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SOURCE: PR Newswire
Huge Breakthroughs in Patient Safety with RN Staffing Ratios 29.5% Pay Hikes, Pension, Retiree Health Will Aid RN Retention
RENO, Nev., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Registered nurses at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno won a groundbreaking tentative agreement with hospital officials early this morning on their first-ever collective bargaining pact that sets a new Nevada standard for patient safety protections and enhanced conditions for RNs.
Establishment of hospital-wide minimum, specific RN-to-patient staffing ratios is a centerpiece of the proposed pact, the California Nurses Association/ National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), which represents 500 RNs at Saint Mary's, said this morning. Saint Mary's RNs voted to join CNA/NNOC last December.
"This agreement will transform the landscape for nurses and patients in Nevada," said Jill Furillo, RN, the CNA/NNOC Nevada director. "RNs throughout Nevada closely followed our contract talks. The breathtaking improvements we have achieved, which are unprecedented in Nevada, will have a profound impact throughout the state."
"Saint Mary's nurses have negotiated the best contract in the state of Nevada," said labor and delivery RN Mary Maupin.
The ratios, which match those won by CNA/NNOC in California law and hundreds of California hospitals, and strengthened through enforceable contract law, are the first-ever California-style, hospital-wide ratios achieved for any RNs outside California.
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Other components of the agreement include:
-- Pay increases averaging 29.5 percent over four years, with at least 16 percent of the increase within the next 10 months. More than 100 of the RNs will see higher increases.
-- Safe patient lifting procedure to reduce patient falls and accidents and RN injuries.
-- Fully-paid employer health benefits, including dependent coverage, and the best retiree health package for RNs anywhere in the state of Nevada.
-- No mandatory overtime, except in cases of a publicly declared emergency or an unavoidable occurrence.
CNA/NNOC is the nation's largest organization of registered nurses with 80,000 members in all 50 states.
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