Shocking Results of Nurses’ Survey on Patient Safety Legislators Hold Press Conference on June 4 to Present Results Urge Immediate Action by Legislature to Protect Patients Legislators from the House and Senate will hold a press conference on Wednesday, June 4 at 11 a.m. to release results of a recently completed survey of Massachusetts nurses on patient safety in Massachusetts’ hospitals. This survey of bedside registered nurses in Massachusetts was completed by Anderson Robbins, an independent research firm located in Boston. The nurses interviewed were randomly selected from a file of all Massachusetts RNs licensed with the Board of Registration in Nursing. Survey respondents were interviewed at home, between May 8 and May 15. Legislators will present the findings of the survey to expose dangerous patient assignments that are causing increased illness, readmission and even death for patients in Massachusetts’ hospitals across the state. The release of the findings, in conjunction with the Department of Public Health released report showing that inadequate nurse staffing and unsafe patient assignments for nurses contributed to the deaths of two infants and one mother at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, demands leadership and immediate action to protect the patients of the Commonwealth. The legislators will use the event to alert their colleagues to these unacceptable findings and to urge passage of the Patient Safety Act (H3843), to remedy the dangerous conditions patients face when nurses are forced to care for too many patients at one time. When: Wednesday, June 4 11 a. m. Where: State House, Room 437 The Patient Safety Act (H3843) will dramatically improve patient safety in Massachusetts’ hospitals by setting safe, realistic, and prudent standards on the maximum number of patients that can be safely cared for by hospital nurses at any one time, while also providing the flexibility to adjust staffing based on patient needs. The legislature has until July to act on the measure, or the measure will go on the ballot in November.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 02:01:07 +0000
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