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Boston Globe: Advocates, doctors split on HIV-test bill
September 20 – Joint Committee on Public Health Holding Public Hearing on Bills to Set Safe Patient Limits and Prohibit Mandatory Overtime
Nurses and Patient Safety Advocates Will Testify in Support of the Measures that Will Save Thousands of Lives and Millions of Valuable Health Care Dollars What: The legislature’s Joint Committee… Read more »
23,000 California RNs to Strike Thursday
Walkout to Protest Sutter’s Attack on RN Patient Advocacy Rights, Big Cuts in Nurses’ Healthcare, and to Support Kaiser Coworkers
It takes a village to Occupy Boston
The pictures tell the story…photos didn’t come over…so click on the link. My favorite tent is the one where protesters peddle a bike to generate power to cellphones and laptops!… Read more »
Boston Globe: Massachusetts Senate approves pension overhaul
Boston Globe: Pay for Caritas chief rose $1m in ’09
Pay for Caritas chief rose $1m in ’09 Compensation was highest at city’s hospitals By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff Ralph de la Torre, former chief executive of Boston-based Caritas Christi… Read more »
1,000 Nurses to Rally in San Francisco
Call for Tax on Wall Street to Fund Main Street Recovery Some 1,000 registered nurses from across the U.S. will rally in San Francisco Thursday across from the Federal Reserve… Read more »
Advocates for Hospital Patient Safety Speak Out on Mass. Safe Staffing Legislation – Region 5
News Conferences on Monday, Sept. 19 at Noon Outside Tufts Medical Center and Four Other Hospitals
National Nurses United Convention Calls for Stepped Up Push For Wall Street Transaction Tax to Fund Main Street Healing
Michael Moore to NNU: ‘Your Movement on It is Genius’ Delegates to the second convention of National Nurses United Friday called for a sweeping set of reforms to address the… Read more »
Advocates for Hospital Patient Safety Speak Out on Massachusetts Safe Staffing Legislation – Region 3
News Conference on Monday, Sept. 19 at Noon Outside Cape Cod Hospital