within 120 days of the formation of the staffing committee .
(3) Adopt the staffing plan in a timeline that is
consistent with the hospital budgetary planning process.
(4) Make accessible to all nursing staff the final and
approved staffing plan for the hospital units.
(5) Evaluate staffing plans and report to the staffing
committee no less than twice annually, pertaining to
implementation, barriers to implementation and other concerns
relating to staffing plans.
(6) Develop and implement a plan of action with the
assistance of professional nurses providing direct patient
care and other appropriate staff, if there is evidence of
noncompliance with the staffing plan and the noncompliance
with the staffing plan negatively impacts patients and
professional nurses.
(7) Ensure that the staffing plan contains information
informing professional nurses how to report concerns about
noncompliance with the staffing plan to a person designated
by the staffing committee.
(8) Develop mechanisms by which nursing staff can raise
concerns and make recommendations about the staffing plans
either through the existing staffing committee or nursing
administration, or both, and inform nursing staff of the
process.
(9) Ensure that the chief nursing officer receives
periodic reports from the staffing committee in a format
developed by the hospital to ensure that consistent
information is captured.
(10) Receive reports from other hospital committees,
including, but not limited to, the patient safety committee
and quality committee, that may be related to nurse staffing.
(11) Provide an annual report, for internal purposes, to
the chief executive officer, the staffing committee and the
governing board relating to nurse staffing, including, but
not limited to, compliance with the approved nurse staffing
plans and any actions taken to address nurse staffing issues.
(12) Make available to all patients information on how
to make a request for the staffing plan, including the
appropriate person, office or department that may be
contacted to review or obtain a copy of the plan. The
hospital shall also post the information specified under this
paragraph on the hospital's publicly accessible Internet
website.
(13) Comply with the act of December 12, 1986 (P.L.1559,
No.169), known as the Whistleblower Law, and section
307(b) (4) of the act of March 20, 2002 (P.L.154, No.13),
known as the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error
(Mcare) Act.
Section 806-C . Duties and responsibilities of staffing
committees.
The staffing committee shall have the following duties and
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