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Resolutions

A resolution is a written main motion on a subject of great importance expressed in formal wording. Within NSNA, it serves to establish the association’s position on matters of national scope and significance affecting nursing students, nursing, and the health needs of the public. No resolution is in order that creates a conflict with the Bylaws of the association. Resolutions are adopted by a majority vote and continue in force until rescinded. A resolution is a great way to draw attention to a topic in nursing that you are passionate about and would like to see the association give some additional consideration to. The below listing shows all past and passed resolutions submitted to NSNA at previous conventions. 

2025

Salisbury University

INCREASING AWARENESS OF ALARM FATIGUE AND ITS IMPACT ON CLIENTS IN THE CLINICAL SETTING

Within the span of one twelve-hour shift, a nurse can expect to respond to as many as 400 monitoring alarms. Given a standard work week of three twelve-hour shifts, that’s 1,200 monitoring alarms a week, 4,800 alarms a month, and up to 57,600 alarms per year. Nurses often joke that they can hear alarm sounds and call bells ringing in their sleep, but this is a serious matter! The frequent exposure to alarms activating is causing burnout and sensory overload among nurses! Sensory overload places greater psychological stress

upon nurses, and such repetitious sounding can cause desensitization to alarms and can devalue these indicators.


Consequently, when a true life-threatening situation is presented, nurses may fail to distinguish between a false-positive and an actual alarm that is indicating dangerous vital signs. Situations like this increase the likelihood of the alarm being ignored and automatically being silenced. The distrust in alarm systems is the result of strict parameters and generalized client data available, leading to clinically insignificant alarms going off at a consistent rate. According to Lewandoska et al., the amount of false and clinically insignificant alarms that sound in the clinical setting constitute 85-99% of all

alarms (2020). With such frequent exposure to an overwhelming volume of false alarms, it can become so routine to subconsciously block out these sounds or silence alarms at the nurses’ station rather than physically checking on the status of clients.


Combatting alarm fatigue is crucial in the clinical setting! It begins with education of both future and current nurses to ensure mindfulness of alarm fatigue. Implementing alarm management policies across healthcare settings can improve understanding of alarm response and ultimately enhance client safety.

2014

Salisbury University

PROMOTING AWARENESS OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SYMPTOMS AND DIAGNOSIS

2014

Maryland Association of Nursing Students

IN SUPPORT OF DECREASING THIRTY-DAY HOSPITAL READMISSION RATES THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TRANSITIONAL CARE TEAMS

2014

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

IN SUPPORT OF IMPLEMENTATION AND EDUCATION REGARDING THE “BABY-FRIENDLY HOSPITAL INITIATIVE”

2013

Salisbury University

INCREASING AWARENESS AND EDUCATION ABOUT THE RISKS OF BED-SHARING WITH INFANTS

2013

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, et al

IN SUPPORT OF REVISING THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION’S POLICY THAT BANS THE DONATION OF BLOOD PRODUCTS FROM ANY MAN WHO HAS HAD SEX WITH ANOTHER MAN (MSM)

2013

Maryland Association of Nursing Students

IN SUPPORT OF INFANT AND PEDIATRIC CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION TRAINING FOR CAREGIVERS, ESPECIALLY CAREGIVERS OF HIGH-RISK CHILDREN

2012

University of Maryland, Baltimore Nursing Student Government

IN SUPPORT OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOR PATERNAL POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION

2012

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, et al

INCREASED AWARENESS OF STUDENT ATHLETE CONCUSSION
PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT UTILIZING THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC) “HEADS UP” TOOL KIT AND THE “CONCUSSION SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS CHECKLIST”

2012

Maryland Association of Nursing Students

IN SUPPORT OF HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS VACCINATION FOR WOMEN AND MEN TO REDUCE RISK OF HPV­RELATED DISEASES

2012

Salisbury University

IN SUPPORT OF ONGOING AND INCREASED AWARENESS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF SCHOOL NURSES

2011

Maryland Association of Nursing Students

IN SUPPORT OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOR QUALITY PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE

2011

Salisbury University

RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND ADOPTION OF AN INDIVIDUAL INFORMED CONSENT FOR USE OF THE DRUG PITOCIN IN WOMEN DURING LABOR

2011

University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore

IN SUPPORT OF INCREASED RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ON EATING DISORDERS THROUGH THE FREED ACT

2010

Salisbury University

IN SUPPORT OF INCREASED AWARENESS FOR PATIENT EDUCATION
RELATED TO MEDICATIONS FOR POST-MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION PATIENTS TO PREVENT RECURRENT CARDIAC EVENTS

2010

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

IN SUPPORT OF INCREASING CULTURALLY COMPETENT EDUCATION ABOUT LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER (LGBT) INDIVIDUALS

2010

Maryland Association of Nursing Students

IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION BANNING THE USE OF BISPHENOL-A IN PEDIATRIC PRODUCTS

2009

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

IN SUPPORT OF INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION

2008

Salisbury University

IN SUPPORT OF INCREASED AWARENESS OF ORAL ASSESSMENT AND HYGIENE AND THE NEED FOR APPROPRIATE DENTAL REFERRALS BY NURSES

2007

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

IN SUPPORT OF IMPROVING THE NURSE-PHYSICIAN RELATIONSHIP

2006

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, et al

IN SUPPORT OF TOBACCO FREE NURSES, NURSING
STUDENTS, AND MEDICAL CAMPUSES

2006

Salisbury University

IN SUPPORT OF CONSISTANT MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCING
FOR CHILD SEX OFFENDERS

Resolutions Committe Chair: mansresolutionschair@gmail.com

To see a full list of resolutions passed at NSNA's Annual Convention https://www.nsna.org/resolutions-by-year.html

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