Kudos to Beverly Beckham of the Boston Herald for her powerful column (see below) in support of nurses and the nursing profession. She is a journalist who has experienced the… Read more »
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Boston Herald Column Tells the Real Story About Nurses
Nurses are right to argue there’s safety in numbers
Nurses fighting for HB 1186, Quality Patient Care/Safe Staffing legislation, have won the support of the Springfield Union News. This Sunday’s paper included an editorial in support of the legislation,… Read more »
MNA Launches Statewide Petition Drive May 1-7, 2002
Do You Want Safe Staffing ?Sign a Petition and Drive this Bill into LawPetition Drive is "on" Thousands of Nurses Launch Statewide Petition Drive from May 1– 7To Garner Public… Read more »
Nurses Needed to Join a Massive Rally on April 30, 12 Noon, Boston Common Grandstand to Protest Pending Cuts in the State Budget
Attention MNA Members and Supporters of MNA (Especially members from MNA Unit 7)We Need Nurses to Participate in Rally and March to Demand a Humane State Budget DATE: Tuesday, April… Read more »
Nursing Shortage: Situation Critical
Situation criticalBoston Business Journal – March 25, 2002From the March 22, 2002 print editionLinda GoodspeedSpecial To The Journal Hospitals grapple with an increasing shortage of registered nurses Not even the… Read more »
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services Survey of RNs Shows Critical Shortage Driven by the Exodus of Experienced Nurses, Slowed Recruitment of New Nurses And Job Satisfaction Levels that Rank Nurses Below Nearly All Other Employee/Professional Groups
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson has released the final report of the 2000 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses. HHS’ nursing survey is the… Read more »
Nurses lobby for minimum staffing levels, Boston Globe, 3/17/02
Below is a story that appeared in the Boston Globe this Sunday 3/17/02, which focuses on MNA legislation to regulate nurse to patient ratios in Massachusetts. For more information about… Read more »
Mass. Nurses and Seniors Converge on State House on March 12th To Call for Legislation to Ensure Safe Nurse-to-Patient Ratios
Legislation is Key to Improving Deteriorating Patient Care, Deplorable Working Conditions for Nurses & to Solving the Nursing Shortage Editor’s Note: Contact the MNA to locate nurses attending from your… Read more »
Too many local hospitals on life support
With number of beds halved since 1980, state should alter its closings policy By Alan Sager and Deborah Socolar, 3/3/2002 Massachusetts has lost almost half of its hospitals and patient… Read more »
Nursing Journal Study Shows Nurses Unions Improve Patient Outcomes in Hospitals. Patients Treated for Heart Attacks Have Lower Mortality Rate at RN-Unionized Hospitals
Patients with heart trouble would be wise to seek care at a hospital with a nurses union according to a recent study of the impact of nurses unions and the… Read more »
