How bad is N.J.’s nursing shortage? It has 13,000 openings and counting
New Jersey ranks among the 10 states with the most unfilled registered nurse positions with 13,404, according to Adzuna, a job listing site
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Local 5058 Officer Election Update
Dear Members: HPAE Local 5058 Officer nominations are closed. We currently have a contested election for the office of President. The Vice President and Unit Representative positions are uncontested. Ballots will be mailed out April 20, 2023 to all Local
Nurses Leaflet at Hospitals Across New Jersey, Build Momentum for May 11 Trenton Safe Staffing Rally
HPAE Nurses Leaflet at Hospitals Across New Jersey, Building Momentum to Next Month’s Rally in Trenton for Safe Staffing Frontline healthcare workers will gather at NJ State Capitol on Thursday, May 11, 2023 to urge lawmakers to mandate enforceable staffing
Urgent Update for Rutgers 5089 and 5094
HPAE Solidarity with AAUP faculty strike
HPAE in Solidarity with our AAUP-AFT brothers and sisters
Please attribute the following statement to HPAE President Debbie White, RN: Although HPAE is not on strike, we support our brothers and sisters at AAUP-AFT. We have also experienced the lack of movement and stall tactics exhibited by Rutgers at
Safe Staffing Newsletter #2
It's time our voices are heard. Join us at the Safe Staffing Rally on May 11 where will tell lawmakers we have had enough. We are standing together—workers, patients, community members and advocates.
Safe Staffing Newsletter #1
Healthcare workers, patients and community activists will Rally in Trenton on May 11 to tell legislators to pass a law mandating enforceable safe staffing levels in New Jersey hospitals.
Nurses and Healthcare Workers Launch Fight Against Staffing Crisis in New Jersey
New Jersey’s overworked, overburdened workforce call on lawmakers to pass safe staffing bill.
Code Red Position Paper I: Understaffed. Overworked. Unsafe for everyone.
The urgent need for Safe Staffing legislation in New Jersey. Understaffing is driving our healthcare system to the brink of collapse.That is why HPAE, New Jersey’s largest union of healthcare workers,is pushing the state legislature to pass a law in
Our health care system is a gathering catastrophe | Opinion
The problem is clear. Frontline health care workers continue to migrate out of bedside nursing at an alarming rate because of untenable working conditions.
NJ HPAE Eyeing NYSNA Staffing Patient Ratio Pact
A contract deal between New York City private hospitals and the New York State Nurses Association which provides for enforceable patient nurse staffing ratios is being hailed by New Jersey’s largest union of healthcare workers as an essential benchmark.
HPAE's statement of solidarity with NYC nurses who are on strike
HPAE, New Jersey's largest union of healthcare workers, stands in solidarity with our New York nursing colleagues as they fight to improve working conditions, salaries and staffing policies at their hospitals.