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WA lawmakers should heed nurses’ warning they are staffed too thin

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"Washington’s health care system can’t function, financially or otherwise, without an adequate staff of nurses. Trust nurses when they say their ranks are too thin." - Seattle Times editorial board.

This editorial features a photograph of a picket by WSNA nurses on Aug. 9 at Seattle Children's Hospital.

WA lawmakers should heed nurses’ warning they are staffed too thin

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