California bill to protect healthcare workers from violence moves ahead
Two nurses stabbed recently at L.A. hospitals
Registered nurses are among those keeping close watch on a California measure to protect the state’s healthcare workers from work-related violence as it moves from one Senate committee to another this week.
Senate Bill 1299 -- which would strengthen a current law that requires hospitals to establish injury prevention programs -- has already been approved by the state’s Senate Labor Committee. Now it goes to the Senate Health Committee. The measure was sponsored by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United.