About FlashAlert on Twitter:
FlashAlert utilizes the free service Twitter to distribute emergency text messages. While you are welcome to register your cell phone text message address directly into the FlashAlert system, we recommend that you simply "follow" the FlashAlert account for Oregon Nurses Assn. by clicking on the link below and logging in to (or creating) your free Twitter account. Twitter sends messages out exceptionally fast thanks to arrangements they have made with the cell phone companies.
Click here to add Oregon Nurses Assn. to your Twitter account or create one.
@OregonNurses
Corrected to add date.
Media Advisory: FOR PLANNING PURPOSES
Press Conference: Leaders and staff of the Oregon Nurses Association announce the launch of their Safe Staffing Saves Lives campaign to support new legislation addressing Oregon’s nurse staffing crisis. ONA, with the support of Rep. Rob Nosse, will be introducing groundbreaking new legislation during Oregon’s 2023 legislative session that seeks to strengthen Oregon’s existing Hospital Nurse Staffing Law and adds minimum safe nurse staffing as a means of addressing the root causes of Oregon’s ongoing nurse staffing crisis.
WHEN/WHERE:
Wednesday, Nov. 2
9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
Oregon Nurses Association Offices
3rd Floor Conference Room (please enter from the main door of the building facing Boones Ferry Road)
18765 SW Boones Ferry Road, Ste. 200
Tualatin, OR 97062
(The press conference will be streamed live on ONA’s Facebook page:www.facebook.com/OregonNursesAssociation)
WHO:
Tamie Cline, RN, President of the ONA Board of Directors
Allison Seymour, RN
Paige Spence, ONA’s Director of Government Relations
Matt Calzia, RN, ONA’s Director of Nursing Practice and Professional Development
WHAT:
ONA elected leaders and staff will provide an overview of groundbreaking legislation that seeks to address the root causes of Oregon’s ongoing nurse staffing crisis. The legislation, crafted with the assistance of nurses across the state, and in conjunction with ONA’s labor partners from the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (OFNHP) and SEIU, will add significant new enforcement measures to Oregon’s existing nurse staffing law, alongside severe financial penalties for hospital systems who continue to ignore the law. In addition, ONA’s legislation would add new minimum safe staffing standards for units throughout hospital systems, helping to address nurse burnout and turnover.
###
The Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) is the state’s largest and most influential nursing organization. We are a professional association and labor union which represents more than 15,000 nurses and allied health workers throughout the state. ONA’s mission is to advocate for nursing, quality health care and healthy communities. For more information visit: www.OregonRN.org.