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This past week brought news of the passing of another former NYSNA staff family member, Latha S. Catlin, RN.

Latha joined NYSNA in 1988 after working at the NICU at NYC H+H/Bellevue Hospital Center...

The upcoming New York City Council elections represents an opportunity to elect a pro-worker majority to City Council. COVID exposed the extreme inequality in our city. It laid bare the racial...

Understaffing in New York's hospitals and nursing homes puts patient safety at risk—that's why NYSNA nurses speak out for safe staffing. Whether advocating for the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act in the New York State Legislature, or fighting and winning staffing improvements in our contracts, or enforcing safe nurse-to-patient ratios on our units, nurses will not stop until we win safe staffing on every unit, in every hospital in the state. Below are just a few of our most recent local safe staffing victories:

NYSNA lost a long-time member of our staff family this week, Nurse Rep Kathleen Korman, RN (above).

President Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN, offered these thoughts: “I first met Kathleen in 1984 when she...

As one of the organizers and leaders of America’s Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. issued a clear call for justice on behalf of African Americans and the entire working...

RNs defending New York’s health, demanding hospital preparedness

The number of New Yorkers testing positive for COVID-19 are increasing steadily after three months of relatively low numbers. As we move...

As a range of issues continue to unfold around healthcare industry over-dependence on N95 respirators, more facilities are taking steps to pilot and deploy alternate equipment.