National Legislative Issues

Need info on Legislative Initiatives or Governmental affairs? Refer to ANA's Government Affairs Page @ http://www.nursingworld.org/gova/state.htm

Topics adressed with multiple links include:

ANA Information for 2001

Nurse State Legislators

Real Solutions to the Nurse Staffing Crisis

ANA's Nationwide State Legislative Agenda on Staffing

Legislative Maps

Nurse Staffing Systems and Ratios Whistleblower Protection

Mercury Pollution Prevention

Needlestick Injury Prevention

Mandatory Overtime

Nursing Quality Indicators

Nursing Workforce Data Collection

Nursing Education

Nursing Workforce Studies

ANA Information for 2000

Charts

1.Analysis and Comparison of Advanced Practice Recognition with Medicaid Reimbursement and Insurance Reimbursement Laws

2. Blue Cross/Blue Shield Providers Reimbursement of Advanced Practice

3.Continuing Education Requirements for Prescriptive Authority

4.Prescriptive Authority

5.States Recognizing Advanced Practice Under Independent Acts, Separate Titles of Advance Practice Acts, or Regulations

6. States That Require HIV/AIDS Continuing Education

7.States Which Recognize Clinical Nurse Specialists in Advanced Practice

Legislative Maps

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses

Amendments to Nursing Practice Acts (General Provisions)

Continued Competence

Direct Entry Midwives

Ergonomic Requirements

Interstate Nurse Licensure Compact

Latex Allergies

Mandatory Overtime

Needlestick Injury Prevention

Nursing Quality Indicators

Pharmacists' Scope of Practice

Physician Collective Bargaining Initiatives

Sufficient Staff and Staffing Ratios (In Other Than Long-Term Care Facilities)

Unlicensed Assistive Personnel

"Whistleblower" Protection

Workplace Violence

Needlestick Injury Prevention

1.ANA Testimony before the Comittee on Human Services, District of Columbia City Council 5/31/00

2.ANA Testimony before the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, U.S. House of Representatives 6/22/00

3.Needlestick Injury Prevention - State Legislation

Interstate Practice

Evaluation of ANA's 1998 House of Delegates 14 points of interstate/multistate practice

Other Links of Interest

Register to Vote!

Council of State Governments

Government-Sponsored Internet Sites of Interest

Library of Congress: Meta-Indexes for State and Local Government Information

National Council of State Legislatures

Washington Area State Relations Group