It’s National Nurses Week! As HHS Secretary Sebelius explained, the week is to “recognize the contribution of the health care providers at the heart of our health care system.”
- HRes 201 A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of National Nurses Week on May 6 through May 12, 2013.
Issue Spotlight: Nurses
We’d like to spotlight bills related to nurses. Weigh in and POPVOX will deliver your message directly to Congress.
- HR 1821 The Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for patient protection by establishing safe nurse staffing levels at certain Medicare providers
- S 739 The National Nursing Shortage Reform and Patient Advocacy Act: to establish direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals
- HR 485 The National Nurse Act: To establish the position of National Nurse for Public Health, to be filled by the same individual serving as the Chief Nurse Officer of the Public Health Service.
- S 382 A bill to allow physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists to supervise cardiac, intensive cardiac, and pulmonary rehabilitation programs.
- HR 1835 A bill to provide that service of the members of the organization known as the United States Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II constituted active military service for purposes of laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
- HR 643 A bill to provide that no Federal or State requirement to increase energy efficient lighting in public buildings shall require a hospital, school, day care center, mental health facility, or nursing home to install or utilize such energy efficient lighting if the lighting contains mercury.
- S 569 A bill to count a period of receipt of outpatient observation services in a hospital toward satisfying the 3-day inpatient hospital requirement for coverage of skilled nursing facility services under Medicare.
- HR 1857 A bill to make demonstration grants to eligible local educational agencies for the purpose of reducing the student-to school nurse ratio in public elementary schools and secondary schools.
Please keep in mind that highlighting a bill doesn’t imply a POPVOX endorsement in any way. Rather, we’re simply trying to offer one more way to stay informed of an overwhelmingly complex legislative system.
