Striking nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian on Friday announced a tentative agreement with hospital management to return to work next week in exchange for new workplace protections and higher salaries. Nurses will vote on whether to ratify the deal starting Friday, their union said. If the more than 4,000 striking NewYork-Presbyterian nurses approve the contract, it will end the historic nurses strike that began on Jan. 12. The New York State Nurses Association has called it the longest and largest nurses strike in city history. The union members at NewYork-Presbyterian are the last holdouts in that strike after more than 10,000 nurses at Montefiore and Mount Sinai ratified contracts with their employers last week and began returning to work over the weekend.
In a social media landscape shaped by hashtags, algorithms, and viral posts, nurse leaders must decide: Will they let the narrative spiral, or can they adapt and join the conversation?
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