Nursing Professional Organizations

Abstract

Nurses have great potential to contribute to the development of health policy through political action. We undertook a systematic website review of international-and national-level professional nursing organizations to determine how they engaged registered nurses in health policy activities, including policy priority setting, policy goals and objectives, policy products, and mechanisms for engaging nurses in policy issues. We reviewed 38 organizations for eligibility and 15 organization websites met our inclusion criteria. Six professional nursing organizations had comprehensive websites with a discussion of specific policy goals and objectives, policy-related products and mechanisms for nurses to become engaged. Future research is needed to evaluate how nursing professional organizations establish policy priorities and to evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies used to politically engage nurses.

Ethical practice in the nursing profession: A normative analysis

“…[26] Standards describe competencies in clinical nursing practice that relate to the quality of nursing education undertaken. [11] Are there shortcomings in terms of the role of the SANC in enhancing professional and ethical practice for nurses? SANC seems to have focused for a long period on registration, setting standards of licence to practise as a nurse and the commissioning of disciplinary activities, with less focus on addressing critical professional competencies concerning ethical practice.…”

“…Regulating entry into the nursing profession through eligibility criteria is necessary in order to curb the challenge of the nursing profession being a last resort in people's career choices. [11]…”

“…Within the standards of professional nursing practice are contained the responsibilities that nurse practitioners are accountable for, and their professional values and priorities. As highlighted by Catallo et al, [11] it is crucial that professional bodies engage nurses in health and nursing policy development as stakeholders. This will strengthen adherence to policies or rules and regulations as determined by regulatory bodies.…”

Nurse Knowledge and Engagement in Health Policy Making: Findings From a Pilot Study

“…Nursing organizations work to increase individual nurse engagement in policy advocacy activities by providing face-to-face and online educational opportunities (Catallo, Spalding, & Haghiri-Vijeh, 2014). Yet, few organizations provide opportunities for practicing nurses to collaborate and network with other nurses to influence policy advocacy (Benton, Al Maaitah, & Gharaibeh, 2017;Catallo et al, 2014). Nursing's increased engagement in health policy advocacy can positively influence the role of nurses in the United States, as well as the health care provided to patients and communities (Grady & Gough, 2015).…”

Pediatric Specialty Nursing Associations and their Role in Leadership Development

“…Professional nursing organizations and associations have a long history of promoting leadership development of their members and exist at international and national levels. Most were established for and continue to work toward a variety of purposes including: advocating for the profession of nursing and nurses, developing health care policies and standards that ensure the highest level of patient care quality, assuring the highest level of education, providing professional development and continuing education, and providing research, networking, and career advancement opportunities for a collective body of nurse members (Catallo et al, 2014; Roux & Halstead, 2018).…”