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The Michigan Nurses Association worked with our legislative champions from across Michigan to reintroduce the Safe Patient Care Act for the 2019-2020 legislative session. Read the press release here. 

MNA is the only organization in our state advocating for laws that establish safe limits on patient assignments (RN-to-patient ratios) and on nurses' forced overtime.

"Too often, nurses have to juggle too many patients or work past the point of exhaustion, which means we can’t give every person the skilled care they need and deserve,” said MNA President Jamie Brown, RN.

“Many people don’t realize there is no law about the number of patients nurses can be assigned or the hours we can be forced to work. Nurses are pleased to see so much bipartisan momentum for the urgently needed solutions in the Safe Patient Care Act.”

[Pictured above: The three sponsors of the House bills hand in their legislation at the Capitol. Left to right: Rep. Jon Hoadley (D-Kalamazoo; Rep. Sara Cambensy, D-Marquette; and Rep. Aaron Miller, R-Sturgis). The sponsors of the Senate bills are Sen. Ed McBroom (R-Vulcan); Sen. Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit); and Sen. Jeremy Moss (D-Southfield).]



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Join the movement to put PATIENTS, not profits, first.

​The Michigan Nurses Association's Campaign for Safer Hospitals is calling for a set of Michigan laws, called the Safe Patient Care Act, to protect all our loved ones by limiting the number of patients a nurse can be assigned. The law would also limit mandatory RN overtime that compromises patients' care and require hospitals to disclose their actual RN-to-patient ratios.
​Lori Batzloff, RN and MNA member, shares her firsthand experience in urging legislators to pass the Safe Patient Care Act. "We need a law that protects every patient at every hospital on every shift." Hear from other nurses and lawmakers here.
Believe it or not, there is no law that limits the number of hospital patients a Registered Nurse can be assigned to care for at one time. There's also no law that limits the hours a nurse can be forced to work.

This puts patients in danger; when Registered Nurses are stretched too thin or forced to work past the point of exhaustion, they can't give each patient the professional care they need. Years of reliable research have established the link between understaffed nursing shifts and increased patient infections, falls, medication errors and even preventable deaths. 

We all deserve better.



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