From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterApril 2004 Edition
Category: Uncategorized
Using patient-handling equipment to reduce injuries
Survey Shows That Part-Time RNs Already in Massachusetts Hospitals
Hospitals Have Claimed Nurses Can’t Be Found.Time Has Come for Safe Staffing, Advocates Say, Will Introduce Budget Amendment. BOSTON — A new survey of acute care Registered Nurses working part-time… Read more »
Legislators, Health Care Advocates, & Nurses to Release Critical Information on Nurses in Massachusetts Hospitals
Will Unveil Safe Staffing Budget Amendment Hospital RNs will Describe the Impact of Understaffing What: Legislators, leaders from the Coalition to Protect Massachusetts Patients—a health care and consumer advocacy group… Read more »
New Report Linking Toxics to 180 Diseases Will Be Used as Lobbying Tool
By Amy LambiasoSTATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
MNA stands proudly with Senator Kerry
Patriot Ledger Publishes Scathing Report of the State’s Care of the Disabled in Group Homes
The Patriot Ledger has run a powerful three-part investigative report detailing the often deplorable care, abuse, neglect and even deaths of disabled and mentally retarded residents under the care of… Read more »
School Nurses Hold School Health Advocacy Day at State House on March 24th (8:30 – 11:30 am)
Seek to Maintain Funding for Improved School Health Services for State’s Children Nurses, teachers, parents and students expected at the State House toProtest devastating cuts in school health programs as… Read more »
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Nurses Release Results of Conducted Informational Picketing on March 25th Survey Showing Unsafe Staffing and Forced Overtime are a Regular Occurrence
Conditions Threaten Patients’ Access to Safe Nursing Care, and Force ManyNurses to Consider Leaving the Facility
Faulkner Hospital RNs Will Hold Informational Picketing on March 29th Over Staffing Conditions, Salary and Pension Issues
To compensate for inadequate staffing, the hospital regularly transfers nurses to work in areas where they are not qualified to safely care for patients JAMAICA PLAIN, Mass. – Registered nurses… Read more »
MNA Testifies at Hearing Before House FY 2005 Budget Task Force on Hospitals
Nurses Decry Romney Budget Cuts for Health Care Services Call for Greater Legislative Oversight of Hospital Industry Finances &Reform of a Heath Care System that is Failing to Provide Patients… Read more »