North Carolina Association of Nursing Students

Legislative Platform

2010-2011 Information

2010-2011 Legislative Platform

Video and Documentation Links for Legislative/Education

*Health Care Reform- Be Informed

The Department of Health and Human Services has announced the use of it’s new consumer focused website to help nurses educate their patients and communities to understand the new Affordable Care Act Law. http://www.healthcare.gov/ This website includes a video tutorial to explain how to use the website. NSNA and NCANS members are encouraged to review the changes that began September 23, 2010 and to help inform their patients, friends and families.

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2010 NSNA Voter Registration and Get-out-the-vote Campaign-

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*Raise the Voice: GOAL- Transforming America’s health care system through nursing solutions

Health care in America today is inaccessible to many, expensive for most and fragmented for all. Enabling the system to deliver the best possible care at an acceptable cost requires not just reformation but transformation – moving American health care away from its current hospital-based, acuity-oriented, physician-dependent paradigm toward a patient-centered, convenient, helpful and affordable system. America needs a system that keeps people as healthy as possible, treats the patient promptly, comprehensively and effectively.

Through its Raise the Voice campaign, the Academy is mobilizing its 1,500 Fellows, partner organizations and health leaders to ensure that Americans hear and understand the exciting possibilities for transforming the health care system – and also that they see how nurses are leading the way. Due to the successes during the first year of the campaign, in 2007, the Academy received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to scale up activities and provide a platform to inform policymakers, the media, health providers and consumers about nurse-driven solutions for an ailing health care system – and to highlight the successes taking place every day.

*Learn about the American Academy of Nursing’s Raise the Voice Campaign

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*What I have leaRNed: A great video for graduating Student Nurses, obtained from NSNA Legislative site.

What I’ve LeaRNed

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Documentation Links (obtained from NSNA)

*Nursing Shortage Information

2010 ANSR Title VIII Consensus Document:

http://www.nsna.org/Portals/0/Skins/NSNA/pdf/2010%20ANSR%20Consensus%20Document.pdf

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**The Proposed Solution to Nursing Shortages: Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act; Nursing Workforce Development Programs

http://www.nsna.org/Portals/0/Skins/NSNA/pdf/TitleVIII%20Brochure-final.pdf

To learn more about the Initiative, visit www.thefutureofnursing.org or www.iom.edu/nursing.

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*Cover the Uninsured | Let’s Get America Covered

http://www.widgetserver.com/syndication/

Cover the Uninsured, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is a national effort to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and demand solutions from our nation’s leaders.

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Former Platforms