Health Care Policy Links

This site has been created to facilitate web use by the UMSL faculty and nursing students to examine health care policy. It is a work in progress, but will provide some sites from which to begin your search. If you find a link that doesn't work or you have a suggestion please email me. Thank you. Donna Bridgman Musser

State Boards of Nursing on the web:
Illinois
Kansas
Missouri

Nurse Practitioner specific sites:
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
American College of Nurse Practitioners

Selected Federal and State Policymakers
It is important that nurses know and communicate with their legislators on nursing-related and health-related issues.

White House/The President
United States House of Representatives
United States Senate

State of Illinois
State of Kansas
State of Missouri

To email the The President or others within the White House
To identify and obtain information/email your U.S. Representative (Uses your zip code to identify your representative)

United States Senators (112th Congress)

Illinois
Mark Kirk (R)
Richard Durbin (D)

Kansas
Jerry Moran (R)
Pat Roberts (R)

Missouri
Roy Blunt (R)
Claire McCaskill (D)

State Legislators: (the following links are to help you identify information)

Illinois
State of Illinois homepage
Information on legislators/legislation

Kansas
To identify your state legislators
Information on bills/legislation

Missouri
To identify your state legislators
Information on bills/legislation

Health Policy-Related Sites
Influencing Congress: 10 Commandments (This site created by American College of Nurse Practitioners)
How to best communicate with your legislator. (This cite created by American Academy of Nurse Practitioners)
Congressional committees important to NP legislation. (This cite created by American Academy of Nurse Practitioners)
Legislative information, especially as pertains to Nurse Practitioners. (This cite created by American Academy of Nurse Practitioners)
THOMAS a site that allows you to search legislative information within the U.S. Congress.
Healthfinder: A site provided by the federal government which provides a rich resource of health care sites and resources.

Other Interesting Nursing and Health-Related Sites
There may be some duplications in the links listed on these sites, but they are so rich with information you can identify the ones that are most useful to you.
Health Care Information Resources: This is a fascinating site that provides information not only to health care providers, but to health care consumers.
The American Nurses Association web site contains multiple links to nursing organizations and associations.
The NurseWeek/HealthWeek site provides a variety of information including job information (job openings posted may not include all states/regions)
Sigma Theta Tau
Medline
The Internet Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice
The Nurse Practitioner

Selected Government Agency Links
AHCPR Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
CDC Centers for Disease Control
NIH National Institutes of Health
NLM National Library of Medicine
HRSA Health Resources and Services Administration
HRSA-Division of Nursing
Rural Health Information
National Institute of Nursing Research
Government Printing Office (GPO)
Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Medicare
Medicaid
Children's Health
Additional Government Links

Interesting Graphs Created by OSEDA
Graph of Missouri Counties
Missouri Senior Report (2008)