NYS Nurses Association Today

Merger Talks

NYSNA Communications — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:30:57 GMT

A message to RNs at Westchester Medical Center, Sound Shore Medical Center, and Mount Vernon Hospital: It’s official. Westchester Medical Center, Mount Vernon Hospital, and Sound Shore are moving forward with a merger.

Climate change and nurses

NYSNA Communications — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:29:19 GMT

NYSNA’s own Sean Petty, RN, spoke with Phil Aroneanu, U.S. Campaign Director/Co-Founder of 350.org.

Nurses, doctors, EMTs, and other relief volunteers join rally in front of Mayor’s house

NYSNA Communications — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:27:09 GMT

NEW YORK, December 14, 2012 — New York nurses, doctors, EMTs, and other relief volunteers will rally in front of Mayor Bloomberg’s home tomorrow. They will call on Mayor Bloomberg to stop the worsening public health crisis left behind by the storm.

Join us Saturday to tell Mayor Bloomberg, “Let’s BUILD BACK BETTER!”

NYSNA Communications — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:44:55 GMT

We don’t need to tell you how bad it is. Four NYC hospitals are still closed. There’s still no Level One Trauma Center south of 58th Street in Manhattan. The city is short 2,000 hospital beds. EDs are jammed. Thousands of New Yorkers are trapped in their homes with urgent medical needs. And flu season is coming. Mayor Bloomberg is trying to shove the crisis under the rug. He’s failed New Yorkers - when we need him most. We’re not going to let him get away with it.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Tell the Mayor: “Let’s BUILD BACK BETTER”

NYSNA Communications — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:48:32 GMT

The devastation of New York City’s healthcare system is still unfolding – and likely to get worse. NYSNA nurses are teaming up with doctors, EMTs, firefighters, other public servants, and community members to say let’s BUILD BACK BETTER our city’s healthcare system. And we need your help. We’re launching a petition drive to tell the Mayor to deal with NYC’s severe – and largely hidden – healthcare crisis.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Nurses, NYC Public Advocate call for free flu shots in hard hit areas

NYSNA Communications — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:46:18 GMT

NYSNA nurses joined NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio on the steps of City Hall today. Our message: the Mayor must significantly step up the distribution of flu shots in places like the Rockaways, Staten Island, and Coney Isalnd. “With winter upon us, a flu epidemic is a very real and dangerous possibility – if we do not act now,” said NYSNA President Patricia DiLillo, RN.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Nurses needed to give flu shots in the Rockaways

NYSNA Communications — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:13:55 GMT

It’s flu season, and many people in the Rockaways are still living in desperate conditions. Many experts warn that’s just the right combo for a dangerous outbreak. NYSNA is working with other groups to help give flu shots in the Rockaways. Your nursing skills are needed.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Tell City Hall and the Department of Health: “Do more to stop a flu epidemic”

NYSNA Communications — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:22:18 GMT

NYSNA members, doctors, EMTs, firefighters, public servants, and other community leaders are launching a campaign to BUILD BACK BETTER New York City’s recently ravaged healthcare system. On Monday, Dec. 3, at 12:00 Noon, we will take our campaign to the steps of New York’s City Hall, at 260 Broadway, where the NYC Public Advocate's Office is holding a press conference to address the healthcare crisis.

Jill Furillo, RN, joins New York State Nurses Association as Executive Director

NYSNA Communications — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:12:44 GMT

Former ER nurse played critical role in winning first-in-the-nation safe nurse staffing law NEW YORK, November 29, 2012 - Jill Furillo, RN, joined the labor movement at 19, and she’s worked as an Emergency Room nurse, an organizer, and the bargaining director of the U.S.’s largest union for nurses. Now she is joining the New York State Nurses Association as their new Executive Director.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: A personal appeal from Carol Ann Lemon, RN

NYSNA Communications — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:53:58 GMT

To my NYSNA colleagues, We’ve all seen the pictures and heard the stories - heroic nurses taking extraordinary steps to care for their patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. While the storm rocked many hospitals, tragedy was also striking many of those same nurses' homes and families. Some nurses lost everything. Many more had significant damage done to their homes, or suffered in other ways.

Nurses say Kennedy assault acquittal sends wrong message to public

NYSNA Communications — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:48:02 GMT

MOUNT KISCO, NY, NOVEMBER 21, 2012 — Douglas Kennedy, who was caught on camera kicking and pushing two Northern Westchester Hospital nurses, was acquitted by a Mount Kisco judge Tuesday. Nurses say this decision sends the wrong message to the public. Under state law, it is a felony in New York State to assault a nurse while on duty– and the video in this case speaks for itself.

Video: “Nurses go door-to-door, in Staten Island and the Rockaways”

NYSNA Communications — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:44:06 GMT

NYSNA nurses are going door-to-door in the Rockaways. They’re providing critical medical attention to people in urgent need.

Nurses, Doctors, EMTs, and other healthcare workers to Mayor:

NYSNA Communications/Physicians for a National Health Program — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:53:16 GMT

NEW YORK, November 15, 2012 — Nurses, doctors, EMTs, and other front line healthcare responders to Hurricane Sandy are calling on Mayor Bloomberg to put the city’s unfolding healthcare crisis on the top of his list. They will bring a list of urgent medical needs of New Yorkers to the steps of City Hall tomorrow, Friday, November 16, at 12 noon.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: This Friday, tell Mayor Bloomberg more action is needed to help those in need

NYSNA Communications — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:48:22 GMT

At Noon on Friday, in front of City Hall, nurses, doctors, EMTs, and other healthcare professionals will go to the mayor to demand more coordinated action to rebuild our city’s healthcare infrastructure and care for the thousands of people hurting after Hurricane Sandy. Will you be there? And can you help get other nurses there?

Statewide healthcare staffing law is needed URGENTLY!

NYSNA Communications — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:22:40 GMT

Nurses to hold rally Friday afternoon in Olean for legislation to protect patients Rally for safe staffing law in New York State 3:00 to 5:30 PM, Friday, Nov. 16, Lincoln Park, Olean RNs from Olean General Hospital and healthcare advocates OLEAN, Nov. 14, 2012 – Will a registered nurse be there when you need one?

St. Luke’s Roosevelt cuts training for nurses on new units from three months to one day

NYSNA Communications — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:48:05 GMT

Nurses say administrators are putting patients in danger NEW YORK, November 13, 2012 - At St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital, administrators are moving psychiatric and pediatric nurses to adult medical/surgical floors – and giving them only one day’s training, instead of the required three months. Nurses say patients are at risk – and they will take their case to the public on Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 7:00 AM, outside Roosevelt Hospital at 1000 Tenth Avenue in Manhattan.

Staten Island RNs say rebuild our healthcare infrastructure – before a Ferris Wheel

NYSNA Communications — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:38:22 GMT

Nurses will speak out at public hearing tonight STATEN ISLAND, November 13, 2012 — As city officials move forward with plans to build the world’s largest Ferris Wheel in Staten Island, nurses say we must rebuild our city’s damaged healthcare infrastructure. Those nurses will speak out at a public hearing tonight, Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 6:00 PM, at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Music Hall, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY, 10301.

A baby, naked and shivering, saved

NYSNA Communications — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:54:10 GMT

The baby was almost naked, cold, and shivering. Her mother was in tears. “We got her some clothes. We got her some blankets. We got her warmed up.” That’s Eileen Lappin, RN, a nurse at Staten Island University Hospital.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Marathon generator re-routed to Coler Hospital

NYSNA Communications — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:32:00 GMT

The heavy-duty generator was supposed to power the NYC Marathon headquarters. Instead, it’s supplying power to Coler Hospital, one of the HHC hospitals on Roosevelt Island, nurses say. Nurses care for the hardest hit in the Rockaways, Staten Island New York nurses go door-to-door to provide direct medical assistance NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2012 - New York nurses are caring for some of the hardest hit by the storm – going door-to-door in the Rockaways, staffing emergency medical tents in Staten Island, and taking heroic measures to care for their patients.

Nurses care for the hardest hit in the Rockaways, Staten Island

NYSNA Communications — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:32:00 GMT

New York nurses go door-to-door to provide direct medical assistance NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2012 - New York nurses are caring for some of the hardest hit by the storm – going door-to-door in the Rockaways, staffing emergency medical tents in Staten Island, and taking heroic measures to care for their patients. NYSNA in the Rockaways Teams of New York nurses went door-to-door in the Rockaways, conducting patient assessments and delivering medical care and medication to residents.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: HHC Updates

NYSNA Communications — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 04:13:48 GMT

We will provide regular updates about the status of HHC facilities. Disclaimer: This is the latest information that we have received from HHC management. To make sure that there are no misunderstandings, please confirm this information with your direct supervisor.