Why Should Faculty Encourage their Students to Participate in Leadership U and Become a Member of the Honor Society?
The NSNA Leadership University Honor Society accelerates the formation of a professional identity in nursing.  NSNA provides numerous opportunities for nursing students to learn about the many facets of the nursing profession including Population and Global Health; Breakthrough to Nursing (recruitment into the profession); Ethics and Governance; Health Policy and Advocacy; Image of Nursing; and governing a school chapter, state association and national organization. Through these programs, social justice, social determinants of health, diversity, equity, and inclusion will contribute to the advancement of nursing’s social mission and are integrated into professional identity. The signposts of professional Identity in Nursing include: Values and Ethics, Leadership, Knowledge, and Professional Comportment.

​Ethics and Values: Help members incorporate NSNA’s Core Values and Code of Ethics into the nursing profession by producing online and in-person education.
Knowledge: Facilitate learning related to professional identity and why it is important to a diverse nursing workforce. We will offer identity formation in course offerings and simulation.
Leadership: Prepare nursing students with leadership skills to enter the nursing profession.
Professional Comportment: Foster nursing students that think, act and feel like professional nurses.

Helping Students Form a Professional Identity in Nursing with Dr. Nelda Godfrey
How to Think, Act and Feel Like a Nurse: Forming Professional Identity in Nursing by Dr. Nelda Godfrey
Dean's Notes, Spring 2020.
The International Society for Professional Identity in Nursing 
Professional Identity in Nursing Background and Introduction (Sigma)
American Association of Colleges of Nursing--The Essentials Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education, see Domain 9 (Professionalism) starts on page 49

Dr. Diane Mancino, former Executive Director of the National Student Nurses' Association, welcomes nursing faculty to this monthly forum.

​This session includes the following topics:
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Helping Students Form a Professional Identity in Nursing with Dr. Nelda Godfrey
NSNA Faculty Bullying Survey Part II with Dr. Renee Buonaguro & Dr. Veronica (Ronnie) Feeg.

​How NSNA Impacts the Future of Nursing

​Hear first hand from nursing faculty about the value of NSNA and NSNA Leadership University.  NSNA Leadership University help strengthen current nursing students and the profession of nursing. 

Nursing History Teaching Resources from NSNA

"To Advance We Must Unite!"

One Hundred Years of the
​American Nurses Association
Video & Teacher's Guide
 Using a socio-political framework to describe significant achievements of the American Nurses Association, this film recounts the origins of the American Nurses Association (ANA) and highlights of the associations first one hundred years.

The Teacher's Guide is intended for use before and after viewing the Foundation of the National Student Nurses' Association film. Trends and issues courses, as well as research courses, can utilize this film as a teaching aid. The first section of this guide provides an outline for trends and issues and professional development classes. The second section can be used for nursing research courses. 
Not For Ourselves But Others: History of the NSNA

A documentary highlighting the 50-year journey from a revolutionary idea to a powerful association.  Not For Ourselves But for Others became a self-fulfilling prophecy for the five decades of nursing students – and all the future nursing members.  

Not For Ourselves But For Others is based on the Role of the National Student Nurses’ Association in Addressing Social and Political Issues that Contributed to Student Unrest from 1960-1975.

​This video is an excellent complementary teaching tool when used with 50 Years of the National Student Nurses Association which is available from NSNA.