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  • 1.  Mental Health Bill

    Posted 03-18-2025 16:35

    Protect Nurses' Mental Health!

    According to the CDC, healthcare workers' mental health is worse than any other segment of the U.S. workforce. 

    That's why ANA teamed up with nursing champions to help pass the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act in 2022-ensuring nurses and healthcare workers have access to vital mental health and substance use disorder resources.  

    Now, the bill is no longer authorized, and we need your voice!

    Urge your representatives to pass and fund the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act (H.R. 929/S. 266). 

    The bill has already helped: 

    • develop suicide prevention resources,

    • train healthcare workers and students on strategies to prevent or mitigate suicide and burnout,

    • and create a national evidence-based education and awareness campaign.

    This bill isn't just important, it's lifesaving. 

    Urge your federal legislators to cosponsor the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act today!

    Click link here to RN Action.org (ANA website) 

    Signed Leondra Weiss, MN, ARNP, Family Nurse Practitioner, C-EFM., AMB-BC



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    Leondra Weiss MN, ARNP, FNP-BC, AMB-BC, C-EFM
    Clinical Nurse Educator, Family Medicine ARNP
    Harborview Medical Center, Sea Mar
    Vashon WA
    (425) 870-0558
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  • 2.  RE: Mental Health Bill

    Posted 03-19-2025 09:53

    Done. Thank you for making it so easy to advocate for nurses' mental health!



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    Elizabeth Fritz PhD RN NPDA-BC EBP-C
    Editor, AAACN ViewPoint

    RN Program Manager, Clinical Education
    SSM Health
    Watertown WI
    (608)260-6467
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  • 3.  RE: Mental Health Bill

    Posted 03-20-2025 12:02

    Done!! Thank you again for advocating! I shared with my team and department as well.



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    Suzanne Duckworth DNP RN AMB-BC
    Vanderbilt Medical Center
    Nashville TN
    (601) 606-4588
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