1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Nursing Where It's Needed Act” or the “Nurse WIN Act”.
Nursing Where It's Needed Act
A BILL
To amend the Public Health Service Act to expand the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to permit nurses to practice in health care facilities with critical shortages of nurses through programs for loan repayment and scholarships for nurses.
2. Sunsetting the prohibition on assignment of nurses to certain health care facilities with critical shortages of nurses
Section 846(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 297n(a)) is amended by striking the last sentence.