After continued staffing challenges in hospitals across the state, nurses are now calling on the Legislature to step in and help.
Legislature debates WA hospital staffing ratios as health care labor problem steeps
The proposed bill would set legal nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals. It passed the House with overwhelming Democratic support, but most Republicans voted against the idea.
Linda Burbank is a nurse in the acute cardiac care unit at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Tacoma. She told the Gee Scott and Ursula Reutin Show this week that conditions are “distressing.”
“I’m a registered nurse and I’ve worked at the bedside for over 20 years and throughout this entire
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