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Senator Wiger receives Minnesota
Nurses Association Award
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Senator Chuck Wigerp�esents his bill,S.F.
1071,on workplace vio%nce prevention to the
Hea/th and Human Services Budget Division
on Apri!15.Maplewood Police Chief Paul
Schnel/and Nurse Simone(Nora)Jordan,
testifred in support of the bill(submitted
photo)
Senator Chuck Wiger,DFL-Maplewood,has recently been awarded the 2015
Public Official Award by the Minnesota Nurses Association in recognition of
his work on S.F.1071,the Violence against Health Care Workers Bill.Attacks
on health care workers have been in the news more regulariy in recent years,
most dramatically in the case of an atfack on four nurses at St.John's
Hospital almost one year ago.
"No one deserves to feel unsafe in theirjob,"remarked Sen.Wger."The end
goal of this legislation is to create a safer workplace for all health care
professionals,and a system forviolent acts to be reported and recorded,so
that hospitals can better track why and where violence is happening in an effort
to reduce and eventually end all violence."
The bill requires hospitals to have a violence prevention plan by early 2016.
The plan must be drafted by a committee of hospital staff,inciuding health care
workers.Hospitais also will be required to offer violence prevention training.
The legislation,signed by Govemor Mark f�ayton,is designed to provide
adequate training,staffing,and security to healthcare workers who are faced
with workplace violence.
"Our healthcare teams are quite literally lif�savers,and they deserve the
peace of mind they need at theirjobs to care for their patients,"Wiger said."I
am honored to have received this recognition,and hope that my colleagues in
the legislature will continue to support our efforts to miriimize violence in the
workplace."
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