Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United, October 5, 2011 View the photo gallery here.

Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United, October 5, 2011 View the photo gallery here.

Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United, October 5, 2011 Video

MNA was the first organization to endorse Warren’s candidacy, citing her commitment to protecting the middle class and Main Street values. Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United, October 4, 2011 Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren will be a featured speaker this week as hundreds of frontline registered nurses gather in Newton October 5–7 for the 2011 Convention of Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United, the state’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses. The MNA/NNU was the first organization and union to endorse Warren’s candidacy in early September ... Senate

Nurses Call for Tax on Wall Street to Heal America. Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United, October 4, 2011 Nurses, who every day care for the casualties of the economic crisis driven by Wall Street greed, plan to hold a rally in Dewey Square at the site of the Occupy Boston Protest, to show their support for the movement and to highlight the MNA/NNU’s “Main Street Contract” campaign for a tax on Wall Street financial speculation to provide revenue for Main Street reforms, including jobs at living wages, quality education, guaranteed health care for all, and freedom from hunger, homelessness, and retirement insecurity. ... Nurses

Massachusetts Nurses Association, September 23, 2011 Elizabeth Warren was already a rock star among progressive activists, but a new video featuring the Massachusetts Senate candidate trashing the idea that taxing the wealthy is tantamount to "class warfare" is electrifying Democrats who view her as one of the party's best electoral hopes in 2012. The video has been linked on dozen of progressive blogs in recent days after it was posted on YouTube by someone claiming to be unaffiliated with Warren's campaign. It features the former White House adviser during a pre-campaign tour in August discussing the back and forth between Democrats and Republicans over how to solve the nation's financial crisis. ... Want

Massachusetts Nurses Association, September 22, 2011 Click here.

MNA supports bill to limit workload and hours. Christine Lee, WWLP, September 20, 2011 Boston - A battle between nurses and hospitals is brewing on Beacon Hill. A group of registered nurses say they’re understaffed and overworked, putting patients at risk. They’re pursuing a pair of bills that will limit their workload and work hours in the name of “patient safety.” Testifying before the Legislature’s health care committee, Donna Kelly-Williams, a registered nurse, explained how mandatory overtime hours leaves nurses like herself overworked. ... Nurses

Michael Norton, State House News Service, September 20, 2011 

Boston - Reviving one of Beacon Hill’s oldest and most hard fought battles – whether to force hospitals to abide by nurse-to-patient staffing levels – nurses cautioned lawmakers Tuesday that they’ve left the care of their constituents at risk by failing to pass a staffing law, and the state’s top hospital official calling mandated staffing requirements a “terrible idea” that would represent a step backwards in the fast-changing health care field. 

“The public recognizes that nurses are being asked to care for too many patients,” Representative Denise Garlick (D-Needham) told the Public Health Committee, adding that she testified on staffing bills ten years ago.

Cynthia Mccormick, Cape Cod Times, September 20, 2011

Hyannis - Massachusetts hospitals need more nurses, not more nurses working overtime, health care advocates said Monday at a press conference near Cape Cod Hospital.

The press conference at noon on Park Street was one of five held concurrently across the state by the Massachusetts Nurses Association and the Coalition to Protect Massachusetts Patients to rally support for legislation on nurse staffing levels in acute-care hospitals.

The joint committee on public health is holding a hearing on the two nurse staffing bills today at the Statehouse.

MNA supports bill to limit workload and hours. Christine Lee, WWLP, September 20, 2011 Boston - A battle between nurses and hospitals is brewing on Beacon Hill. A group of registered nurses say they’re understaffed and overworked, putting patients at risk. They’re pursuing a pair of bills that will limit their workload and work hours in the name of “patient safety.” Testifying before the Legislature’s health care committee, Donna Kelly-Williams, a registered nurse, explained how mandatory overtime hours leaves nurses like herself overworked. ... Nurses

Too many patients & too much overtime a concern. Jackie Bruno, WWLP, September 19, 2011 Northampton - The Massachusetts Nurses Association is pressuring lawmakers on Beacon Hill to pass two bills that they say would improve patient safety. The Nurse Association in concerned that nurses have too many patients and are being forced to work too much overtime. They say that puts the patients at risk. John Bennett, of Agawam, knows first hand what it's like to be in a hospital without enough nurses. “I remember last year, when I was a patient in a hospital for 6 weeks, flat on my back unable to do anything for myself, sometimes the nurse would come and sometimes the nurse would not.” ... Nurses

Understaffing of RNs Leads to Preventable Medical Errors That Cause Needless Suffering for Patients; Passage of Safe RN Staffing Legislation will Improve Care & Reduce Costs. Public Hearing on The Patient Safety Act To Be Held September 20 at the State House. Massachusetts Nurses Association, September 19, 2011 Boston - Advocates for patient safety from Greater Boston gathered today outside Tufts Medical Center to urge lawmakers to swiftly pass legislation to set limits on the number of patients a hospital nurse must care for at one time along with a companion bill to prohibit the dangerous practice of using mandatory overtime as a means of staffing acute care hospitals. ... Advocates

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. Massachusetts Nurses Association, September 19, 2011 The legislature’s Joint Committee on Public Health will hold a public hearing on two pieces of legislation that would improve the quality of patient care, save millions of health care dollars and prevent thousands of preventable infections and medical errors caused by poor RN staffing in the state’s acute care hospitals. The Patient Safety Act (HB.1469) calls upon the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to set safe limits on the number of hospital patients ... Joint

Boston Globe Editorial, September 6, 2011 The Massachusetts Nurses Association is asking for Attorney General Martha Coakley’s intercession in the acquisition by for-profit Steward Health Care of not-for-profit - and now bankrupt - Quincy Medical Center. The nurses’ union accuses Steward of trying to change a pension plan that nurses at four other hospitals now owned by Steward had negotiated with Caritas Christi Health Care, their previous owner. At an August 9 hearing, the union asked Coakley to delay public approval of Steward’s purchase of Quincy Medical Center and Morton Hospital in Taunton until its dispute with Steward is settled. ... How