Hundemer Kathy, Durando Diane
NASN Sch Nurse. 2014 Jan;29(1):12-7. doi: 10.1177/1942602x13492422.
At the end of the 2011 legislative session in California, the California School Nurses Organization (CSNO), a state affiliate of NASN, was looking for a new way that school nurses could garner legislative support, in a visible and positive manner, as strong advocates for pupil health. When California State Assembly Member Susan Bonilla (who currently represents the 14th Assembly District) offered to sponsor a state bill to help improve the student-to-school nurse ratio in California's public schools (which several sources between 2007 and 2011 estimated as being between 1:2,187 and 1:4,000), the CSNO's Government Relations Committee (GRC) sprang into action. The committee reviewed NASN's list of strategic plans for legislative advocacy for guidance. Upon learning that one of NASN's legislative priorities was the passage of H.R. 2229 (C. McCarthy), the Student-to-School Nurse Ratio Improvement Act of 2011, the GRC crafted and subsequently worked to successfully pass a California resolution bill, Assembly Joint Resolution No. 24, in support. Such legislative advocacy efforts may well be viewed as a model for other NASN state affiliate organizations.
在2011年加利福尼亚州立法会议结束时，美国学校护士协会（NASN）的州级分支机构加利福尼亚学校护士组织（CSNO）正在寻找一种新途径，使学校护士能够以一种明显且积极的方式，作为学生健康的有力倡导者获得立法支持。当加利福尼亚州议会成员苏珊·博尼利亚（她目前代表第14个议会选区）提出发起一项州法案，以帮助提高加利福尼亚州公立学校的学生与学校护士的比例（2007年至2011年期间的多个来源估计该比例在1:2187至1:4000之间）时，CSNO的政府关系委员会（GRC）立即行动起来。该委员会查阅了NASN的立法倡导战略计划清单以获取指导。得知NASN的立法优先事项之一是通过H.R. 2229（C. 麦卡锡），即2011年的《学生与学校护士比例改善法案》后，GRC精心起草并随后努力成功通过了一项加利福尼亚州决议法案，即议会联合决议第24号，以表示支持。这种立法倡导努力很可能被视为其他NASN州级附属组织的典范。
