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'Demanding Better': Nurses In Westchester County To Rally For Safe Staffing, Fair Contract 'Demanding Better': Nurses In Westchester County To Rally For Safe Staffing, Fair Contract
'Demanding Better': Nurses In Westchester County To Rally For Safe Staffing, Fair Contract A group of nurses in Westchester County will soon rally to demand safer staffing practices and a better contract from the hospital they work at. The speak-out will be held on Friday, Nov. 18 at noon in Yonkers in front of the St. Joseph’s Medical Center, according to the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA). There, nurses will highlight how the hospital has violated contractual safe staffing ratios in the intensive care unit, psychiatric units, and emergency department by often assigning three patients to nurses instead of the safer standard of two, according to the NYSNA.&nb…

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by Ben Crnic