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Senate requires registered nurse on hospital governing boards, cites patient-safety benefits
Summary
Senators approved a bill requiring hospitals to include a registered professional nurse as a voting member of their governing body; sponsors argued it will improve patient safety, staffing decisions and quality of care. The Senate vote was 38–15.
The New York State Senate approved legislation that requires hospitals to include at least one registered professional nurse as a sitting and voting member of the institution’s governing body, a change supporters said will ground board decisions in clinical, bedside experience.
Senator Sean Webb, speaking on the floor, said nurses are “the backbone of our health care system” and that “their voices belong in every room where decisions are made,…
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