Clinical Practice

ONS endorses the American Association of Critical Care Nurses Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments. To read more about this initiative and the standards click here.

To view a draft of the article describing the proposed model, click here.
To view a slide show about the model and presented during a recent stakeholders meeting at the ANA Headquarters, click here.

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) response to ONS on the questions regarding the DNP

To read ONS's letter to the AACN, click here.
To read the AACN's response, click here.

To read ONS's response, click here.

ONS Response to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) Draft Vision Paper: The Future Regulation of Advanced Practice Nursing.

To read ONS's response, click here.
To read the full National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) Draft Vision Paper: The Future Regulation of Advanced Practice Nursing, click here.
To read the ONS Facts about the Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree, click here.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
The Centers for medicare and Medicaid Services Physician Quality Reporting Initiative Measure Finder Tool (Version 1.0) is designed to help eligible professionals and their coding/billing staff to quickly search for applicable measures and their detailed specifications. This tool will allow users to search for applicable measures based on a single code or a combination of codes.

Coalition for Patients' Rights
The Coalition for Patients’ Rights (CPR) consists of 25 organizations representing a variety of licensed health care professionals. In the face of organized medicine’s latest divisive efforts to limit these professionals’ abilities to provide the care they are qualified to give, the CPR was formed for the sake of patients—to ensure that the growing needs of the American health system can be met and that patients everywhere have access to quality health care providers of their choice.

The Nightengale Declaration
The Nightingale Declaration Campaign (NDC) is a program of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH) that has been created to acheive the following key stragegies: A grassroots-to-global Nightingale Declaration Signature Campaign; A proposed UN Resolution for a UN Decade for a Healthy World--2011 to 2020 —- the Bicentennial of Nightingale's birth; and, Starting in Fall, 2007, convene global consultations and regional education programs to build a worldwide collaborative NDC team.

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