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NursingCongressman LaTourette founded the House Nursing Caucus in January 2003 with his colleague, Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), to help draw attention to issues affecting the nursing community, including the nursing shortage, mandatory overtime and increased funding for Nursing Workforce Development programs. The House Nursing Caucus, which LaTourette still co-chairs, has grown to more than 115 members. Congressman LaTourette has been active in nursing issues since he was first elected to Congress. He was able to change federal law to guarantee that all VA nurses get a raise each year like all other federal workers. LaTourette authored the VA Nurse Appreciation Act after being contacted by a nurse the VA in Cleveland who complained that the 39,000, mostly female VA workforce often went years without a raise due to a unique pay structure that only applied to them. LaTourette was able to include key provisions of his bill into a sweeping veterans’ health care bill that was signed into law by President Clinton in 2000. His VA nurse pay efforts were supported by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the American Nurses Association (ANA), Nurses Organization of Veterans Affairs (NOVA), and the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE). Congressman LaTourette has also led the effort with Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) to prevent nurses from working mandatory overtime, saying nurses should be able to decide if they are too tired and mentally drained to work additional hours. The Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act of 2007, H.R. 2122, is backed by many organizations representing nurses, including the American Nurses Association, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, AFT, SEIU, and UAN.
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