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Hundreds of nurses rallied on the Capitol lawn Wednesday calling on state lawmakers to pass nurse staffing reforms.
The group of demonstrators want a legislative hearing on the Safe Patient Care Act, which they say addresses dangerous understaffing at hospitals in the state.
President of the Michigan Nurses Association, John Armelagos, says the act would also limit mandatory overtime for nurses to ensure a patients aren’t cared for by nurses who are too tired to provide safe care.
The rally was accompanied by the release of a poll of more than 400 registered nurses in the state, which found 50 percent say they are assigned an unsafe patient workload on at least half their shifts.
And close to 90 percent believe that quality of care is suffering do to short staffing.
The poll by Anderson Robbins Research was conducted March 2nd to the 14th.
