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Federal Nursing Chiefs
Veteran Administration
Nursing Staff provides the greatest proportion of direct health care service to the veterans served by VA. The mission of the Nursing Strategic Healthcare Group is to function as a Center for Nursing Leadership by providing the linkages and opportunities for the enhancement of innovation and preservation of the caring dimension across the spectrum of Nursing Service delivery. The Nursing Strategic Healthcare Group works in collaboration with other disciplines and administrators to identify incentives and systematically eliminate barriers that interfere with the development of interdisciplinary teamwork in the service of quality patient-centered, customer focused care for the veterans we serve. http://www.va.gov/nursing/
Navy Nurse Corps Association
Established in 1987, the Navy Nurse Corps Association is a non-profit, national organization dedicated to bringing Navy Nurses together. We are an association for caring and sharing, where what matters most is not rank, but being, or having been, a Navy Nurse. http://www.nnca.org
Nursing Organizations
American Nurses Association
American Nurses Association is a full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.6 million Registered Nurses through its 53 constituent state associations and 13 organizational affiliate members. ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public. http://nursingworld.org
National League for Nursing
The National League for Nursing advances quality nursing education that prepares the nursing workforce to meet the needs of diverse populations in an ever-changing health care environment. http://www.nln.org/
National Student Nurses' Association
NSNA is a membership organization representing students in AND, Diploma, Baccalaureate, generic Masters and generic Doctoral programs preparing students for Registered Nurse licensure, as well as RNs in BSN completion programs. http://www.nsna.org
National Black Nurses Association, Inc.
The National Black Nurses Association is a professional organization of registered nurses, licensed vocational/practical nurses and nursing students. The mission of the NBNA is to investigate, define and determine the health care requirements of African Americans and other diverse communities to foster optimal health and health care services commensurate with that of the larger society. http://www.nbna.org
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners was formed in 1985 to promote the high standards of health care delivered by nurse practitioners and to act as a forum to enhance the identity and continuity of all nurse practitioner specialties. http://www.aanp.org/
American Association of Critical Care Nurses
Building on decades of clinical excellence, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) provides and inspires leadership to establish work and care environments that are respectful, healing and humane. The key to AACN's success is through its members. Therefore, AACN is committed to providing the highest quality resources to maximize nurses' contribution to caring and improving the healthcare of critically ill patients and their families. http://www.aacn.org
Association of Women's Health, Obstetrical and Neonatal Nurses
The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is a not for profit association of 22,000 health care professionals in the United States, Canada and abroad who are dedicated to establishing and promoting the highest standards of nursing practice. As women live longer and look to prevent chronic disease and debilitation, AWHONN is committed to providing nurses with topical resources that enhance their practice and ensure healthy patient outcomes. Through research based practice projects, clinical publications, and continuing education programs, AWHONN addresses health issues across the life span. http://www.awhonn.org
Psychiatric Nurses' Association
The mission of the APNA is to provide leadership to advance psychiatric-mental health nursing practice, improve mental health care for culturally diverse individuals, families, groups and communities, and shape health policy for the delivery of mental health services. http://www.apna.org
Sigma Theta Tau
Sigma Theta Tau International is committed to fostering excellence, scholarship, and leadership in nursing to improve health care worldwide. The society promotes the use of nursing research in health care delivery and makes its resources available to all people and institutions interested in the latest knowledge in nursing care. http://www.nursingsociety.org
American Association for the History of Nursing
The American Association for the History of Nursing is a professional organization open to everyone interested in the history of nursing. Originally founded in 1978 as a historical methodology group, the association was briefly named the International History of Nursing Society. The association's purpose is to foster the importance of history in understanding the present and guiding the future of nursing. http://aahn.org
American Public Health Association
The American Public Health Association is the oldest and largest organization of public health professionals in the world, representing more than 50,000 members from over 50 occupations of public health. APHA and its members have been influencing policies and setting priorities in public health since 1872. APHA actively serves the public, its members, and the public health profession through its scientific and practice programs, publications, annual meeting, awards program, educational services, and advocacy efforts. http://www.apha.org
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners
NAPNAP was founded in 1973 as a non-profit specialty nursing organization devoted to improving the quality of infant and child health care. The pediatric nurse practitioner provides an advanced level of care to children and their families, including: counseling on normal development and behavioral problems, the prevention of illness and preventable injuries, and care of children with acute or chronic conditions. NAPNAP promotes high standards of child health care through education, research, and legislative action involving over 5,600 members in 47 chapters across the country. http://www.napnap.org/
Emergency Nurses Association
Emergency Nurses Association provides visionary leadership for emergency nursing and emergency care by defining the future of emergency nursing and emergency care through advocacy, expertise, innovation, and leadership. http://www.ena.org
American College of Nurse Midwives
ACNM assumes a leadership role in the development and promotion of high quality health care for women and infants both nationally and internationally. The profession of nurse-midwifery is committed to ensuring that certified nurse-midwives are provided with sound educational preparation, to expanding knowledge through research and to evaluating and revising care through quality assurance. The profession further ensures that its members adhere to the Standards of Practice for Nurse-Midwifery in accordance with the ACNM philosophy. http://www.acnm.org
Nursing Center
NursingCenter.com offers a brand new look along with important new features for nurses in practice, education, research, and nursing students. Features include personalized, customized entry; free E-Mail; interactive Continuing Education offerings; Reuters-delivered healthcare newsfeeds; and enhanced navigation and search capability. NursingCenter.com also provides enormous information resources and services to the nursing community, including many full-text nursing journal articles from numerous leading publications. http://www.nursingcenter.com
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners was formed in 1985 to promote the high standards of health care delivered by nurse practitioners and to act as a forum to enhance the identity and continuity of all nurse practitioner specialties. http://aanp.org
Pediatric Nursing Certification Board (PNCB)
The Pediatric Nursing Certification Board (PNCB) is a nonprofit organization, established in 1975 for the purpose of fostering the delivery of high quality health care to children and their families. This goal is being met by providing national certification and certification maintenance programs for pediatric nursing professionals. www.pncb.org
Window on Nursing
Window on Nursing is a company owned and managed by nurses. The site offers on-line purchasing of notecards and other printed products which illuminate and celebrate the art of nursing. http://www.windowonnursing.com/index.html
Nursing Publications
American Journal of Nursing
http://www.nursingcenter.com/journals
Masters in Nursing
Guide to programs offering a Masters Degree in Nursing
http://www.mastersinnursing.com/
Nursing 2000
http://www.springnet.com/pn/nurse99.htm
Nursing Spectrum
http://nursingspectrum.com
Nursing.About.Com
http://nursing.about.com
Nursing Journals on the World Wide Web
http://www.sciencekomm.at
Government Health Organizations
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The mission of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. http://www.cdc.gov
Department of Health and Human Services
The Department of Health and Human services is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. http://www.hhs.gov
Non-Government Health Organizations
World Health Organization
The objective of the World Health Organization is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health, as defined in the WHO Constitution, is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. WHO also proposes conventions, agreements, regulations and makes recommendations about international nomenclature of diseases, causes of death and public health practices. It develops, establishes and promotes international standards concerning foods and biological, pharmaceutical and similar substances. http://www.who.org
Pan American Health Organization
The Pan American Health Organization is an international public health agency with more than 90 years of experience in working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. It serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System. It also serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization and enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system. http://www.paho.org
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health is one of the world's foremost biomedical research centers. An agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health research. NIH is the steward of biomedical and behavioral research for the Nation. Its mission is science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability. http://www.nih.gov
International Council of Nurses
The International Council of Nurses is a federation of national nurses' associations, representing nurses in 118 countries. Founded in 1900, ICN is the world's first and widest reaching international organization for health professionals. Operated by nurses for nurses, ICN works to ensure quality nursing care for all, sound health policies globally, the advancement of nursing knowledge, and the presence worldwide of a respected nursing profession and a competent and satisfied nursing workforce. http://www.icn.ch
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