and providing nursing care based upon personal clinical expertise in combination with the most current, relevant research available on the topic.
The Report also recommended that a neighbourhood nursing service be established, with eventual removal of differences between district nurses, health visitors and school nurses. [2] It suggested a " nurse practitioner " role be created to designate more highly skilled nurses with prescribing powers and also that general practices should not be ...
A major early goal of the organization was the enhancement of nursing care for American soldiers. [8] 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. [9]