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California has the only legislatively mandated nurse-to-patient ratios in the country. [3] In December 2020, during the fall/winter COVID-19 pandemic surge, governor Gavin Newsom gave all hospitals a temporary waiver from those mandates, which allowed hospitals, for example, to have ICU nurses care for three patients rather than two.
Kaiser nurses say company logged $14B in profits amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s time that it invested more in staffing and workplace safety. Union representing 22,000 nurses blasts Kaiser ...
Nursing shortage is a problem in several districts of Norway. This nurse is employed at a nursing home. A nursing shortage occurs when the demand for nursing professionals, such as Registered Nurses (RNs), exceeds the supply locally—within a healthcare facility —nationally or globally. It can be measured, for instance, when the nurse-to ...
The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 [1] (PSQIA): Pub. L. 109–41 (text) (PDF), 42 U.S.C. ch. 6A subch. VII part C, established a system of patient safety organizations and a national patient safety database. To encourage reporting and broad discussion of adverse events, near misses, and dangerous conditions, it also ...
Kapi ‘olani nurses are advocating for safe staffing, HNA said, with limits on how many patients a nurse can safely be assigned during a shift, which is part a movement by other nurses unions ...
Following a three-day strike in January 2023, about 7, 000 nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore ratified historic contracts that include enforceable nurse-to-patient staffing ratios, according to ...
Atascadero State Hospital (ASH) opened in 1954, as a state-run, self-contained public sector forensic psychiatric facility. It is enclosed within a security perimeter, and accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). Patients are referred to the hospital by the Superior Court, Board of Prison Terms ...
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