BOSTON – Improving workplace safety and health for nurses and other health care workers is the goal of an alliance between the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration… Read more »
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OSHA, Mass. Nurses Association and Mass. Division of Occupational Safety Sign Alliance to Protect Nurses/Health Care Workers
State representative Galvin and Kafka host ceremony to honor late World War II Nurse
Boston nurse was the first nurse to die in combat When: October 18, 2004, 1 pm Where: Nurses’ Hall, State House, Boston BOSTON — Sixty years from the week she… Read more »
MHA Survey of RN Vacancy Rates Misses the Mark on Nursing Crisis
Vacancy Rates Say Little about the Actual Safety of Staffing in Hospitals — It’s RN-to-Patient Ratios that Matter Without a Guarantee of Safe RN-Patient Ratios, Patients Remain at Risk and… Read more »
Taunton State Hospital Survey: “97 percent of RNs/Health Professionals Believe Management is Dangerously Understaffing the Hospital—Risking the Safety of Patients, Staff as a Result”
RNs, others say the problem puts patients, staff and the local community in jeopardy TAUNTON, Mass.— A recent survey of nurses and health professionals at Taunton State Hospital (TSH) found… Read more »
MNA supports Jobs With Justice as “Health Care Action Week” Ramps Up
Researching your employer online
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterSeptember 2004 Edition
Know your rights: Weingarten rights
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterSeptember 2004 Edition
Environmental update: household prescription medication waste is posing an environmental hazard
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterSeptember 2004 Edition
CDC releases NIOSH Alert: preventing exposures’ to hazardous drugs in healthcare setting
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterSeptember 2004 Edition
A second look at formaldehyde in the workplace: Some possible alternatives
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterSeptember 2004 Edition