By Dave Dahl
SPRINGFIELD – When senators convened a hearing into the nursing shortage, one of the witnesses showed up in black scrubs.
Paul Pater, treasurer of the Illinois Nurses Association and a nurse at UI Health, said the black was not only for the two colleagues he lost in the early days of covid, but also for “the choice in front of you, senators, a choice as simple as black and white; the choice to pass the Safe Patient Limits Act.”
Senators also heard about nursing schools which claim there’s no money to offer higher salaries, and about teachers watching their graduates immediately take jobs in which they make more than do the teachers.
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