management had 10 days notice for the strike. as well as months notice that the contract expired at the end of the year and if they didn’t come to an agreement with the union/nurses, a strike was a possibility.

so if you gave two weeks notice and your boss didn’t replace you; and then something bad happened after you left, are you still liable? no and neither are the nurses.

i mean to some extent, any hospital near one or the striking hospitals will be affected. bellevue is pretty far from monte and mount sinai, so they probably won’t feel anything. public hospital nurses can’t strike by law, so i think that’s more of what your mom meant, by public hospitals not being affected

however jacobi and north central bronx are right by montefiore and given montefiore is on diversion, they are likely seeing higher volume since ambulances aren’t going to montefiore.

lenox hill is opening their makeshift units from the height of covid to accommodate increased volume of patients from mount sinai’s strike. (i know lenox hill isn’t a public hospital)

while all hospitals will technically be affected, the two striking hospitals are Mount Sinai (the main location) and Montefiore (Moses, Weiler, and Hutch campuses)

but also to have better working conditions. no nurse wants a person to die on their watch because they were too busy with a too high patient load

it’s not a shortage of nurses. it’s a shortage of nurses willing to work under these conditions (which have been rapidly worsening for years). many nurses are leaving the bedside for non bedside roles, retiring early, or moving to other careers entirely.

fix the working conditions and you won’t have a nursing shortage

they’ve been attempting to negotiate for months with hospital administrators who haven’t been negotiating. what do you expect them to do? negotiate forever accomplishing nothing

do you think these hospitals are putting the patients first?

one of these striking hospitals admits patients to the literally hallway. imagine you’re sick and you go to the hospital and they stick you in the hallway where you can’t get any rest or privacy because people are walking up and down the halls all day and night. this is not the emergency room either, this is the inpatient units. this has been an ongoing problem since at least 2016. how is appropriate for executives to be paying themselves millions, but allowing patients to be in the hallway for the better part of a decade instead of expanding actual beds.