Don’t listen to management posing as bedside nurses. WA hospitals need safe staffing law

Published by TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE on 1/13/22 (Source)

Please listen to nurses like me and other healthcare workers. We need lawmakers in Olympia to pass the safe staffing standards we’ve asked for, to make our jobs safer and manageable and ensure our patients — you — get the timely and quality care they need. Linda Burbank is a registered nurse in the acute care cardiac unit at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, where she has worked for 21 years.

Linda Burbank is a registered nurse in the acute care cardiac unit at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, where she has worked for 21 years.

Published by Tacoma News Tribune on January 13, 2022.

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