Safe Staffing
Safe, quality care depends on enough nurses and frontline caregivers to do the job. That’s why NYSNA fights for safe staffing on every unit in every healthcare facility in the state.
By uniting and organizing together, NYSNA nurses have won serious improvements to staffing through our contracts and the law.
More nurses = better care, but healthcare facilities continue to hire and retain too few nurses to provide safe, quality care at all times. That’s why nurses and healthcare workers advocated and won groundbreaking staffing legislation in 2021 to establish safe staffing standards at all hospitals in New York and a universal 1-2 nurse-to-patient staffing ratio for critical care patients. Safe staffing saves lives.
Implementing the Hospital Staffing Committees Law
Safe, quality care depends on enough nurses and frontline caregivers to do the job. That’s why NYSNA fights for safe staffing on every unit, in every healthcare facility in the state.
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“As a nurse with over 30 years of experience, I've dedicated my career to patient care. When there aren’t enough nurses at the bedside to provide the care that our patients need and deserve, nurses get frustrated and burnt out and leave. We need to feel respected for the work we do.”