Mah Supports Effort to Improve Patient Safety in Hospitals

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Hospital patients would experience an enhanced level of nursing care under legislation sponsored by state Rep. Theresa Mah, D-Chicago, which would require mandatory nurse staffing ratios. “When nurses are stretched too thin in caring for very sick...

Kifowit Introduces Measure to Safeguard Nurses in the Workplace

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Illinois nurses would be better protected from workplace violence under legislation introduced Monday by state Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego. “In the last decade, workplace violence against nurses has increased at an alarming rate,” Kifowit...