“This is some of the worst short-staffing that I have seen in 30 years, and trust me, I have seen a lot,” Noemi DeJesus-Aponte, a Labor and Delivery Nurse at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, said at a Nov. 17 rally calling for safe-staffing in the hospital system.
More than 100 nurses from the New York State Nurses Association demonstrated outside of New York-Presbyterian Columbia Hospital in Washington Heights to bring attention to poor working conditions, with many nurses saying they felt burned out because of the high patient load.
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