Location: Senate Visitors Center, Room 210
Description: Luncheon Briefing: Highlighting School Nurses

Nurses make a difference in the lives of patients from disease prevention and management to
education to responding to emergencies. Unfortunately, our country continues to be challenged by a
chronic nursing shortage of nurses that was first noted over 13 years ago in 1998. Government
estimates indicate that this situation only promises to worsen due to an insufficient supply of individuals
matriculating in nursing schools, an aging existing workforce, and the inadequate availability of nursing
faculty to educate and train the next generation of nurses. At the exact same time that the nursing
shortage is expected to worsen, the baby boom generation is aging and the number of individuals
with serious, life-threatening, and chronic conditions requiring nursing care will increase. Having a
sufficient nursing workforce to meet the demands of a highly diverse and aging population is an
essential component to reforming the health care system as well as improving the health status of the
nation and reducing health care costs.

The Americans for Nursing Shortage Relief (ANSR) Alliance, a diverse cross-section of health care and
other related organizations, health care providers, and supporters of nursing issues that have united to
address the national nursing shortage and the delivery of high quality nursing care to the nation, invites
you to a briefing on November 1 at 12:00 pm. You will receive information on nursing’s impact on
the health care system and what can be done to solve the nursing shortage.

https://filemanager.capwiz.com/filemanager/file-mgr/nasn/3_ANSR_Briefing_Invitation_11_01_2011.pdf
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2011-11-01
End Time: 13:00

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