Wisconsin Nurses Association is nurses caring for nurses and nursing,

1. To foster high standards of nursing.

2. To stimulate and promote the professional development of nurses and advance their economic and general welfare.

3. To work for the improvement of health standards and the availability of health care services for all people.

These purposes shall be unrestricted by consideration of age, color, creed, disability, gender, health status, lifestyle, nationality, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

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Workplace Rights/Health & Safety

Appropriate Staffing

Continuing Competence

Patient Safety/Advocacy

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Core Issues: Patient Safety and Advocacy

Appropriate Staffing

1. Develop and disseminate models of working with groups.

2. Identify groups we have worked with in the past and identify common concerns.

3. Continue to work with multiple groups to advocate for access to health care.

4. Disseminate WNA Public Policy Agenda to key stakeholders as a means of demonstrating

current positions and solicit input.

1. Encourage members to disseminate the WNA Public Policy Agenda.

1. Educate policy makers on health care issues.

2. Review, take positions, publish/disseminate positions on state and federal legislative and regulatory issues.

3. Encourage sponsorship of legislative forums.

4. Support state and federal legislative issues that protect long term care initiatives.

5. Monitor health care compensation methods.

6. Support benefit packages information that is consumer friendly.

7. Support full disclosure of information to clients about health care options that could influence treatment decisions.

1. Sponsor a Legislative Breakfast twice per year.

2. Encourage members to attend A Day at the Capitol.

3. Provide legislative updates at General Membership Meetings.

4. Participate in children’s voting activities.

2. Collaborate in efforts to increase patient safety and prevent adverse incidents.

6. Encourage development and use of tools other than hours per patient day to determine staffing levels.

7. Publish articles and information in STAT, WNA website and NursingMatters to keep nurses informed.

1. Offer continuing education programs that emphasize patient safety and prevention of adverse incidents.

2. Publish articles and information in PRN and on NEWDNA web site to keep nurses informed.

3. Network with members in efforts to increase patient safety and prevent adverse incidents.

2. Support programs to decrease community, workplace, and domestic abuse and violence.

3. Support initiatives that attempt to reduce youth smoking.

1. Support initiatives with the Smoking Coalition to reduce youth smoking.

1. Sponsor Nurse Leadership Summit on Identification of the Education and Training Needs of Nurses and Other Health Care Workers on Bioterrorism Related Emergency Preparedness.

1. Offer a continuing education program on bioterrorism related emergency preparedness.

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Core Issues: Workplace Advocacy Workplace Health and Safety

Appropriate Staffing Continued Competencies

1. Promote title protection.

2. Be a resource to the Board of Nursing.

1. Promote the use of the title, Registered Nurse.

1. Monitor RN supply needs including type.

2. Promote the image of RN/Nursing.

3. Promote direct and equitable reimbursement for nursing services in all payment plans and settings.

4. Support marketing efforts that promote consumer access to nurse providers.

1. Sponsor Annual Nurses Day Celebration in May.

2. Encourage use of the NEWDNA web site to members and the public.

3. Promote media coverage of the Annual Nurse of the Year Award.

1. Increase number and availability of Registered Nurses in education and practice.

2. Increase enrollment in Nursing Education programs.

3. Improve education/training opportunities.

4. Increase retention rates for Registered Nurses (in the profession; in the workplace).

5. Improve workplace satisfaction levels among Registered Nurses.

6. Ongoing reassessment and adjustment of the educational and practice environment to facilitate meeting demands for Registered Nurses today and in the future.

1. Promote Unity Night (a gathering of professional nursing organizations) to members and other registered nurses.

1. Support nursing research.

2. Support research dissemination.

1. Offer continuing education programs on nursing research conducted by members and other registered nurses.

1. Support nursing scholarships.

2. Support nursing education programs.

3. Support state and national initiatives.

4. Support mentoring.

5. Seek representation in the appropriate arenas (including state and national initiatives) to represent nursing.

1. Establish a Speakers Bureau of topics of interest to professionals and the public.

1. Reduce needlestick/sharps injuries by encouraging the use of protective devices and reporting of injuries.

2. Promote availability, and correct and consistent use of assistive device to reduce back injuries.

3. Educate nurses and patients on the creation of a latex-safe environment.

4. Educate nurses about their rights under the whistleblower legislation.

5. Reduce workplace violence through a variety of educational programs.

6. Establish ways to disseminate and evaluate a workplace Advocacy plan.

7. Provide one-on-one support to nurses that promote self-advocacy.

1. Promote continuing education programs that address the changing environment of the nurse.

1. Promote certification.

2. Offer continuing education programs.

3. Monitor and explore models for continued competencies.

4. Collaborate with groups having a mutual interest in promoting nurse competency.

1. Encourage members to consider certification with ANA and other professional nursing specialty organizations.

2. Promote Unity Night (a gathering of professional nursing organizations) to members and other registered nurses.

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Core Issues:

1. Develop a membership profile.

2. Support professional development.

3. Enhance methods of communicating with members.

1. Support efforts of the Marketing/Public Relations Committee.

2. Encourage members to be active in NEWDNA.

3. Distribute NEWDNA Membership Directory.

4. Continue to keep NEWDNA Membership Directory up-to-date.

5. Promote the professional development of NEWDNA members by providing timely and relevant continuing education activities.

6. Promote communication and networking of members through the PRN, the NEWDNA web site, and sharing time at meetings.

1. Actively promote WNA the Right Choice member recruitment campaign.

2. Continue the new grad initiatives.

3. Support ongoing collaboration with student nurses at district and state levels.

1. Support ongoing collaboration with student nurses.

1. Protect the profession.

2. Promote the profession.

3. Promote the Wisconsin Nurses Association.

4. Support the individual Registered Nurse.

1. Sponsor an annual community service project.

2. Promote the professional development of NEWDNA members by providing timely and relevant continuing education activities.

3. Support the efforts and activities of the Wisconsin Nurses Association and registered nurses in general.