Primary focus goes to ANA Core Issues and related programs: appropriate staffing, workplace health and safety, continuing competency, workplace rights, and patient safety/advocacy. Some grants currently underway include:

• Tobacco Free Nurses Intitiative (See Below)
  (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
  

• Nurse Competence in Aging
  The goal of this project is to enhance the geriatric competence—the knowledge, skills and attitudes—of the 400,000 nurses who are professionally identified as members of approximately 60 national specialty nursing associations.
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• Institute of Medicine Scholar-in-Residence Program
  (Institute of Medicine, The American Academy of Nursing)
  This program provides a yearlong leadership opportunity in health policy at the Institute of Medicine (IOM). It is designed as an immersion experience to facilitate nurse leaders playing a more prominent role in health policy development at the national level.
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