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Press Releases

• Video: Michigan nurses call for safe limits to patient assignments as RNs report a rise in preventable deaths

• Legislators, RNs call for safe limits on nurses’ assignments during National Nurses Week

• AFL-CIO Press Release

Radio

• Michigan lawmakers, nurses seek more efficient patient assignment limits with proposed bills

• Lawmakers re-introduce bills to set limits on nurse-to-patient ratio

• Lawmakers re-introduce nurse-to-patient ratio package

• Would mandating nurse-to-patient ratios make Michigan hospitals safer?

• Michigan nurses "heading for the exits" as staffing crisis continues

 
TV

• Michigan lawmakers calling for safer assignment limits on nurses

• Michigan nurses meet with lawmakers to discuss Safe Patient Care Act

• If passed, bill package would create safeguards for Michigan’s nurses

• Nurses speak on proposed Safe Patient Care Act

• Reintroduced bills aim to even out patient assignment load for nurses

• Reintroduced bills aim to attract and retain nurses while keeping patients safer

 
Print/Online

• Michigan nurses advocating for Safe Patient Care Act

• ​Michigan nurses push for Safe Patient Care Act amidst patient overload and burnout

• Addressing nurse-to-patient ratio inside hospitals

• Michigan hospitals, nurses clash over proposed legislation on staffing, overtime limits

• Bills would set nurse staffing ratios in Michigan hospitals

• Nurses say patient limits would improve dangerous hospital conditions

• Healthcare professionals celebrate National Nurses Week

• Michigan Nurse Legislation, what it means to patients