Primary focus goes to ANA Core Issues and related programs: appropriate staffing, workplace health and safety, continuing competency, workplace rights, and patient safety/advocacy. Some grants currently underway include:

		Institute of Medicine Scholar-in-Residence Program (Institute of Medicine, The American Academy of Nursing) This program provides a yearlong leadership opportunity in health policy at the Institute of Medicine (IOM). It is designed as an immersion experience to facilitate nurse leaders playing a more prominent role in health policy development at the national level.
		Tobacco Free Nurses Intitiative (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
		Protecting Children from Environmental Threats (Environmental Protection Agency)
		Leadership and Race: Confronting the Barriers of the Minority Nurse in the Work Force (Helene Fuld)
		Leadership Enhancement And Developmen (W.K. Kellogg Foundation) ANF initiated this project to enhance the leadership skills among student nurses and to develop the leadership competencies that are necessary in an increasingly racially and ethically diverse health care environment.
		Nurse Competence in Aging The goal of this project is to enhance the geriatric competence – the knowledge, skills and attitudes – of the 400,000 nurses who are professionally identified as members of approximately 60 national specialty nursing associations.