By Seth Galinsky December 28, 2020
After a spirited two-day strike by 200 nurses at Montefiore Health System’s hospital in New Rochelle Dec. 1 and 2, the New York State Nurses Association and the bosses are back at the negotiating table. Front and center is the nurses’ fight for more hiring and the safety of their patients and themselves.
Staffing shortages at hospitals are nothing new, but grew worse with the COVID-19 pandemic. There have been strikes and protests for more staff at hospitals and nursing homes across the country.
“If you can safely care for one or two patients, but you’re given four or five, you have to make some decisions about who you’re going to rescue,” Nurses Association President Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez told the London
Washington: In Albany, New York, an outbreak of the coronavirus erupted among nurses and patients in the cancer unit of a hospital.
Across the state, nurses at hospitals in the Buffalo area bought their own masks and face shields out of concern about the quality of supplies in stock.
And when an emergency room nurse in New Rochelle began her shift, she was asked to care for 15 patients, after her co-workers called out sick.
The accounts recall the early days of the pandemic, when the virus ravaged New York - but these scenes took place over the past several weeks. Nurses and other health care workers in the state have begun to warn about the conditions in hospitals, as virus patients are checking in at an alarming rate.
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There are now 6,147 people hospitalized for Covid-19 in New York state, a level not seen since the middle of May. For weeks now, the mayor and the governor have been warning every day that things are getting worse, and it’s easy to get lost in a sea of numbers. But to put that figure in perspective, as the Wall Street Journal notes, it is six times the number of New Yorkers hospitalized just two months ago.
Nurses Are Anxious and Angry in 2nd Wave: âWeâre Not Preparedâ
âWeâre worse off in some ways than we were in the beginning,â said one nurse about the lack of workers and resources at her New York hospital.
Among health care workers, nurses face a particularly high risk of contracting the virus, according to a recent report by the C.D.C.Credit.Victor J. Blue for The New York Times
Dec. 17, 2020
In Albany, an outbreak of the coronavirus erupted among nurses and patients in the cancer unit of a hospital.
Across the state, nurses at hospitals in the Buffalo area bought their own masks and face shields