The State Senate took the appalling and dangerous step today of approving S. 2805, a bill that will gut our safe staffing bill and codify the deadly status quo in… Read more »
Year: 2008
Senate Votes in Favor of Bill that Codifies the Deadly Status Quo in Mass. Hospitals
Nurses/Advocates Outraged by Senate Ways & Means Committee’s Gutting of Safe Staffing Bill, Which Will Codify Current Unsafe Conditions in Hospitals and Continue to Place Thousands of Patients in Jeopardy
Measure Eliminates House Compromise Bill’s Call for Safe Staffing Standards and Patient Limits, Allowing Hospital Administrators to Continue to Set Their Own Staffing Levels. Nurses and patient advocates, who have… Read more »
Massachusetts Nurses Association Endorses Pam Richardson for Re-election
Cites Her Commitment to Health Care and Nursing Issues Canton, Mass.–The Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), the state’s largest union of registered nurses and health care professionals, announced its endorsement and… Read more »
Nursing ratios save money and lives
New Study Links Nurse Understaffing to Increase in Deadly Infections
Findings Come as the Mass. State Senate Considers Action on a Bill to Require Much Needed Improvements in Hospital Nurse Staffing Levels along with Other Measures to Protect Patients BOSTON–As… Read more »
State Rep. and RN Mary Grant Publishes Powerful Op Ed in Support of the Patient Safet Act
My view: Nurse staffing rules make senseBy Mary Grant
‘Fatal Care’: Medical errors cause 98,000 deaths in U.S. hospitals each year
By CYNTHIA McCORMICK
OSHA outlines training requirements for first receivers of victims of mass casualty emergencies and chemically contaminated patients
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterMay/June 2008 Edition Healthcare workers risk occupational exposures to chemical, biological or radiological materials when hospitals receive contaminated patients during emergency response activities with mass casualties…. Read more »
MNA members efforts rewarded—Carney to remain open as acute care hospital
New Caritas Christi CEO Ralph de la Torre unveils plan during May 22 Coalition to Strengthen Carney Hospital meeting As a result of efforts initiated by MNA members that developed… Read more »
House Passes Landmark Bill on RN Staffing and Patient Safety in Massachusetts Hospitals
Measure Calls for Safe Limits on Nurses’ Patient Assignments, Prohibits Mandatory Overtime, and Includes Initiatives to Increase Nursing Faculty & Nursing Scholarship.
