IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 719 
Thanking and promoting the professions of perinatal nurses by encouraging 
participation in ‘‘National Perinatal Nurses Week’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 12, 2021 
Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD submitted the following resolution; which was 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 at-
tempting 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 fol-
lowing delivery; 
Whereas perinatal nursing includes labor and delivery nurses, 
mother-baby nurses, and neonatal nurses; 
Whereas continuous support during labor from a registered 
nurse is critical to achieve improved birth outcomes; 
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•HRES 719 IH 
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 high-
est rate in the developed world, and the crisis is most se-
vere for Black mothers; 
Whereas nurses are positioned to provide unique insight into 
patient care circumstances that may contribute to wom-
en’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 is as-
signed 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 is supported and recorded by the perinatal 
nurse attending the birth; and 
Whereas the week of October 10, 2021, through October 16, 
2021, 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 
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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 en-
couraging patients, hospital administrators, health care 
professionals, policymakers, and others to become more fa-
miliar with the contributions of perinatal nurses by par-
ticipating in ‘‘National Perinatal Nurses Week’’. 
Æ 
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