NY Nurse: October 2021

I have always valued health care professionals. But it was the final moments of my mother’s life in early April 2021 that underscored for me that importance of what you do.

As my mother lay transitioning, it was the health care workers at St. Ann’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, who seamlessly cared for...

In this edition of New York Nurse, we asked four members whose combined work at Rikers Correctional Center totals 75 years to share their perspective and experience. You’ll hear from Constance Clark, Gene Thomas, Paulette McGee and Nadyne Pressley, all registered nurses at the facility. Their...

When NYSNA member Alicia Butler, RN, arrived for work at Rikers Island on August 2, 2020, she wasn’t expecting to become a patient herself that day, but that is exactly what happened.

A registered nurse with nineteen years at Rikers, no amount of her training could have prepared her for the trauma...

I know this communication reaches you at a precarious time. Nationally, there are rising concerns about the delta variant and fear that the return to normalcy we anticipated this summer is a long way off. Across the country, there’s anxiety over the safety of children and young adults returning to...

Impact Bargaining Followed Vaccine Mandates

After former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former Dr. Howard Zucker, New York State Health Department commissioner, announced statewide vaccine mandates, NYSNA issued demands to bargain and requests for additional information. We also pursued a range of options to...