AMSN - Advocacy

November 10, 2022 The Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses Condemns Violence Against Nurses and Healthcare Providers Violence against nurses and other healthcare providers must stop!
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August 22, 2022 Advocacy > Take Action: Ask Your Members of Congress to Cosponsor the Cadet Nurse Corps Service Recognition Act (H.R. 2568 and S. 1220).
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August 03, 2022 AMSN President’s August Message You Make an Impact Locally, Nationally, and Globally There are many ways we impact the healthcare environment as individual nurses on a national level. If you are a member of a national professional organization like AMSN, you are impacting the products and services that are provided to members of the organization.
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August 03, 2022 You Make an Impact Locally, Nationally, and Globally (From the AMSN Blog) AMSN President’s August Message. If you are a member of a national professional organization like AMSN, you are impacting the products and services that are provided to members of the organization.
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July 04, 2022 AMSN Hill Day: Advocating for Medical-Surgical Nurses

On June 27^th, the AMSN Legislative Committee visited Washington, D.C. and members of Congress to advocate for legislative issues important to medical-surgical nurses. This visit was AMSN’s second ‘Hill Day’ and first one in person because our 2021 Hill Day was completely virtual due to COVID-19. Some committee members had visits with congressional staff in person and others held Zoom meetings with their state legislators.

July 04, 2022 AMSN Hill Day: (From the AMSN Blog) Advocating for Medical-Surgical Nurses - CEO’s July Message for the AMSN Blog
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June 07, 2022 AMSN Legislative Priority Agenda As part of AMSN’s mission to focus on issues affecting the work environments and practice of med-surg nurses, AMSN has developed a Legislative Priority Agenda.
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February 20, 2022 Statement from AMSN on Nurse Staffing and Complaints of Price Gouging by Staffing Agencies The Academy of Medical Surgical Nurses (AMSN) is aware of the concerns our members are expressing regarding the recent letter from a group of Members of Congress to the White House COVID-19 Response Team Coordinator.
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January 02, 2022 A New Year… What Will 2022 Bring? I remember the holidays one year ago. We were disappointed to not see family for the holidays, but we were determined to make the most of it.
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October 11, 2021 ADVOCATE News - What’s New in Policy (From the AMSN Blog) The latest on AMSN’s Advocacy News

AMSN Urges Congress to Support Building the Nurse Pipeline, but Action has Slowed

AMSN has been consistent in urging Congress to support nurse workforce development initiatives that build the pipeline advancing the supply of nurses needed now and in the future. Even working together with the Nursing Community Coalition to advance this important goal, congressional action has slowed this fall on the major legislation carrying these AMSN priorities.