The following letter was emailed to all 2011 candidates for the Nevada State Legislators and all incumbent Legislators. The responses are provided on the SpreadSheet below. If no answer is reported, the candidate did not respond to the question.
Dear Candidate for the Nevada Legislature,
The Nevada Nurses Association (NNA) would like to offer you the opportunity to introduce yourself and address the issues important to nurses across the State of Nevada. NNA is the professional nursing organization that is a supporting voice for over 37,000 nurses in Nevada. Currently, we are focusing on three areas of interest:
1) improved access to care through autonomous practice for advanced practice nurses,
2) sufficient staffing for nurses to provide quality care to their patients and
3) safe patient handling to reduce injuries to patients and nurses. In the next legislative session, we will be actively pursuing legislative changes that will permit autonomous practice for advanced practice nurses in Nevada. While no legislative action is anticipated, we continue to monitor the issues related to safe nurse staffing and safe patient handling. We would like to hear your thoughts on these issues as well as your general position on issues related to health care, nursing and what nurses can expect from you, if elected. Your response will aid your nursing constituents in determining the best candidate for the job and may be published in our quarterly newsletter that is distributed to all the nurses in the state. We thank you for your time and appreciate your efforts in addressing these important issues. We thank you for your willingness to serve.
We thank the candidates who responded and those who attended our Meet & Greets. If you have questions for the candidates or legislators from your district, we encourage you to contact them directly. For help in finding your legislators, see the link below.