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Nurse of the New York State Nurses Association NEW YORK CITY EDITION | MAY 2016 New York the official publicationnurse of the new york state nurses association Nurses stand with Verizon workers!, p. 4, 7 NYSNA supports Verizon strikers, top to bottom: Anthony Ciampa, RN and NYSNA Second Vice President, with strikers in New York City on April 17; Jalisa Saud, RN, Coney Island Hospital, at the May 5 rally near Wall Street; and striking Verizon workers address the April 13 NYSNA Lobby Day rally. May 6 statewide action for safe staffing, p. 5 2 NEW YORK NURSE MAY 2016 Nurses week: What’s at stake? s I write this column, our Nurses are eloquently expressing their priority bill, the “Safe A Staffing for Quality Care views on the deleterious effects of short Act” (S.782/A.8580-A) – the bill that will set a maximum number of staffing, putting people on high alert. patients a nurse can care for at any one time – is being hotly debated and seriously scrutinized by key in our numbers and in the logic of keting and advertising expenses By Judy Sheridan- legislators. Why is that? the initiative. into the stratosphere. Gonzalez, RN This year, our comprehensive cam- Why do our successful health l They have geometrically NYSNA President paign for passage has intensified: systems plead poverty when it increased their well-paid admin- l involving members through comes to increasing caregiver staff, istrative staff to better “man- Staffing Captain and POA ini- even while they show net profits? age” the hands on caregivers on tiatives, phone calls, legislative Why are some of our facilities whom our patients depend. visits, community speak-outs, claiming that they are losing money? l They pay exorbitant executive regional teach-ins, conferences, Where is the money going? salaries to too many admin- lobby days and high l Our hospitals are istrators who do not deliver level meetings with spending hundreds hands-on care to patients and elected leaders; of millions – even are removed from the reality of l utilizing a billions – of dol- patients’ acute conditions. sophisticated, lars on super- l They pay outrageous executive targeted, expensive salaries and perks to attract effective non-user friendly and keep “talent” in the orga- media cam- Electronic nization. paign to Medical Record l Non-union employers hire educate the (EMR) systems, expensive lawyers and firms to public and giving us even less crush union organizing drives point the spot- time to spend with and waste public resources light on politicians; our patients. meant for direct care of l focusing on municipal, l They pay exorbitant con- patients. Advocating for patients. Advancing the profession.SM county and regional bodies to sultant fees to organizations with l They pay millions to profes- pass initiatives that place sig- no actual direct healthcare expe- sional lobbyists to defeat our BOARD OF DIRECTORS nificant pressure on reluctant rience that are restructuring the legislative initiatives. President state officials; and workforce to achieve “efficiencies” Safe staffing is our highest prior- Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN, MSN, FNP l building a coalition of com- at the expense of patients. ity – the foundation of safe, quality First Vice President munity and labor groups that l Marva Wade, RN They have elevated their mar- care for all patients. Second Vice President challenge resistant legislators. Anthony Ciampa, RN What better gift for us than to Secretary have enough nurses to care for our Anne Bové, RN, MSN, BC, CCRN, ANP patients? Treasurer Patricia Kane, RN We have more sponsors and Directors at Large supporters than ever before; we Ingred Denny-Boyce, RN, BSN, MSN are more visible and powerful in Kevin Donovan, RN Tracey Kavanagh, RN, BSN the State Legislature and in local Grace Otto, RN, BA, BSN structures than in the past. Nurses Sean Petty, RN, CPEN Nella Pineda-Marcon, RN, BC are eloquently expressing their Karine M. Raymond, RN, MSN views on the deleterious effects of Veronica Richardson, RN Verginia Stewart, RN short staffing, putting people on Regional Directors high alert. Southeastern Vacant And the public is listening. Southern Seth B. Dressekie, RN, MSN, NP Central Patricia L. Kuhn, RN, BSN Lower Hudson/NJ Jayne Cammisa, RN, BSN Who is blocking us? Western Kris Powell, RN Eastern Martha Wilcox, RN The Hospital Association of New York State (HANYS), and a Executive Editor Jill Furillo, RN, BSN, PHN variety of fraternal organizations Executive Director and sympathizers, particularly Editorial offices located at: among big hospital chains, are 131 W 33rd St., New York, NY 10001 Phone: 212-785-0157 x 159 spending big piles on lobbying Email: [email protected] efforts to defeat our bill. Their Website: www.nysna.org Subscription rate: $33 per year arguments are flawed but their ISSN (Print) 1934-7588/ISSN (Online) 1934-7596 pockets are deep. Our strength is NYSNA members and nursing students flooded the State Capitol on our April 13 Lobby Day. ©2016, All rights reserved NEW YORK NURSE 3 MAY 2016 MAKING HISTORY First nurse and abolitionist icon to grace $20 bill arriet Tubman, an African American woman, nurse, former slave, and famed conductor of the under- Hground railroad will replace Andrew Jackson, a slaveholder, on the front of the 20-dollar bill. Harriet Tubman is most known for her heroic acts to free slaves. She herself was born into slavery and escaped to the north. She then Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady returned to free those she had been Stanton forced to leave behind, dedicating her life to ending the inhumane bondage of human beings owned as property in the south. Revolutionary icon Over the course of a decade, Tubman led at least 13 raids to free black women and men in the south. She served in the U.S. Army during the war, and in 1863 made She worked as a nurse for history when she led an armed the Union Army, nursing raid by three Union gunboats that thousands of wounded Sojourner Truth freed nearly 800 enslaved people in South Carolina. soldiers, both black and white. But she did not wait for her actions to be sanctioned by the Union Army – even before the Civil War, Tubman worked tirelessly ed soldiers, both black and white. Images of women will be also to free slaves from bondage when She was expert in herbal medicine added on the back of both the $10 doing so was still illegal. Southern and was so well known for her abil- and the $5 bills. On the back of the slaveholders were so irate that they ity to cure men of dysentery that she $10 bill, the image of the Treasury went so far as to offer $40,000 for was asked by Army surgeons to use building will be replaced with one her capture, an astronomical figure her nursing skills to support troops of a 1913 women’s suffrage march at that time. As Portside reported, at a military base in Florida. along with portraits of five leaders “Tubman wasn’t working within Later, on a parcel of land she in the movement to win the right the system; she saw clearly that bought in Auburn, NY, she estab- to vote for women: Sojourner Lucretia Mott the system couldn’t be reformed or lished the Harriet Tubman Home Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia repaired, only broken and replaced.” for Aged and Infirm Negroes. Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and In that sense Tubman is truly a Alice Paul (see sidebar). revolutionary icon who fought for Recognizing our heroes On the back of the $5 bill will freedom, putting what was right Sadly, Harriet Tubman was not be an image from the 1939 per- and moral before the system of fully recognized for her important formance in front of the Lincoln chattel slavery which was legal and work during her lifetime. The U.S. Memorial by the African-American brutally enforced. Government denied her claim for a singer Marian Anderson, after she Civil War pension despite her work as was prohibited from singing at Union Army nurse a nurse, spy, and cook for the Army. the segregated Constitution Hall. Few people know that Harriet Putting Tubman on the 20-dollar Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr. Martin Tubman was also a nurse. She cared bill is a historical commemoration Luther King, Jr. will also be depict- Alice Paul for the people she rescued on the of a black woman freedom fighter ed on the $5 bill. underground railroad as she led and a nurse, and it is a step in the The currency changes will not them to freedom. And later she right direction toward cementing be implemented until 2020, the worked as a nurse for the Union her importance in the conscious- centennial of the 19th Amendment Army, nursing thousands of wound- ness of the American people. establishing women’s voting rights. 4 NEW YORK NURSE MAY 2016 Verizon strikers are fighting for all of us nurses upper-income households, which rollout agreements. In New York NYSNA stand with now hold a larger share of the City, Verizon committed to bring the nearly 40,000 women and men nation’s income than ever before. high-speed broadband to every on strike since April 13 to save If Verizon is allowed to move neighborhood, but low-income middle class jobs. The strikers are more good middle class jobs off- communities of color like East employees of Verizon and members shore, and force cut backs on the Flatbush still lack access to FiOS. of the Communications Workers workers here, there would be even Instead of providing services to of America and the International fewer opportunities available for our communities, Verizon has Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
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