In the wake of dangerous delays in the provision of desperately needed personal protective equipment (PPE) for nurses and healthcare professionals (HCPs) during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the lack of… Read more »
Year: 2020
With Help from Generous Donor, MNA Purchases and Begins to Distribute Tens of Thousands of Desperately Needed KN95 Respirator Masks to Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Across the State
St. Luke’s Hospital and Tobey Hospital Nurses Distribute Hundreds of KN95 Masks as Part of Statewide MNA COVID-19 PPE Effort Fueled by Help from Generous Donors, MNA Purchases of Equipment
MNA Nurses at North Shore Medical Center Call on Hospital President, Partners HealthCare to Improve Protection and Support for Frontline Staff During COVID-19 Pandemic
Latest COVID-19 MNA Letter to Gov. Baker Sounds Alarm on Dangerous Decisions Being Made about Protective Equipment and Service Closures While Hospitals Layoff and Cancel Nurses Despite Extra Funding
N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator Decontamination and Reuse is Unsafe, Dangerous Practice
The MNA along with a number of other nursing and health care unions/associations have signed onto a letter to the CDC authored by National Nurses Unites (see below) opposing the… Read more »
With New State and Federal Funding Heading to Hospitals During COVID-19 Pandemic, MNA Nurses Call for Improved Protective Equipment and Redeployment Rather Than Furloughs
ICU Surge Capacity, Safe PPE and Housing for all Frontline Healthcare Workers, Liability Protection, Ethical Decision-Making Among Highlights of New Massachusetts Nurses Association COVID-19 Letter to Governor Baker
Call for Proposals for Amendment of MNA Bylaws
The MNA Bylaws Committee will accept proposals for amendment of MNA bylaws until May 8, 2020. This deadline will be extended only for serious extenuating circumstances, at the discretion of… Read more »
MNA Nurses Call on Brigham and Women’s Hospital to Provide N95 Masks for Every Nurse on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic
MNA Offers Free Meditation/Self Help Resources to Nurses as COVID-19 Crisis Builds
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