Sunday, August 4, 2013

Sunday Globe Special: Massachusetts Misery

It might be if you don't treat them right:

"Nurses union to file ballot question asking voters to limit number of patients" by Liz Kowalczyk |  Globe Staff,  August 04, 2013

The state’s largest nurses union intends to ask voters to do what the Legislature has refused to do: establish statewide limits on the number of hospital patients assigned to each nurse.

The Massachusetts Nurses Association plans to launch a Facebook campaign Monday and an Internet advertising campaign in September to build support for a proposed November 2014 ballot question that would cap nurses’ workload in acute care hospitals. Supporters must gather 70,000 signatures from registered voters by this November.

The effort is likely to ignite a fierce public debate between the union and hospitals. There are potent feelings on both sides, and each says it wants what is best for patients....

I'll be siding with the nurses on that, and signing any petition put in front of me.

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