Topics About 'Safe Staffing'.

In my Just Say "No" article, I listed the evidence from California against mandated nurse-to-patient ratios, the only state to have a safe staffing law. Despite a reduction in patient mortality, California hospitals are struggling with the cost burd...

"We are short again today" - A daily phrase used by nursing staff that summarizes the consistent inadequate nursing staff ratios that healthcare facilities seem to continue to support. Inadequate nursing staffing ratios greatly diminish the likelihoo...

I have a question/ informal survey request regarding open heart staffing in a community hospital. I work in a hospital that has one open heart room/ one heart surgeon. We currently have 2 RNs/ 1 scrub tech per case. There is 1 anesthesia tech on day ...

Hey guys, I work as a nursing director in a hospice/LTC hospital in KSA, we have 160 bed capacity with an occupancy rate of 90%, I cannot find any research or resource for the exact needed amount of nurse or PCA(patient care assistant). currentl...

You’ve worked on a busy Med Surg unit for almost a year now. You were so excited to be hired right out of nursing school to the day shift, but it’s been so much harder than you ever thought it could, and so different from what you expected. It only t...

Legislation to set maximum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios is a hot topic these days. Currently, California is the only state to enforce a staffing ratio mandate. However, several other states have some sort of legislation in place regarding safe st...

How many more decades must we continue this fight for safe nurse to patient ratio staffing?!?! Remember the “mandated ratio” legislation INCLUDES patient acuity and nurse skill mix adjustment. #SafePatientLimits indeed saves lives. “Nightingale rigo...

Many states across the country are fighting for legislation that addresses safer staffing ratios. These efforts are being met with staunch resistance from the hospital industry, saying "there simply isn't enough research to support a front-loaded inv...

The fight for safe patient staffing is being waged right now in Illinois. The Safe Patient Limits Act, HB 2604, which calls for safe nurse-patient ratios, will be voted on this week in Springfield, Illinois in the House of Representatives. The bill r...

Everyone Deserves the Best Care PossibleNurses are often put in impossible situations pushed to care for more patients than is safe. It is fair to say everyone deserves the best care possible. In order to ensure this, safe staffing for nurses and pat...

Nurses comment every day on social media about staffing issues. I just wish they'd take it one step further. Words matter—but action is your true power. Action—as in organizing to educate yourselves. Action— as in showing up to a 2-day ev...

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Nurses are desperate for safer staffing. Which is more impossible: Asking a Genie in a bottle to grant your wish or getting State and Federal legislators to pass safer staffing laws?

Healthy workplaces are essential to keeping nursing staff. There are several steps to achieving this and all steps are important to achieving excellent patient care. Nancy Blake, PhD, RN, CCRN-K, NEA-BC, NHDP-BC, FAAN has been at the forefront ...

We walk and run up and down the halls trying to care for our patients every day. And we will continue to walk, talk, and do whatever it takes to get a break for ourselves and safer quality care for our patients. Join in advocating putting patients ov...

The legislators may raise the question of another nurse staffing bill nurses are lobbying. It is very confusing for legislators to navigate WHY these bills are different. You can assist them! Our RN Ratio bills S. 1063/HR 2392 has the mandatory minim...

TL;Dr: Nursing needs some help. What do you think will help improve the profession? Nursing as a profession is in definite need of improvement as we go forward into the future. Many additional tasks are thrown at us, sicker patients are assigned to u...

Nurses are stressed. Nurses are exhausted. And now nurses are speaking up for patient safety and against unsafe working conditions. But it's important that our voices be heard by the public and our policymakers. With your help, our voices will clearl...

Health Commission meetings are generally not too exciting. However, a session held at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital on May 28th was full of energy when nearly 150 nurses strode in to make their concerns known. The commission is in cur...

Ashley sank into a chair in the breakroom on her MedSurg unit in a large hospital in Florida. It was 0330, 8 ½ hours into her shift. She had not yet taken a break of any sort, including a bathroom or hydration break. In staff meetings, it was repeat...