In conjunction with a major NPR story on the shocking rate of injuries to nurses and other health care workers, the MNA worked with WGBH to produce a feature on… Read more »
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WGBH Story on Injuries to Nurses and DPH/MHA Efforts to Suppress Findings of Report on the Issue Highlights MNA-Filed Bill to Address this Crisis
Nomination/Consent to Serve Notice for Delegates for the Northeast Nurses Association (NENA)
What is NENAThe Massachusetts Nurse Association is the founding organizational member of the Northeast Nurses Association. NENA is an outgrowth of the 23,000-member Massachusetts Nurses Association and was created in… Read more »
On Feb. 12 at 5 p.m., You Are Invited to Join Our Telephone Town Meeting For the Latest News on the Development of Regulations for an Acuity Tool and Implementation of New Law Setting Safe Patient Limits for ICUs
For the past four months, a new law has been in effect that requires hospitals to adhere to safe patient limits for registered nurses who work in all the state’s… Read more »
Tragic Event at Brigham & Women’s Hospital Underscores the Need for Efforts to Reduce the Risk for Workplace Violence
In the wake of the tragic murder/suicide at Brigham & Women’s Hospital yesterday, the MNA/NNU extends its condolences to the family of Dr. Michael J. Davidson, and is focusing on… Read more »
Nurses’ Pension Plan legal Notice
Newton Wellesley Hospital Nurses Go Public With Concerns About Patient Safety in Response to Plan by Partners to Cut Staffing and Increase Patient Loads for Nurses in the Hospital’s Busy ED
Plan to Cut Staff Comes as the ED Nurses Struggle to Confront a Growing Flu Epidemic and After NWH and Partners has Posted a Healthy Profit in Recent Years Wellesley,… Read more »
HPC Releases DRAFT of ICU Staffing Regulations
The Health Policy Commission’s Quality Improvement Protection Committee today approved its “Proposed ICU Staffing Regulations” governing the implementation of the new law that sets safe patient limits on nurses’ patient… Read more »
Vote NOW for the MNA’s Natalie M.Pereira for Woman of the Year!
Natalie M. Pereira, a fellow MNA member and the bargaining unit chairperson at Leominster Hospital, has been nominated by the Sentinel & Enterprise for its "Woman of the Year Award."… Read more »
RNs at Cape Cod and Falmouth Hospitals to Picket on Dec. 11 over Management’s Efforts to Implement Dangerous Changes in How Nursing Care is Delivered
The registered nurses at both Cape Cod and Falmouth Hospitals, who are affiliated with the Massachusetts Nurses Association and National Nurses United (MNA/NNU), plan to conduct two informational pickets on… Read more »
Leominster Hospital RNs to Hold Candlelight Vigil to Protect Patient Safety on Dec. 10
Nurses know better than anyone that even in the midst of the joyful holiday season, loved ones, friends and neighbors all too often get sick and require hospital care, which… Read more »
