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Safe Staffing
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American Nurses Association to Release Survey on Nurses' Working
Conditions - (Nursing World,
Released January 26, 2001)
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ANA Applauds Agreement on Nursing Home Staffing Crisis - (Nursing
World, Released March 14, 2001)
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ANA Applauds Federal Legislation to Mandate Safe Nurse-to-Patient Ratios
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(Nursing
World,
Released:
May 6, 2003)
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ANA Applauds House Vote to Reject Overtime Changes - (Nursing
World, Released: October 3, 2003)
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Federal Legislation To Mandate Safe Nurse-To-Patient Ratios Introduced on
Federal Level - The American Nurses Association (ANA) has applauded
the introduction of the Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2003,
federal legislation that aims to ensure that patients receive safe,
quality nursing care in hospitals and other health care institutions.
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JAMA Article Links Hospital Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse Burnout
and Job Dissatisfaction - (Released: October 23, 2002)
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Nurses Concerned Over Working Conditions, Decline in Quality of Care, ANA
Survey Reveals - (Nursing World,
Released
February 6, 2001)
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NYSNA Practice and Governmental Affairs - Establishing Safe Staffing:
Talking Points.
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Nurses to Tell Congress to Make Safe Staffing a Priority - (Nursing
World, Released June 22, 2001)
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Playing the numbers game
- [PDF] Suzanne Gordon describes how implementing staff ratios in the US is in
everyone’s interests, even nurse managers. Managers insist that staffing
mandates will be too costly, but we must remember that understaffing is
far more so, at least to patients.
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Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2003
- 108th CONGRESS. 1st Session. S. 991. To amend title XVIII of the Social
Security Act to provide for patient protection by limiting the number of
mandatory overtime hours a nurse may be required to work at certain
medicare providers, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED
STATES. May 5, 2003. Mr. INOUYE introduced the following bill; which was
read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance
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Safe Staffing Ratios, Nurse to Patient Ratios -
As of January 1, 2004
California hospitals will be required to be staffed according to the
minimum ratios approved by Governor Gray Davis and the Department of
Health Services (DHS).
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Setting safe nurse staffing levels - (PDF) The
paper was written in response to the concernexpressed by RCN members about
the lack of anobjective and rational ‘universal formula’ for
staffing,which could guarantee the delivery of safe and high-quality
nursing care.
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What's At Stake: Safe Staffing Now!
- The Safe Staffing and Quality Care Act would require all Pennsylvania
hospitals to ensure safe staffing levels and nurse-patient ratios; empower
nurses to decline assignments that place patients at risk; and enact
"whistleblower" protection for caregivers who advocate on behalf of
quality patient care.
Page Updated:
Tuesday, 09 March 2010
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