Act today – contact your legislator and ask for more funding to combat Kentucky's nursing shortage!

CALL:

Call 800-372-7181and ask to leave a message for your legislator. Phone calls helps generate "green slips," which are key to helping a legislator know that an issue is important to constituents. The operator will ask for your address to confirm your message is delivered to the right legislators

Here's the message:

I'm calling to ask for more funding for in the budget to combat Kentucky's nursing shortage!

We need a multi-faceted, multi-level approach to address the nursing shortage crisis. Nurses are 89,000 strong in the commonwealth and 53% of the healthcare workforce. We work in over 40 practice areas, not just hospitals and long-term care. The legislature must provide funding for retention bonuses for all nurses, funding for school nurses in every school, all day, every day, funding to increase nursing faculty and funding for loan forgiveness for all nurses and nursing students.  Investing in nursing today is an investment in the future of health care for all Kentuckians.

WRITE:

Please use the letter crafted by the KNA, see link below, to write to your legislator about more funding for nurses. Please include your home address, with zip code and your phone number. Also, please attach the Kentucky Nurse Practice Areas document, see link below:

KNA Letter to Legislators More Funding Nursing Shortage

Kentucky Nurse Practice Areas

 FIND YOUR LEGISLATOR:

 Click here  to find your Kentucky legislator.

Act now! Your voice matters!