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Mothers in Labor; Nurses in Tears

June 04, 2015

“The opportunity to connect with a mother and her baby is what we’re really all about,” says Mary Ellen Warden, an RN at Mt. Sinai Roosevelt, now in her 32nd year caring for women in labor and...

Sometimes I’m the Only Nurse in the Room

June 02, 2015

Karine Raymond has been a Registered Nurse (RN) at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx for more than 15 years, caring for patients with heart problems. As a nurse in the catheterization lab, she deals...

NY’s Largest Nurses Union Ventures to Albany to Push for Support on Vital Healthcare Issues Affecting NY Patients

May 12, 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 12, 2015 Healthcare Advocates Ask for Lawmaker Support on Safe Staffing Ratios (ALBANY, NY) – Registered nurses (RNs), caregivers and nursing students from Buffalo to Brooklyn rallied at the State Capitol today to lobby legislators to support the growing healthcare needs

Bronx Nurses Threatened and Removed from Hospital Over Safe Staffing

May 07, 2015

For Immediate Release: May 7, 2015 (Bronx, NY) -- Registered Nurses at Montefiore Medical Center’s Weiler Hospital in the Bronx were threatened with arrest and escorted out of the hospital today after speaking out about staffing shortages. The nurses, who are members of the New York State Nurses

Staffing rallies in the news

April 16, 2015

Our safe staffing rallies are making headlines!

Fox 5 video crews visited our rallies today in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn.

Fox 5: Nurses rally

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News 12 Bronx: Nurses demand...

Safe Staffing Rallies on April 16

April 08, 2015

There's a staffing crisis in many New York hospitals. And on Thursday, April 16, we're holding rallies for safe staffing at more than a dozen NYC hospitals.

Our message: staffing shortfalls in the...