Earlier in February, Minnesota lawmakers and nurse union leaders unveiled legislation to address insufficient nursing and staff numbers.
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If passed into law, it would create staffing committees to create sufficient nurse-patient staffing levels, eliminate the boarding of patients in ERs, and publicly report their performance against staffing benchmarks.
We talked with DFL Senator Erin Murphy, a nurse herself, about why she has authored the legislation.
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