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About one in five employed registered nurses works part-time, per federal household survey tabulations, and hospitals' preference for the arrangement has grown as benefit costs — roughly 30 percent of compensation, per BLS — and staffing-committee law reshape the hiring math.
Health care workers absorbed 73 percent of all nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses caused by violence in federal counts, and New York's 2024 hospital violence-prevention statute now requires written programs and annual security assessments.
Longitudinal studies published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings found more than 60 percent of US physicians reporting burnout symptoms in the 2021 wave, up from a 2017 low near 44 percent, and nurse surveys point the same direction.
About 20 percent of New York's wage and salary workers belong to unions, the highest or second-highest rate in the nation in recent BLS counts, and health care is one of the industries where that density is most visible.
Travel nurses' weekly wages ran 148 percent above staff nurses' at the January 2022 peak, per a CEPR analysis of federal survey data; by 2024 the premium had compressed sharply as agency rates fell.
Federal injury data show health care and social assistance recording 3.6 recordable injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers in 2023, half again the private-industry average of 2.4.