Nurses say new break and overtime law will improve patient care
Published by THE DAILY NEWS (LONGVIEW) on 4/27/19 (Source)
Sarah Rice, an Intensive Care Unit nurse at St. John Medical Center, said in her 10 years on the job she hasn’t worked a full week that she’s gotten to take all her allotted breaks.
That’s not a knock against the hospital, Rice said, but a problem within nursing and hospital culture. In what Rice calls a “big win for nurses,” a bill the Washington Legislature passed over hospital industry objections requires hospitals to give nurses uninterrupted breaks.