MNA Nurses' Safe Staffing Proposal to Hospitals

Safe RN Staffing Levels - The Facts

• MNA Nurses have been talking about unsafe staffing levels since the early 1990s - view the MNA Safe Staffing Timeline
• Because Twin Cities Hospitals are dangerously understaffed, leaving patients to suffer as a result, MNA Nurses are asking for contract language that provides the appropriate number of nurses to care for patients. 
• National studies prove time and again that RN-to-patient ratios are critical when it comes to patient safety and quality of care.
• Safe RN Staffing Levels have also proven to actually SAVE hospitals millions in costs.
• Read the New York Times Op/Ed in favor of the type of staffing ratios being proposed by MNA Nurses.
• Read MNA Nurses' Safe Staffing Proposal to Twin Cities Hospitals (Modified June 29, 2010)