Student Nurses' Association

The Student Nurses' Association at Mesa Community College mentors the development of future nurses.

By providing opportunities for professional growth, SNA guides students into their chosen career with resources and direction.

We invite you to become a member. All current Nursing students are eligible to apply.

Meetings are held on the second Friday of every month from 10 am to 11:30 am in HW 846. A virtual option for attendance is available if needed.

Purpose

We, students of nursing preparing for initial licensure as registered nurses, believe there is a common need to organize, to represent ourselves to the consumer and other health disciplines, and to assume our rightful place in the profession of nursing. We believe every citizen has a right to the highest quality of health care. We believe in the development of the whole person toward his/her professional role with its rights, responsibilities and ideals. We believe every right bears inherent responsibility. We believe responsibilities are participatory, not purely philosophical or ideological, and we believe the quality and quantity of participation are not exclusive, but bear the responsibility of participation.

Function

We believe that students have a right to and a responsibility for:
• having a creative sound education opportunity;
• having the highest quality practitioner-teacher;
• achieving input into curriculum planning;
• achieving self-directed learning;
• achieving equal participation in all areas of clinical practice;
• participating in interdisciplinary activities;
• due process;
• insuring peer review and self-evaluation;
• the privileges of internal governance;
• organizing and participating in an organization directed toward achieving professional goals;
• facilitating change in health care delivery through various channels;
• assembling and exploring fundamental and current professional issues and concerns;
• organizing in a flexible structure to encompass and represent the diversities within nursing 
  and be representative of the fundamental and current professional issues and concerns;
• fostering a better correlation between nursing education and practice.