Battle Continues Over Nurse-to-Patients Ratio as Measure Advances
From NJ Spotlight , December 11, 2015
Labor unions representing the state’s nurses have won a key legislative skirmish over reducing the registered nurses-to-patients ratio allowed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
But it remains very uncertain whether the unions will win the long-running battle over a bill the measure, which they say would improve patient safety but which hospital executives contend would make it harder for them to determine how many nurses and other health workers are needed to meet patients’ needs.
The bill, A-647/S-1183, advanced further than it ever has before when the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee voted to release it in a party-line 8-4 vote yesterday.
From NJ Spotlight , December 11, 2015
Labor unions representing the state’s nurses have won a key legislative skirmish over reducing the registered nurses-to-patients ratio allowed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
But it remains very uncertain whether the unions will win the long-running battle over a bill the measure, which they say would improve patient safety but which hospital executives contend would make it harder for them to determine how many nurses and other health workers are needed to meet patients’ needs.
The bill, A-647/S-1183, advanced further than it ever has before when the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee voted to release it in a party-line 8-4 vote yesterday.
From NJ Spotlight , December 11, 2015
Labor unions representing the state’s nurses have won a key legislative skirmish over reducing the registered nurses-to-patients ratio allowed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
But it remains very uncertain whether the unions will win the long-running battle over a bill the measure, which they say would improve patient safety but which hospital executives contend would make it harder for them to determine how many nurses and other health workers are needed to meet patients’ needs.
The bill, A-647/S-1183, advanced further than it ever has before when the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee voted to release it in a party-line 8-4 vote yesterday.
From NJ Spotlight , December 11, 2015
Labor unions representing the state’s nurses have won a key legislative skirmish over reducing the registered nurses-to-patients ratio allowed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
But it remains very uncertain whether the unions will win the long-running battle over a bill the measure, which they say would improve patient safety but which hospital executives contend would make it harder for them to determine how many nurses and other health workers are needed to meet patients’ needs.
The bill, A-647/S-1183, advanced further than it ever has before when the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee voted to release it in a party-line 8-4 vote yesterday.
From NJ Spotlight , December 11, 2015
Labor unions representing the state’s nurses have won a key legislative skirmish over reducing the registered nurses-to-patients ratio allowed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
But it remains very uncertain whether the unions will win the long-running battle over a bill the measure, which they say would improve patient safety but which hospital executives contend would make it harder for them to determine how many nurses and other health workers are needed to meet patients’ needs.
The bill, A-647/S-1183, advanced further than it ever has before when the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee voted to release it in a party-line 8-4 vote yesterday.
From NJ Spotlight , December 11, 2015
Labor unions representing the state’s nurses have won a key legislative skirmish over reducing the registered nurses-to-patients ratio allowed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
But it remains very uncertain whether the unions will win the long-running battle over a bill the measure, which they say would improve patient safety but which hospital executives contend would make it harder for them to determine how many nurses and other health workers are needed to meet patients’ needs.
The bill, A-647/S-1183, advanced further than it ever has before when the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee voted to release it in a party-line 8-4 vote yesterday.
From NJ Spotlight , December 11, 2015
Labor unions representing the state’s nurses have won a key legislative skirmish over reducing the registered nurses-to-patients ratio allowed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
But it remains very uncertain whether the unions will win the long-running battle over a bill the measure, which they say would improve patient safety but which hospital executives contend would make it harder for them to determine how many nurses and other health workers are needed to meet patients’ needs.
The bill, A-647/S-1183, advanced further than it ever has before when the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee voted to release it in a party-line 8-4 vote yesterday.
From NJ Spotlight , December 11, 2015
Labor unions representing the state’s nurses have won a key legislative skirmish over reducing the registered nurses-to-patients ratio allowed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
But it remains very uncertain whether the unions will win the long-running battle over a bill the measure, which they say would improve patient safety but which hospital executives contend would make it harder for them to determine how many nurses and other health workers are needed to meet patients’ needs.
The bill, A-647/S-1183, advanced further than it ever has before when the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee voted to release it in a party-line 8-4 vote yesterday.
From NJ Spotlight , December 11, 2015
Labor unions representing the state’s nurses have won a key legislative skirmish over reducing the registered nurses-to-patients ratio allowed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
But it remains very uncertain whether the unions will win the long-running battle over a bill the measure, which they say would improve patient safety but which hospital executives contend would make it harder for them to determine how many nurses and other health workers are needed to meet patients’ needs.
The bill, A-647/S-1183, advanced further than it ever has before when the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee voted to release it in a party-line 8-4 vote yesterday.
From NJ Spotlight , December 11, 2015
Labor unions representing the state’s nurses have won a key legislative skirmish over reducing the registered nurses-to-patients ratio allowed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
But it remains very uncertain whether the unions will win the long-running battle over a bill the measure, which they say would improve patient safety but which hospital executives contend would make it harder for them to determine how many nurses and other health workers are needed to meet patients’ needs.
The bill, A-647/S-1183, advanced further than it ever has before when the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee voted to release it in a party-line 8-4 vote yesterday.
From NJ Spotlight , December 11, 2015
Labor unions representing the state’s nurses have won a key legislative skirmish over reducing the registered nurses-to-patients ratio allowed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
But it remains very uncertain whether the unions will win the long-running battle over a bill the measure, which they say would improve patient safety but which hospital executives contend would make it harder for them to determine how many nurses and other health workers are needed to meet patients’ needs.
The bill, A-647/S-1183, advanced further than it ever has before when the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee voted to release it in a party-line 8-4 vote yesterday.
From NJ Spotlight , December 11, 2015
Labor unions representing the state’s nurses have won a key legislative skirmish over reducing the registered nurses-to-patients ratio allowed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
But it remains very uncertain whether the unions will win the long-running battle over a bill the measure, which they say would improve patient safety but which hospital executives contend would make it harder for them to determine how many nurses and other health workers are needed to meet patients’ needs.
The bill, A-647/S-1183, advanced further than it ever has before when the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee voted to release it in a party-line 8-4 vote yesterday.
From NJ Spotlight , December 11, 2015
Labor unions representing the state’s nurses have won a key legislative skirmish over reducing the registered nurses-to-patients ratio allowed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
But it remains very uncertain whether the unions will win the long-running battle over a bill the measure, which they say would improve patient safety but which hospital executives contend would make it harder for them to determine how many nurses and other health workers are needed to meet patients’ needs.
The bill, A-647/S-1183, advanced further than it ever has before when the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee voted to release it in a party-line 8-4 vote yesterday.