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Who We Are UAN History UAN Executive Council Constitution Resolutions UAN Affiliates UAN Staff National Labor Cabinet National Labor Assembly Running for Office UAN Calendar Union Member Rights & Officer Responsibilities	2000 Resolution - 010 back to Resolutions Archive Subject: Documenting the Relationship Between Working Conditions Related to Patient Safety and Working Conditions Related to Nurses’ Safety Introduced by: UAN Executive Council Action: Adopted June 22, 2000 WHEREAS, Recent changes in the healthcare environment have lowered staffing levels requiring individual nurses to care for more patients and with fewer people to assist. There has also been a recent decrease in the number of RNs employed; and WHEREAS, The Minnesota Nurses Association studied the relationship between reductions in nursing staff and the occurrence of work-related injuries and illnesses and found a disturbing 65.2% increase during a 4 year time period (1991-1994); and WHEREAS, Federal agencies and health care funding sources are becoming quite interested in the relationship between working conditions (including worker health and safety) and their relationship to patient safety. A broad interagency task force is currently being formed and an October conference planned; and WHEREAS, Staffing and working conditions are currently the greatest concern to CMAs and their members, therefore be it RESOLVED, That the UAN support: Research to document the relationship between working conditions and patient safety and working conditions and nurses' safety. A UAN leadership role in the interagency task force.

2000 Resolution - 010