New York hospitals are insane. A few are great (Special Surgery, for example).
See all those NPs running IV clinics? Med spas? They were once nurses. Techs, they are everywhere. Hospitals dont want to pay. And yes they are waiting for better pay and staffing. The strike will improve pay and force better staffing and that will lead to more nurses wanting to work. There are a ton of nurses they just decided to go to online school and play noctor. It is easy to blame the nurses but the hospitals are there to serve the people. The nurse can work in a clinic or do whatever they want. It is the hospitals role to make the work environemnt safe and appealing to hire people.
The. He left and runs their private equity fund and makes $11m now. What a planet. Non profits run amok.
20% pay raise, lifetime benefits for retirees more nurse staffing. Seems they did a good job negotiating.
It's the same everywhere – our ED has something like 40 nurse FTE approved but unable to hire. Same story everywhere – effectively always poaching from some other aspect of the health system that also is short nursing FTE.
If (and this is a big if) the new contract is better than competitors across town they will poach nurses from them? I mean around here nurses change jobs more often than any other profession I know,
again- without knowing the NYC market I don't know - but here it is salary, benefits (retirement, health insurance, working conditions, etc)
Yep but with more $$$ maybe easier to hire?
They’ve got to put the money in the swear jar. At the end of the year the day shift and night shift nurses get 4 large pizzas per shift and the admins get the rest of the money.
Have had multiple family members as patients at CPMC, to my surprise nurses gave meds and started IVs, helped with ambulation. Urology nurse certainly did foleys, can't speak to regular floor nurses.
I would love to see an actual peer reviewed study comparing the mortality during the strike to before the strike and after the strike (with the new contract)
Unless things have changed recently, I don't believe that's true. I have several friends who trained in NYC or Brooklyn and I know that putting in IVs, pushing patients to CT and back and tons of other menial non-doctor work was all commonplace. I don't recall any of them ever saying that the nurse would go get meds from the Pixys and then hand them to the resident to administer. Honestly, it doesn't make sense from an effort point of view. It's easier to find the patient than it is to find the resident most of the time and then you don't need to worry about getting in trouble (hah!) for losing the meds you pulled.
But striking is a legal right for nurses in New York, while not documenting would put them at huge legal/licensure risk. Come on.
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
They were offered that before they went on strike. They went on strike because of understaffing and patient care issues. #facts
So, what's your solution?
In my states now as well. Nurses have a set cap which is set by the state. It can only be exceeded once the hospital files a reason on a shift by shift basis to the state.
A major insurer auto-denied claims from our group last year for something like $2M. I don't think they've paid us anything yet.
Um, WTF do they do then?
What happens when there are more patients and they exceed the ratio? Like say a critical patient rolls in? What happens? Does the hospital have to call in more nurses? I'm genuinely curious.
At least we let the medics give report to the triage nurses and then they leave.
As the wife of a paramedic I appreciate that! If he takes his last call to my hospital he gets home on time. If he takes his last call to the hospital across town they make him sit there up to 2 hours over his shift. It’s pretty frustrating at the end of a 24h shift !
