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HHC: Bring back mother-baby services
Bronx RNs, patients, and New York City Council Member Letitia “Tish” James (holding the stroller) protested on August 12 in front of North Central Bronx Hospital. In early August, with only five days’ warning, Mayor Bloomberg shut down a central Bronx …
Get immunized against seasonal influenza
NYSNA supports a comprehensive flu prevention plan that includes voluntary vaccination. We oppose mandatory vaccination. NYSNA urges all registered nurses and their family members to get their seasonal influenza vaccination this fall. The Centers for …
Welcome new nurses!
Now is the season when many new nurses are graduating nursing school and getting their first nursing job. You may be one of them. Congratulataions — and welcome to NYSNA! I know there are a lot of people trying to give you advice right now. So I’m not …
Board Action: 2013
March At the March 26, 2013 Board of Directors meeting, our board: Reviewed the implementation of the steward training and the train-the-trainer program. We approved dates for the first Train-the-Trainer program: April 1-2 and April 8-9. Passed a …
Board Action: February 2013
Board Action: February 2013 …
Board Action: January 2013
At the January 22, 2013 Board of Directors meeting, our board: Discussed New York’s healthcare crisis, and the forces driving that crisis: the corporatization of patient care, the growth of hospital empires, and the push for a forprofit takeover of …
Board Action: 2012
November At the November 14, 2012 meeting the NYSNA board of directors: Directed that a mechanism be established to organize non-union nurses that NYSNA members have been working with due to Hurricane Sandy Directed that non-elected members be invited to …
Caring For The Storm’s Victims
Nurses have responded to the storm by doing what we do best – caring. NYSNA nurses launched a coordinated Disaster Relief campaign. Hundreds of nurses have volunteered: staffing emergency field clinics, and going door-to-door in the hard-hit …
Tips for Staffing Captains
We need to make sure the data we collect is accurate, and that we send in our reports on every shift. We asked other NYSNA staffing captains and NYSNA team of data analysts for some tips, and here's what they had to say: 1. Make sure you put the number …
Members Say, "Thank You JULIE!"
“We’ve made the biggest changes in NYSNA in my nursing career over the last year. We couldn’t have done it without you, Julie — your leadership and passion helped point the way for a stronger NYSNA. We may not agree about baseball teams, but we can agree …