Massachusetts residents, what do you think is important for voters to consider regarding Question 1 and nurse to patient ratios?

I think patients need to think about 4 things:  A.  Emergency care, B. Cost, C. Long term care, D. Patient/care interaction with interpersonal relationship skills. (no time limit in A, C, or D.)     A hospital administrator or CEO for the hospital is always doing analysis of patient care and looking at statistics.  I don't believe anyone else can do better than that.  Therefore, I would vote no on question 1.  

I believe less nurses less patient care...I think Hospitals want to control

How many nurses are on no 

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The concept of Nurse Patient Ratio makes sense. The impracticability of immediately changing the system & its cost effect, does not. The concept needs to be planned out to be phased in.   

I am going to vote "no" on this one.   If you  ( or someone ) you know had a life-threating condition  wouldn't you want to be treated right away.   If you vote a "no", then you know that you could be seen right away ( FWIW,  I am voting "no" on all )

I'm voting NO

The nurses are best qualified to determine their staffing needs. The Head Nurse for each department should be able to schedule the number of nurses needed to provide the required care to patients in-house. I've read that 75% of RNs feel that they are assigned too many patients and they would like their patient load limited. That would mean more RNs would be on duty for perhaps many shifts. I trust their judgment and will vote Yes to support the nurses.

I voted yes on question one. I think it is better for the nurses and the patients for each nurse to be less stressed. If it costs more than I think that the administrators could take less money. The doctors, the nurses, the orderlies and cleaners are the ones who do the work for the hospital. They need more wages and less stress.

This proposed bill got my attention because I was a patient for over 6 years dealing with several issue and having several surgeries so I've done some research and given much thought to this issue, as well as my wife's input as she is recently retired from the Health Care Industry. On the surface the limiting of patient/nurse ratio would seem a good thing, we feel on the contrary it will create other problems, such as patients needing care and current staffing isn't adequate to satisfy patient/nurse ratio. In addition it will ultimately add substantial overall cost. I'm also reluctant to encourage government regulations unless absolutely necessary.

I have many friends who are nurses and they feel in big hospitals it would be  affordable to have more nurses per patient as for example in California. However it will be so costly many smaller hospitals and nursing homes will close if they cannot meet this nurse requirement. My sister-in-law worked 35 years in the emergency room and at times she was the only nurse on. If she was allowed only three patients what would she do if more patients came in over her limit? It is not affordable in Mass.

Not sure how to vote yet.