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UMass Lowell Awarded $2M Grant to Protect Home Healthcare Practitioners
Statement by Karen Higgins, President of the Massachusetts Nurses Association Regarding the Proposed Hospital Industry Nurse Staffing Bill
Canton, Mass.— While we are pleased that the Massachusetts Hospital Association has now acknowledged that a crisis exists for the safety of patients in our state’s hospitals, legislation filed by… Read more »
MNA/Coalition to Protect Mass. Patients Re-Files Safe RN Staffing Bill to Regulate RN-to-Patient Ratios in State’s Hospitals
Legislation is Key to Improving Patient Care & to Ending the Nursing Shortage CANTON, Mass.—The Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), in conjunction with the Coalition to Protect Massachusetts Patients, announced today… Read more »
Position Statement On the “Magnet Recognition Program for Nursing Services in Hospitals” and Other Consultant-Driven Quality Improvement Projects that Claim to Improve Care
MNA opposes the latest industry strategy to avoid safe RN-to-patient ratios CANTON, Mass.—In the wake of an onslaught of studies and reports detailing deplorable nursing care in hospitals and a… Read more »
Tauro calls for “hold” on plans to close Fernald
BOSTON — U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro said Wednesday that the Romney administration should "put a hold" on continuing efforts to close the Fernald Developmental Center and other state… Read more »
Fairness at Fernald
Kudos to the Boston Globe for their Sunday Editorial in support of the residents and their families of the Fernald Developmental Center in Waltham in their struggle to prevent Governor… Read more »
Federal court to hear motions on DMR oversight to ensure adequate care for the severely disabled
U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro will hear motions in the landmark Ricci v. Okin case involving care for people with mental retardation in Massachusetts. The judge has scheduled a… Read more »
Magnet status: the union perspective
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterOctober 2004 Edition
Carbon monoxide detector saves lives of MNA staffer and her family
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterOctober 2004 Edition By Evelyn Bain, M Ed, RN, COHN-SAssociate Director/Coordinator, Health & SafetyandCarol Mallia, RN, MSNAssociate Director, Division of Nursing October and the end of… Read more »
Influenza vaccine helps protect you
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterOctober 2004 Edition By Donna Lazorik, RN, MS, CS Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, Massachusetts DPH Every year in Massachusetts, an estimated 2,600 people are hospitalized… Read more »
