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MASSACHUSETTS NURSE NEWSLETTER ::
October 2007
Protect your practice online!
Capwiz makes contacting your legislator as easy as “1-2-3”
Have you been meaning to write to your state representative or
state senator about the importance of the MNA’s proposed legislation
to improve nurse staffing, safe patient handling, workplace violence
prevention or to increase funding for Unit 7 facilities, but you
can’t seem to find the time? Do you wish there was a quick and easy
way to get updates about legislative initiatives affecting your
practice or what’s going on in bargaining units around the state?Well
there is—www.capwiz.com/massnurses was created at the request of
members to provide a quick and easy way to e-mail legislators about
important issues.
Capwiz features
Capwiz can help you:
- Identify your elected officials by simply typing in your zip
code and address.
- Learn about MNA issues.
- Tell your legislators via e-mail and fax about issues that are
important to you.
- Sign up for the “Action E-List” to receive messages alerting
you when your legislators are deliberating bills relevant to nursing
practice or when bargaining units need your support in their negotiations.
It’s as easy as “1-2-3”
- Go to www.capwiz.com/massnurses
and select the issue(s) about which you want to write to your
legislator.
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Once you’ve selected your issue(s), you will find a pre-drafted
e-mail message that can be edited and personalized. Edit and personalize
your letter, fill in your mailing and e-mail addresses, and click
the box to be added to the Action E-List. Then click “send”
and your legislator(s) will receive an e-mail message from you
on the topic you selected.
- Forward along the Capwiz link to friends and family. The more
often legislators hear from constituents about what is important
to nurses and patients, the more they will realize how critical
these issues are.
Last year, Capwiz was used to successfully lobby legislators on
safe staffing; workplace violence; defending the scope of practice
for school nurses; restoring funding that was nearly cut to Department
of Mental Retardation, Department of Mental Health and Department
of Public Health facilities; and to drum up support for RNs at UMass
Memorial Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, St. Vincent
Hospital, Berkshire Medical Center, North Adams Regional Hospital,
Brockton Hospital, Boston Medical Center, New England Medical Center,
the American Red Cross and Baystate VNA. Capwiz can also be used
to systematically send letters to editors at any newspaper in the
commonwealth.
Help us expand on our successes. Join the Action E-List and write
to your legislators today by visiting www.capwiz.com/massnurses.You
may also access Capwiz through the MNA’s main Web site (www.massnurses.org)
and by clicking on the box “Write to your legislators,”
or through the coalition’s Web site at www.protectmasspatients.org
(again, click “Write to your legislators”).
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