How do our 2 presidential candidates feel about nursing issues? The ANA decided to find out, and sent each candidate a questionnaire–about nursing and related healthcare issues.  Only Barack Obama responded, and you can read his responses here–this is a transcript containing Senator Barack Obama’s remarks to the American Nurses Association’s 2008 House of Delegates on June 27, 2008.

Unfortunately, I can’t offer a link to John McCain’s remarks/responses because he hasn’t yet responded.  Maybe he will eventually, but healthcare is an important issue and nursing is part of that. Surely the man can’t be blind to all the media hoopla about the nursing shortage. If he wants to get brownie points, it would be worth his while to have one of his speech writers draft some nice prose and fill in the blanks, and at least show nurses that he’s interested.