How nurse assignments are made and would change with ballot Question 1

Brenda Pignone, a staff nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, arrives before 7 a.m. on a typical day. For 26 years, she's taken the elevator to a floor known as White 7, where most of her patients are healing after abdominal surgery. This 27-bed unit, like hundreds of others across the commonwealth, has become ground zero in a statewide debate. On Nov. 6, Massachusetts voters will decide whether the number of patients a nurse can care for should be regulated by law.