Austin rally challenges nurse-to-patient ratios

AUSTIN (KXAN) — As the U.S. marked 1 million lives lost to COVID-19 on Thursday, demonstrating nurses at the Texas Capitol told KXAN the nurse-to-patient ratio hasn't improved much in the nearly eight months since the Austin area saw its peak in ICU hospitalizations."As nurses, we are here to take care of people," said Amanda Rose. "And when we are being forced to take more patients than what is safe, the patients suffer, patient mortality goes up, and the nurses, themselves, get burnt out