Current Position Statements
The SRNA develops position statements in order to provide brief summaries of SRNA views on particular nursing issues. Existing position statements are reviewed every 5 years.
Below is a list of all the SRNA's position statements. Please feel free to download the documents for your own use and information. If you would like information on how to obtain a binder with all of SRNA positions statements, please click here. You will need to have ADOBE ACROBAT plugin installed on your computer to view PDF documents. Click the icon if you need this plugin.
SRNA Council also reviews and endorses new Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) and International Council of Nurses (ICN) statements. Those that council has endorsed are indexed below.
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Nursing Education
- Doctoral preparation in nursing - 2005 (CNA 2003)
- Educational preparation for entry to practice - 2005 (CNA 2004)
- Flexible delivery of nursing education programs - 2004 (CNA 2004)
Joint position statement CNA/CASN - Nursing Research – 2008 (ICN 2007)
- Promoting continuing competence for registered nurses - 2005 (CNA 2004)
- Promoting nursing history – 2004 (CNA 2004)
Ethics
- Environmentally responsible activity in the health sector - 2006 (CNA 2005) Joint position statement CNA/CMA
- Ethical Nurse Recruitment – 2008 (ICN 2007)
- Registered nurses and human rights - 2005 (CNA 2004)
Healthy Public Policy
- Citizen engagement – Advancing Social Justice in Policy - 2008
- National planning for human resources in the health sector - 2006 (CNA 2006)
Leadership
Practice
- Blood-borne pathogens: registered nurses and their ethical obligations - 2006 (CNA 2006)
- Client care during emergency transport - 2006
- Mental health services - 2006 (CNA 2005)
- Nurses and Shift Work – 2008 (ICN 2007)
- Nursing Information and Knowledge Management - 2007 (CNA 2006)
- Practice Environments: Maximizing Client, Nurse And System Outcomes - 2007 (CNA and CFNU 2007)
- Promoting culturally competent care – 2004 (CNA 2004)
- Use of restraints in client care - 1993 (REVISED & Reaffirmed 2005)
Primary Health Care
- Interprofessional collaboration 2006 (CNA 2006)
- Nurses and Primary Health Care- 2008 (ICN 2007)
- Promoting Equity Through Harm Reduction in Nursing Practice – (2008)
- The Role of Health Professionals in Smoking Cessation – 2008 (CNA 2001)
Public Protection
- Accountability: Regulatory framework - 2005 (CNA 2005)
- Direct-to-consumer advertising - 2006 (CNA 2006)
- Global health and equity - 2004 (CNA 2003)
- Nurses and Disaster Preparedness – 2008 (ICN 2006)
- Patient safety - 2004 (CNA 2003)
- Professional self-regulation - 2004 (Reaffirmed 2007)
- Public representation and participation in health regulatory decision making - 1995 (Reaffirmed - 2001, 2006)
- Regulation and integration of international nurse applicants into the canadian health system - 2005 (CNA 2005)
Last Updated: May 18, 2008