NY Nurse September 2013

NYSNA supports a comprehensive flu prevention plan that includes voluntary vaccination. We oppose mandatory vaccination.

NYSNA urges all registered nurses and their family members to get their seasonal influenza vaccination this fall. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...

In early August, with only five days’ warning, Mayor Bloomberg shut down a central Bronx Labor and Delivery unit that delivered 1...

Together, we have set an ambitious agenda to keep building a movement for respect for nurses and quality healthcare for all New Yorkers.

We made important progress in 2013, but our fight is far from over. Corporate interests and their anti-union allies in politics will keep coming after quality care...

No one needs to tell a New York nurse that healthcare is in crisis in our state. You experience it every day. Inadequate staffing. Service cuts. Units closed. Hospitals shut down. New Yorkers in need of care they can’t get.

The consequences are shocking – and dangerous. Some nurses have been forced...

New York healthcare is in crisis.

Hospitals are closing units and some are even shutting their doors. Hospital administrators are forcing nurses to take on too many patients at once. In some hospitals, it’s getting to be a common sight to see patients waiting on gurneys for hours and hours –...

“We all face extraordinary challenges daily as we care for patients. Our union is becoming THE powerful voice of NY nurses, recognized by government and hospital CEOs. NYSNA is a work in progress. It needs the active input of members to improve our working situations. When nurses support a picket...