<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>IOM Update: Advocacy for RNFA Reimbursement - RSS Feed</title><link>http://www.aorn.org/default.aspx</link><description>Content Block Control</description><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>IOM Update: Advocacy for RNFA Reimbursement</title><link>http://www.aorn.org/News.aspx?id=22796</link><description>New York State’s Future of Nursing Action Coalition, a non-partisan entity designated by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to take a state leadership role in implementing the recommendations of the IOM’s report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, has written a letter to United States Senator Charles Schumer identifying Medicare’s continued refusal to recognize first assistant services provided by registered nurse first assistants (RNFAs) as eligible for reimbursement is a scope of practice barrier.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 09:43:26 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>