STACEY PINE

Lobbied members of Congress about the importance of research conducted at the National Institute of Nursing Research, the National Institutes of Health, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the need to fund these federal research agencies.

Spoke with the military nurse chiefs and lobbied members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees for the Troops to Nurse Teachers program that would offer incentives to registered nurses who have separated from the military to become nurse educators.

Lobbied members of Congress and spoke with staff at the Departments of Health and Human Services and Labor about the shortage of nurses and nurse faculty and the need for well-trained and educated nurses to provide excellent health care.

Lobbied members of Congress on FY 2008 Appropriations under the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies to preserve and increase funding for Title VII Health Professions and Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development programs under the Public Health Service Act, research at the National Institute of Nursing Research, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and other programs.

Lobbied members of Congress and spoke with staff at the Department of Health and Human Services about the shortage of nurse faculty, students turned away from schools of nursing, and the importance of the Bachelors of Science in Nursing. Also lobbied members of Congress and discussed with staff at the Department of Education about the importance of including nurse faculty under the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program. Discussed the Nurse Education, Expansion, and Development Act (H.R. 772 and S. 446) and other federal nurse education legislation.