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Michigan could join a multi-state nurse licensing agreement. That’s under a recent bill introduced in the state Legislature.The legislation would add Michigan to the “nurse licensing compact.”

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Michigan hospitals are struggling to maintain safe staffing levels. The state currently has a nursing shortage and many nurses say they plan to leave the profession.

Michigan lawmakers are again trying to cap the number of patients nurses must treat at once.

Michigan’s health system is at a critical juncture, researchers say. If conditions don’t improve soon, there could soon be a “spiral of additional resignations” that “threaten the delivery of essential care.”

On today's show, we discussed nurse understaffing and increased violence in schools. Plus, we heard about an affordable housing project and new changes to primary elections.

University of Michigan Health's nurses have filed a lawsuit against the university, saying the university illegally refuses to negotiate nurse workloads.

Nurses at Michigan Medicine say rapid departures of senior nurses over working conditions are causing serious staffing shortages that are affecting patient care.

In interviews with one nurse throughout the pandemic and after he left, you can trace the real-time evolution of a nurse who went from feeling the work was a calling, to fearing it was hurting himself and potentially even his patients.

Organizers say the memorial will also honor doctors, nurses and others who’ve spent the past 21 months treating the sick and caring for the dying.