2001 Legislation: Nursing Quality Indicators
July 20, 2001
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Background Information
| Legislation introduced in 2001 (3 states, MA, NY, OR) | |
| Legislation enacted in prior years (3 states: NJ [regulations], FL, RI) |
With the discovery in 1994 of the statistically significant relationship between nursing care and patient outcomes and The American Nurses Association's 1997 groundbreaking report, Implementing Nursing's Report Card: A Study of RN Staffing, Length of Stay and Patient Outcomes, there has been an effort underway to require health care facilities to collect data on patient outcomes related to nursing care and make it publically available. A study bill was passed in FL in 1996. In 2000, legislation passed in RI required an advisory council to consider nursing sensitive performance measures. Regulations are being written in NJ regarding the mandatory collection and public disclosure of nursing quality indicators by health care facilities.
Legislation
introduced this year in MA, NY and
OR that would require the collection
of nursing quality indicators in health
care institutions.
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