The Welsh Nursing Academy: a focus for excellence.
This article traces the development of the Welsh Nursing Academy (WNA) and links this to other changes that have occurred within the professions of nursing, midwifery and heath visiting, as well as the political landscape of Wales. The mission of the WNA is to serve the people of Wales by promoting excellence in nursing and health care through the generation, synthesis and dissemination of nursing knowledge. How this will be translated into practice through the activities of its membership will be shown in relation to each of the academy's five purposes. This is the first nursing academy to be established in the UK and it is likely that others will follow in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. As the article concludes, this may lead to a federation of academies across the UK which will collaborate and support each other and link up with existing nursing academies in other countries.
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