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Senate bill would require reporting of nurse staffing
plans
A bill sponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., would require public reporting of unit-by-unit nurse staffing plans. The measure would require hospital committees that include nurses to set unit-by-unit staffing ratios. "What works in a rural hospital in my hometown [in North Dakota] may not be the same thing in an urban trauma center. It allows flexibility and it also allows buy-in," said Jerome Mayer, ANA's associate director of government affairs. HealthLeaders Media (5/27)
A bill sponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., would require public reporting of unit-by-unit nurse staffing plans. The measure would require hospital committees that include nurses to set unit-by-unit staffing ratios. "What works in a rural hospital in my hometown [in North Dakota] may not be the same thing in an urban trauma center. It allows flexibility and it also allows buy-in," said Jerome Mayer, ANA's associate director of government affairs. HealthLeaders Media (5/27)
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A Senate bill calls for unit-by-unit staffing plans and publicly reporting those staffing plans, but stops short of dictating mandated nurse-patient ratios.
Federal requirements for unit-by-unit staffing plans and publicly reporting those staffing plans are at the heart of the newly introduced Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2014 (S. 2353), which stops short of dictating across-the-board, mandated, nurse-patient ratios.
Crafted with input from the ANA, the legislation is sponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and is companion legislation to a House bill introduced a year ago, the Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2013 (H.R. 1821).
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