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State’s Health Professionals Blast Governor’s Budget for Its Neglect of the State’s Most Vulnerable, Particularly Those with Acute Mental Illness
How, when and where to report an incident affecting patient safety
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterJanuary/February 2005 Edition
A primer on the dangers of ‘shared governance’
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterJanuary/February 2005 Edition By Roland GoffDirector, MNA Labor Program As a labor union as well as a professional association, the MNA advocates improved terms and conditions… Read more »
Change in mandated reporting of elder abuse law affecting RNs
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterJanuary/February 2005 Edition The legal responsibility for nurses, as well as a number of other groups of professionals1, to report elder abuse was recently expanded by… Read more »
MNA partners with UMass Lowell in grant to protect home health care practitioners
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterJanuary/February 2005 Edition The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has awarded the University of Massachusetts Lowell a four-year $2 million grant for prevention… Read more »
New study of Brigham RNs shows lasting effects of poor indoor air quality
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterJanuary/February 2005 Edition A recently completed study of registered nurses at Brigham & Women’s Hospital who were negatively impacted by poor indoor air quality at the… Read more »
‘Safe lifting’ legislation filed by MNA attempts to reduce injuries to health care workers
A bill entitled "An Act Relating to Safe Patient Handling in Certain Health Facilities," which would mandate safe lifting practices, was filed by the MNA on Dec. 1 at the… Read more »
