H.R. 5924, The Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act, is one of our often-visited and much-commented-upon bills. Its intent is to “provide relief for the shortage of nurses in the United States.” It would take various steps toward that end, including providing more visas to nurses seeking to enter the United States from abroad and creating a grant program for schools of nursing.

A commenter on the bill points to a slide presentation by one Amanda Nickerson, MPH, MSN, RN. (Those are a lot of qualifications, and I know what most of them mean . . .) She provides a good deal of interesting facts and figures about the global nursing supply. Worth checking out – even if global nursing supply was something you never thought about before.

Here’s the current vote on H.R. 5924, the Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act. Click to vote, comment, learn more, and edit the wiki article about the bill: