Pennsylvania’s nurses have rallied in Harrisburg for legislation to establish legal guidelines for nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in the state.
The proposal supported by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association calls for individual hospitals to establish their own guidelines on a unit-by-unit basis.
The most recent nurse staffing bill in the Pennsylvania General Assembly was referred to the House Committee on Health in the fall of 2011.
Read more about the nurses’ rally in Harrisburg and their objectives in this Central Penn Business Journal article.