This year, Pennsylvania nurses offered a Prescription for Quality Care aimed at ensuring safe nurse-to-patient ratios, stopping workplace violence, and expanding access to quality care for all Pennsylvanians. Not all …
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As Pennsylvania state lawmakers battle over the budget this week, one of the serious issues on the table is Medicaid expansion. Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the federal government …
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As the nation honors Nurses Week, dozens of nurses across the state converged in Harrisburg to urge legislators to adopt the PA Nurses’ Prescription for Quality Care, which calls for …
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A new report focuses on the health and safety of the health care workforce and calls on healthcare organizations to initiate broad organizational changes to reduce physical and psychological harm …
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Mandating the flu vaccine is a surefire way to quickly increase vaccination rates, but is the goal numbers or actual public protection?
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In September, two of our members, Paula Stellabotte, RN from Altoona Regional Health System and Andrea Paganie, Development Specialist from Heritage Valley Staunton Clinic, testified before Harrisburg’s House Committee on …
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Miss the Quality Care Summit? Download these presentations and see what was covered.
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On Tuesday, September 25 around 50 nurses from across the state gathered at our Capitol to send a strong message to Governor Corbett – Improve Quality Patient Care, Expand Medicaid …
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A recent study by the University of Pennsylvania supports what thousands of nurses have known since day one – that inadequate staffing leads to nurse burnout which leads to lower …
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At this year’s Quality Care Summit, entitled ‘Partnering for Safe, High Quality and Cost Efficient Care,’ we joined our fellow Nurse Alliance RNs and LPNs as well as CNOs and …
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