A nurse-led call-in guide
Safe staffing
is patient care.
Ask Nevada lawmakers to bring back the promise of Senate Bill 182.
Get the call script182 Safe staffing
Safer healthcare
starts with your voice.
Senate Bill 182 was meant to establish mandated healthcare staffing ratios in Nevada. Despite ample research demonstrating that nurse-to-patient ratios reduce morbidity and mortality and the passage of S.B. 182 through both chambers of the Nevada legislature, it was vetoed by Governor Joe Lombardo.
With a tidal wave of change in leadership, including the election of Aaron Ford for governor, the prospect of enacting legal change to improve our workplace and patient outcomes has never been more attainable. Our legislators need to hear directly from nurses that a resurrection of SB 182 should be a top priority.
Below is a template for a quick message to your representatives as well as phone numbers for Nevada legislators. Start by calling your representatives (in the senate and assembly) and add on Senator Rochelle Nguyen, who sponsored S.B. 182, who could use your cheerleading to reinitiate the effort. If you want to call more representatives than that, more power to you! Feel free to stick to the script or make it your own. Presumably, you used your vote, now it’s time to use your voice!
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Briefly describe an experience that shows how staffing ratios affected patient safety, quality of care, or staff wellbeing. Without breaking HIPAA or putting yourself at risk, explain what happened, how patients or staff were affected, and how appropriate staffing could have improved the outcome.
Nevada legislators
Start with your senator and assembly member. Add Senator Nguyen, the bill’s sponsor.
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