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Review of a Bill
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Review of a Bill
Introduction
The state legislature on the breaks for meals and working hours is ‘Meal and Rest Periods Bill’ also known as ‘SBH 1155’. The bill concerns the overtime and excessive professional services extended by the nursing staff to ensure healthcare. The Bill establishes a prohibition on overtime by healthcare professionals that are imposed by hospitals. The bill allows nurses to refute work that surpasses their standard duty duration. This bill also limits the nursing working hours to eight hours only, it prohibits the on-call professionals from catering to regular healthcare or administrative chores within the hospital or cover shifts for absent staff. This bill also forbids the hospitals from endorsing license sanctions and terminating nursing staff on such grounds. The bill would not forbid the hospitals from imposing such working hours in emergency situations and medical procedures CITATION Sen \l 1033 (Committee).
Background
The Department of Labor and Industries by rule requires rest breaks for the employees. The rest breaks constitute for a good 30 minute between every five hours of work. However, in the healthcare practiced is not followed as such be. The nursing staff works consecutively at the risk of their job security and fatigue without rest or meal breaks, leading to medical errors and diminishing quality of healthcare delivery.
The Bill SBH1155 has been passed within both the houses. There have been committees to associating with the rework of the previous legislation that makes it mandatory for the nurses to work without any meals or rest breaks. The Bill was passed in the Senate to exempt the critical access of the regulations.
Challengesto the Legislation
The bill SBH 1155 did not need much confidence in the passing in the House as well as senate. The Senate passed it with 32 to 16 votes while the House ratified it with a vote of 70-24 votes. Issues stalling the nursing acthave been recognized as being sexist and gendered issues as highlighted by the senator Walsh who suggested that since the profession was female-oriented it lacked standing, the senator compared the issue with the pilots who face the same overtime without complaining about it. Moreover, there are grave concerns and hence the final implementation would be carried out by the end of the year 2020.
The challenges that the issues that reflect upon them are that they are incompatible with the staffing needs required. There are two different versions of the bill both in the house and the senate which makes it difficult, and hence requires it to reconcile before finally passing it into law. There are delays in the execution of bill and regulations. It needs a complete comprehension of the bill that would not leave out any aspect of nursing healthcare and delivery to the patients.
Support and Opposition for the Bill
The senators have proposed the bill I the senate which been opposed by Senator Walsh, the senator suggested that it is a female-oriented profession hence the overtime has become a concerning whereas pilots face same overtime and aren’t shown such support CITATION Bru191 \l 1033 (Lee, 2019).
The hospitals have alsopetitioned the initiatives with the exceptions where procedures would not be possible without the help of experts such as organ transplant, heart procedures, and gynecology. The Washington State hospital has raised concerns on falling short of nursing staff and hence facing the ineffective policy implementation, healthcare delivery and deteriorating quality of overall healthcare. These concerns are anticipated to be observed in hospitals CITATION Kip192 \l 1033 (Hill, 2019).
Nurses Labor standards- we will address the needs of the women to address the healthcare changes and identify the changes that are essential to the protection of health care staff. Have welcomed the initiatives by the senate. Concerns by the burses united have also reflected that the bill may be irrelevant as the hospitals may not always be able to adjust patient to nurse ratio.
Pros and Cons of Key Stakeholder
The pros of the bill will most sufficiently advance the conditions of the nursing practice. It will limit the working hours releasing the tensions of mandatory presence, license issuance, and termination. Overall the bill will aid both the nurses in practice and the patients as the quality of health care will improve.
There are a number of the challenges that would occur as the Meal and Rest periods Bill implemented. The nursing staff is will be short staff according to the hospitals, the patients may not be able to receive the care they are required. The inefficiency and untimely presence of specialist staff will lead to medical errors that will further escalate the matter of dealing with life and death especially in the rural staff where the incident reports within the hospitals are already low in ratio CITATION Kip192 \l 1033 (Hill, 2019). This will also increase the fragility observed in the finances of the healthcare which will increase the costs further.
Practice to Achieve the Highest Scope in Nursing
The bill will comprehensively empower the nursing practice, give them a sense of recognition. The efficiency of their work will effectively increase and lead to a timely finishing of work without delays. Fatigue negatively affects nursing professional practice. This would formally reduce the medical errors which were previously evident. The nurses would professionally cater to the needs of the patients with utmost dedication and honesty.
Assistive Actions by Nurses to Assist the Legislation
The nurses have resourcefully dealt with assisting the passage to encourage the assistance they have successfully mobilized into trade unions and shown unity by encouraging the legislative bill. They have been protesting in case the senate does not pass the bill. The hospitals can help in sufficiently facing lack of present staff however it can be managed by raising incentives for the staff. The consent for the availability is another aspect, hospital staff should manage to shift the mandatory policy to voluntary by raising overtime wages instead to conditioning it with rigid redundancy actions. The nurses can show commitment to profession managing within the resources effective with the help of regenerative policies, that add to the hospital quality assurance and helps in overcoming the issues that arise from eliminating the mandatory meals and rest breaks.
References
BIBLIOGRAPHY Committee, S. (n.d.). SENATE BILL REPORT, SBH 1155. Retrieved from Government of US: http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bill%20Reports/Senate/1155-S%20SBR%20LBRC%2019.pdf
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Hill, K. (2019, April 3). Washington nurses, hospitals at odds over bill limiting overtime, requiring rest breaks. The Columbian .
Lee, B. Y. (2019, April 29). Why State Senator Walsh Said Nurses 'Play Cards For A Considerable Amount Of The Day'. Forbes .
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