NURS 6050
Week 7 Discussion
Sabrina Musquiz
Heath Policy
I have chosen to focus on the “Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2015”. This act amended
title XVIII of the Social Security act to provide patient protection by establishing safe nurse
staffing levels(Text - H.R.2083 - 114th Congress (2015-2016): Registered Nurse Safe Staffing
Act of 2015. (n.d.). According to the Registered Nurse Safe staffing Act of 2015, research from
2009 to 2012 have sown that patient safety is directly affiliated with the number of registered
nurses working in the hospital, also shows that insufficient staffing is liked to greater likelihood
of patient deaths and readmissions along with of registered nurse stress and work fatigue and
nurse overwork. All these factors lead to poor patient care which leads to low patient satisfaction
and low hospital HCAHP scores which are a key measure for payment programs under Medicare
and other payers.
This health policy is focused on the quality of care a patient receives when the
hospital and or unit is adequately staffed, and also focuses on cost.
According to the Registered
Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2015, the increase of number of registered nurses can protect patients
and also save nearly $3 billion dollars due to more than 4 million avoided extra days at hospital
due to adverse patient events and decreasing hospital readmissions.
This greatly reduces the
burden on the United Healthcare system.
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