Rep. Brett Guthrie |
At the Wednesday, May 17, meeting of the health subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware withdrew her legislation that would set up a national nursing-workforce center and state-based nursing workforce centers.
Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester |
Guthrie said, “One of the biggest issues we have, the biggest maybe in health care, is the nursing shortage. And we definitely need to work together to move forward on that and try to figure out how we can get through this. And so we're certainly willing to work with you.”
Earlier, Blunt Rochester said, “I believe we need a strategy to not only centralize the study and the development of nursing workforce practice and policy, but we also need to better support local entities in addressing state-specific nursing workforce challenges.”
The American Association of Colleges for Nursing has "said nursing school enrollment is not growing fast enough to meet the projected demand for RNs and APRNs," Stein notes. "Nursing homes have warned the administration must take into account nursing shortages when putting together its expected nursing home minimum staffing ratios."
Blunt Rochester is expected to run for the Senate next year, following Monday's announcement by Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., that he will retire.
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