Anne Goldman, the UFT vice president for non-DOE members who also heads the Federation of Nurses/UFT, tells conference attendees that because of staff shortages, “We’re all challenged to do our best, but there are no excuses, either.”

Nurses from NYU Langone Hospital — Brooklyn were in the spotlight after grievances brought because of inadequate staffing produced a $138,000 award divided among 250 of them.

Keynote speaker Audrey Stevenson, a family nurse practitioner and public health expert based in Utah, offers updates on the coronavirus and monkeypox.

Visiting Nurse Service of New York’s Kaiser Mojica asks Stevenson a question.

Nurses recite a mantra meant to relax them during a workshop titled Compassion Fatigue and Burnout.

Ali Khadivi, a professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, leads a workshop on Strategies for Working With Suicidal Patients.

Nurses listen attentively during a workshop about the guidelines and care for sepsis, a condition resulting from the presence of harmful microorganisms in the blood or other tissues and the body’s response to them. In hospitals, 1 in 3 deaths is caused by sepsis, which is a challenge to treat.

School Nurses Chapter Leader Cynthia Bennett (seated, left) with some of her members.