In 2023 and for the 21st consecutive year, the public ranked nurses and the nursing profession as the most trusted and ethical profession. Alongside this high honor, every nurse deserves a healthy work environment—an unrealized ideal for too many. In 2023, the ANA Enterprise family of organizations continued our long-time quest to see all RNs—so essential to the nation’s health—fully valued and thriving in positive practice environments.
As the American Nurses Association acted on policy and regulatory solutions to the nurse staffing crisis, we expanded our resources and tools for individual nurses and organizations to counteract burnout and improve nurses’ health and well-being.
The American Nurses Foundation’s Pulse on the Nation’s Nurses Survey Series has shown consistently that RNs younger and newer to practice experience the most stress and burnout. As ANA looks to these prospective leaders, our engagement with them in 2023 will advance in 2024 to strategies and actions that ensure our membership portfolio remains relevant and vital to them.
Our profession, the embodiment of the healing arts, has healing of its own to do, having for too long not acknowledged the lack of diversity and both systematic and individualized racism in our ranks.