NR 451 Healthcare Policy Assignment Week 3
Healthcare
Policy
Assignment
, Health Bill H.R. 2581: Nurse Staffing
Standards for Hospital Patient Safety
and Quality Care Act of 2019
► Presented in this bill are ratios of safe care to be established that “provides adequate,
appropriate, and quality delivery of health care services and protects patient safety; and is
consistent with the requirements of this title”. These ratios include:
► 1:1 trauma emergency units.
► 1:1 operating room units, provided that a minimum of 1 additional person serves as a
scrub assistant in such unit.
► 1:2 critical care units.
► 1:3 emergency room units, pediatrics units, stepdown units, telemetry units, antepartum
units, and combined labor, deliver, and postpartum units.
► 1:4 medical-surgical units, intermediate care nursery units, acute care psychiatric units,
and other specialty care units.
► 1:5 rehabilitation units and skilled nursing units.
► 1:6 postpartum units and well-baby nursery units.
► Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2019 (H.R. 2581).
(n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr2581
Healthcare
Policy
Assignment
, Health Bill H.R. 2581: Nurse Staffing
Standards for Hospital Patient Safety
and Quality Care Act of 2019
► Presented in this bill are ratios of safe care to be established that “provides adequate,
appropriate, and quality delivery of health care services and protects patient safety; and is
consistent with the requirements of this title”. These ratios include:
► 1:1 trauma emergency units.
► 1:1 operating room units, provided that a minimum of 1 additional person serves as a
scrub assistant in such unit.
► 1:2 critical care units.
► 1:3 emergency room units, pediatrics units, stepdown units, telemetry units, antepartum
units, and combined labor, deliver, and postpartum units.
► 1:4 medical-surgical units, intermediate care nursery units, acute care psychiatric units,
and other specialty care units.
► 1:5 rehabilitation units and skilled nursing units.
► 1:6 postpartum units and well-baby nursery units.
► Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2019 (H.R. 2581).
(n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr2581
