AMSN Position Statements reflect AMSN's organizational positions on specific public policy topics and guide our communications with policymakers, the media and the general public. Position statements are concrete applications of the Society's Code of Ethics and other official documents and are circulated for member comment prior to adoption.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity
AMSN is committed to strengthening our diversity, equity, and inclusion, to ensure these are woven deeply into the fabric of our mission, goals, and the experiences we provide for our nurses. Embracing diverse perspectives leads to hearing multiple viewpoints on issues, realizing full potentials, and finding innovative solutions. Read the Position Statement.
Health Literacy
AMSN recognizes that health literacy is crucial to patient safety and health maintenance. Read the Position Statement.
Importance Of Evidence-Based Professional Competencies In Medical-Surgical Nursing
Beyond licensure and professional certification, neither the health care industry sector nor individual nurses possess sufficient validated guidance necessary to assess and then improve competency in a standardized, evidence-based manner. Read the Position Statement.
Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification
AMSN supports certification as a commitment to safe, evidence-based, holistic care which results in desired patient outcomes. Read the Position Statement.
Medical-Surgical Nurses in Leadership
Our organization actively seeks opportunities to successfully place medical-surgical nurses in health care stakeholder advisory bodies and leadership positions at the state and federal levels and within the health care sector. Read the Position Statement.
Nurse Workforce Development
The future supply of nurses is critical to patient access to high quality care in every environment, particularly with our aging population and among people lacking access to care. Medical-surgical nurses promote patient access to high quality health care by supporting reauthorization, improvement and full funding of federal nurse workforce development programs. Read the Position Statement.
Opioid Crisis
We promote implementation and funding of evidence-based policy to prevent and address the national opioid crisis, including the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (P.L. 115-271) and related measures at the federal and state levels.Read the Position Statement.
Practice Environment Advocacy
AMSN created this practice environment advocacy position statement to respond to a need indicated in a member survey. AMSN wants to empower nurses to transform their workplaces.Read the Position Statement.
Political Awareness for the RN
Medical-surgical nurses are the largest group of health care professionals must recognize their inherent power to influence change in health policy.Read the Position Statement.
Safe Workplaces and Professional Respect
In the interest of patient safety and healthy, effective systems for health care delivery, we identify and promote evidence-based strategies that improve workplace safety for medical-surgical nurses and advance their professional recognition. Read the Position Statement.
Safe Staffing for Nurses
Nurses and their expertise understanding and addressing patient acuity, not one- size-fits-all mandates, are critical to improving and ensuring safe patient care. We advance evidence-based initiatives promoting safe staffing to improve patient health care quality and access, and to reduce health care costs. Read the Position Statement.
Social Determinants of Health
Where health care delivery systems connect with social determinants of health (SDOH), health care has a responsibility and an opportunity to be part of the solution. Medical-surgical nurses support leveraging their roles in patient discharge and transfer processes to advance evidence-based initiatives addressing SDOH to improve health and reduce health care costs. Read the Position Statement.
Staffing Standards for Patient Care
AMSN supports provision of the highest quality patient care through appropriate use of staffing standards. Read the Position Statement.