Year: 2015
Making the ICU Safe Patient Limits Law Work for You and Your Patients — An MNA Program on the Role of the ICU Staff Nurse in Developing an ICU Acuity Tool
MNA Labor School Classes
Powerful Fox News Story on Our Workplace Violence & Effort to Prevent It
Check out this great story on Fox News regarding the issue of workplace violence and legislation to address this crisis. The piece includes harrowing testimony by nurses from Brigham &… Read more »
Leominster Hospital Nurses Vote to Ratify New Contract
Pact Includes improvements in RN staffing with safe limits on nurses’ patient assignments, reasonable wage increases, and benefit protections Leominster, MASS. – The nurses of Leominster Hospital voted yesterday to… Read more »
Legislative Committee to Hold July 21 Hearing On Bill to Address Epidemic of Workplace Violence Against Health Workers
WHAT: The Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development has scheduled a hearing on Tuesday, July 21, beginning at 1 p.m. for testimony on a bill (H1687) sponsored… Read more »
Important Information about New Regulations on the ICU Staffing Law and the Impact on ICU Nurses in Providing Care to Patients
The Health Policy Commission has approved final regulations underpinning the ICU Safe Patient Limits Law, which was enacted last year to ensure patients in Mass. hospital ICUs receive one-on-one care… Read more »
Medicare turns 50 on July 30 Come Celebrate with us!
MNA Wins Important Protections in State Budget
The State House and Senate Conference Committee released its compromise budget plan on July 7th. On July 8th, both the House and Senate approved the budget and sent it to… Read more »
Check Out This Fox 25 News Investigative Report on the Epidemic of Workplace Violence at the Worcester Recovery Center
RNs at Addison Gilbert and Beverly Hospitals Go Public Over Management’s Constant Violation of State’s Mandatory Overtime Law
Included below are links to two great stories (the first from the Salem News, the second form the Beverly Citizen Online) about the Lahey RNs going public over their employer’s… Read more »
