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Brockton Hospital Nurses Picket on Jan 11

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 »

The benefits of safe patient handling

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 »

After 30 years in exile, thalidomide is back

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 »