We all know nurses are burned out. They're working long hours under strenuous conditions for low pay. And then there were the extremely stressful months of the pandemic, during which nurses often bore the brunt of a terrified public and an overtaxed health care system pushed to the brink.

Understandably, many nurses are just plain fed up. That sentiment is leading to phenomena like "quiet quitting" among nurses and a national nursing shortage. In fact, from 2020 to 2021, the total supply of RNs in the U.S. decreased by over 100,000. That's leading to higher patient mortality rates, among other worrisome consequences.

Policymakers have proposed new pieces of legislation to tackle the crisis, seeking to mandate minimum patient-nurse ratios. Legislation like the Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act would essentially require hospitals to hire more nurses to ensure the ratios are within predefined limits.

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