We are a group of individual nurses who found each other through social media to improve conditions for nurses and our patients in Connecticut. We are looking to pass legislation for nurse to patient ratios to protect our license and our patients. 

The conditions nurses are expected to currently practice under are unsustainable. The nursing ratios are unsafe for you as a patient and for the nurses working to protect you. We are all at risk of losing. There have been evidence-based studies conducted which show that safe staffing reduces the risk to patients. The risks of short staffing in nursing are hospital acquired infections (Lasater et al., 2021), higher readmission rates (Aiken et al., 2018) medication errors, patient falls, skin breakdown, and death (Griffiths et al., 2016). 

What we would like to see:

• Set limits rather than averages of nurse to patient ratios. This includes breaks.
• Some form of enforceable repercussions for hospitals who do not comply.
• A waiver for hospitals to apply for in times of crisis such as mass casualty events,  natural disaster or local surges of flu, Covid 19 or RSV with a time limit to prevent consistent waivers keeping staffing levels above ANA recommended levels.
• An outlet for bedside nurses to be able to report above ratio staffing.
• Nurses can not be floated to departments that they are not trained or qualified to work in. 

Help us change the current conditions by signing our petition!