NY Nurse June 2014

RN Myrna Balbuena wins NJ contest

Myrna Balbuena, a NYSNA RN at Shore Medical Center in Somers Points, won the Press of Atlantic City’s “Salute to Nurses” contest last month. Called “a modern day Florence Nightingale,” and “the epitome of nursing,” by her co-worker, Dorothy Rudert, RN, who submitted...

By the time you read this, Beatrice Marseille, a Nurse Practitioner in Mt. Sinai’s oncology unit, will be leading a medical mission to her hometown of Meyer, nestled in the mountains, two hours from the Haitian capital of Port-Au-Prince.

“People walk for hours from the mountains and line up early in...

NYSNA was on the scene at a seminar held by the Sisterhood of Women’s Organizations in Ocean View, Staten Island. Speakers addressed the challenge, “What About Me? Envision Your Future.” NYSNA Treasurer Pat Kane, an RN at Staten Island University Hospital where the event was held, spoke to the need...

An announcement on May 27 by the Health and Hospitals Corporation that the sale of dialysis patient services and equipment at four HHC facilities was “postponed indefinitely” was greeted with cheers by NYSNA nurses, their patients and supporters. The four HHC hospitals – Kings County, Harlem...

In the face of management intransigence and bottom-line pencil pushing best known in the for-profit sector, our nurses face the challenge of bargaining for fair contracts, exercising rights under those contracts and, throughout, protecting high standards of quality patient care.

Member leader...

Poverty is all around us. It reaches into some of our own lives. We see it in parents with inadequate retirements, in debts from healthcare and student loans, and as a result of mortgages in excess of housing values.

Here in New York State, results are glaring: At more than 15%, the 2012 poverty...

Hundreds of NYSNA members were joined by nurses and other healthcare providers from four unions in Albany on May 20 to let elected leaders know that nurses statewide agree: safe staffing saves lives.

Our unprecedented show of solidarity at last month’s Lobby Day sent a clear message to lawmakers that...

On July 4th we celebrate the 248th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The document put forward that “all men (sic) are created equal” and endowed with the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Things were different then: the Founders did not consider that...