{"id":96460,"date":"2020-09-29T07:55:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=96460"},"modified":"2020-09-29T20:59:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T03:59:44","slug":"nurses-applaud-ppe-bill-signed-by-gov-newsom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2020\/09\/29\/nurses-applaud-ppe-bill-signed-by-gov-newsom\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-ed: Nurses applaud PPE bill signed by Gov. Newsom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-96462\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PPE-drawing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PPE-drawing.jpg 538w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PPE-drawing-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By the California Nurses Association<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a big win for nurses and other health care workers, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation today [Sept. 29] to require hospitals to create and maintain a stockpile of N95 masks, gowns, and other personal protective equipment (PPE), announced California Nurses Association (CNA).<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by CNA and authored by Assemblymember Freddie Rodriguez, AB 2537 applies to employers whose employees provide direct patient care in a public or private sector hospital setting, requiring employers to provide and ensure that employees use PPE to protect themselves. The PPE shall be new and not expired.<\/p>\n<p>The law also mandates these employers to maintain a stockpile of unexpired personal protective equipment in the amount equal to three months of normal consumption. Decontaminated PPE cannot be part of their stockpile.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, employers are required to provide an inventory of their stockpiles to Cal\/OSHA upon request. AB 2537 ensures that an employer who violates this requirement shall be assessed a civil penalty of up to $25,000 for each such violation pursuant to Cal\/OSHA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make hospitals in the state responsible for their own workers,\u201d said CNA President Zenei Cortez, RN. \u201cHospitals are responsible for providing a safe workplace and that includes PPE. They should not be relying exclusively on support from federal or state government stockpiles to provide PPE for nurses and other health care workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 21, Gov. Newsom signed another CNA-sponsored bill AB 2037, which would expand public notice requirements to affected communities to 120 days before a hospital closes, and 90 days for elimination of an existing service. Awaiting Newsom&#8217;s signature is CNA-sponsored AB 2588, which would stop employers from mandating that RN job applicants pay for required educational programs or training.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About the author<\/span>: The California Nurses Association\/National Nurses United is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the nation with 100,000 members in more than 200 facilities throughout California and more than 155,000 RNs nationwide.\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the California Nurses Association In a big win for nurses and other health care workers, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation today [Sept. 29] to require hospitals to create and maintain a stockpile of N95 masks, gowns, and other personal protective equipment (PPE), announced California Nurses Association (CNA). Sponsored by CNA and authored by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":96462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1480],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}