NY Nurse: April 2018

In nursing school we’re taught that when we graduate, we earn the title registered “professional” nurse. But what is a professional? 

• A specialist, an expert, a skilled, proficient, qualified, licensed, certified, trained individual in an area of work or practice.
• A person with a degree of autonomy...

The April 13 Albany Medical Center (AMC) win is still ringing, resonating in the capital and throughout the state and beyond. Registered nurses voted by a strong majority to join NYSNA and put the power of the union to work for a fair contract, for a real say in working conditions — foremost safe...

It came as little surprise to us, but yet with great concern, that grades for acute hospitals in New York were very poor. At the end of April, the annual Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades were released — a detailed survey of 2,500 hospitals across the United States. New York hospitals received the...

One of the keys to success in the Albany Medical Center (AMC) campaign was the innovative use of digital media that enabled nurses to effectively expand the audience getting their message.

First, it was necessary to create an inoculation video to prepare nurses for the anti-union campaign that...

For several decades, some of America’s elite corporate owners and executives, in common cause with policy institutes established to further their agenda, have been campaigning with all their might — and cash — to bring down unions. They want complete control of the workplaces they own in order to...