From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2009 Edition Donna Kelly-Williams, RN, a resident of Arlington and a staff nurse at Cambridge Health Alliance, has been elected president of the Massachusetts Nurses… Read more »
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Donna Kelly-Williams elected president of MNA
Safe RN Staffing: Fact vs. Fiction
From the Massachusetts Nurse Newsletter November/December 2009 Edition Opponents have spent years and millions of dollars spreading disinformation about the Patient Safety Act, which would limit the number of patients… Read more »
Staffing Ratios the Mantra for Newly Formed NNU
John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, December 14, 2009 It didn’t take the newly formed National Nurses Union long to announce itself. On Tuesday, representatives from the California Nurses Association/National Nurses… Read more »
Union democracy: not a passive activity
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2009 Edition
URGENT! Tell Senator Reid: “Support Amendment No. 2837”
The US Senate healthcare reform process is clearly off the rails, with proposals being thrown about willy-nilly. Meanwhile, an elegant, efficient, and politically expedient amendment awaits its vote: The Medicare-for-all,… Read more »
MNA leaders address issue of safe patient handling during D.C. visit
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2009 Edition
SINGLE PAYER BREAKING NEWS
Dear Friend, Thank you for signing the petition I posted last summer asking Congress to pass a single-payer national health care program. I would like to let you know that… Read more »
Globe Story — State’s ER policy passes checkup: Hospitals accept ambulance rule; Wait times don’t spike for patients
Hospitals accept ambulance rule; Wait times don’t spike for patients By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff | December 14, 2009 A new state policy requiring crowded hospital emergency rooms to accept… Read more »
Attention! Knitters, Crocheters and Others
CDC: About 1 in 6 Americans have had swine flu
by Mike Stobbe – Dec. 10, 2009 02:15 PMAssociated Press ATLANTA – Swine flu has sickened about 50 million Americans, and killed about 10,000, according to new estimates released by… Read more »
