American Nurses Association (Corporate Name)

The apostrophe in "Nurses" no longer used--ANA, Nov. 15, 1991

Unused subdivision: American Nurses' Association. Research and Statistics Unit; The following heading for an earlier name is also a valid AACR 2 heading: Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada

American journal of nursing, 1900-

Council on Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing (American Nurses' Association). Standards of psychiatric consultation-liaison nursing practice, c1990: t.p. (American Nurses Association)

Phone call to pub., 11/15/91 (As of spring 1990, the possessive apostrophe mark was formally dropped from the association name)

Its Web site, Aug. 12, 2002 (American Nurses Association)

NUCMC data from Boston Univ. Dept. of Spec. Coll. Nursing Archives for American Nurses Foundation collection, 1955-1999 (professional nursing org. to be the research, education, and charitable affiliate of the American Nurses Association)

American Nurses Assoc. WWW, July 20, 2011 (historical pages: on Aug. 25, 1908, 52 Negro nurses met in New York City and founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. Martha Franklin of Connecticut, a graduate of the Women's Hospital in Philadelphia, was chosen first president of this group which proposed to work for higher professional nursing standards, the elimination of discrimination, and the development of leadership among Negro nurses; between 1950 and 1951, the functions and responsibilities of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses were absorbed by the American Nurses' Association)

The American journal of nursing, Mar. 1911: p. 6 (Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States)