Incoming American Bar Association (ABA) President William Neukom reportedly sported a badge at a ABA conference proclaiming, "This isn't your father's ABA." See http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2007/08/is-this-your-ab.html.
The ABA is the largest professional association in the world with over 400,000 members. The American Nurses Association could be the largest professional association in the world as there are nearly 3 million registered nurses in the U.S.
Why isn't the American Nurses Association the largest professional association in the world? Is it because the association operates as if its still your mother's or even grandmother's ANA? What are your thoughts? Do you belong to the ANA? If you don't belong to the ANA, what are your reasons? What would it take for you to join and support the ANA?
I am a member of the ANA and ABA. I will always be a member of the ANA and ABA not because I necessarily agree with each and every action taken by the associations but because I support in spirit what the organizations do for the profession in general.
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