Safe Nurse to Patient Ratio Resolution

Let it be Resolved that we the members of the Democratic Party Stand with the Bedside RN’s Of Texas and The National Nurses Organizing Committee in their fight to:

ESTABLISHING MANDATORY HOSPITAL DIRECT CARE NURSING PRACTICE STANDARDS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE PROTECTIONS TO ASSURE THAT NURSING CARE IS PROVIDED IN THE EXCLUSIVE INTERESTS OF PATIENTS

MANDATING ADOPTION OF MINIMUM DIRECT CARE REGISTERED NURSE-TO-PATIENT STAFFING RATIOS BY LICENSED HOSPTIAL FACILITIES NECESSARY FOR COMPETENT,SAFE AND THERAPEUTIC NURSING CARE AND FOR RETENTION AND RECRUITMENT OF QUALIFIED DIRECT CARE REGISTERED NURSES—

RECOGNIZING PROFESSIONAL DIRECT CARE REGISTERED NURSE DUTY AND RIGHT OF PATIENT ADVOCACY—

PROVIDING EFFECTIVE PROTECTION AGAINST RETALIATION FOR REPORTING UNSAFE PATIENT CARE CONDITIONS AND FOR REFUSING UNSAFE PATIENT CARE ASSIGNMENTS.

Let It Be So Resolved that we Members of the Democratic Party Stand with the Bedside RN’s of Texas and The National Nurses Organizing Committee in their Fight to Pass:

Texas Hospital Patient Protection Act Of 2009

Let It Be So Resolved that we the Members Of the Democratic Party Stand with the Bedside RN’s of Texas and The National Nurses Organizing Committee in asking our Elected State Legislators in Support of these Ratios:

The minimum direct care registered nurse-to-patient-ratios are;

Intensive/Critical Care 1:2;
Neonatal Intensive Care 1:2;
Operating Room 1:1;
Conscious sedation 1:1;
Post-anesthesia Recovery 1:2;
Labor and Delivery 1:1;
Ante partum 1:3;
New Born Nursery 1:2;
Postpartum couplets 1:3;
Postpartum women only 1:4;
Pediatrics 1:3;
Emergency Room 1:4;
ICU patients in the ER 1:2;
Trauma patients in the ER 1:1;
Step Down & Telemetry 1:3;
Medical/Surgical 1:4;
Other Specialty Care 1:4;
Psychiatric 1:4;
Rehabilitation Unit & Skilled Nursing Facility 1:5

__._ Dear Fellow Democrats,

I urge you and remind you to go to vote and to go
your precinct convention. I would also like you to
take this resolution I have prepared on Safe Nurse to
Patient Ratios in our hospitals to make our Hospitals
safer.

Thank you for your support and let’s turn the votes
out.

In Solidarity
Richard Stephens
http://www.calnurses.org/