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 »
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Mass. Nurses and Seniors Converge on State House on March 12th To Call for Legislation to Ensure Safe Nurse-to-Patient Ratios
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 »
New nursing group divides ANA: AARN piggybacks on CNA’s success
New nursing group divides ANA: AARN piggybacks on CNA’s success, fights fornurse-staffing ratios By: Jeff TiemanFebruary 11,2002 IssueThe Week in HealthcareState nurses who broke away from the American Nurses Association… Read more »
School Nurses Hold School Health Lobby Day at State House on Feb. 11, 2002 (9 – 11 am)
Seek to Maintain Funding for Improved School Health Services for State’s Children Note to Editors & Reporters: Nurses will be attending fromall areas of the state, call Marcia Buckminster above… Read more »
School Health Lobby Day On Beacon Hill
JOIN US TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS STUDENTS THROUGH IMPROVED SCHOOL HEALTH AND NURSING SERVICES! Monday, February 11, 20029 A.M. to 11 A.MThe Great Hall HallState House, Boston The… Read more »
Nurses, seniors lobby lawmakers
Saturday, February 9, 2002By JOHN F. LAUERMAN SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — It seems like the perfect marriage: nurses working side-by-side with seniors to get health care legislation passed. Representatives from the… Read more »
Mass. Nursing Makes Front Page News
Today’s front-page story in the Globe once again shines a light on the importance of nurses, the issue of nurse staffing, the nursing shortage and what nurses are doing to… Read more »
RN Attacked by Patient Goes to Trial on Assault Charges
On Monday, Feb. 4th, one of our members will be going to court (see details below) for a trial on charges of assault against a patient who violently attacked him… Read more »
Recession in Massachusetts… It’s time to “speak out” for jobs, health care and quality public services — Join us on Sat., Feb. 2, 2002, 2 – 5 pm at Faneuil Hall
ACTIVISTS ALERT: Let Your Voices Be Heard!!!!! Massachusetts Confronts the Recession: A Speakout on Fairness and Justice in the Economy 2:00 – 5:00 PM, Faneuil Hall, Boston. Across the state,… Read more »
