NY Nurse: December 2022/January 2023

On Dec. 13, nurses, faith, and community leaders held a vigil outside NewYork-Presbyterian to honor colleagues and patients lost to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses shared stories to commemorate their colleagues who died on the frontlines. These nurses and healthcare professionals died even as they...

More than 100 NYSNA nurses and supporters held a press conference on the steps of City Hall on Nov. 30 ahead of a New York City Council oversight hearing on the state of nursing in New York City and on solutions to the short-staffing crisis. NYSNA nurses and allies say New York City can’t afford to...

Approximately 17,000 NYSNA members at twelve hospitals in New York City had contracts expiring on Dec. 31, 2022. Of that number, 15,000 nurses sent 10-day strike notices, with Montifiore and Mount Sinai going on strike before ultimately reaching an agreement with historic gains. There was a lot of...

As president of NYSNA and a long-time nurse at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, I know intimately the pain of understaffing. I’ve seen the horrible toll of understaffing on patients, nurses, and our communities. Hospitals are not addressing the staffing crisis or the economy. They’re simply...