NY Nurse September 2015

NYSNA at The New York State Fair

NYSNA continued the tradition of meeting New Yorkers from throughout the state at The Great New York State Fair, held at the fairgrounds in Syracuse from August 27-September 7. Hundreds of thousands of people attended this year’s event and our exhibit inside the...

Caroline Mosca, Assistant Professor of Nursing at The Sage Colleges in the Albany area, has been teaching undergraduate nurses for 11 years, first in an Associates Degree program and then in Sage’s BS of Nursing program. She holds a BA in English, a BS in Nursing and an MS in Nursing Education and...

Extensive bargaining, informational pickets and a one-day strike laid the foundation for a contract settlement for 90 RNs at Manhattan’s Terence Cardinal Cooke (TCC) Health Center on September 3. Highlights include annual raises (including 9 months retroactive pay), a $2,000 bonus, preservation of...

2015 Business Meeting of the New York State Nurses Association
Saratoga Springs, New York
Monday, Oct. 19 – Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015
Anne Bové, RN, Secretary, New York State Nurses Association

Register for the meeting at www.nysna.org/convention.

RNs at Southside Hospital ratified a contract renewal in August, a crowning achievement for the 10-nurse bargaining committee after 16 negotiating sessions conducted over several months. Southside, a 341-bed hospital located in Bay Shore, Long Island, is part of the North Shore-LIJ network.

The...

Multi-year agreements were won in September for nurses at Ellis Medicine and Bellevue Woman’s Center, as NYSNA members continue signing contracts that improve staffing, provide enhanced enforcement and achieve wage and benefit gains. There are 600 nurses at Ellis Medicine in Schenectady, making it...

Student debt levels are nothing short of a national crisis.

Loan debts for students in this country have reached an astonishing record amount — $1.2 trillion, a staggering increase of nearly five-fold over the last decade, now surpassing both total U.S. credit card and auto loan debt. From across...

Students need clinical experience and, at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, that’s what they get. The Margaret Whitehorne Student Nurse Service Program is an outstanding opportunity for nursing students to gain ten weeks of clinical work and preceptored participation at Bellevue. The program...

The future of nursing lies with the nursing students of today. What is the legacy we, practicing nurses, leave for them? What responsibility do we have as individuals and as a union to build a society that provides for a decent quality of life, meaningful work and creative opportunities for future...

Vassar RNs stuck together and won a new contract that protects patient care.

The nurses at Vassar Brothers Medical Center have battled with management since March. On Nov. 2 they voted for a new contract that includes increases in pay and medical leave benefits, as well as a promise to maintain safe...

At the October 23, 2012 Pre-Convention Board of Directors meeting, seven NYSNA members were awarded certificates of completion for their participation in the 2011-12 Leadership Academy Program.

Graduating from the Tier II Fellows Program were:

• Sarah Buckley, BSN, RN, Buffalo General Hospital...

Hundreds of nurses voted by 91% to move NYSNA forward and leave the American Nurses Association.

“While we’re going forward, the ANA is moving backwards,” said Wendy Braithwaite, RN, a nurse from Montefiore Medical Center.

“Look at all the changes we’ve made over the past year. We settled dozens of...