Campaign for Office of the National Nurse makes American Journal of Nursing-December 2006 Issue

Written by: fIrEfOx! on Dec 1, 2006 11:30 PM EST

Picture submitted to the AJN-Teri Mills and Alisa Schneider

The National Nursing Network Organization commends the American Journal of Nursing for publishing a story about The Campaign for a National Nurse in the December 2006 issue. This journal reaches over a million readers, including nurses who live abroad and who are now writing the team to find out how they can support the National Nurse proposal.

We appreciate the fact that AJN was willing to let nurses around the country and world know and better understand the premise of this campaign and then be able to come to this website to retrieve information about the proposal and the bill to decide for themselves if this is something worthwhile that they would like to support.

And our own Julie Ide from BFA and formerly the DNC writes in support of the bill (and looks marvelous with the braces off ;)

From A Concerned Citizen

I am a concerned citizen that strongly supports the establishment of the Office of National Nurse and HR 4903. Recently our family has experienced, first-hand, the effects of the national nursing shortage as we faced serious health issues for both my mother and my husband's father. It is essential that we, as a country, increase the visibility of nurses and teach their value to our society. This is how we will attract new people to this vital profession. HR 4903 does this by placing a qualified nurse in a position of national prominence. The National Nurse will promote health-care prevention -- an area neglected in our current health care infrastructure. And, importantly, nurses from across the country will form a built-in network -- available for national emergencies and ongoing health information dissemination and instruction. Please support this important legislation.

Julie Ide
McLean, Virginia

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