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Documents

• Hospital Staffing Issues: Testimony for the National Summit on Medical Errors and Patient Safety Research (9/11)
  Health care practice in hospital and other health care settings is changing daily. Nurses, physicians and others are asked to do more with less. As hospitals have reorganized and put fewer nurses at the bedside, as more and more hospitals have come to rely on use of overtime...
• ANA Reaffirms Commitment to BSN for Entry into Practice (2/25)
  ANA Board of Directors reaffirmed its longstanding position that baccalaureate education should be the standard for entry into professional nursing practice. The reaffirmation follows on the heels of a recent decision by the ANCC, a subsidiary of the ANA, to offer a new certification exam ...
• Op-Ed: Ration Nursing Care – And Patients Pay
  
• Executive Summary: Nurse Staffing and Patient Outcomes in the Inpatient Hospital Setting
  
• ANCC to Make Certification Available to All Registered Nurses Through Open Door 2000 Program (2/25)
  Washington, D.C.- In response to the demands of today's health care environment for greater public accountability among nurses and other health care providers and as a means of providing an opportunity to demonstrate competence over a professional's lifetime of practice, the ANCC has unveiled ...
• New ANA Study Provides More Proof of Link Between RN Staffing and Quality Patient Care (5/02/00)
  

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• ANA Principles for Nurse Staffing