Hospital Worker Issues

Staffing and Workloads
Understaffing is a difficult and complex problem that directly affects the delivery of quality patient care in our nation’s hospitals. This is especially true today, where hospitals are increasingly concerned with profits and financial considerations, which leads to short staffing and workload problems that are driving dedicated and passionate healthcare workers out of the industry.

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Patient Right to Know Act

This bill would improve health care quality and empower consumers to make better healthcare decisions by:

• Providing standardized information on hospital staffing,
• Allowing consumers to compare patient satisfaction survey results,
• Granting access to complaints filed against hospitals,
• Giving real time information on current staffing levels, and
• Shining a light on the nursing shortage through better information on its impact.

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Safe Patient Lifting and Handling Act

Safe Lifting Legislation Prevents injury to Patients, RNs, & Health Care Workers Support HB 471 (Patronis) and SB 508 (Fasano)

Nurses and other Health Care workers confront a silent epidemic of severe back injury that is robbing our hospitals of caregivers and crippling tens of thousands of those critically needed health professionals upon whom we all depend. Almost all of these injuries can be avoided by introducing methods and equipment that will not only prevent injuries to RN and other health professionals but will protect patients from needless falls and skin tears.

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