Welcome to Navigate Nursing.
The American Nurses Association’s Navigate Nursing is dedicated to helping you become a stronger nurse leader. You have the skills and knowledge to deliver professional care to patients. We aim to provide you with valuable leadership resources to help you do your job better.
We believe in healthy work environments and a healthier you! Use this site for information on how to create professional success, improve patient care environments, and expand your personal development.
Whether you’re an advanced practice nurse, staff nurse, a novice or expert, Navigate Nursing has resources you can use. Navigate Nursing will provide resources to help you find your way through your career challenges on the course to a better you!
 Navigating Diversity in Nursing Practice
What is diversity and how do we handle it? From race and ethnicity to obesity and mental disorders, patients present themselves with a wide range of characteristics. As nurses, we must be aware of these diversities and reflect competency in these cultural differences, but do we?
The American Nurses Association has created a comprehensive, internet-accessible resource bank of materials related to cultural competency and diversity awareness in nursing practice in the United States. As part of this Diversity Awareness Project, ANA, with support from Pfizer, surveyed student nurses on their perceptions of diversity as a component of their academic training and the role it plays in their future in professional nursing.
Be among the first to learn what’s inside the ANA Diversity Awareness Project and the results of two national surveys of nurses! Please join us on Wednesday, January 25, 2012, at 1 PM (eastern) for a groundbreaking webinar exploring this topic so critical to nursing practice. Our expert speaker, Jacqueline Mosley, MPH, MSN, ACNP-BC, RN, has led the American Nurses Association project on diversity awareness and will provide significant insight on how to navigate this important nursing practice issue.
Learning Objectives
Accreditation Statement
Navigating Diversity in Nursing Practice provides 1.0 CNE contact hours.
Resources
Test Your Diversity IQ
Three Tips to Encourage Diversity Awareness
Compassion Fatigue Impacts Nursing
The Wall Street Journal published an article on January 3, 2012, discussing compassion fatigue and the toll it can take on nurses and their patients. Compassion fatigue is defined as a “combination of secondary traumatic stress and burnout from increasing demands of nursing.” Symptoms may be physical or emotional and may lead to work-related concerns.
Large Percentage of Schools Lack Nurses
National Public Radio reported that “more than half of American public schools don’t have a full-time nurse, and the situation is getting worse as school systems further cut budgets.” Some school nurses cover several different schools. As she rotates among schools, one nurse has taught school staff how to handle certain emergencies in her absence.
Prominent Nurse Nominated to Lead Health Agency
On November 23, 2011, President Obama nominated Marilyn B. Tavenner, to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services within the Department of Health and Human Services. Ms. Tavenner currently serves as Principal Deputy Administrator to the same agency. Previously, Ms. Tavenner served as the Secretary of Health and Human Resources under former Governor Tim Kaine. Ms. Tavenner received her BS in nursing and MA in health administration from Virginia Commonwealth University. Current CMS Administrator, Donald Berwick, MD, announced his resignation effective December 2, 2011.
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