Answer 3 for DNP 840 Select one bill from DQ 1 and discuss how it aligns with quality, safety, experience, or financial metrics in your organization
Thank you for your post. The bill you discussed resonates with me as a nurse leader. The challenge of nurse shortage is currently prevalent in healthcare and is expected to worsen. The political environment influences healthcare, and we as nurse leaders must get involved in advocacy and know-how politics that affect nursing practice. When the pandemic hit, the federal government passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES), including the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act (S. 1399 / H.R. 728). The bill was signed into law, authorizing the nursing workforce development programs through 2024 (Congress,2019). Nursing education will be strengthened with a regular flow of grants from the federal government for entry-level nursing education. The major grant programs include grants for advanced nursing education, workforce delivery grants, nursing education, practice, national nurse service corps, national faculty loan program, and comprehensive geriatric education grants. Grants are provided to nursing schools. Education centers for nurses pursuing advanced degrees in nursing, including nurse practitioner programs, certified nurse midwives, clinical nurse specialists, nurse educators, nurse anesthetists, and public health nurses.
The workforce diversity grants include grants for professionals from diverse ethnic backgrounds or economically/socially disadvantaged sections. Nurse Education, practice, and retention grants are provided to schools of nursing centers and magnet hospitals—governments at state and local levels, and public and private entities. The national nurse service corps includes a loan repayment program under which 60-85% loan is repaid in return for about two years of service in a facility having a critical shortage of nurses. It also includes a Nursing scholarship program that supports nurses with loan repayments when they work in a similar designated setting with a nurse shortage. The nurse faculty loan program supports nurses pursuing masters and doctoral degrees. It includes cancellation of up to 85% of their educational loans and interests over four years when after graduation, they teach at a school of nursing. The comprehensive geriatric education grant program includes grants for training the nurse providing direct care to the elderly (American Nurses Association,2019).
American Nurses Association. (2019, December). Nursing workforce development. ANA. https://ana.aristotle.com/SitePages/nursingworkforcedevelopment.aspx
Congress. (2019, November). S.1399 – Title VIII nursing workforce reauthorization act of 2019. congress.gov. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1399?q=
