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- Title
A Day on the Hill.
- Authors
Ream, Kathleen A.
- Abstract
Several members of the National League for Nursing (NLN) Board of Governors met with United States senators and representatives on May 12, 2005 to discuss increased funding for Nursing Workforce Development Programs. The NLN requested $210 million to adequately fund Title VIII programs. Among the talking points presented to members of Congress and their legislative assistants were the following: Federal investment in nursing education is less than one-tenth of one percent of the total federal budget. In 1974, during the last serious nursing shortage, Congress appropriated $153 million for nursing education programs. That would be worth $592 million in today's dollars, approximately four times what the federal government is spending now. Other issues related to the improvement of nursing programs in the country were also discussed during the meeting. INSET: Sidebar. Nursing Workforce Development Programs, Title VIII....
- Subjects
UNITED States; NURSING; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; FEDERAL aid to nursing education; FEDERAL aid to higher education; FEDERAL aid to medical education
- Publication
Nursing Education Perspectives (National League for Nursing), 2005, Vol 26, Issue 4, p252
- ISSN
1536-5026
- Publication type
Article