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Governor Cuomo Announces Commitment to Safe Staffing

June 21, 2018

In a victory for nurses and patients, Governor Andrew Cuomo has committed to nurse staffing standards and enforcement of workforce protections including overtime pay, meal breaks and rest periods. Read his full statement below.

Safe Staffing For Quality Care Act Passed by NYS Assembly!

June 15, 2016

On Tuesday evening, June 14, 2016, the New York State Assembly passed the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act! This is

Take Action for Safe Staffing

May 23, 2016

Where does your legislator stand on Safe Staffing?

There is a crisis in New York healthcare. Patients in need, not enough nurses. It's putting New Yorkers at risk. Tell Albany: Support Safe Staffing!

Buffalo Members Talk Texting for Safe Staffing at Inter-regional Meeting

September 28, 2015

Nurses (many of them first-time attendees) from Erie County Medical Center, Brooks Memorial Hospital, and Terrace View Long Term Care, gathered for Western NY’s Inter-regional Meeting on September 23, where they heard from guest speaker and NYSNA President Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez,

Mothers in Labor; Nurses in Tears

June 04, 2015

“The opportunity to connect with a mother and her baby is what we’re really all about,” says Mary Ellen Warden, an RN at Mt. Sinai Roosevelt, now in her 32nd year caring for women in labor and delivery. “It’s such a powerful human experience.

Sometimes I’m the Only Nurse in the Room

June 02, 2015

Karine Raymond has been a Registered Nurse (RN) at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx for more than 15 years, caring for patients with heart problems. As a nurse in the catheterization lab, she deals with patients who are getting pacemakers, stents, or other cardiac procedures.