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NYSNA Presses Bill To Set Nursing Minimums

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 6/18/18

The New York State Nurses Association is pushing a bill in Albany to require all hospitals and nursing homes to establish minimum staffing levels for nurses. Boosters of the legislation say they have ample medical research to document that setting such a patient-to-nurse ratio improves care and reduces the rates of injury, burnout and illness experienced by nurses.

Much of that research has been generated in California, which back in 2004 became the first, and so far only, state to enact a nurse-staffing requirement

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