NY Nurse: November/December 2019

Montefiore picked the wrong fight with the two satellite hospitals it bought in a merger.

Montefiore New Rochelle and Montefiore Mount Vernon won’t take no for an answer. To the question: Are we open for care? The answer is yes. Do we need more nurses to do the right job? The answer is yes. Nurses at...

The contract of New York City’s public nurses—now settled and ratified—is the consequence of many people working together towards a critical, shared goal. Their rallying cry, “Healthcare Justice for the Other New York,” was heard around the city. It touched a nerve.

For too long New Yorkers have...

We live in a world besieged by violence. While humans are genetically predisposed to engage in aggressive behaviors to survive, other forms of aggression are not “natural” human qualities. Psychologists maintain that violence is an acquired, learned behavior—a cultural phenomenon. Multiple studies...