Ep 3. NYC Nurses Striking to Save Our Patients, Healthcare System & Profession

In this episode, nurses and healthcare advocates Amie Archibald-Varley & Sara Fung discuss the strike of over 7000+ nurses in New York and their victory. The crisis surrounding safe patient-nurse ratios, a larger nursing workforce and low morale is a universal and International nursing issue—should more nurses across the globe go on strike? If so- tell us where and when- we ride at dawn. "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; But make it hot by striking"~ William Bultler Yeats. "The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress"~ Martin Luther King   Subscribe to our YouTube: @grittynursepodcast Twitter: @grittynurse @amievarley @saramfung IG: @Gritty.nurse.podcast @amievarley @saramfung   Links to resources/ Written Credits:    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/nyregion/nurses-strike-ends-nyc.html   https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/business/nyc-nurses-strike-ends/index.html   https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/nurses-ratify-contracts-after-strike-at-two-nyc-hospitals-1.6243855   https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-the-nyc-nurses-strike-points-to-a-nationwide-problem-with-staffing   https://www.vox.com/health-care/2023/1/11/23548236/nyc-nurses-strike-2023-mount-sinai-montefiore-hospitals   https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-64375244   Video Clip: Credit:    https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/11/business/nurses-strike-staff-shortage-problem/index.html