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On Tuesday, March 16, join nurses and healthcare professionals around the state for a virtual Day of Action to demand safe staffing standards in New York State!

Community, labor, and elected allies can...

New York State County Health Departments have established vaccine distribution points (PODs) throughout New York, and when they do have the supply, they're often overwhelmed with demand.

Please...

This past week brought news of the passing of another former NYSNA staff family member, Latha S. Catlin, RN.

Latha joined NYSNA in 1988 after working at the NICU at NYC H+H/Bellevue Hospital Center...

The upcoming New York City Council elections represents an opportunity to elect a pro-worker majority to City Council. COVID exposed the extreme inequality in our city. It laid bare the racial...

Understaffing in New York's hospitals and nursing homes puts patient safety at risk—that's why NYSNA nurses speak out for safe staffing. Whether advocating for the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act in the New York State Legislature, or fighting and winning staffing improvements in our contracts, or enforcing safe nurse-to-patient ratios on our units, nurses will not stop until we win safe staffing on every unit, in every hospital in the state. Below are just a few of our most recent local safe staffing victories:

NYSNA lost a long-time member of our staff family this week, Nurse Rep Kathleen Korman, RN (above).

President Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN, offered these thoughts: “I first met Kathleen in 1984 when she...