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What it takes to become a registered nurse in New York
Becoming an RN in New York takes two to four years of schooling plus the NCLEX-RN and state licensure through the Education Department's Office of the Professions.
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How to become a certified nursing assistant in New York
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.
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Healthcare jobs in New York that don't require a degree — and what they pay
From home health aide to sterile processing technician, New York's hospitals hire certified workers with no college degree — national medians from about $33,500 to $60,600, per federal data.
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Medical assistant certification in New York: costs and timelines explained
New York does not license medical assistants — but national certification, earned in four months to two years for roughly $125 to $3,000 in exam and tuition costs, is what employers hire.
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What EMS providers earn in New York: the pay data, region by region
EMTs and paramedics in New York earn below the state's own downstate minimum wage in some volunteer-based systems, while hospital-based and unionized 911 services pay materially more.
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Nursing assistants face injury rates five times the national average, OSHA data show
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.
Meal timing for night shift workers: what metabolic research shows
Eating at night, when the body's glucose handling is at its circadian worst, raises post-meal glucose in controlled studies — and a 2021 simulated-shift trial in Cell Metabolism found daytime eating blunted glucose effects compared with nighttime meals.
Naps for night shift workers: what the science says about timing and length
Controlled studies support two nap windows for night workers — a prophylactic nap before the shift and a short in-shift nap around 20 to 30 minutes — with longer in-shift naps improving outcomes but risking sleep inertia on waking.
Nutrition
The 5-and-20 rule on Nutrition Facts labels, and what it means for added sugars
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.
Caffeine in energy drinks: what regulators limit, and where the gaps sit
The FDA caps caffeine in sodas at 0.02 percent — about 71 milligrams per 12 ounces — but sets no specific limit for energy drinks, whose caffeine runs 80 to 300 milligrams per can, leaving the practical ceiling at the agency's 400-milligram daily adult guidance.
What sell-by and use-by dates on food actually mean — and what they do not
With one exception, federal law requires no date labels on food: sell-by dates guide store stocking, best-if-used-by dates mark quality, and only infant-formula dates carry a federal safety mandate — confusion over the labels feeds an estimated 30 to 40 percent food waste.
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A bad night's sleep can cut immune cell activity by nearly a third, federal fatigue research shows
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.
Hepatitis C screening: why CDC wants every adult tested at least once
CDC's 2020 recommendation is universal: one-time hepatitis C testing for all adults 18 and older, plus testing in every pregnancy — an about 2.4 million-person infection in which roughly four in ten carriers do not know they have it.
Workplace ergonomics guidance that holds up: what OSHA and NIOSH actually require
There is no federal ergonomics standard, but NIOSH's lifting equation sets a 51-pound ceiling under ideal conditions, and OSHA enforces musculoskeletal-hazard fixes through the General Duty Clause.
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The 2023 New York City nurses strike set a pattern hospitals are still paying for
Roughly 7,000 nurses struck two Bronx hospitals for three days in January 2023, winning 19-percent raises and staffing language that shaped every New York settlement since.
How night shift work pulls the body's clocks apart
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.
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Work fatigue costs employers $218 billion a year, and health care carries outsized risk, federal data show
New York opened its first $76.2 million rural hospital transformation funding round on July 1
The state Department of Health published guidance for the $76.2 million Rural Community Health Integration Initiative, the first draw on New York's $212.1 million federal Rural Health Transformation award for upstate providers.
Health care kept hiring in June while total US job growth slowed to 57,000, BLS reports
The June Employment Situation, released July 2, 2026, showed payrolls up just 57,000 nationwide, with private education and health services leading all sectors at 69,000 added jobs.
RSV vaccines: who is recommended to get one, per CDC
CDC recommends one dose of RSV vaccine for every adult 75 and older and for adults 50 to 74 with risk factors for severe disease — a one-time vaccine, not an annual one, ideally timed before the fall season.