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Founded
in 1903, the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) is the largest
and most powerful professional health care association and the largest
union of registered nurses in Massachusetts. Its 23,000+ members
comprise every role of nursing practice, working in more than 85
different health care facilities across the state. These facilities
range from large metropolitan to community hospitals, school nurses,
public health nurses and visiting nurses associations. Serving as
a voice for the nursing profession, the MNA works to advance it
by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic
and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive
and realistic view of nursing, providing collective bargaining representation
and lobbying the Legislature and regulatory agencies on health care
issues affecting nurses and the public.
The MNA
makes it possible for nurses to take an active role in decisions made
in the practice, health care reform, legislative and economic arenas
- decisions that directly influence the profession of nursing. The
MNA is directed and run by the membership with an elected board of
directors and a grassroots organizational structure. With districts
in five different regions of the state, members have an opportunity
to become involved in the MNA on local issues and concerns.
The MNA also provides members with an opportunity to influence nursing
issues on a national level. At the MNA diversity does make a difference.
In this rapidly evolving health care environment, it is the MNA that
speaks for the profession of nursing. |
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