Despite safe-staffing laws enacted by the state in recent years, a recent study from the New York State Nurses Association found that just one-third of surveyed hospitals complied with the mandate to publicly post staffing plans in all hospital units and failed to staff intensive care units at the required nurse-to-patient ratio more than 50 percent of the time.
In 2021, the state passed laws requiring hospitals to establish committees to set safe-staffing ratios. NYSNA, which represents more than 42,000 nurses statewide, gathered and analyzed staffing data from more than 60 hospitals to determine the effectiveness of the laws.
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