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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 782 

Thanking and promoting the professions of perinatal nurses by encouraging 

participation in National Perinatal Nurses Week. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 12, 2023 

Mr. JOYCE of Ohio (for himself and Ms. BONAMICI) submitted the following 

resolution 

OCTOBER 25, 2023 

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

RESOLUTION 

Thanking and promoting the professions of perinatal nurses 

by encouraging participation in National Perinatal 

Nurses Week. 

Whereas perinatal nurses work with patients who are attempting to become pregnant, are currently pregnant, or 

have recently delivered; 

Whereas perinatal nurses provide prenatal care and testing, 

care of patients experiencing pregnancy complications, 

care during labor and delivery, and care of patients following delivery; 

Whereas perinatal nursing includes labor and delivery nurses, 

mother-baby nurses, and neonatal nurses; 


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Whereas continuous support during labor from a registered 

nurse is critical to achieve improved birth outcomes; 

Whereas there has been a persistent shortage of nurses 

across all fields, while demand continues to grow; 

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 nurses are positioned to provide unique insight into 

patient care circumstances that may contribute to women’s deaths, thereby reducing the rate of and disparity in 

maternal mortality; 

Whereas October, the 10th month of the year, was chosen to 

celebrate National Perinatal Nurses Week to represent 

an Apgar score of 10; 

Whereas Apgar is the point system used to evaluate the 

health of a newborn baby, with 10 representing the 

healthiest possible score for a baby, and this score would 

be assigned and recorded by the perinatal nurse attending the birth; 

Whereas the 10th day of the month of October was chosen 

to begin National Perinatal Nurses Week to represent 10 

centimeters dilated, the measurement used to evaluate a 

woman’s progress in labor; 

Whereas 10 centimeters dilated constitutes complete cervical 

dilation, the successful completion of the first phase of 

labor when a woman is ready to deliver her baby, and 

this progress would be supported and recorded by the 

perinatal nurse attending the birth; and 

Whereas, the week of October 10, 2023, through October 17, 

2023, is set aside to celebrate National Perinatal Nurses 

Week to raise public awareness of and celebrate the 


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350,000 perinatal nurses who are clinically active in hospitals, perinatal facilities, and health centers: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives thanks 

2 and promotes the professions of perinatal nurses by en3 couraging patients, hospital administrators, health care 

4 professionals, policymakers, and others to become more fa5 miliar with the contributions of perinatal nurses by par6 ticipating in National Perinatal Nurses Week. 

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