| "If you refuse to be proactive, then Thou shalt not whine when you have to be reactive..Make a difference and ACTIVATE!" Sheri Cook FENA Government Chair |
| Government and Advocacy |
FENA LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES
1. All rider Helmet law stands,
2. Requiring booster seats – new bill introduced 3/4/08
3. a primary enforcement seat belt bill
4. awareness and protective legislation against
violence in the work place
1. All rider Helmet law stands,
2. Requiring booster seats – new bill introduced 3/4/08
3. a primary enforcement seat belt bill
4. awareness and protective legislation against
violence in the work place
| ENA's Legislative Action Center "The stakes . . . are too high for government to be a spectator sport." - Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (D-TX) Advocacy is more than just understanding the issues. To make a difference, you have to make your voice heard. The involvement of individual emergency nurses is vital to the success of our grassroots efforts. We encourage all ENA members to use the services available at the Legislative Action Center so that you can take an active role in the public policy issues facing emergency nursing. If you have any comments regarding the site, send a note to enagov@aol.com. |
September 11, 2008
I feel that is an appropriate date, to ask my fellow FENA members to step up and help us to protect
and promote legislation that will make our state a safer place to live. ENA code of ethics’ state
The emergency nurse works to improve public health and secure access to health care for all.
We are called to protect and improve the public health as Emergency Nurses. This is a call to
action! We can make a difference, it is happening in other states, and if we ACT, it can happen
here. We have an action plan in place to make four improvements in our state laws, I am asking
you to:
1. Sign up for ENA’s national alerts. I have just found out that I can use this alert system to reach
FENA members when needed. So set up and ask your fellow ENA members at work to do the
same. See the link.
2. Read our NEW ENA Health Care Reform Platform. This is let you know what ENA ‘s
positions are, and help us to be better informed consumers, organized in our national vision. See
the link.
3. Write your state legislators and let them know what is important to us, and the laws we
need to take better care of our patients. You can use the letters that are preformatted on this site
or write your own, we have also included some information sheets on this site that your facts are
current. If you are writing your own letter, be sure to include stats/ or personal stories from your
local hospital.
Another tool that is coming soon, is the release of the ENA score card. This will be useful as this
tool measures Florida against the other states to see how we “measure up” – I fear that since we
have not been very active in promoting and improving our state safety laws that we will have
slipped even farther in our ratings.
It is time to stand up and make a difference, I look forward to seeing many of you in Minneapolis,
and seeing how we did on the score card. Become active and be part of the solution, making our
state a better place to live, work and play.
Thank you,
Sheri Cook RN CEN
Florida Government Affairs Chair
I feel that is an appropriate date, to ask my fellow FENA members to step up and help us to protect
and promote legislation that will make our state a safer place to live. ENA code of ethics’ state
The emergency nurse works to improve public health and secure access to health care for all.
We are called to protect and improve the public health as Emergency Nurses. This is a call to
action! We can make a difference, it is happening in other states, and if we ACT, it can happen
here. We have an action plan in place to make four improvements in our state laws, I am asking
you to:
1. Sign up for ENA’s national alerts. I have just found out that I can use this alert system to reach
FENA members when needed. So set up and ask your fellow ENA members at work to do the
same. See the link.
2. Read our NEW ENA Health Care Reform Platform. This is let you know what ENA ‘s
positions are, and help us to be better informed consumers, organized in our national vision. See
the link.
3. Write your state legislators and let them know what is important to us, and the laws we
need to take better care of our patients. You can use the letters that are preformatted on this site
or write your own, we have also included some information sheets on this site that your facts are
current. If you are writing your own letter, be sure to include stats/ or personal stories from your
local hospital.
Another tool that is coming soon, is the release of the ENA score card. This will be useful as this
tool measures Florida against the other states to see how we “measure up” – I fear that since we
have not been very active in promoting and improving our state safety laws that we will have
slipped even farther in our ratings.
It is time to stand up and make a difference, I look forward to seeing many of you in Minneapolis,
and seeing how we did on the score card. Become active and be part of the solution, making our
state a better place to live, work and play.
Thank you,
Sheri Cook RN CEN
Florida Government Affairs Chair
- Check the links below to get the correct names of your state Representative and Senator
and please fill out the red areas in this letter and send
| Sheri and Sharon in Washington DC Updated March 2008
|
 |  |  |  |
