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Nevada Governor Lombardo vetoes bill which would have established maximum nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals (nurse.org)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/usa@midwest.social

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[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This sounds like good news? Putting a cap on the number of nurses isn't the way to reduce understaffing. Or is this a reporter that can't math?

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's gotta be the latter because the former is insane. I suppose a maximum ratio could prevent well funded hospitals from scooping up all the nurses, but that's not something the nurses union would endorse.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Four out of three people struggle with math.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

The article fucked it up. The bill (first version) says: "Section 8 of this bill establishes the maximum ratios for the number of patients that may be assigned to a direct care nurse at one time in certain hospitals in a county ... ".