NY Nurse March 2015

NYSNA testifies on NYC HHC’s budget

Anne Bové, RN and President, NYSNA’s HHC/Mayorals Executive Council, addressed NY City Council’s Health Committee on March 23, and delivered NYSNA’s full support of the Access Health NYC initiative for its “potential to provide healthcare access information to...

We are moving forward in significant ways and on many fronts in our New York City contract campaign. And on April 16, at 11 hospitals, our rallies will help to further inform the many communities we serve that staffing shortfalls in the hospitals are serious and on-going and that our call upon...

Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch and their network of 300 political cronies are laying an insidious money trail across the country in an attempt to buy the 2016 federal and state elections.

In January, the Koch group announced it would spend an unprecedented $889 million on the 2016...

NYSNA RNs Jalisa Saud from Elmhurst Hospital Center and Seth Dressekie from Woodhull Medical Center spoke passionately about pay equity for nurses at a March 29 press conference with US Senator Charles Schumer, who announced his support for the Paycheck Fairness Act.

The legislation will soon be...

Anthony Ciampa, RN at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and NYSNA Board Member, was honored at the Somos El Futuro spring conference held in Albany on March 21. The conference theme, “Leading a New Generation of Change, Opportunity, Progress and Success,” brought together state and city legislators...

Through bargaining we achieve change one hospital or group of hospitals at a time. This is well and good. But some of our goals are broader than individual employers and even may be outside of the realm of bargaining. We can’t negotiate a single payer health system and statewide staffing ratios one...

In the January/February NY Nurse, Tracey Kavanaugh, RN and NYSNA Board Member who works at Flushing Hospital, posted a special appeal for support for fellow RN Katy Starck-Monte. She’s happy to report that all the love and good wishes from NYSNA members made a difference:

“Thank you to NYSNA members...

When it comes to emergencies, nurses are there. Extreme Weather Events linked to climate change, like Super Storm Sandy and the floods and destruction that resulted, invoke our community roles in their most recognized terms: some members staffing hospitals for many days at a time, carrying out...

Safe staffing and a commitment to a statewide strategy to improve patient care dominated the March 12 Capital Region Inter-Regional Meeting in Glenville. Nurses from across the region gathered to share updates on ongoing contract campaigns at Ellis Hospital and Bellevue Woman’s Center in Schenectady...

Many envision nurses as gentle angels floating along hospital corridors dishing out pills and pillows while offering patients soothing words and support. The reality is that today’s nurse is more like a tightly wound machine. We dart from patient to patient, computer to pyxis, phone to tablet. We...

Nurses in California passed a safe staffing law more than a decade ago that protects patients and respects nursing practice.

The results are impressive: shorter hospital stays, lower re-admission rates, greater patient satisfaction, fewer complications and deaths. As life-saving interventions go...