PURPOSE
To serve as a professional body and resource for all licensed professional nurses of Indian origin and heritage in the USA, regardless of actual or perceived social status, practice, age, sex, color, race, religion, sexual orientation, or financial status.
MISSION
IANA-NC is the organization for all nurses and student nurses of Indian origin/heritage who currently reside in North Carolina that creates a community of excellence in nursing through professional development and networking.
VISION
To promote professional excellence in nursing practice and healthcare through the empowerment and renewal of professional and cultural identity of all nurses and nursing students of Indian origin/heritage, and to optimize their contribution to the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities.
GOALS
- Organize Indian nurses in North Carolina together for the development of each member in clinical practice, education and research.
- To provide health awareness to community groups in ethnic minority and socially, spiritually and economically under-served communities by acting as wellness advocate
- To provide nurses and health professionals as volunteers to assist in health screening programs and to provide health information.
- To provide access to information to ethnic minorities interested in careers in nursing and health care.
- To conduct, analyze and publish information to increase knowledge and awareness of the health care needs of ethnic minorities.
- To participate in conferences, workshops, seminars and forums to increase the health knowledge of ethnic minorities and socially, spiritually and economically under-served populations.
- To present seminars, workshops, and forums on health and nursing programs for members of the community, especially ethnic minority communities and socially, spiritually and economically under-served communities.
- To collaborate with various ethnic minority populations to provide needed health and community services when a health crisis exists.
- To provide volunteers as health speakers and volunteers on health issues for organizations in ethnic minority and socially, spiritually and economically under-served communities.