NYC nurses sound the alarm over ‘massive’
staffing shortages at hospitals amid COVID
pandemic, plan protests
Posted By: Ribicon, 11/15/2021 10:06:53 PM
With the traumas of COVID still freshly seared into their minds, New York City nurses are once again sounding the alarm that staffing shortages at local hospitals are jeopardizing the well-being of themselves and their patients. Nurses in the Big Apple and throughout New York State are planning a series of protests starting this week to highlight what they say is a failure on the part of hospitals to staff jobs that started to become vacant after the first pandemic wave roared through the region.(Snip)“We have a massive nursing shortage,” said Eric Smith, the statewide field director for the New York State Nurses Association. “We have a vacuum
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Why are COVID Cases Spiking? Again…
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Had they stood in solidarity with their coworkers who were about to fired for the crime of not taking the shot, then maybe they'd not now be angrier than they've been in years.