Recent Talks Held Last Week Yielded Little Movement on Key Issues As Contract is Set to Expire on Jan. 11th WORCESTER—After more than a year of negotiations, including yet another… Read more »
Year: 2006
St. Vincent Hospital Nurses to Deliver Petition to CEO on Dec. 19th (3:30 p.m.) In Appeal for Safe Staffing and a Fair Contract
Nurses Top List of Most Honest and Ethical Professions
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After 30 years in exile, thalidomide is back
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2006 Edition By Thomas P. Fuller, ScD, CIH Almost everyone knows the story of “thalidomide babies”: the drug used widely in the early 1960’s to… Read more »
Workplace health and safety: report of PHASE/MNA focus groups, Part 2 of 2
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2006 Edition By Lee Ann Hoff, RN, PhD and Craig Slatin, ScD, MPHUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell The UMass Lowell PHASE in Health care research project… Read more »
The prevention of back injury is within us
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2006 Edition By Robert P. Naparstek, MD Medical Director, Caritas-Good Samaritan Occupational Health Services
The benefits of safe patient handling
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2006 Edition By Jan DuBose, RN Recent legislative initiatives in states across the country, including a bill in the Massachusetts legislature (H.2662), provide a strong… Read more »
New report: substances common in hospitals can cause or worsen asthma
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2006 Edition Unbeknownst to many health care providers, the indoor hospital environment may be making people sick. A new report reveals that substances commonly found… Read more »
Update on new MNA emergency preparedness volunteer project
Thank you to the nurses who have responded to the new MNA Emergency Preparedness Volunteer project! Approximately 40 nurses from across the state—both MNA members and non members—have volunteered for… Read more »
Nursing by the numbers
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2006 Edition
Brigham & Women’s Hospital RNs Ratify New Two-Year Contract
Pact Includes Landmark Language to Protect Nurses’ Union Rights and Newly Licensed Nurses; Includes Wage Hike to Make BWH Nurses the Highest Paid in State BOSTON, MA—The registered nurses of… Read more »
