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The Congress on Health Policy Wants Your Ideas
The Congress on Health Policy and Legislation believes practicing
nurses have excellent ideas and solutions to the collective problems
we face in relation to: safe care, safety in the workplace, clinical
problems, patient’s rights and other issues. The Congress
very much wants to collect any ideas you have which may lead to
the basis for filing legislation. Further, the Congress is planning
to reconvene the “Blue Ribbon Legislative Commission” which was
responsible for the generation of the safe care legislative agenda
that is central to the MNA’s Safe Care Campaign. Please
use this “Idea Sheet” to record the specific idea you have.
Also, please check one of the categories for which you think the
idea “fits”. Example: Fran Lacasse and Adeline Healy witnessed
expensive medications being thrown into the toilet in long
term care facilities when the prescribed medication supply could
not be later given to the patient (change in dose, patient expires,
medication reaction…) They felt strongly that medication waste should
be examined and that a procedure to prevent or recycle medications
that are not used, should be considered. The Departrment of Legislations
then successfully drew this issue to the attention of Senator Moore,
Chair of the Health Care Committee who has requested in the state
budget, that a commission be convened to explore solutions to this
problem.
Please reply by January 1, 2000 to:
Stacey Ober
Associate Director,
Department of Legislation and Government Affairs
FAX: 781.821.4445
or
340 Turnpike Street
Canton, Massachusetts 02021
The Congress on Health Policy and Legislation will
consider all ideas.
IDEA: (Please record a narrative of the nursing
problem you see. If possible, please explain a legislative
solution to this problem.)
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Please identify the area(s) where this idea is
most applicable:
- Maintain and increase patients’ access to professional
nursing care in any setting
- Imprints nursing standards of practice on the
delivery of health care
- Protect nurses’ collective bargaining rights
and general welfare
- Addresses workplace safety concerns for nurses
and other health care professionals
- Influences legislation which positively affects
the delivery of health care/nursing care
(Optional but for purposes of further exploration of your idea)
Name:_________________________________________
Tel: ( )_______________________________________
e - mail:________________________________________
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