Year: 2011
Ketline Edouard, RN (MNA member who works at BMC) wrote about a trip to Haiti that she and several BMC and one CHA nurse (MNA members) organized.
President’s Column
Nursing on Beacon Hill: Legislative Update
What is YOUR New Year’s resolution? As the MNA looks to 2011, we anticipate a very busy year. Many contracts are up for renegotiation and we expect many of them… Read more »
MNA decries leadership at UMass Memorial Health Care for boasting of record profits after cutting care and services
The MNA recently issued a statement condemning management at UMass Memorial Health Care for its misguided decisions that are negatively affecting the quality of patient care within the health care… Read more »
MNA wages campaign to protect psych beds in Central Mass.; HealthAlliance plan to close inpatient unit in Fitchburg will hurt access to care
MNA members, along with mental healthadvocates, concerned patients, family members,community leaders and elected officials,packed a recent state Department of PublicHealth hearing at HealthAlliance HospitalBurbank campus in Fitchburg to voice strongopposition… Read more »
Gallup Poll Once Again Ranks Nurses as Most Honest and Ethical
A Gallup poll has once again ranked nurses at the top of their survey on the public’s view of what professionals are the most honest and ethical. This poll result… Read more »
Unfair labor practices and the National Labor Relations Act
Top Ten Legal Drugs Linked to Violence
Acetaminophen Prescription Products Limited to 325 mg Per Dosage Unit: Drug Safety Communication
Further Reading on the Advantages of Defined Benefit Pension Plans
Below is a list of studies and reports that provide important information about the advantages of defined benefit pension plans, and why the MNA pension proposal is so important for… Read more »