ANA Programs

The Nursing Quality Network is an initiative of ANA’s National Center for Nursing Quality. There are a series of webinars around nursing quality measurement and improvement as a mechanism to foster collaborative learning amongst nurses working together as a way of improving patient care and outcomes.

Mosby's Nursing Consult-
Full Members Only

ANA, as part of its Bringing Immunity to Every Community initiative, features a one-stop site for everything nurses need to educate themselves, their colleagues, and their communities on the importance of immunization.

The ANA Handle with Care^® campaign seeks to mount a profession-wide effort to prevent back and other musculoskeletal injuries through greater education and training, and increased use of assistive equipment and patient-handling devices. The campaign also seeks to reshape nursing education, and federal and state ergonomics policy by highlighting the ways technology-oriented safe-patient handling benefits patients and the nursing workforce.

Nurses everywhere rank staffing as their biggest problem. Research shows it is a problem – for patients: Insufficient nurse staffing is linked with poorer patient outcomes, lengthened hospital stays and increased chance of patient death. To find out more, visit the Safe Staffing Saves Lives website.

The Coalition for Patients’ Rights^® (CPR) consists of more than 35 organizations representing a variety of licensed health care professionals who provide a diverse array of safe, effective, and affordable health care services to millions of patients each year.