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SEIU Nurses Have to Make the Staffing Law Work. It's Up to Us

After helping pass the law, SEIU nurses in the Nurse Alliance began to work on implementing it, including providing our professional recommendations to DHS on the implementation regulations.

But there’s more work to do. Initial reports from the field indicate that there are a number of problems with the staffing ratios law that may need to be addressed, including:
• Basic adherence to the staffing ratios.
• Non-nurse support staff being cut, forcing nurses to pick up the slack, thus undermining the law’s intent.
• Problems with patient classification systems, resulting in inadequate staffing levels.
Recent research by the California Nursing Outcomes Coalition also supports the need to look more deeply at how/if the law has been implemented.
Join our research project — and the campaign to make staffing ratios work for patients.

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