Question

Current Legislative/Licensure

Issue In your heading for this section specify whether your topic is a Legislative or Licensure Issue, please do not use both in your heading. In this section you will introduce the change in specific detail. Provide references with in-text citations. Some examples that you may use include but are not limited to: enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact, Safe Harbor for Nurses Act, compact licensure for advanced practice registered nurses, the bipartisan Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2019, Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, and Nurse Practitioner Prescriptive Authority.

Impact on Nursing Practice This section should describe in detail the entirety of the impact on nursing practice from the change in the legislative or licensure issue.

Impact on Patient Care This section should describe in detail the entirety of the impact on patient care from the change in the legislative or licensure issue.

Answer 1

Safe Harbour for Nurses Act

The New Mexico legislature passed a bipartisan Senate law for expanding the employment protection for Nurses , called ' The Safe Harbour for Nurses Act' . It is passed in the year 2019 January. It allowed the professional nurses to refuse the tasks under certain circumstances without the fear of adverse reactions or revenge from the employers.

Impact on Nursing practice :

This law is meant for protecting the employment opportunity for the nurses. The law recommends all the Healthcare facility to train and educate the nurses regarding the The Safe Harbour for Nurses Act and their right to refuse certain tasks , that she feels that , she lack the basic knowledge and skills to execute it, and also if she is not convinced about the medical reasonableness of a particular task , without fear of reprisal or retaliation from her employers. This law protects the Nurses from delivering unnecessary hatm to the patients and there by reducing the complications and also protecting herself from legal actions, in case of any adverse events in the hospitals. Health care facilities should provide training for all managerial person and supervisors on the implementation of The Safe Harbour for Nurses Act and to protect the nurses. It prohibits the hospitals from terminating, disciplining , discriminating nurses for unnecessary reasons like rejecting a task due to lack of skill or task that not satisfying the medical reasonableness. Nurse can protect her from involving any unlawful act or immoral act , that the Doctors or employers asked her to do.

Impact on Patient care :

The Safe Harbour for Nurses Act , allows the nurse from doing a compex medical task , that she is not familiar with , or that she think the task is harmful for the patient. This provision also protects the patient from receiving a healthcare service from an unskilled person or from receiving a harmful procedure. Quality of Health care is also can be improved and medical errors and mistakes from nurse also can decrease with it. Nurses can peacefully work in the Healthcare facility , that inturn may increase quality care to the patient as well as the patient outcomes.