Requiring all licensed hospitals to adopt and implement by a certain date staffing plans specifying direct care registered nurse (RN) patient ratios for each hospital unit for purposes of patient safety; specifying considerations, assignment limits and adjustments; requiring licensed hospitals to establish RN staffing for patient safety committees by a certain date, providing for staffing levels posting and commissioner of health enforcement; providing for adverse health event reporting relating staffing levels and nursing sensitive quality outcomes; requiring the commissioner of health on consultation with hospitals, the board of nursing and the Minnesota nurses association to study how nursing care should be identified and reimbursed in hospital cost reports
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