Social media influencer leads drive for safer nurse staffing at hospitals
A social media influencer is galvanizing nurses across the country to petition an Illinois-based organization for safer staffing at hospitals and other health care settings — a campaign that, this week, has included a rally, commercials on local TV and a mobile billboard traveling to Chicago-area hospitals.
Florida nurse Blake Lynch, better known as “Nurse Blake” on social media, has been working with and a Virginia- and New York City-based advocacy group called Impact in Healthcare, on the effort to ask the Joint Commission to require “safe staffing ratios” as a condition
