NOTES ON NURSING
Simple Measures Reduce Infections Caught in Hospitals Solutions included having patients shower with special germ-fighting soap before surgery, and having surgery teams change gowns, gloves and instruments during operations to prevent spreading germs picked up during the procedures.
MNA Day, December 6 – As our bargaining team negotiates, let’s show employers how serious nurses are about our profession, our patients and our communities.
Worchester Nurses Forced to Choose Between Flu Shot and Mask A new hospital flu shot policy is causing controversy among the nursing
staff at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester.
Jill Furillo, RN, Joins New York State Nurses Association as ED Former ER nurse played critical role in winning first-in-the-nation safe nurse staffing law
LABOR NEWS
Carpenters Picket Doran for Use of Non-Union Labor North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters, based in St. Paul, is protesting Doran’s hiring of Waite Park-based Regal Contractors Inc. to hang drywall in Doran’s first non-student housing development, Mill & Main.