Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Jun 14, 2016 | referred to rules delivered to senate passed assembly |
May 26, 2016 | advanced to third reading cal.762 |
May 25, 2016 | reported |
Feb 09, 2016 | reported referred to ways and means |
Feb 02, 2016 | reported referred to codes |
Jan 06, 2016 | referred to higher education |
Jun 09, 2015 | ordered to third reading rules cal.101 rules report cal.101 reported |
Jun 03, 2015 | reported referred to rules |
Jun 02, 2015 | reported referred to ways and means |
May 28, 2015 | reported referred to codes |
Jan 28, 2015 | referred to higher education |
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Co-Sponsors
Ellen C. Jaffee
N. Nick Perry
William Magnarelli
Linda Rosenthal
Multi-Sponsors
Thomas Abinanti
William A. Barclay
Karl Brabenec
Edward Braunstein
A3945 (ACTIVE) - Details
A3945 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3945 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 28, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MORELLE, JAFFEE, PERRY, MAGNARELLI, ROSENTHAL, CUSICK, GUNTHER, ORTIZ, PAULIN, LAVINE, TITONE, DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, MILLER, BENEDETTO, BRONSON, BROOK-KRASNY, GALEF, COLTON, BRINDISI, SKARTADOS, McDONALD, STIRPE, GOLDFEDER, SEPULVEDA, FAHY -- Multi-Spon- sored by -- M. of A. ABINANTI, BARCLAY, BRAUNSTEIN, CAHILL, COOK, CURRAN, CYMBROWITZ, DenDEKKER, ENGLEBRIGHT, FINCH, FITZPATRICK, HEAST- IE, HOOPER, JOHNS, KOLB, LIFTON, LUPARDO, MAGEE, MALLIOTAKIS, McDO- NOUGH, MONTESANO, NOLAN, PRETLOW, RAIA, RAMOS, RIVERA, ROBINSON, RUSSELL, SCHIMEL, TEDISCO, TENNEY, ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the educational prepa- ration for practice of professional nursing THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The legislature hereby finds and declares that with the increasing complexity of the American healthcare system and rapidly expanding technology, the educational preparation of the registered professional nurse must be expanded. The nurse of the future must be prepared to partner with multiple disciplines as a collaborator and manager of the complex patient care journey. Shorter lengths of stays, higher patient acuity, and more sophisticated technologies and proce- dures are increasing the complexity of patient care - which in turn places great demands on nursing competencies. Other countries are responding to these changes by requiring the baccalaureate degree as an entry requirement for nursing licensure while other professions are demanding master and doctoral degrees as their entry point. Several recent research studies clearly demonstrate the added value of addi- tional education in relation to improved patient outcomes; one study demonstrates that each ten percent increase in the number of baccalau- reate prepared nurses results in a five percent decrease in surgical patient deaths. Therefore, the legislature finds that expanding the EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04729-01-5