113th Congress Federal Legislative Agenda

Scope of Practice

• Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
  • Barriers to the Practice of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
  • Home Health: Plan of Care Designation
  • Medicaid Coverage of Advanced Practice Nursing

Health Care Innovation

• Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
  • Provider Neutral Language
  • Care Coordination

Safe Staffing

• Appropriate Staffing
  • Acute Care Staffing

Work Environment & Healthy Nurse

• Workplace Health and Safety
  • Safe Patient Handling & Mobility

Quality

• Health Care Quality Measures

Other Issues

• Patient Safety/Advocacy
  • The Affordable Care Act
  • Appropriations
  • Rules and Regulations
  • State Exchange Implementation
• Medical Malpractice Liability/ Tort Reform
• Social Security
• Protection of Medicare/ Medicaid
• Gun Violence
• Assualt Weapons Ban of 2013 Senate
• Assualt Weapons Ban of 2013 House
• Safe Communities Safe Schools Act Senate
• Mental Health Care
  • S. 689 the Mental Health Awareness and Improvement Act of 2013

Nursing Shortage

• Title VIII: Funding for Nursing Workforce Development Programs
• Immigration and Nursing Workforce