300 nurses descended on the Kentucky Capitol today, but nobody was sick.

They were there on Nurses Day to show support for House Bill 159 as that bill passed the House and heads to the Senate.

The bill would protect health care providers from prosecution after some accidents.

All citizens and voters should remember is that our society relies on nurses.

Everybody is a patient.

Everybody is a patient at one point or another.

Even if it's not today, it's tomorrow.

Even if it's not you, it's a loved one.

And so what today really is, is it's an act of respect between nurses and government.

And it's a partnership that I can't wait to see grow in the future.

We have four major policy goals.

The first one is decriminalizing health care, working errors.

It would only decriminalize unintentional errors for health care workers in the normal course of their job.

It would not do away with civil liability.

We're also advocating for a nurse in every school in Kentucky all day, every day.

Staffing is another big priority for the K and A and for nurses across Kentucky.

Safe staffing ratios means safer working conditions for nurses and better outcomes for patients.

It benefits absolutely every Kentuckian.

And finally, we're talking about the brand image of nurses.

They are leaders within this state.

We're just trying to make sure people understand how amazing these people are.

We have a lack of nurses and it's very scary because we've got nurses aging out and we want to bring younger nurses.

And what the young people want to see is that legislature supports nurses in not just their verbiage and not just what they say in front of crowds, but in what they do in the legislation that they pass.

They write, they support.

So I'm really excited to see that in the future.

There are 90,000 nurses in Kentucky and we vote.

So our issues are should be a priority.