Maimonides nurse elected as president of NYS Nurses Association
The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), which represents more than 42,000 registered nurses across the state, has elected Maimonides Medical Center nurse Nancy Hagans, RN, CCRN, as its new president.
Hagans, a native of Haiti, was first elected to NYSNA’s board in 2015. She was elected by the board to the position of treasurer in 2019.
She started her career as a surgical intensive care nurse at Maimonides in Brooklyn in 1990. She became NYSNA’s local bargaining unit president at the hospital in 1993. Currently, Hagans is the NYSNA resource nurse providing direct representation to NYSNA members at the well-known Brooklyn health care institution, which is now an affiliate of Northwell Health.