• Legislative Update, Panel from California wows crowd and committee at hearing
• The Patient Safety Act: Now what? Urge Public Health Committee members to vote for a favorable release of H.2059

• Christmas layoffs will slow city services; Total of 42 workers sent home yesterday
• Lawrence lays off 40 workers
• Workers Laid Off One Week Before Christmas
  

President's Column

Trip to California finds safe staffing law working just fine

Nursing on Beacon Hill: Legislative Update

• Central Mass. AFL-CIO honors Region 2 at Labor Day event
• Protect your practice online!
• A special message for ED nurses
• Advocates for patient safety rally on the South Coast

Michael Moore’s “SiCKO” has broad reach, powerful impact

MNA activism doesn’t take a vacation!

President's Column

New look for our newsletter, new opportunity to pass safe staffing

Dues proposal from Region 4 Board to be taken up at Convention

Nursing on Beacon Hill: Legislative Update

• On Oct. 24, the place to be will be Beacon Hill!
• The Patient Safety Act: Decision Makers, Round 1

Another study links RN staffing to increased infection rates

Taunton school nurses win fight to keep an RN in every school

Unit 7 in Central Massachusetts holds legislative briefing

Rapid Response Teams: Passing fancy or future standard?

MNA teams with One Family to help end family homelessness

MNF annual golf tournament a big success

Ciao Sorrento! MNA hosts another successful trip to Italy

North Adams Transcript Story on Strike Vote

NARN Nurses Letter to the Editor on Strike Vote

VNA, hospice nurses rally for contract

South Shore RN's Letter to Editor Re Hospital Infections and Staffing Appears in Patriot Ledger

NEMC nurses protest unsafe staffing, declining conditions

Mapping: coming soon to a bargaining unit near you!

Executive Director's Column

Heading to convention to cast your vote? Here is some info that will help

Nursing on Beacon Hill: Legislative Update

• MNA members advocate for proper school nutrition
• Scope of practice of school nurses under attack with diabetes bill

Proposed bill will address issue of violence against health care workers

Region 2 members golf for scholarships

New DPH commissioner hears from MNA members in Worcester…

New study finds ICU nurse staffing, working conditions linked to increase in infections, deaths in the elderly

Lawrence General Hospital nurses ratify new contract

President's Column

Legislature has chance to address the workplace violence crisis in health care

Nursing on Beacon Hill: Legislative Update

New staff strengthens MNA’s grassroots lobbying efforts

RNs at Mercy and Providence take on technology, automation

Over 550 senior nursing students attend the MNA’s transition programs

Nursing News Briefs

For 6,000 nurses a year, MNA is the resource for CEs

RNs at Lawrence General call for mediation in dispute

Boston Medical Center nurses protest management’s unfair labor practices

Executive Director's Column

Putting safe ratios in your contract won’t protect your patients

• The MNA goes to Washington
• MNA’s Congress on Health Policy and Legislation begins endorsements
• Region 1 hosts 27th annual legislative breakfast in Holyoke

National Nurses Week is coming. What do we want? Safe staffing!

Turning fear into action: standing together in strength

West Springfield school nurses ratify new contract

President's Column

As National Nurses Week approaches, we celebrate nurses & nurse activism

Huge win in fight to save Fernald Center

MNA member receives top award from N.E. Regional Black Nurses Assn.

Baystate Visiting Nurses rally and picket in Greenfield

What to do when the Joint Commission visits your facility

Safe staffing bill: A progress report

President's Column

Be a part of shaping the MNA’s agenda: consider running for election

• Safe staffing bill refiled, gets 80 co-sponsors
• Region 3 honors retiring Rep. Shirley Gomes

Honor your peers with a nomination for 2007 MNA awards

St. Vincent RNs reach tentative agreement, avert strike

Brockton Hospital RNs ratify 3-year pact with 13–23 percent pay hike

Executive Director's Column

‘No’ is a counter position

• Mullin takes the helm in MNA's Division of Legislation
• MNA members key in bill’s passage

Thinking of traveling with the MNA? Read about one nurse’s adventures in Greece!

RNs at St. Vincent Hospital picket for safe nurse staffing

MNA re-files safe staffing legislation

President's Column

New year promises major gains for nurses and the MNA on Beacon Hill

MNA Board of Directors Update

Fall elections a success for nurses and patients

Donna White receives award from International Nurses Society on Addictions

Join the Brockton Hospital Nurses for An Informational Picket
Thursday, Jan. 11th from 2p.m. - 5 p.m.