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Nurse Practitioners and Chiropractors Want More Workers’ Comp Patients

Senate Bill 533 awaits only a House vote to become law, expanding the length of time that a nurse practitioner can see an injured worker and giving workers access to their preferred chiropractor.
May 2, 2013 -- People who suffer an injury on the job will get better access to a nurse practitioner or their favored chiropractor under a Senate bill that should become law. Read More >>

Planned Parenthood Wants Pregnancy Centers to Display Their Services

Similar measures to require anti-abortion counseling centers to display signs have run afoul of the First Amendment and have been struck down by federal courts. SB 490 would require centers to display signs that they have no medical staff and do not offer prenatal care, contraceptives or abortions.
  April 3, 2013 — Planned Parenthood is pushing Senate Bill 490, which would require crisis pregnancy centers to declare upfront in signs whether they offer abortion, contraceptive or adoption services and if patients will receive services from a medical provider.
 
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Senate Committee Votes to Give Urban Nurse Practitioners Dispensing Powers

Pushed by Portland clinic chain ZoomCare, Senate Bill 8 has the support of the Oregon Nurses’ Association but is opposed by the pharmacists’ association
February 6, 2013 -- The Senate Health Committee unanimously passed a bill Monday that would allow nurse practitioners across the state to prescribe and dispense medicine.
 
Senate Bill 8 could go to a full senate vote as early as tomorrow when it’s expected to pass. The bill would then be heard before the appropriate House committee.
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Healthcare Workers, Public Health Officials Push for Paid Sick Days

Workers not granted leave time to care for themselves or their children – and a lack of sick days causes high turnover in workplaces
December 13, 2012 -- Last week, Jennifer Bevacqua, a pediatric nurse practitioner at Randall Children's Hospital at Legacy Emmanuel Medical Center, treated a boy who was a year and a half old and had what Bevacqua described as eye motion issues, which can indicate a brain tumor. After being informed that he’d need an emergency MRI, his grandmother – who was the boy's primary caregiver and had taken him to the hospital – called her boss to ask if she could stay with her grandson while he received the care he needed. Read More >>

Data on Healthcare Violence Remains Out of Reach

Statistics say healthcare workers are twice as likely to be victims of workplace violence, but employers are exempt from OSHA reporting requirements, and can keep info on training and safety plans under wraps
June 7, 2012 -- Two weeks ago, community health worker Jennifer Warren was stabbed to death in the St. Helens home of Brent K. Redd Jr., who was receiving services from Columbia County Community Mental Health (CCMH), Warren's employer.   Read More >>

Attempts to Amend Nurse Practitioner Bill Failed

In the end, the Oregon Nurses Association was unwilling to budge
February 25, 2012—Some legislators, including freshman Rep. Alissa Keny-Guyer (D-Portland), hoped that the referral of a bill reimbursing nurse practitioners at the same rate as physicians to the House Rules Committee wouldn’t mean that the bill would die, but that it could be amended to address the concerns of various constituencies. Read More >>

Nurse Practitioners Seek Payment Parity from Insurers

But legislators are unlikely to take action because of the strong lobbying efforts by insurance companies
November 29, 2011—The Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) is trying to convince legislators that insurance companies should pay nurse practitioners the same amount as primary care physicians for the same services. Read More >>

St. Charles Redmond Nurses Vote in Favor of Contract

January 24, 2011 -- The nurses at St. Charles Redmond voted in favor of ratifying their three-year Oregon Nurses Association contract Thursday. Read More >>

Nurses Ratify Labor Contract at St. Charles Bend

Over the next two years the nurses will receive a 3.5 percent wage increase
August 4 2010 -- The nurses at St. Charles Bend have voted to ratify a new labor contract that goes into effect immediately. The nurses voted 77 percent in favor of the contract. Read More >>

Nurse Staffing Effort Dies Amid Union Squabble

The fight for nurse-to-patient staffing ratios suffered another defeat at the Oregon legislature because two unions couldn't agree
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July 1, 2009 -- For the second legislative session in a row, the state’s two largest nurses unions failed to see eye to eye on the need for specific nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in hospitals. Read More >>
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