<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <title>Health Work NY</title>
  <subtitle>Health Work NY publishes independent coverage of Healthcare Careers &amp; Workforce / Consumer Health.</subtitle>
  <link href="https://healthworkny.com" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
  <link href="https://healthworkny.com/atom.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" />
  <id>https://healthworkny.com/</id>
  <updated>2026-08-22T23:51:49.974Z</updated>
  <entry>
    <title>How to become a certified nursing assistant in New York</title>
    <link href="https://healthworkny.com/careers/how-to-become-a-certified-nursing-assistant-in-new-york.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://healthworkny.com/careers/how-to-become-a-certified-nursing-assistant-in-new-york.html</id>
    <summary><![CDATA[New York requires 100 hours of state-approved training and a two-part competency exam before nursing home work begins, state health department guidance]]></summary>
    <published>2026-08-20T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-08-21T03:36:10.996Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Sarah Collins</name>
    </author>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Work fatigue costs employers $218 billion a year, and health care carries outsized risk, federal data show</title>
    <link href="https://healthworkny.com/business-news/work-fatigue-costs-employers-218-billion-a-year-and-health-care-carries-outsized-risk-federal-data-show.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://healthworkny.com/business-news/work-fatigue-costs-employers-218-billion-a-year-and-health-care-carries-outsized-risk-federal-data-show.html</id>
    <summary><![CDATA[Extended and night shifts raise injury rates by up to 37%, according to federal occupational-safety research — a cost hospitals and staffing agencies increasingly have to schedule around.]]></summary>
    <published>2026-08-20T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-08-22T02:23:04.275Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Grace Mensah</name>
    </author>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>What it takes to become a certified nursing assistant in New York</title>
    <link href="https://healthworkny.com/health/what-it-takes-to-become-a-certified-nursing-assistant-in-new-york.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://healthworkny.com/health/what-it-takes-to-become-a-certified-nursing-assistant-in-new-york.html</id>
    <summary><![CDATA[New York requires more classroom and clinical hours than the federal floor, and a two-part exam trainees get only three tries to pass.]]></summary>
    <published>2026-08-20T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-08-22T02:23:04.278Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Renata Silva</name>
    </author>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>How night shift work pulls the body&apos;s clocks apart</title>
    <link href="https://healthworkny.com/health-news/how-night-shift-work-pulls-the-body-s-clocks-apart.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://healthworkny.com/health-news/how-night-shift-work-pulls-the-body-s-clocks-apart.html</id>
    <summary><![CDATA[A federal training module, a 2018 laboratory study and a 2021 cancer hazard assessment describe the same mechanism: the brain's master clock stays on day time while organ clocks move to night time.]]></summary>
    <published>2026-08-20T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-08-22T02:23:04.282Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Renata Silva</name>
    </author>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The 5-and-20 rule on Nutrition Facts labels, and what it means for added sugars</title>
    <link href="https://healthworkny.com/nutrition/the-5-and-20-rule-on-nutrition-facts-labels-and-what-it-means-for-added-sugars.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://healthworkny.com/nutrition/the-5-and-20-rule-on-nutrition-facts-labels-and-what-it-means-for-added-sugars.html</id>
    <summary><![CDATA[The percent Daily Value on every food label runs on one FDA formula and one rule of thumb — here's how the math works, and where added sugars fit into it.]]></summary>
    <published>2026-08-20T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-08-22T02:23:04.284Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Tobias Lange</name>
    </author>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>A bad night&apos;s sleep can cut immune cell activity by nearly a third, federal fatigue research shows</title>
    <link href="https://healthworkny.com/prevention/a-bad-night-s-sleep-can-cut-immune-cell-activity-by-nearly-a-third-federal-fatigue-research-shows.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://healthworkny.com/prevention/a-bad-night-s-sleep-can-cut-immune-cell-activity-by-nearly-a-third-federal-fatigue-research-shows.html</id>
    <summary><![CDATA[NIOSH training materials built for nurses trace shift work's toll to a mismatch with the body's internal clock, and to a light-driven signal that governs sleep, immune defense and judgment.]]></summary>
    <published>2026-08-20T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-08-22T02:23:04.288Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Grace Mensah</name>
    </author>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Nursing assistants face injury rates five times the national average, OSHA data show</title>
    <link href="https://healthworkny.com/wellbeing/nursing-assistants-face-injury-rates-five-times-the-national-average-osha-data-show.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://healthworkny.com/wellbeing/nursing-assistants-face-injury-rates-five-times-the-national-average-osha-data-show.html</id>
    <summary><![CDATA[Manual patient lifting drives most musculoskeletal injuries in health care. Federal safety agencies say mechanical lift programs, not better lifting technique, are what actually reduce the risk.]]></summary>
    <published>2026-08-20T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-08-22T02:23:04.290Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Nikki Roberts</name>
    </author>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>New York&apos;s ICU nurse-staffing rule is four years old. Hospitals still miss it more than half the time, union data show</title>
    <link href="https://healthworkny.com/workplace/new-york-s-icu-nurse-staffing-rule-is-four-years-old-hospitals-still-miss-it-more-than-half-the-time-union-data-show.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://healthworkny.com/workplace/new-york-s-icu-nurse-staffing-rule-is-four-years-old-hospitals-still-miss-it-more-than-half-the-time-union-data-show.html</id>
    <summary><![CDATA[State law has required hospitals to build staffing plans with frontline nurses since 2023. A 2024 survey found ratios go unmet in intensive care more often than not.]]></summary>
    <published>2026-08-20T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-08-22T02:23:04.294Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Devon Clarke</name>
    </author>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>How to become a certified nursing assistant in New York — Careers</title>
    <link href="https://healthworkny.com/careers/how-to-become-a-certified-nursing-assistant-in-new-york-careers.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://healthworkny.com/careers/how-to-become-a-certified-nursing-assistant-in-new-york-careers.html</id>
    <summary><![CDATA[New York requires 100 hours of state-approved training and a two-part competency exam before nursing home work begins, state health department guidance shows — here is how the training, testing deadlines and pay break down.]]></summary>
    <published>2026-07-30T03:03:03.051Z</published>
    <updated>2026-08-22T02:23:04.296Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Sarah Collins</name>
    </author>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The 2023 New York City nurses strike set a pattern hospitals are still paying for</title>
    <link href="https://healthworkny.com/health-news/2023-nyc-nurses-strike-set-pattern-hospitals-still-pay.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://healthworkny.com/health-news/2023-nyc-nurses-strike-set-pattern-hospitals-still-pay.html</id>
    <summary><![CDATA[Roughly 7,000 nurses struck two Bronx hospitals for three days in January 2023, winning 19-percent raises and grievable staffing language that shaped New York contracts since.]]></summary>
    <published>2026-07-16T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-08-22T16:35:16.772Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Renata Silva</name>
    </author>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>What it takes to become a registered nurse in New York</title>
    <link href="https://healthworkny.com/careers/what-it-takes-to-become-a-registered-nurse-in-new-york.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://healthworkny.com/careers/what-it-takes-to-become-a-registered-nurse-in-new-york.html</id>
    <summary><![CDATA[New York RN licensure takes two to four years of schooling plus the NCLEX-RN through the Office of the Professions. Here are the paths, the pay data, and the outlook.]]></summary>
    <published>2026-07-16T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-08-22T16:35:16.775Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Sarah Collins</name>
    </author>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>What the research says about shift work and sleep</title>
    <link href="https://healthworkny.com/workplace/what-the-research-says-about-shift-work-and-sleep.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" />
    <id>https://healthworkny.com/workplace/what-the-research-says-about-shift-work-and-sleep.html</id>
    <summary><![CDATA[NIOSH and peer-reviewed research document shift work's effects on sleep, metabolic health, and injury risk — with mitigation strategies the evidence supports.]]></summary>
    <published>2026-07-16T12:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-08-22T16:35:16.776Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Devon Clarke</name>
    </author>
  </entry>
</feed>