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December 2000

• MNA Makes Bold Change in Leadership & Direction
• MNA's New Leadership Makes National Trade News
• MNA makes bold changes in leadership, direction
• Comments from members on new MNA direction
• The new MNA: A message form the new president
• A message from the new executive director
• ANA disaffiliation vote falls just short of 2/3 majority and other votes at the annual business meeting
• BORN promulgates new disciplinary regulations: New policy on abandonment/mandatory overtime
• BORN policy statement on patient abandoment
• Question 5 falls just 4% short in David v Goliath struggle
• After Question 5: Lessons to be learned and applied
• MNA 2000 election results
• MNA Congress on Health and Safety releases top 10 reasons to avoid latex gloves
• Planning for long term care
• Focus on diversity: Seeing nursing from a different perspective
• The life of a home care nurse
• Save the date for Lobby Day 2001
• On being a new grandmother, a nurse, and a patient advocate
• Member opportunities at the MNA
• Challenging times ahead for home care clinicians
• South Shore Hospital Campaign Page  
• S.Shore Hospital Union Election Date Set
• Everett's Whidden Memorial Hospital
• Nursing Activism GROWS in New England 
• 1999-2000 Legislation Filed by MNA
• 1999-2000 Legislation Followed by MNA

October/November 2000

• MNA Votes to Stay with National Organization
• ANA Affiliation/Disaffiliation Page: MNA's Future 
• Labor Cabinet Unanimously Supports Disaffiliation
• Labor Cabinet's: ANA Disaffiliation ALERT!
• MNA Annual Convention: Nov 8,9,10th 
• Vote "Yes" on Question # 5 
• Weymouth Town Council Supports RNs Rights to Organize
• 2001 Leader Fellows Program
• MNA BOD & NursePLAN Support Senator Kennedy  
• Final Ballot: General and Labor Relations Elections
• Legislative Candidates Endorsed by NursePLAN
• State Nursing Commission: opportunity for change!
• Striking Social Workers Need Our Support
• MNA Staff Development Committee Opens October Meeting to Staff Educators Across State
• MNA Board Votes to Support Disaffiliation
• Make Your Vote (on MNA's Future) Count at Business Meeting
• From the Executive Director's Desk: A Special Thanks to MNA's Legislative Dept for a Great Ride and Great Future 
• New Book Teaches Nurses Why and How to Communicate to the Public
• Wrong Route Errors:  Are you Heading in the Wrong Direction
• Bill Would Ban Mandatory Overtime for Health Care Workers
• MNA BOD Approves Initial Legislative Agenda for 2001-2002 
• Share Your Experiences with Nursing Commission
• More Information/Questions/Opinions on MNA & ANA's Future  
• Directions and Map to MNA's Annual Convention and Important Business Meeting
• Town Meetings to Discuss ANA Affiliation / Disaffiliation
• 2001 MNA Leader Fellows Program Deadline is Nov 15th
• Nurses Guide to Single Payer: Chapter 8
• NursePLAN Events at Convention
• Candidates Endorsed by MNA's NursePLAN for 2000
• Registration for MNA's Convention and Pre-Convention
• MNA Re-TIREd Nurses Group 
• Unit 7 Supports Disaffiliation
• MNA Membership Opportunities

August/September 2000

• Informational Picketing at Valley Regional Hospital
• MNA Needlstick Prevention Bill Passes with the Help of ANA and State Labor Unions
• MNA Says Vote "Yes" on Questions 5: Campaign Underway to Mobilize Support
• Universal (Single Payer) Health Care Activities Around the Country
• MNA President's Message: Strength of Unity
• Coalition for Patient Rights Fights for Genetic Privacy
• Flu  Vaccine Predicted in Short Supply this Fall, Prioritizing Risk is Recommended by CDC
• A Detailed Look at What the Needlestick Bill Does for Health Care Workers
• Governor's Veto of School Nursing Overridden
• MNA Says Vote "No" on Questions 4 & 6: Tax Cuts Squander Future
• Share Your Experiences with the Special Commission on Nursing Practice
• MNF Scholarships for 2000 Awarded
• MNF Announces 2000 Research Grant Awards
• NursePLAN Activities @ Convention
• NursePLAN Proposed Bylaw Change to be Voted on at Annual Breakfast
• Single Payer Guest Speaker for NursePLAN Annual Breakfast
• Book Sale as NursePLAN Fundraiser at Convention
• Participate in Nurses Campaign Activity Night 2000
• MNA President Speaker at Meeting on Health Care Crisis
• ANA Affiliation / Disaffiliation: MNA's Future
• MNA Annual Convention: Nov 8, 9, 10th
• Proposed changes to MNA Bylaws: complete and approved text
• MNA Board puts forth dues increase proposal
• Town meetings on ANA affiliation/disaffiliation
• MNA supports ballot initiative while endorsing compromised legislation on Patient Bill of Rights
• Guide to Single Payer: Chapter VI
• Tell your story to the special commission on nursing
• Highlights of action of MNA Board of Directors
• New brochure on Domestic Violence, available online
• Five RNs honored for upholding highest principles
• RN-Legislator/MNA members wins Frank Hynes Award
• MNA members win national awards
• Med Errors report: wave good-by to confusing medication orders: prescription for change
• Med Errors report: Stop blaming - a message on medication error prevention

June/July 2000

• Public Signing of Needlestick Law by Lt. Governor Swift
• Nursing Commission Hearing: Cape Cod, 9/12/00
• ANA Call for Appointments
• School Nurses Seek Pay Parity
• Boston Globe Covers MNA's Possible Disaffiliation
• Nursing homes understaffed, patients endangered
• ANA Takes Stand on Mandatory OT
• ANA Election Results
• Health Care Reform: Signatures Secured
• Nursing Activism GROWS in New England 
• New MNA Domestic Violence Brochure: Online
• Mass-Care News Update
• Leg Alert : HEPATITIS  C Funding in ???
• Nurses Week Produces Big for MNA
• Single Payer: Chapter update 
• Mass. Seniors Salute MN
• Tierney Introduces "Universal Health Care" Bill
• Final Ballot: General and Labor Relations Elections
• 2001 Leader Fellows Program
• DEHP, Chemical Exposures: Health Risks to Patients
• WIC Program Announces New Bloodwork Schedule
• MNA Celebrates Another Legislative Success
• RRN and Dept of Leg. Secure Budget Amendments
• Unit 7 Breakfast Successful
• Million Mom March Participation
• Speaking B-4 Nursing Commission: Positive Experience
• A Look Back at the St. V's Strike: A Victory for all RNs
• Tax Cut Ballot Initiatives Squander Opps for Future
• Mass Nurses Foundation Announces Scholarships/Grants
• Public Health Nurses In Worcester Ratify Contract 
• RI Hospital RNs Ready to Strike
• Free Hep C Sreenings for US Veterans
• Ad Hoc Committee Makes Final Push Signatures
• Faulkner RNs Head Back to the Table on June 20th
• Faulkner RNs Vote to Authorize Strike  

May 2000

• Update on issue of ANA disaffiliation
• Dates set for legislative hearings on nursing
• ANA action report endorsing single payer
• MNA helps school nurses win grants
• Model contract language on health & safety available
• Rx:  looks like...sounds like...
• ANA calls hospital staffing practices unsafe
• MNA Awards: Honor Your Peers 
• MNA Announces New Job-Search Database
• New medicaid regulations for NPs effective March 1
• Collaborative Practice Agreement (example)
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield direct contracting for NPs
• Focus on psych mental health
• Evolving role of psychiatric mental health clinical nurse specialist
• Update on ANCC psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner examination development
• Certification standards for advanced practice psychiatric nursing: by Michael Rice, PhD, RNP, CS
• ANCC responds to Michael Rice (above)
• Informational statement on psychiatric mental health role group
• Mental health priorities and psychiatric nurse practice in the year 2000
• MNA member's book explores brain-body connection
• Canton, MA RN host cable show on nursing
• A Remembrance: Mary Ann Garrison (1914-2000)
• Mass. Nurses Foundation: Awards & Scholarship

April 2000

• Preventing Needlestick Injuries Conference 
• Public Hearing on BORN's Proposed Regs  
• BORN Dismissed Adam's Complaint 
• Single Payer Health Care: Chapter 3
• MNA Awards: Honor Your Peers  
• MNA Announces New Job-Search Database
• Nursing's Perspective on the Health Care Crisis
• Workplace Violence is not "part of the job"
• MNA Lobby Day: A Great Success 
• HCFA Announces Removal of Physical Supervision Requirement for Nurse Anesthetists
• Joint Commission for Health Care Ballot Initiative: Local committees set up in 100 Massachusetts towns
• MNA Joins Campaign for Massachusetts Future
• NursePLAN: Investing in the Profession
• Blue Ribbon Commission Taps Expertise of 95 Members
• License Renewal B-day Year: Give Yourself the Gift of Privacy
• How to: Communicating with Elected Officials
• MNA Recognizes Barbara Gardner
• ANA Gears-up for RN Week
• Homelessness Education Program Planned: District 5
• Mass. Nurses Foundation: Awards & Scholarship

February/March 2000

• Nominations Sought for MNA 2000 Officers
• MNA Responds to Harvard-Pilgrim Crisis
• Newly Established Nursing Commission: Ambitious
• Healthcare Whistle Blower: Law Every RN Should Know
• Effort for Healthcare Question on 2000 Ballot: Moves Forward
• Ethics & Human Rights: A Survey of Mass Nurses
• Backgrounder on MNA's Center for Ethics and Human Rights
• MNA Launches Medication Errors Prevention Program
• Preventing Medical Errors Requires Dramatic Systemwide Changes
• Needlestick Conference Participants Plan to Continue Efforts
• Tobacco Settlement Create Opportunity to Address Nursing Issues
• Why Single Payer? Q&A with Author/Advocate Suzanne Gordon
• National Health Insurance Receives Broad Support
• JAMA Study: NP's Provide Care On Par With Physicians
• Nurse Appointed Domestic Violence Liaison for Cambridge Police Dept
• MNA Announces Task Force on Workplace Violence
• Congress on Health Policy Reconvenes Blue Ribbon Commission 

January 2000

• ANA Revising Scope and Standards of Psychiatric-Mental Health Clinical Nursing Practice
• School Health Day on Beacon Hill