Nurses and managers at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick settled a bitter, 120-day strike last month, resulting in a groundbreaking agreement setting limits on the number of patients nurses may be assigned. On Thursday, the momentum from that contract reached the Statehouse in Trenton, where union leaders urged a state Senate panel to make enforceable staffing ratios the law in hospitals and surgery centers across New Jersey.. Without a law limiting the number of patients, bedside nurses will continue to flee the profession out of exhaustion and the fear of making mistak…
