Day 3: Montefiore’s Bronx hospitals starting to feel affects of nursing strike W/ bronxtimes NursesStrike
Montefiore workers said that nursing assignments have beenPatients like Donell Jones told the Bronx Times that a “simple” 10-to-15 minute appointment turned into an “hour-long mess” that ended in cancellation as workers were scrambling around. Others, in need of biopsies and other life-altering surgeries, have had procedures pushed off, and may need to have those services relocated, sources say.
Scabby the Union Rat made its first appearance in front of Montefiore’s East 210th Street Moses campus on Wednesday, Jan. 11.Montefiore is holding firm on its offer of a 19.1% wage increase compounded over three years and a plan to create more than 170 new nursing positions. A major talking point in negotiations, according to NYSNA, is how Montefiore plans to implement and enforce staffing levels.
In 2021, NYSNA called for specific staffing ratios in most hospital units, hoping to to alleviate onerous workloads for nurses that were exacerbated by ongoing COVID-19 responses across the city and state.Nurses were taking off their gloves to warm the hands of others. A few were consoling others during more emotionally-charged portions of Wednesday’s strike. But nurses — or the ability to provide patient care — cannot be filled by travel nurses or upper-level management.
Two-thirds of nurses, nationwide, say they are planning to leave the profession in the next two years, with staffing concerns leaving caregivers burnt out and at their breaking point. NYC nurses have said that striking was a last resort, but it’s one that has gained support internally, and from patients and politicos.
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