Review Of ANA Guide To Nursing's Social Policy Statement

It has been many years since I was in nursing school. With that said, I am sure at some point during the nursing program did we touch briefly on the ANA Guide to Nursing’s Social Policy Statement, and I really, vaguely only remember the title is all. The context of this statement is what I needed to know more about. I started out trying to read this book or statement as they titled it from front to back and found it to be very difficult to stay focused while reading it. I then changed the approach and just more or less skimmed the table of contents and then skimmed each section. The ANA Guide to Nursing’s Social Policy Statement discusses the relationship of society and nursing as a profession, it talks about what is and how the social contract came to be and how over the years it has expanded to include a global community (Fowler, 2015, p. xi). The document examines the many pieces that when they are all pulled together it creates a more rounded professional nursing profession. Furthermore, it goes on to talk about professions and what makes a profession a profession.

I never really thought about nursing and the relationship and commitment to society, other than taking the very best care of my patients, but that is all at the bedside. The more I think about it and my future in the nursing profession, part of me thinks that I might want to go into the policy and politics of nursing. Nursing is more than just being at the bedside, I can still care for my patients even before they get to the bedside. To really look at the history of the nursing profession from Florence Nightingale and others before and after her that have brought nursing as a profession to where it is today, it only makes me wonder where we can take it from here (Fowler, 2015,