NYU Langone’s Brooklyn hospital is breaking the law by flouting minimum staff-patient ratios for its shifts, the union representing nurses charged Thursday.
The understaffing at the NYU Langone facility in Sunset Park has led to an increase in patient falls, a rise in the number of “bedsore” complaints and high nurse turnover, with one unit losing nearly half its new hires within six months, said Federation of Nurses/UFT said.
NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn is on track in 2023 to have 495 falls by the end of the year, which would amount to a 41% increase from 2022, the union, citing hospital metrics. Unless conditions change, it’s gearing up to have 22 of these falls result in serious injuries, a 49% increase from 2022. According to the records of the UFT Nurse chapter, the Brooklyn hospital hired 108 new nurses between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2023, while 71 nurses retired or resigned. The Med/Surgical division alone hired 47 nurses between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2023, and 22 have already resigned.
NYU Langone-Brooklyn, working with the union, was one of the first hospitals to establish staffing ratios in 2016, well before the current state minimum staffing requirements made it a common practice, he said.
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