JANUARY 2020
A NEWSLETTER FOR NYSNA RNs AT WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER
A Letter from your Executive Committee Dear colleagues, The Executive committee and I thank you for your commitment and dedication to our patients as the Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of Westchester Medical Center. Together we deliver the highest level of care to the sickest patients coming from all over the Hudson valley and beyond. We are fortunate to have The New York State Nurses Association as our professional nursing union. NYSNA is the largest Nursing Union in the region now representing over 42,000 nurses in New York State. Together, we are strong! The nurses at WMC are the heart and soul of patient care. We should get the respect we deserve and be supported in every way to deliver the best care to our patients. Is that not the business we are in? Patient care? As we begin 2020, we see challenges with management’s harsh changes in dealing with many individual disciplines—many of which we continue to fight for in the grievance process. The Executive committee and delegates are available and want to hear what you have to say. More importantly, Nursing Leadership needs to hear your words.
We meet with nursing leadership every two weeks and your input or presentations are welcome. Some of the items we have consistently brought to the agenda and remain unresolved by management are: • Adding front line full time nurses • Creating an incentivized float pool • Security / visitation process and locked units • Adding / improving training for ancillary staff And most recently, we raised our concerns about the loss of many agency nurses who staffed our ED, leaving our level 1 trauma center in a staff crisis! We hope the 20 plus positions are filled and forever remain NYSNA nurses as they should be, along with our STAT ground team. While we struggle with management to improve some of these conditions, we ask for your participation in our nurse practice days and future actions! Best practice always, in solidarity, David Long, RN President, your NYSNA Executive Committee at Westchester Medical Center
Save the Date! NYSNA Lobby Day Tuesday, March 3 RSVP: http://bit.ly/rnld2020
