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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 1, 2005
Contact: Tracy Polovick
Coordinator of Communications and Outreach
(717) 787-8524
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Vance Bill to Boost Patient Safety, Quality of Care Passes Senate

HARRISBURG – Patient safety and the quality of care received by patients would be bolstered by continuing education requirements for nurses under legislation authored by Sen. Patricia Vance (R-Cumberland/York).

"The medical malpractice patient safety initiative passed several years ago requires physicians to completed 100 hours of continuing education every two years," Vance said. "If nurses want to be considered professionals, we need to increase our knowledge too. With all the technological changes continuing education is vital in order to take care of patients and be better educated nurses."

Senate Bill 235 would amend the Professional Nursing Law to require nurses to obtain 30 hours of continuing education every two years as a condition of license renewal. The bill now goes to the House.

Vance's district includes all of Cumberland County and Carroll, Fairview, Franklin, Monaghan, Warrington and Washington townships and Dillsburg, Franklintown and Wellsville boroughs in York County.