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Article: NEW LAW IS PROTECTING NURSES, PATIENTS

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July 17, 2009
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ALBANY, N.Y., July 1 -- New York State Sen. John A. DeFrancisco, R-Syracuse (50th District), issued the following news release:

Mandatory overtime (MOT) often results in nurses working long hours with little rest. These dangerous conditions can increase the risk of nurses making errors in the care of patients, and can negatively affect the well-being of those patients.

To combat the problem, our state has enacted a new law, which recently took effect, to ban mandatory overtime for nurses (RNs and LPNs). The law, which I co-sponsored, prohibits public and state health care facilities, as well as hospitals from requiring nurses to work beyond their regularly scheduled work hours. However, it ...

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