NY Nurse: October 2020

How did nurses at ECMC and Terrace View Long Term Care in Buffalo move from horror and grief over the death of George Floyd this summer to launching a new initiative to take on systemic racism? Inspiration came from the Maya Angelou quote, “When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”

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During the COVID-19 surge, Montefiore New Rochelle converted its Maternal Child Health Services (MCH) to serve COVID patients. As elective surgeries reopened and resumed practice, MCH acute services remained closed, leaving the community without these vital healthcare services—that’s until nurses...

NYSNA members have always answered the call in a crisis, even before COVID-19. Drawing on our union’s own experience responding to the earthquakes in Haiti and Superstorm Sandy, we began organizing medical missions to countries hard-hit by hurricanes, and other natural disasters. This work is part...

A surprisingly large number of Americans believe that the future is predetermined. This is not the same as believing in a greater power — one that makes clear that “free will” plays a critical role in events. The belief that “what’s going to happen, will happen” paralyzes us from taking action—which...