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National Nurses Day Celebration
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May 6, 2008
Featuring Speeches By Patti LaBelle & Suzanne Gordon
Hynes Convention Center
10 a.m. – 12 noon
Rally For Safe Patient Limits
State House Steps
1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
FREE to all Nurses and Students
Bus Transportation Provided
To register for the event and to reserve a seat on
a bus, please visit our National
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| Keynote Address |
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 Patti
LaBelle
Singing Their Praises: One Woman's View on the Difference Nurses Make
Make
Multiple Grammy-award-winning singer, actress, and best-selling author Patti LaBelle has become almost as well-known for her support of social causes as for her chart-topping music. In recent years, she has worked tirelessly to raise awareness about AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, cancer, and foster care. She is also the author of Don’t Block the Blessings, a book that chronicles her personal story of emotional survival following traumatic family events and losses. Within a 10-year period, Ms. LaBelle lost her mother, three sisters, and her best friend to diabetes and cancer. Also a diabetic, Ms. LaBelle has been pro-active in the fight against the very disease that claimed her dear mother’s life. She has served as a spokeswoman for the National Medical Association, which administers a scholarship in her name, the National Minority AIDS Council’s “Live Long, Sugar” campaign, the American Diabetes Association and the Susan G. Komen Foundation. She is an inspirational speaker who shares a powerful message of hope for nurses and patients alike. On May 6th she will share her insights and experiences regarding the impact nurses made on her own family’s care, and by extension, the difference that nurses can make for all patients.
Read more about Patti LaBelle |
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Suzanne Gordon
Author: Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care
Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist and author of seven books on nursing including Life Support, Nursing Against the Odds and co-authur of From Silence to Voice. Her forthcoming book, Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care will be published by Cornell University Press in April 2008. Safety in Numbers is the first book to examine the arguments for and against ratios. Utilizing surveys, data, interviews and other original research, Gordon and her co-authors weight the costs benefits and effectiveness of ratios in California and Victoria Australia, the two places where RN staffing levels have been regulated by law. On May 6 Gordon will discuss her findings and provide insight into what nurses in Massachusetts can do to win their own fight for safe patient limits. Read more about Suzanne Gordon. |
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| Raffle Prizes |
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- Grand Prize: $2,500.00 scholarship: A $2500.00 academic scholarship toward the TCN portion of any associate's or bachelor's degree program in nursing offered through The College Network's partner universities.
- All – Inclusive Mexico Vacation – Viva Wyndham Maya given by TNT Vacations
- GPS Car Navigation System from Staples
- Digital Camera from Colonial Insurance
- Entertainment Cruises - Boston Harbor Cruise with Dinner for Two
- Free Microdermabrasion treatment, $25 off Botox, coupons 10% off any package at our Newbury St location of Beauty & Bliss
- Blackberry Curve from AT&T
- Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
- Blackberry Pearl from T-Mobile
- Five chances for a $150.00 gift certificate for New Balance products
- Handcrafted Silversmith Bracelet with Blown Glass Beads from Sasse Art
- Studio Four chances for a Work’NGear
- $50.00 Gift Certificate Legal Seafood Complete Dinner for Two ($200.00 value)
- Two chances for a $100.00 gift certificate with Durgan Travel
- Mahogany Adirondack Folding Chair crafted by Carpenter Apprentice from First Trade Union Bank
- Three chances for a pair of clogs from The Clog Shoppe
- Wine Gift Basket from Best Cellar’s (wine tasting samples)
- Massages hand, back and foot at event -- Whole Person Health discount coupons
- Prize pack from Vitamin Water
- A pair of Crocs
- $100 gift certificate towards any Mr. John’s limousine service
- $100 gift certificate towards any service from Tuxedo’s by Merian
- Gift package from TNT Vacations
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Prize give-a-ways kick-off as soon as you hop on the bus with a chance to win a new iPod Shuffle (one per bus). When you register, you will be given a free tote bag, T-shirt, event note pad, and a raffle ticket for some great prizes.
Additionally, there will be plenty of giveaways that include: Key chains, Koozies, Stress Balls, Purell hand sanitizer, USB computer drives (memory sticks), a wine tasting, hand and shoulder massages, and coupons from multiple vendors. Susan Gordon’s book will be available for purchase from Barnes & Noble and there will be live broadcasting from Mix 98.5. |
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| Schedule |
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| 9:30 a.m. - 10 a.m. |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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| 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. |
Opening Session: Suzanne Gordon
Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care |
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| 11 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. |
Break/Exhibits |
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| 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. |
Keynote Address: Patti LaBelle
Singing Their Praises: One Woman’s View on the Difference Nurses Make |
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12:15 p.m. - 1 p.m. |
Box Lunch, Board Buses to State House Rally |
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1 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. |
Nurses Day Rally for Safe Patient Limits
Join hundreds of nurses and patient advocates who will culminate our celebration of National Nurses Day with a rally in front of the Massachusetts State House to call for legislative action on H. 2059, legislation to set safe patient limits for safe patient care. We need to raise our collective voices to let the legislature know that if they support nurses and quality patient care, they need to provide safe limits on the number of patients nurses care for at one time. You don't need to attend the Hynes Convention Center event to attend the rally. All nurses, nursing students, and supporters of nurses are encouraged to come to the rally. Remember, there is safety in numbers, and safe patient limits save patients' lives. |
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| 1:45 p.m. |
Buses Depart from State House |
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| Important Information |
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Free Bus Transportation |
The MNA will provide bus transportation to and from the Nurses Day Celebration. Buses will pick up registrants at a variety of stops in several different areas throughout the state. To reserve a seat and learn about bus availability near you, call the number on the registration form in this brochure. |
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| Admission |
FREE to all Nurses and Students |
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| Directions |
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Hynes Convention Center
900 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02115 |
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Take 95 South to 93 South (Exit 37 A). Take 93 South to Storrow Drive (Exit 26 B). Follow Storrow Drive approximately 2 miles to the Fenway/Kenmore Exit (1st exit after Massachusetts Ave., on left). Stay left as exiting Storrow Drive toward the Fenway. Continue to 1st set of lights, staying left, going onto Boylston Street. Go through 4 sets of lights on Boylston Street. The Hynes Convention Center’s main entrance driveway will be on the right immediately after going through the 4th set of lights. |
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Follow Rte. 3 North to Rte. 93 North. Follow signs to Boston (Rte. 93 North) - Take Exit 16 (Andrew Square Exit). Take left at traffic light at top of ramp - Continue straight about 1 mile to Boylston Street. At light take right onto Boylston Street. After next set of lights, the Hynes Convention Center’s main entrance driveway will be on your immediate right. |
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Take the Massachusetts Turnpike (Rte. 90 East. Take Exit 22 (Prudential/Copley Place). Stay left as you exit and turn onto Huntington Avenue, staying left while on Huntington Avenue. At the next set of lights (Belvidere Street), take a right. Follow the curve in Belvedere Street to the next right hand turn in front of the Sheraton Boston Hotel driveway, bearing right onto Dalton Street. At lights turn right onto Boylston Street. The Hynes Convention Center’s main entrance driveway will be on the right immediately after going through the 4th set of lights |
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| Parking |
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Prudential Center Parking Garage
800 Boylston Street
617.236.3060
The easiest entrance for Hynes conventioneers is either the Dalton Street Entrance or the Boylston Street Entrance. |
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Auditorium Parking Garage
50 Dalton Street
617.247.8006
Take a right onto Dalton Street off of Boylston Street (immediately before the Convention Center); the garage will be on the right. Off of Huntington Avenue going out of the city, take a right onto Belvedere Street (right after the Prudential Center), take next right onto Dalton Street; the garage will be after the movie theater on the left. Off of Huntington going into the city, take a left onto Belvedere Street (right before the Prudential Center). |
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