Joan Feldman Quoted in Hartford Business Journal Article Entitled "Change to Nursing OT Law Seen as Nod to Organized Labor, Doing Little to Address Staffing Crisis"

Joan Feldman, Chair of Shipman’s Health Law practice, was quoted in this Hartford Business Journal article entitled “Change to Nursing OT Law Seen as Nod to Organized Labor, Doing Little to Address Staffing Crisis."

Feldman sees legislation like this as providing “short-term fixes to long-term problems.”

“It is most unfortunate that with the nursing shortage issue clearly looming well before the COVID-19 pandemic, that more had not been done by the state and federal governments to address the impending nursing shortage in order to prevent the need for hospitals to impose unwanted demands on nurses simply to ensure that hospital patients receive high-quality care,” Feldman said. “Nurses are essential to the well-being of hospital patients, and the time is now for attracting more talented students to the nursing profession.”

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