According to the National League for Nurses, the leading voice in political activism focused on promoting nursing education to build a stronger workforce, health care reform depends on the nation's investment in nursing education. Their policy agenda for 2009-2010 includes: support for new programs that increase faculty in order to grow the number of future nurses, increase in government efforts to improve the education of advanced practice nursing, advocate for an expansion of education to increase the number nursing faculty, and promote scholarship to reduce financial strain of attaining higher level education.
The NLN promotes H.R. 2043 and voices that it is an imperative piece of legislation needed to increase nursing education which will lead to reform of the current health care system. Their research has shown that the main reason for the impending shortage is that today's nursing faculty are aging and overworked and there is greater financial incentive to work in the clinical setting than teach in a nursing program. The political influence of the NLN is crucial to the passing of this and many other health related bills as they are comprised of nurses and health care professional who have an inside perspective on the heath care system and the changes that need to made.
This information was taken from the National League for Nurses' Public Policy Agenda which can be viewed at: http://www.nln.org/aboutnln/shortage_info.htm
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