Safe Staffing Matters: Patient Deaths, Medication Errors, Slips, Falls, Patient Bed Sores and so many issues can be severely reduced or eliminated with SAFE STAFFING.
GET INVOLVED and PROTECT YOU PRACTICE and your LICENSE
The AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION (ANA) Makes it easy....
This is the letter to support the named bill below, that can be sent to your politicians:
I am writing to ask you to cosponsor the Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act (H.R. 2083/S. 1132) which would require hospitals to utilize the direct care nurses' experience to work in concert with management to establish staffing plans unique to each unit. This approach recognizes that fixed mandated nurse to patient ratios, although easier to understand, do not acknowledge the complexities involved in delivering safe, quality care.
For years, my RN colleagues have expressed frustration and concern when working chronically understaffed shifts. Safe staffing levels are key to patient safety and nurse retention. H.R. 2083/S. 1132 would hold each hospital accountable to create staffing plans that are truly reflective of patient needs and requires public reporting of the number of licensed and unlicensed staff involved in direct care.
The link between patient safety, outcomes and nursing care is well-established. According to a 2002 study by Linda H. Aiken, PhD, RN, each additional patient added to the average workload of staff registered nurses (RNs) increased the risk of death following common medical procedures by 7%, and the risk of death was more than 30% higher in hospitals where nurses' workloads were 8 patients or more each shift. Furthermore, research has shown when there are more RNs, there are shorter lengths of stay and fewer complications with resultant reduced costs.
Please help ensure patient safety and cosponsor H.R. 2083/S. 1132, the Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act today.
Check out this website and get involved:
https://secure3.convio.net/ana/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=451
If You have trouble there go to this site: the American Nurses Association Political Action Committee
http://www.rnaction.org/site/PageNavigator/NSTAT/nstat_ana_pac
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