WVADONA.ORG -- West Virginia Association Directors of Nursing

West Virginia Association of Directors of Nursing Administrators

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WVADONA/LTC is a state chapter of the only professional non-profit association specifically serving directors and assistant directors of nursing in long term care. The theme "Education, Communication, Service", has directed the course of NADONA/LTC in its service to members and the West Virginia chapter has followed.

Mission Statement:

It is the charter of this association to promulgate and foster a network of Directors of Nursing and Assistant Directors of Nursing in Long Term care.

To that end, this association endeavors to provide education, communication and service to the members it serves.

Through the NADONA/LTC Code of Ethics, Constitution and Charter, this association will support and promote quality of care for those individuals receiving long term care, and concern for those delivering long term care.

"All the results of good nursing, as detailed in these (notes) may be spoiled or utterly negatived by one defect, biz: in petty management, or in other words, by not knowing how to manage that what you do when you are there, shall be done when you are not there." - Notes on Nursing: Florence Nightingale, 1859

Code of Ethics:

The Members of this Association, committed to the education, health and well being of nursing administrators in long term care and to those they serve, do hereby establish this Code of Ethics.

To Develop oneself both educationally and professionally within one's ability, in the practice of long term care

To promote the standards and objectives of this Association

To educate and nurture those individuals who are under ones jurisdiction and to utilize ethical and professional guidelines when directing those individuals

To stand in opposition to any and all efforts which violate or attempt to violate nurse Practice Acts

To collaborate and join with other professionals, in promoting and developing quality care

To promote, within the long term care facility, considerate, empathetic and respectful care

To consistently strive to preserve the dignity and well being of those residents and personnel entrusted to oneself

To promote and support research projects directed toward the care and well being of the long term care resident

To represent this Association and the profession of nursing administration in long term care with courage, consistency and care.

NADONA/LTC Board of Directors & President's Roundtable, June 1991



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