As of April 22, 2009, no new developments have been made in the passing of the Nursing Education, Expansion, and Development Act of 2009. With the recent elections, it is important that the supporters pass on the significance of this bill to newly elected house members. Rick Boucher was running for a house position in the 9th district, but was unsuccessful. He served on two house committees and was a big proponent for health care reform and was a supporter or of H. R. 2043. With his loss in this election, he will be passing his position on the committee that supports this bill. Because we feel this bill is of great significance to nursing education, we emailed the Commissioner of Government Affairs, Linda Ault BSN, MSN, of the Virginia Nurses Association to encourage lobbying of H.R. 2043 for the new house members.
To get a local point of view, we emailed Kemper McCauley BSN, the director of the surgical floor at Augusta Health to ask if he has seen a change in the number of graduating nurses because of the nursing faculty shortage. His perspective in the clinical setting will demonstrate the effect of the faculty nursing shortage on all nurses. We also emailed Linda Sobel PhD, RN, to get an understanding of how the nursing faculty shortage affects actual nursing faculty. Specifically, how does the shortage affect the work load and number of classes the staff is responsible for?
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