Full Text of HB1684 97th General Assembly
HB1684ham001 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Lou Lang Filed: 3/31/2011
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1684
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1684 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Hospital Licensing Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 6.25 as follows: | 6 | | (210 ILCS 85/6.25) | 7 | | Sec. 6.25. Safe patient handling policy. | 8 | | (a) In this Section: | 9 | | "Health care worker" means an individual providing direct | 10 | | patient care services who may be required to lift, transfer, | 11 | | reposition, or move a patient. | 12 | | "Nurse" means an advanced practice nurse, a registered | 13 | | nurse, or a licensed practical nurse licensed under the Nurse | 14 | | Practice Act. | 15 | | "Safe lifting equipment and accessories" means mechanical | 16 | | equipment designed to lift, move, reposition, and transfer |
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| 1 | | patients, including, but not limited to, fixed and portable | 2 | | ceiling lifts, sit-to-stand lifts, slide sheets and boards, | 3 | | slings, and repositioning and turning sheets. | 4 | | "Safe lifting team" means at least 2 individuals who are | 5 | | trained in the use of both safe lifting techniques and safe | 6 | | lifting equipment and accessories, including the | 7 | | responsibility for knowing the location and condition of such | 8 | | equipment and accessories. | 9 | | (b) A hospital must adopt and ensure implementation of a | 10 | | policy to identify, assess, and develop strategies to control | 11 | | risk of injury to patients and nurses and other health care | 12 | | workers associated with the lifting, transferring, | 13 | | repositioning, or movement of a patient. The policy shall | 14 | | establish a process that, at a minimum, includes all of the | 15 | | following: | 16 | | (1) Analysis of the risk of injury to patients and | 17 | | nurses and other health care workers posted by the patient | 18 | | handling needs of the patient populations served by the | 19 | | hospital and the physical environment in which the patient | 20 | | handling and movement occurs. | 21 | | (2) Education and training of nurses and other direct | 22 | | patient care providers in the identification, assessment, | 23 | | and control of risks of injury to patients and nurses and | 24 | | other health care workers during patient handling and on | 25 | | safe lifting policies and techniques and current lifting | 26 | | equipment . |
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| 1 | | (3) Evaluation of alternative ways to reduce risks | 2 | | associated with patient handling, including evaluation of | 3 | | equipment and the environment. | 4 | | (4) Restriction, to the extent feasible with existing | 5 | | equipment and aids, of manual patient handling or movement | 6 | | of all or most of a patient's weight except for emergency, | 7 | | life-threatening, or otherwise exceptional circumstances. | 8 | | (5) Collaboration with and an annual report to the | 9 | | nurse staffing committee. | 10 | | (6) Procedures for a nurse to refuse to perform or be | 11 | | involved in patient handling or movement that the nurse in | 12 | | good faith believes will expose a patient or nurse or other | 13 | | health care worker to an unacceptable risk of injury. | 14 | | (7) Submission of an annual report to the hospital's | 15 | | governing body or quality assurance committee on | 16 | | activities related to the identification, assessment, and | 17 | | development of strategies to control risk of injury to | 18 | | patients and nurses and other health care workers | 19 | | associated with the lifting, transferring, repositioning, | 20 | | or movement of a patient. | 21 | | (8) In developing architectural plans for construction | 22 | | or remodeling of a hospital or unit of a hospital in which | 23 | | patient handling and movement occurs, consideration of the | 24 | | feasibility of incorporating patient handling equipment or | 25 | | the physical space and construction design needed to | 26 | | incorporate that equipment.
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| 1 | | (9) Fostering and maintaining patient safety, dignity, | 2 | | self-determination, and choice, including the following | 3 | | policies, strategies, and procedures: | 4 | | (A) the existence and availability of a trained | 5 | | safe lifting team; | 6 | | (B) a policy of advising patients of a range of | 7 | | transfer and lift options, including adjustable | 8 | | diagnostic and treatment equipment, mechanical lifts, | 9 | | and provision of a trained safe lifting team; | 10 | | (C) the right of a competent patient, or guardian | 11 | | of a patient adjudicated incompetent, to choose among | 12 | | the range of transfer and lift options, subject to the | 13 | | provisions of subparagraph (E) of this paragraph (9); | 14 | | (D) procedures for documenting, upon admission and | 15 | | as status changes, a mobility assessment and plan for | 16 | | lifting, transferring, repositioning, or movement of a | 17 | | patient, including the choice of the patient or | 18 | | patient's guardian among the range of transfer and lift | 19 | | options; and | 20 | | (E) incorporation of such safe lifting procedures, | 21 | | techniques, and equipment as are consistent with | 22 | | applicable federal law. | 23 | | (Source: P.A. 96-389, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)".
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