About 7,000 nurses from two New York City hospitals, Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, have been on strike since Monday. They are pushing for better staffing amid a nationwide uptick in COVID-19 cases
The striking nurses say that staffing shortages started years ago, but the problem has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Between 2020 and 2021, the number of working U.S. nurses dropped by over 100,000, the largest single-year decline recorded in four decades of data, according to anin January, 2022. The crisis has continued into 2023; as of publishing, 15% of U.S.
“If COVID didn’t happen, I don’t know if we would be at this point right now,” says Allen. “One, it was just a traumatic experience for lots of us nurses to go through. But then, two, it’s further depleted our staffing by people retiring early, people burning out and leaving the profession or leaving bedside nursing.”
In a public statement on January 9, Mount Sinai issued a statement saying that the union rejected a 19.1% wage increase. “It is deeply unfortunate that instead of agreeing to either of these solutions and rescinding its strike notice, Mount Sinai’s NYSNA leadership has made the decision to ask nurses to leave patients’ bedsides during a tridemic,” the hospitalThat toll continues to accrue, as the U.S.
In New York alone, some 32,000 people were hospitalized with the virus in December, which as the chart below shows is the largest number of hospitalizations in over a year. Meanwhile, there are over 1,100 nursing vacancies between the two hospitals, according to the NYSNA.shortages of nursing faculty and inadequate expansion of nursing schools in the U.S. have narrowed the pipeline for educating new professionals.
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