DEBRA CAMPBELL

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.

Lobbied the Senate Armed Services Committee for the Troops to Nurse Teachers amendment (S. Admt. 4253) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (S. 2766) 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 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 the staff at the Department of Education 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. 3569 and S. 3588) and other nurse education legislation.

Lobbied members of Congress on FY 2007 Appropriations under the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies to preserve and increase funding for Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development programs under the Public Health Service Act, research at the National Institute of Nursing Research, the Agency Healthcare Research and Quality, and other programs.

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 and spoke with staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs about the importance of highly educated nursing staff at VA hospitals and the need to maintain the VA Nurse Qualification Standard. Also worked with nursing at the Department of Veterans Affairs to establish a program of new affiliations with schools of nursing.

Lobbied Congress on FY 2006 Appropriations under the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and related agencies to preserve and increase funding for Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development programs, research at the National Institutes of Nursing Research, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and other programs.

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 and spoke with staff at the US 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 in Science in Nursing. Also lobbied members of Congress and discussed with staff the importance of including nursing faculty in the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program. Discussed the Capitation Grants Bill (H.R.3569) and other legislation.

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.

Lobbied members of Congress and spoke with staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs about the importance of highly educated nursing staff at VA hospitals and the need to maintain the VA Nurse Qualification Standard.