Healthcare Policy Assignment Health Bill H.R. 2581: Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2019
Presented in this bill are ratios of safe care to be established that “provides adequate, appropriate, and quality delivery of health care services and protects patient safety; and is consistent with the requirements of this title”. These ratios include :
1:1 trauma emergency units.
1:1 operating room units, provided that a minimum of 1 additional person serves as a scrub assistant in such unit.
1:2 critical care units.
1:3 emergency room units, pediatrics units, stepdown units, telemetry units, antepartum units, and combined labor, deliver, and postpartum units.
1:4 medical-surgical units, intermediate care nursery units, acute care psychiatric units, and other specialty care units.
1:5 rehabilitation units and skilled nursing units.
1:6 postpartum units and well-baby nursery units.
Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2019 (H.R. 2581). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr2581
Presented in this bill are ratios of safe care to be established that “provides adequate, appropriate, and quality delivery of health care services and protects patient safety; and is consistent with the requirements of this title”. These ratios include :
1:1 trauma emergency units.
1:1 operating room units, provided that a minimum of 1 additional person serves as a scrub assistant in such unit.
1:2 critical care units.
1:3 emergency room units, pediatrics units, stepdown units, telemetry units, antepartum units, and combined labor, deliver, and postpartum units.
1:4 medical-surgical units, intermediate care nursery units, acute care psychiatric units, and other specialty care units.
1:5 rehabilitation units and skilled nursing units.
1:6 postpartum units and well-baby nursery units.
Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2019 (H.R. 2581). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr2581
