The Nurse Training Act of 1964

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The paper points out that the Nurse Training Act was among the many reform "Great Society" programs passed during Lyndon B. Johnson's first presidency in the 1960s. This paper states that the Nurse Training Act of 1964 was important to the nursing profession because, not only did it provide federal funding for nursing education thus acting as an incentive to go into the nursing profession, but it also dramatically changed the quality of care hospitals were able to offer. The author also discusses the Nurse Reinvestment Act (H.R. 3487, S. 1864.) of 2001, which also addresses the continued nursing shortage.

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"Ultimately, the Nurse Training Act is significant to nursing as a profession, not because of substantive changes to the way the profession it practices, but primarily because it heralded a new age of federal funding that goes toward nursing education. Unfortunately no amount of federal funding in the last forty years seems to be enough to overcome the constant shortage of nurses. Also in 1964, Congress created a Nursing Student Loan program to address the nursing shortage. Last year only $2 million was made available for new awards of long term, lower interest rate loan to students pursing various levels of nursing degrees. Back in 1983, Congress appropriated funding to address nursing shortages through that program, but this was insufficient as the shortage continues. In 2001, 10,298 students received an average loan of $2,116 clearly an inadequate amount to act as any sort of incentive to a financially needy student."

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