“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.
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.
In an exciting development for supporters of universal healthcare, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s announcement of support for a floor vote on New York Health (A.5062/S.3525), a bill for universal healthcare in New York State was greeted with excitement by NYSNA members, and othe
Nursing was the subject of a lengthy and engaging segment on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” on April 30. With his guest, author Alexandra Robbins, Lehrer discussed safe staffing ratios, workplace violence and other issues of great concern to NYSNA nurses.
With more than 8 million people displaced, and a death toll now exceeding 6,000, conditions in Nepal in the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake continue to deteriorate. NYSNA urges members to consider a donation towards relief efforts.