Year: 2005
Romney & Healey: Pay more attention to the state’s most vulnerable and less to your campaigns
Environmental pollutants and the immune system
It’s not nice to fool mother nature From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterOctober 2005 Edition By David H. Sherr, Ph.D. Department of Environmental Health Boston University School of Public Health In… Read more »
Worker’s comp in Massachusetts: punitive, inadequate and unfair
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterOctober 2005 Edition
How to organize a union
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterOctober 2005 Edition Short Term Goals: Develop an organizing committee; have 70 to 75 percent of members sign cardsLong Term Goals: Establish a union; achieve first… Read more »
Safe patient handling: it’s all been said, now here’s what needs to happen
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterOctober 2005 Edition
The real solution to ED overcrowding
There have been a number of studies and reports conducted on the issue of emergency department overcrowding and ambulance diversion that offer a number of alternative solutions, including one commissioned… Read more »
Workplace benefits: not the result of the employer’s benevolence or goodwill
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterOctober 2005 Edition
Union membership a key to health care coverage
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterOctober 2005 Edition According to a recent study by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), union members are much more likely to have employment-based health… Read more »
MNA continues opposing placement of patients in halls
Personal Checklist: What You Need In Case Of Disaster Emergency
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterOctober 2005 Edition RI Committee on Occupational Safety & Health If you were without electricity, water, phone and even shelter, what would you do? The devastation… Read more »
