ANA Enterprise

 
NURSING PRACTICE IS CHANGING.
SO ARE WE.
Friends and colleagues,
 
Today, the nursing workforce consists of nearly 3.4 million registered nurses, and there will be far more registered nurse jobs available than jobs in any other profession through 2022, at more than 100,000 per year in the United States alone. We know that our organization must continue to grow, flourish, and change as well, in order to fearlessly lead nurses forward.
 
So today, we are thrilled to announce the launch of the new ANA Enterprise and our refreshed American Nurses Association (ANA) and American Nurses Foundation (ANF) brands. As the organizing structure of ANA, the Foundation, and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the ANA Enterprise will leverage the combined strength of each organization to drive excellence in practice and ensure the voice and vision of nurses are recognized.
 
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The ANA Enterprise represents our promise to empower nurses everywhere to succeed. As one cohesive ANA Enterprise, we will ensure that nurses are supported and rewarded for their dedication to excellence in practice and extraordinary patient care in their institutions and across the broader health care space.
 
In the past year alone, we’ve made significant strides in education…policy…and leadership.
  • We’ve made major leaps in advancing the nursing profession and working toward the goals set out in the IOM Future of Nursing Report of increasing the proportion of nurses with a Bachelor of Science in nursing from 50 percent to 80 percent by 2020.
  • We advanced key legislation that supports issues of vital importance to RNs, such as safe staffing, safe patient handling and mobility, and home health care.
  • We partnered with our 50 constituent and state nurses associations and organization affiliates all over the nation to advocate for RNs and APRNs to practice to the full extent of their education and training.
  • We made real gains in getting nurses a place at influential decision-making tables throughout health care and in the National Quality Enterprise via the Nurses on Boards Coalition and related efforts.
  • And for the fourteenth time since 1999, nursing was rated as the most trusted profession by the public in the annual Gallup poll ranking honesty and ethics in professions.
Think of what we’ll accomplish together—as one cohesive ANA Enterprise.  
 
This is just the beginning.
 
For more information on each of our refreshed brands and the ANA Enterprise, you can visit our website here. Please reach out with any questions. We look forward to our continued partnership with you.
With warm regards,
 
Loressa Cole, DNP, MBA, RN, FACHE, NEA-BC
Chief Executive Officer, ANA Enterprise
 
Debbie Hatmaker, PhD, RN, FAAN
American Nurses Association
Kate Judge
American Nurses Foundation
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