Posted on 01/09/2023 9:52:33 AM PST by NautiNurse
More than 7,000 nurses at two hospitals in New York City went on strike early Monday morning demanding better pay, better working conditions and more staffing.
The strike began at 6 a.m. after nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital in Harlem failed to reach an agreement with hospital administration during a bargaining session Sunday night, according to the New York State Nurses' Association.
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"Now they are faced with the added challenge of short staffing that has reached critical levels and could compromise their ability to provide the best quality care to their patients."
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In a statement, Montefiore Medical Center said it offered a 19.1% compounded wage increase and promised to create more than 170 new nursing positions ahead of the strike.
Mount Sinai said it was preparing for the strike by "diverting a majority of ambulances," starting "to cancel some elective surgeries ... perform emergency surgery only," "starting to transfer patients" to other hospitals and medical centers, and "working to safely discharge as many patients as appropriate," according to an internal memo obtained by New York ABC station WABC.
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Mount Sinai told ABC News in a statement it also offered a 19.1% increased wage proposal but that nurses rejected the offer.
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(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Gangnam style?
Just think! They will have more time for those tik-tok videos that they are so good at producing spontaneously at the drop of a time.
(No one ever mentions that it has to take time to coordinate and choreograph those dance moves, but the nurses seemed to have had plenty of time to do that during the periods when they were supposedly swamped with dying Covid patients)
They were also busy preaching clot shots, lockdowns, and closed businesses. I will never forget the damage these type of people did to our country.
Can we tell them “They want Grandma’ to die”?
Paybacks-—Ya’ know.
The best ones left due to the vax requirement. The only one left now are the brainwashed and those who would not stand on principle. This is really all about the vax.
NY COVID-19 vaccine mandate reduced health care workforce by 3%. Here’s the biggest impact
David Robinson
New York State Team
October 2021
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New York state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate led to about 34,000 health workers losing jobs or being placed on leave, reflecting a reduction of 3.5% of the workforce, new state data show.
The home health sector had the biggest impact as about 20,500 workers, or 8% of the industry’s workforce, was effectively cut due to the mandate, according to the statistics released by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
More than simple numbers, the acuity (complexity) of the patient assignments must be factored. If you have a total of four patients, each requiring complex treatments, multiple IV meds, dressing changes, manual turning, and feeding assistance, these are remarkably time consuming activities.
Six patients requiring vital signs every two hours, a few pills every four hours, and an occasional assist to the bathroom would require less nursing time during a shift.
As our population has aged, patients are typically more complicated, with more co-morbidities.
Totally 100% concur. You saved One Guy the trouble of saying the exact same thing. If you make your bed, you’re gonna have to lie in it. That said, justice in this case can be tempered with mercy in view of the large amount of good work they all certainly do. If it turns out 95% of these nurses got placebo vexxines on the down low because they darn well knew the dangers, and have been hopped up on HCQ, Ivermectic this whole time as prophylactic measures, while refusing the same to patients as effective therapeutic agents, then sympathy goes to a “low ebb”, shall we say.
“Why is there still this well-known and continuing shortage?”
Cloward Piven.
Ping
Zing!
The hospitals around here don't seem to actually hire physicians; they outsource to corporations who hire physicians.
Double that for me.
I used to hold doctors in the highest esteem. Now I know they are as corrupt as everybody else.
They must be really really unhappy to do that.
Why not give them a raise the NY state legislature gave itself a 30% pay raise
No doubt, the hefty salary increase imposed by the NY state legislators for the NY state legislators did not sit well with hard working, overburdened tax payers in NY state.
I was in the ER during the height of the “pandemic” after a motor vehicle accident (early Feb 2021). Mostly younger workers. I thought I was going to see a tumbleweed cross the vacant, echoing hallways. Maybe one room in every four was occupied at most. Workers were laughing and chuckling about what they did over the weekend; this was on a Monday evening commute time.
I asked if they were busy and the reply was “we’re ALWAYS busy.” I guess they have redefined “busy” from when I entered the working work in the late seventies.
working WORLD
it was the nurses in hospitals working 24/7 with inadequate personal protection items while the rest of America seemingly sat home in their pj's collecting a fat paycheck during covid.....
you know they're paying those two college female basketball players about $800,000 a piece for their NIL in Fresno California....
our financial system is beyond unjust....
more staffing. They never thought they would have to work until they got rid of those unvaxxed who did all of it
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