I know if you pay nurses enough, you'll have enough staff, that's pretty clear. Enough nurses=better working conditions, so it snowballs into a good environment.
So, how is it that CA can do this and NY can't? We keep hearing the pitiful cries of administration that there just aren't enough RNs, so we're always shortstaffed, and of course the conditions plummet from there.
Is it a chicken-or-the-egg scenario, where more RNs miraculously and immediately showed up once the mandated maximum went into effect, all dying to work in CA? Were there already enough RNs, allowing the maximum law to go into effect without hospitals being in fear of breaking it (by not having the staff)?
I know nurses there aren't being paid dirt-poor wages to enable the safe ratios, so how the heck is it working THERE and not HERE?
