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Brockton, Mass. –The registered nurses of Brockton Hospital conducted an informational picket today to protest poor working conditions and management practices that the nurses believe threaten the hospital’s ability to… Read more »

Three-year pact mirrors settlement reached with University Campus RNs WORCESTER, MA – The registered nurses represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association at UMass/Memorial Health Care who work at the Memorial… Read more »

Contract Talks Stall Over Workplace Safety, Per Diem Staffing, Health Insurance and WagesThursday, Jan. 11th from 2p.m. – 5 p.m. The registered nurses of Brockton Hospital are once again locked… Read more »

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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »