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Community Forum on
Patient Health Issues
April 23, 2007
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PHOTOS OF COMMUNITY FORUM
ON HEALTH & PATIENT ISSUES
APRIL 23, 2007
AT REICHE SCHOOL IN PORTLAND, MAINE
Forum to discuss
patient health issues and learn more about LD 1538,
An Act to Increase the Safety of Hospital Patients.
Sponsored by Maine State Nurses Association,
Maine People's Alliance, Portland Organizing to Win Economic Rights, and
The Council for Senior Citizens.
More about LD 1538 and/or contact the Maine State Nurses Association: 1800-207-8611
or visit their website: www.mainenurse.org
Photos of the LD 1538 Hearing
An Act to Increase the Safety of Hospital Patients.
Sponsored by Maine State Nurses Association,
Maine People's Alliance, Portland Organizing to Win Economic Rights, and
The Council for Senior Citizens.
More about LD 1538 and/or contact the Maine State Nurses Association: 1800-207-8611
or visit their website: www.mainenurse.org
Photos of the LD 1538 Hearing
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MORE INFORMATION:
An ACT TO INCREASE SAFETY OF HOSPITAL PATIENTS - LD# 1538
Sponsored by the Maine State Nurses Association [MSNA], if passed this legislation will:
MORE INFORMATION:
An ACT TO INCREASE SAFETY OF HOSPITAL PATIENTS - LD# 1538
Sponsored by the Maine State Nurses Association [MSNA], if passed this legislation will:
- Mandate Safe Staffing by
setting direct-care nurse-to-patient staffing ratios necessary
for safe nursing care and for retention and recruitment of qualified direct-care RNs.
- Recognize direct-care nurses’ duty and right to be a patient advocate.
- Provide effective protection against retaliation for reporting unsafe patient care
and for refusing unsafe patient care assignments.
for safe nursing care and for retention and recruitment of qualified direct-care RNs.
- Recognize direct-care nurses’ duty and right to be a patient advocate.
- Provide effective protection against retaliation for reporting unsafe patient care
and for refusing unsafe patient care assignments.
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Please
use any of the resources below &
visit MSNA's website:
www.mainenurse.org to help protect Maine's patients & nurses!
www.mainenurse.org to help protect Maine's patients & nurses!
HEARING UPDATE: The legislature heard testimony on An Act to Increase the Safety of Hospital Patients LD #1538 on Friday MAY 4th, at 10:00 A.M., at the Statehouse in Augusta.
In the coming days the Labor Committee will be holding a work session and then voting on this bill (list is at the end of page). Our chance is now! Please contact the members of the Labor Committee to tell them you support this bill! For more information please contact 1-800-207-8611
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
State should set nurse-patient ratios, Portland Press Herald, May 4, 2007
by Maureen Caristi, President of the Maine State Nurses Association
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/viewpoints/mvoice/070504voices.html
Bill sets ratios for nurse staffing, Portland Press Herald, May 4, 2007
by Anne S. Kim, staff writer, PPH
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/statehouse/070503nurses.html
*Talking points: Act to Increase Safety of Hospital Patients LD#1538 [Word format]
*Fact Sheet: Nurse-to-patient Staffing Ratios & Patient Safety [PDF format]
An informational sheet: "...research now documents what physicians, patients, other health care providers and nurses themselves have long known: how well we are cared for by nurses affects our health, and sometimes can be a matter of life or death...”
*Share your story of unsafe conditions! [Word format]
Use this form to support this legislation by sharing your personal story regarding any negative impacts of short staffing you have experienced in Maine's hospitals.
*Join
the Patient Protection Squad! [Word format]
Use this form to learn more about & join MSNA's Patient Protection Squad: a network of concerned citizens throughout the state to help get this important safe staffing legislation passed by writing letters, telling our stories, visiting legislators and talking with other nurses and patients.
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Use this form to learn more about & join MSNA's Patient Protection Squad: a network of concerned citizens throughout the state to help get this important safe staffing legislation passed by writing letters, telling our stories, visiting legislators and talking with other nurses and patients.
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Winning our economic rights;
Putting poverty on trial;
Building a Maine that truly is the way life should be - for ALL of us!!!