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ANA's Nurses Strategic Action Team (N-STAT) makes it easy for you to unite with your colleagues across the nation and let lawmakers know how you feel by keeping you up to speed in key bills as they move through Congress and letting you know when your e-mails, phone calls, and letters will make the most impact.
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107th Congress

Temporary Nurse Visa vrs. The Rural and Urban Health Care Act of 2001 Comparison Chart.
Patient's Bill of Rights
- House Action on Patients' Rights
- Fact sheet
- Text of Act (HR 526 / S 283)**pdf
Patient Safety Act
- Fact sheet
- Text of Act (HR 1804 / S 863)**pdf
RN Shortage
- Nursing Workforce: Emerging Nurse Shortages Due to Multiple Factors (GAO report)**pdf
- Congressional Reserve Service (CRS) Report
- Nursing Education
  - Fact sheet (shortage)
  - Text of Act (HR 1436 / S 706 / S 721)**pdf
  - Fact sheet (Appropriations)
- Mandatory Overtime
  - Fact sheet
- Immigration
  - Fact sheet
- Testimony
  - Authorizing Safety Net Public Health Programs: Nursing Shortages (August, 2001)
  - Looming Nurse Shortage: Impact on the Department of Veterans Affairs (June 14, 2001)
  - Nurse Education and Practice (April 26, 2001)
  - Fiscal Year (FY) 2002 Appropriations for Nursing Education, Nursing Research and Workforce Programs (March 22, 2001)
  - Nursing Shortage and Its Impact on America's Health Care Delivery System (February 13, 2001)
- Press Releases on Shortage
RN Staffing
- Acute Care
  - Fact sheet
  - Text of Act (HR 1804 / S 863)**pdf
- Long Term Care
  - Fact sheet
- Testimony
  - Addressing Direct Care Staffing Shortages (May 17, 2001)
Reimbursement
- First Assistant
  - Fact sheet
  - Text of Act ( HR 822)**pdf
- Advanced Practice Nurses - Medicaid
  - Fact sheet
Antitrust
- Fact sheet

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