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California has the only legislatively mandated nurse-to-patient ratios in the country. [3] In December 2020, during the fall/winter COVID-19 pandemic surge, governor Gavin Newsom gave all hospitals a temporary waiver from those mandates, which allowed hospitals, for example, to have ICU nurses care for three patients rather than two.
These evidence-based guidelines cover topics like fetal heart rate monitoring, labor induction, neonatal skin care, [4] care of the late preterm infant, [5] breastfeeding, HPV counseling, neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, nursing staffing, [6] and care of the patient in the second stage of labor.
Good Samaritan has also been accused of violating California's safe staffing law due to its chronic short-staffing, which has led to nurses assigned too many patients to care for and that means they are unable to take breaks during their 12-hour shifts, forcing them to work overtime and take extra shifts. [10]
Dignity Health proposed staffing cuts in California hospitals. The union is pushing back. Annika Merrilees. September 26, 2024 at 2:35 PM. 1 / 2.
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It’s the second strike by Kaiser therapists in two years. A 10-week walkout in 2022 by mental health workers in Northern California ended with Kaiser agreeing to provide more time for patient care duties that can’t be done during appointments, while also increasing staffing and providing more services at its mental health clinics.
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A safe needle law followed in 2000, and a ban on mandatory overtime in 2002. And in 2005, the union won passage of a law requiring public disclosure of nurse-to-patient staffing levels in hospitals and nursing homes. HPAE's transformation did not go unnoticed.