Program Description:

Nurses have used the media, taken to the streets, taken on legislators, and gone to the community to claim their professional stake in the safe care of patients, wherever the patient may be. Hear the staff nurses who have taken on these issues, our issues, in their countries, their states, and their hospitals/agencies. They will share with us their tribulations and triumphs, and their humor along the way. They will identify the pivotal moments in their campaigns to insure safe care for patients in all settings. Here are the Bold Moves some have made and we can use to insure that our vision becomes real. We invite you to share the Vision of our future as professional nurses and health care providers.

Program Schedule:    Wednesday, November 8, 2000
 

9:00 a.m.	Registration
9:30a.m –10:15a.m	Keynote Address: “Crisis In Health Care – Bold Moves Now”.  Featureing, Echo Heron, author of Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse. (There will be a book signing during the breaks.)
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10:15a.m.–11:00a.m	"Organizing for Change”:  Moderated by Julie Pinkham and Eileen Norton.  Spotlighting the strategies and tactics of Staff Nurses as they deal with state- wide issues, creating new units, and issues in established units.
11:00a.m.–12 Noon	“California Campaign for Staffing Legislation”:  Featuring Jill Furillo, Director Governmental Relations, California Nurse Association.  She will present the campaign leading to the first successful passage of staffing legislation in the nation.
12 noon -1:00p.m.	Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.	“Building Relationships”  A panel of national and international nursing leaders will share their thoughts on creat-ing coalition of nurses for nursing:  • Kathleen Connors, President, Canadian Federation of Nurses  •  Lynn Blais, President, United Nurses and Allied Professionals, Rhode Island, (UNAP)  •  Bud Campbell, Acting Chair, Labor Council, Maine State Nurses Association  •  Teri Evans, President, Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied    Professionals, (PASNAP)  •  Kay McVay, President, California Nurses Association (CNA)
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.	“The Vision, The Future Based on the Successes of the Safe Care Campaign” Presented by the Labor Relations Cabinet
3:00 p.m.	Adjournment

To Register, please call Donna Rosen in the MNA Department of Nursing at 781-830-5719 or 800-882-2056 toll-free in MA

Don’t Miss The Start Of The Revolution!  It Begins November 9th At 12:45 P.m. At The MNA Business Meeting.  Be There!
 

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