Crystal Lewis at The Chief Leader reports on the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), which announced an Independent Arbitrator has found New York University (NYU) Langone-Brooklyn repeatedly violated contractual Nurse Staffing Ratios and must pay the Nurses who worked these shifts the average wage of the missing Nurses.  The AFT did not say how many Nurses are eligible for compensation as part of the Arbitrator’s award or how much they are expected to receive.  The Arbitrator determined the hospital understaffed Nurses in two Medical-Surgical Units during 20 shifts between November and December 2022.  The Arbitrator also found a Critical Care Step-Down Unit did not have the contractual Nurse-to-Patient Ratio during 12 shifts between March and May 2022.  The Medical-Surgical Unit is supposed to have one Nurse for every five patients, while there should be one Nurse for every three patients in the Critical Care Step-Down Unit, according to a press release from the AFT, which represents 1,000 Nurses at the hospital.  The Arbitrator ruled Nurses who worked during the shifts in question are entitled to split the average wage of the missing Nurses, which is about $750 to $800 per shift for each Nurse.

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