Florida\'s Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act
Attention Florida RN's: Most of you by now should have received a mailing from the Nurse Alliance of Florida, Inc. which is a grassroots organization of bedside nurses.
The Nurse Alliance of Florida is working hard to generate support for legislation to ensure safe RNs-to-patient ratios in Florida hospitals. As a result, legislators will re-introduce the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act when the legislature opens on March 2nd in Tallahassee. The legislation would require hospitals to meet minimum nurse-to-patient ratios, ban mandatory overtime and protect nurses who speak out about unsafe working conditions.
Recent studies have confirmed what nurses have always known - that patient's risk of dying increases when nurses are forced to care for too many patients. Now nurses across Florida are working together to solve this problem, which not only endangers patients but also causes many nurses to leave hospitals.
Return the petition you received in the mail signed. We need everyone's support. Contact the organization at www.nursealliancefl.org. If at all possible, plan to attend Nurse Lobby Day in Tallahassee on March 11th. Together we can make a difference. This will benefit not only nurses, but our patients as well. The ratios will insure our patients, as well as our loved ones when they too need hospitalization, and the insurance companies by shortening hospital stays. When this type of mandates have been introduced elsewhere, many nurses have returned to hospital work which has resulted in the resolution of the nursing shortage.
PLEASE SPEAK UP AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS VERY INPORTANT ISSUE.
The Nurse Alliance of Florida is working hard to generate support for legislation to ensure safe RNs-to-patient ratios in Florida hospitals. As a result, legislators will re-introduce the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act when the legislature opens on March 2nd in Tallahassee. The legislation would require hospitals to meet minimum nurse-to-patient ratios, ban mandatory overtime and protect nurses who speak out about unsafe working conditions.
Recent studies have confirmed what nurses have always known - that patient's risk of dying increases when nurses are forced to care for too many patients. Now nurses across Florida are working together to solve this problem, which not only endangers patients but also causes many nurses to leave hospitals.
Return the petition you received in the mail signed. We need everyone's support. Contact the organization at www.nursealliancefl.org. If at all possible, plan to attend Nurse Lobby Day in Tallahassee on March 11th. Together we can make a difference. This will benefit not only nurses, but our patients as well. The ratios will insure our patients, as well as our loved ones when they too need hospitalization, and the insurance companies by shortening hospital stays. When this type of mandates have been introduced elsewhere, many nurses have returned to hospital work which has resulted in the resolution of the nursing shortage.
PLEASE SPEAK UP AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS VERY INPORTANT ISSUE.