NY Nurse December 2016/January 2017

A hospital can be a very dangerous place to work.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, nurses in acute and long-term care facilities experience rates of non-fatal workplace assault double that of workers in other healthcare settings and ten times that of workers in the private sector overall...

Each year, New York’s Workforce Development Institute (WDI) issues a “Working Women Calendar” that celebrates twelve extraordinary women and the contributions they make to the workplace. NYSNA’s Central Regional Director Ethel Mathis, RN, is featured in the 2017 edition.

WDI recognized Ms. Mathis...

This hospital is our second home and we are family! Our bond and perseverance allowed us to fight strong and ultimately achieve a great contract! We look forward to recruiting nurses and welcoming them into our ‘home’ and continuing to make Westchester Medical Center a great place to be not only for...

NYSNA nurses at St. John’s Riverside Hospital (SJRH) in Yonkers were celebrating as 2016 came to a close. On December 22, they ratified an outstanding new five-year agreement that delivers both strong economic gains and patient care improvements.

“We fought for and locked in reasonable annual...

When NYSNA, 1199SEIU, elected officials, and community and faith groups joined ranks in 2014, they formed a determined coalition on a mission to save Brooklyn’s Interfaith Hospital. After doing just that, the group did not disband. Instead, when the fight was over and the smoke had cleared, what...

With the overwhelming ratification of a contract covering 1,500 NYSNA members at Westchester Medical Center (WMC) on January 4, our union continues its winning streak. It is an outstanding record of achievement. Add to the WMC win this year: contracts at Long Island’s Catholic Health System (St...

Retrospective

At the end of each year, people often try to count our blessings and offer thanks for the good things that have happened and to hope that the future will bring us closer to our goals. But for some reason, nurses tend to have this nagging feeling that somehow we didn’t do enough: we...