Outside Gracie Square Hospital, a psychiatric hospital, on the Upper East Side Wednesday night, nurses threatened to walk off the job.
"A lot of people won't do this job," nurse Jakki Battice said. "A lot of people won't deal with psych patients even in regular hospitals."
"It's about the safety of the patients," Battice said. "It's about our safety. We need a better contract so we can better take care of them." Nurses, who say they've been working without a contract since May, were voting Wednesday night on whether or not to authorize a strike.Any given nurse can have more than 10 patients at once. State guidelines suggest no more than six.
The hospital is affiliated with the healthcare behemoth New York-Presbyterian, which released a statement Wednesday night.
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