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WEB2 days ago · National Nurses United has welcomed its newly seated Council of Presidents to their offices for the 2024-2027 term. The new leaders were seated at NNU’s 15th Anniversary Convention in September, which commemorated the visionary union leadership of nurses and NNU’s foundation in 2009.
WEBmum nurse-to-patient ratios that are improved upon as individual patient needs warrant. Research from the last few decades has overwhelmingly shown that safe stafing levels and ratios help improve patient outcomes in mortality, adver. e events, complications, failure to rescue, quality of care, costs, and length of stay. Safe stafing lev.
WEBStudies on California’s RN-to-patient ratios statute — the only law of its kind in the country — confirm the significant impact minimum stafing ratios have on improved patient safety and outcomes. Compared to California, New Jersey hospitals would have 13.9 percent fewer patient deaths and Pennsylvania 10.6 percent fewer deaths if they ...
The Science of ratios - National Nurses United
WEBMay 10, 2021 · The Science of ratios. Decades of studies have shown that more nurses equate to lives saved and fewer complications. After ratios were implemented in California, research demonstrated that ratios were working! Now that that relationship has been well established, researchers have been focusing on what exactly is the mediating link between ...
WEBNurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act. Care ActSponsored by Senator Sherrod Brown Representative Jan SchakowskyThere are no federal mandates regulating the number. f patients a registered nurse can care for at one time in U.S. hospitals. As a result, registered nurses (RNs) are consistently required to care ...
Organizing with NNU - National Nurses United
WEBOrganizing: Know your rights. You have a legal right to organize under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), a federal labor law. In the case of many public hospitals, state law that is similar to the NLRA governs the process. National Nurses United is the largest union of RNs in the United States, with a membership of almost 225,000 RNs in ...
WEBIn 2019, health care and social service workers reported five times the rate of injuries due to workplace violence than workers overall.1. 2 percent reported that they were the target of violence w. thin the last year.2Workplace violence is underreported by hospital employees. In a 2015 study, 88 percent of respondents had not documented in ...
California Nurses Association | National Nurses United
WEBSep 27, 2024 · California Nurses Association, the largest union of registered nurses in the state, applauds the signing of Senate Bill 1015 by Governor Gavin Newsom. Nurses say the new law, which was authored by Senator Dave Cortese and sponsored by CNA, is an essential step towards ensuring clinical placement …
Whistleblower Protection Laws for Healthcare Workers
WEBSep 21, 2017 · Washington. Revised Code of Washington § 43.70.075 provides that whistleblowers who complaint in good faith to the department of health about improper quality of care by a health care provider or in a health care facility shall remain confidential, and employee whistleblowers are protected from retaliation.
About National Nurses United
WEBSep 19, 2017 · About National Nurses United. NNU Presidents (left to right) RNs Nancy Hagans, Jamie Brown, Mary Turner, and Cathy Kennedy. National Nurses United, with nearly 225,000 members nationwide, is the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in U.S. history. NNU is building nurse power from coast to coast.