Idaho RN - August 2022

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Brie Sandow, Dori Healey and Anna Rostock with
Senator Jim Risch.
historical context with our legislators to support removing
burdensome barriers for all APRN’s across the nation.
The last thing we discussed on Capitol Hill was
removing barriers to and improving access to care for
Seniors (S. 3018/ H.R 3173) This bill would improve
the prior authorization process and protect patients
from unnecessary delays in care by streamlining and
standardizing prior authorization under the Medicare
Advantage program. This bill has bi-partisan support
and discussion was very positive. The overwhelming
consensus is seniors deserve care in a timely manner and
this bill would provide improve care.
We will continue to work with our congressman and
their staff to stay up to date with these important topics.
We are committed to advocate for our nurses as well as
patients throughout Idaho.
SAVE
THE DATES
American Nurses Association Idaho &
Nurse Leaders of Idaho
LEAP (Learning for Education,
Administration & Practice)
November 2-3 | Grove Hotel, Boise
Call for Abstracts due Friday, Sept 23
Nurse Recognition Dinner Event
Tuesday, November 2 | Grove Hotel Ballroom,
Boise
Idaho Association of Nurse Anesthetists
AANA Annual Congress
August 12-16 | Chicago, IL
IDANA Fall Conference
September 9-11 | The Grove Hotel – Boise
Register at: Idaho Association of Nurse
Anesthetists - Events (idahoana.org)
Later in the week, we met with leaders from across the
nation and ANA leadership to review critical issues and
create statements regarding nurse staffing, verbal abuse
and workplace violence, impact of climate change on
health, and racial reckoning.
After robust debate and conversation, it was
determined that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated
long-standing nurse staffing issues, the Assembly
considered changes to existing ANA policy related to
nurse-to-patient ratios. Participants stressed the need for
enforceable staffing standards and shared their successes
and challenges in implementing various models.
Nursing School Friends meet: Pam Cipriano,
President of the International Council of Nurses
and former ANA-President with Randy Hudspeth.
Assembly representatives approved a recommendation
that ANA supports safe patient standards including
ratios that are acuity and setting specific as per
nursing assessment and enforceable, and that ANA
will engage with the constituent and state nurse
associations to develop further details regarding
standards, implementation, and enforcement. Assembly
representatives also called on ANA to collaborate with
organizational affiliates to begin to develop evidencebased
staffing standards for all nursing disciplines for
publication.
Assembly representatives called on ANA to engage key
stakeholders to identify, develop and advance strategies
resulting in a comprehensive culture of safety and zerotolerance
approach to verbal abuse and violence in all care
settings, advance workplace violence prevention priorities
in nursing practice and public policy, and advocate for
better data collection to inform policy development.
To help address the public health crisis caused by
climate change, Assembly representatives approved
the recommendation that ANA and individual member
division include climate crisis and its consequential
impact on human and population health as an essential
component of their policy platform. Voting representatives
also endorsed that ANA revise and establish as an
official position the 2008 House of Delegates Statement
on Global Climate Change and Human Health. Finally,
the representatives called on ANA to promote nursing
knowledge on the relationship between climate change
and human and population health.
Finally, the voting representatives of the Assembly
unanimously voted “yes” for the association to embark
on a racial reckoning journey and adopted ANA’s Racial
Reckoning Statement. The multi-phase journey will
begin with release of the statement and supporting
communications later this summer.
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