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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1540 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1540

     Thanking and promoting the professions of perinatal nurses by 
      encouraging participation in National Perinatal Nurses Week.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 11, 2024

    Mr. Joyce of Ohio (for himself and Ms. Bonamici) submitted the 
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                               RESOLUTION

 
     Thanking and promoting the professions of perinatal nurses by 
      encouraging participation in National Perinatal Nurses Week.

Whereas perinatal nurses, which includes labor and delivery nurses, mother-baby 
        nurses, and neonatal nurses, work with patients who are attempting to 
        become pregnant, are currently pregnant, or have recently delivered;
Whereas perinatal nurses provide care for women with high-risk pregnancies, 
        including those who have undergone infertility treatments, such as in 
        vitro fertilization;
Whereas perinatal nurses continue to provide prenatal care and testing, care of 
        patients experiencing pregnancy complications, care during labor and 
        delivery, and care of patients following delivery when there has been a 
        persistent shortage of nurses across all fields while demand for nurses 
        only continues to grow;
Whereas continuous support during labor from a registered nurse is critical to 
        achieve improved birth outcomes;
Whereas nurses are positioned to provide unique insight into patient care 
        circumstances where a woman is at risk of death, thereby reducing the 
        rate of and disparity in maternal mortality;
Whereas mothers are dying in the United States at the highest rate in the 
        developed world, and the crisis is most severe for Black mothers;
Whereas October 10, both the 10th month of the year and 10th day of this month, 
        was chosen to celebrate National Perinatal Nurses Week to represent an 
        Apgar score of 10, a score that represents the healthiest state for a 
        newborn baby, and the 10 centimeters of dilation that determine a 
        woman's successful completion of the first phase of labor; and
Whereas the week of October 10, 2024, through October 17, 2024, is set aside to 
        celebrate National Perinatal Nurses Week to raise public awareness of 
        and celebrate the 350,000 perinatal nurses who are clinically active in 
        hospitals, perinatal facilities, and health centers: Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives thanks and promotes the 
professions of perinatal nurses by encouraging patients, hospital 
administrators, health care professionals, policymakers, and others to 
become more familiar with the contributions of perinatal nurses by 
participating in National Perinatal Nurses Week.
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