Survey Shows 82% of the Public Support the MeasureMore than half of Legislators and 58 organizations endorse MNA’s proposed legislation to Regulate RN to Patient Ratios in Mass Hospitals State… Read more »
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Coalition to Protect Mass. Patients Formed to Fight for Safe Staffing – 58 organizations endorse MNA’s proposed legislation; Legislation to Provide Safe RN Staffing Wins Broad Support
Mass. Nurses Association Condemns Tenet-SEIU Neutrality Pact Supports Calif. Nurses Assn. Challenge of Deal as an Illegal Attempt to Deny Employees Choice that Could Harm Patients
CANTON, Mass. — The Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) joined the California Nurses Association (CNA) in condemning a deal announced on Monday by Tenet Healthcare and the Service Employee International Union… Read more »
Smallpox and Bioterrorism
MNA Urges DPH to Suspend Smallpox Vaccinations, But to Proceed with Educating and Training Workforce In the wake of serious cardiac-related complications related to the vaccination of health care workers… Read more »
House Budget Includes Amendment to Prevent Closure of Fernald Center and Other Facilities for the Severely Disabled
The State House of Representatives took steps yesterday (see News story below) to protect the state’s most vulnerable disabled residents with the passage of an amendment to the state budget… Read more »
As National Nurses Week Begins, Massachusetts Nurses Association Membership Reaches All-Time High, More than 22,000 Registered Nurses and Health Professionals Belong
CANTON, Mass. — As nurses seek to improve staffing ratios, working conditions and to achieve fair pay and benefits as a means of improving patient care in the Commonwealth, a… Read more »
Stanley supports Fernald
By Thomas M. Stanley I am writing to express my opposition to closing the Fernald Center, located in my neighborhood and district in Waltham. I am in favor of keeping… Read more »
School Health Advocacy Day
Statement presented on School Health Advocacy Day, April 28, 2003
Good morning. Lisa is about to read to you a piece that we and our son Harris put together as part of a fundraising effort by the Juvenile Diabetes Research… Read more »
Michelle Carrick, Parent of Child with Asthma, Testifies to the Value of School Nursing
School Nurses to Hold School Health Advocacy Day at State House on April 28 (9 – 11:30 a.m.)
Seek to Maintain Funding for Improved School Health Services for State’s Children Hundreds of nurses, teachers and parents expected to flood State House to protest devastating cuts in school health… Read more »