Press Release

Whereas nurses serve on the entrance strains, risking their lives treating the injured and sick throughout wartime, pure disasters, and public well being emergencies, together with the COVID–19 pandemic; 

Whereas nurses are recognized to be affected person advocates, appearing to guard the lives of people below their care; 

Whereas nurses symbolize the most important single part of the well being care occupation, with an estimated inhabitants of greater than 4,000,000 registered nurses within the United States; 

Whereas nurses are main within the supply of high quality care in a remodeled well being care system that improves affected person outcomes and security; 

Whereas the Future of Nursing report of the Institute of Medicine has highlighted the necessity for the nursing occupation to fulfill the decision for management in a team-based supply mannequin; 

Whereas, when nurse staffing ranges enhance, the danger of affected person issues and prolonged hospital stays decreases, leading to price financial savings;  

Whereas nurses are skilled researchers, and the work of nurses encompasses a large scope of scientific inquiry, together with medical analysis, well being methods and outcomes analysis, and nursing schooling analysis; Whereas nurses present care that’s delicate to the cultures and customs of people throughout the United States;  

Whereas nurses are well-positioned to supply management to remove well being care disparities that exist within the United States; 

Whereas nurses are the cornerstone of the general public well being infrastructure, selling wholesome existence and educating communities on illness prevention and well being promotion; 

Whereas nurses assist inform, educate, and work intently with legislators to enhance— 

(1)  the schooling, retention, recruitment, and observe of all nurses; 

and (2) the well being and security of the sufferers for whom the nurses care;  

Whereas there’s a want— 

(1)  to strengthen nursing workforce improvement applications in any respect ranges, together with the variety of doctorally ready college members;

and (2) to supply schooling to the nurse analysis scientists who can develop new nursing care fashions to enhance the well being standing of the various inhabitants of the United States; 

Whereas nurses contact the lives of the individuals of the United States via each stage of life; 

and Whereas nursing has been voted probably the most trustworthy and moral occupation within the United States: 

Now, due to this fact, be it Resolved, That the Senate—

(1) helps the objectives and beliefs of National Nurses Week, as based by the American Nurses Association; 

(2) acknowledges the numerous contributions of  nurses to the well being care system within the United States; 

and (3) encourages the individuals of the United States to look at National Nurses Week with applicable recognition, ceremonies, actions, and applications to exhibit the significance of nurses to the day-after-day lives of sufferers.

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