Core Principles

The Nursing Community supports the following core principles:

A robust and diverse nursing workforce is essential to the health of all Americans.

Nurses are an integral part of the healthcare team, are involved in every aspect of care, and are committed to the patient, their families, and the community.

The contributions made by the practice and science of nursing are critical to the delivery of high quality, life-saving, preventive, and palliative health care across all care settings, geographic areas, and social determinants of health.

The services RNs and APRNs provide are linked directly to the availability, cost, and quality of healthcare services.

Affordable, accessible, high quality health care, and improved health outcomes depends upon a model that is patient-centered and comprehensive, which can be achieved through the full complement of expertise gained from broad-based, inter-professional partnerships.

Nursing involvement is essential to the development of all aspects of the new healthcare information infrastructure. Nursing data is key to identifying patient outcomes and is essential to identifying required improvements in the delivery of patient care.