The new year is off to a start with two potential nurse strikes as negotiations drag on at both The Queen’s Health System on Oahu and Wilcox Medical Center on Kauai. The Hawaii Nurses’ Association ...

As more than a dozen states consider laws to establish hospital nurse-to-patient ratios, what has been the experience in California—the first state to establish such a rule—since the policy took full ...

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Oh) and Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-Il.), co-chair of the House Democratic Caucus Task Force on Aging and Families, have reintroduced a bill that would create ...

Registered nurses at six Tenet hospitals across California held one-day strikes on Oct. 30, to protest the ...

OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new academic study says mandating nurse-to-patient ratios would save lives, improve overall outcomes for patients, and alleviate the staffing crisis in Ontario’s ...

Two sides are warring over the passage of a bill mandating nurse-to-patient ratios and increasing transparency in work protections. Senate Bill 182, sponsored by Sen. Rochelle Nguyen, D-Las Vegas, ...

Employing too few permanent nurses on hospital wards is linked to longer inpatient stays, readmissions, patient deaths, and ultimately costs more in lives and money, finds a long term study published ...

New York lawmakers are weighing the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act, a bill that would set nurse-to-patient ratios for certain departments in hospitals and nursing homes. The bill would require ...

As bargaining discussions continue this week between the B.C. Nurses' Union (BCNU) and the province, one key issue the union hopes to push is British Columbia’s commitment to nurse-to-patient ratios.

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