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Maine State Nurses Association Educational Conference Registration 2018

It's time to sign up for this year's MSNA Educational Conference! Conference is in South Portland on May 11 and 12. There's a great lineup of CE courses and you'll get to meet with nurses all across Maine and New Hampshire. This conference if free to all MSNA/NNU members and the courses are fee to all bed-side, staff nurses and students in nursing schools. Please join us!
 

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HSM Workers United for Our Patients and Community

Show Support for Workers at Hospice of Southern Maine. Click a name to sent a message.

Hospice of Southern Maine CEO

Daryl Cady, CEO, Hospice of Southern Maine • 207-289-3661

 

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Hospice of Southern Maine Board of Directors

Adam Walker
Annette Gosnell • 207-985-7635
Barry Hobbins • 207-480-1216
Chris Coon 
Donna DeBlois 
Edward J. McGeachey • 207-625-4319
Gayle Brazeau • 207-899-4024
Heidi Hansen • 207-772-0177
Laura Madigan-McCown
Maryanna Arsenault • 207985-8086
Melanie Feinberg • 207-839-4755
Miriam Leonard • 207-883-2973
Nate Wilson • 207-967-0558
Paul Wolf • 207-985-9901
Rebecca Kowalo
Theresa Desfosses • 207-747-4686
Theodora J. Kalikow
Tracey Weisberg • 207-885-7600

 

Maine Press Releases

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Hospice Nurses Hold Candelight Vigil Tomorrow, Urge Hospice of Southern Maine to Listen to Staff

Hospice of Southern Maine (HSM) hospital workers are having a candlelight vigil Wednesday at 6pm (tomorrow) to draw attention to patient care issues. The employees of HSM, recently unionized with the Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses United (MSNA/NNU), are fighting for a fair contract – and patient care issues are at the center.

Maine State Nurses Association/NNOC
December 19, 2017

• Maine

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Nurses Urge Legislators to Pass Protect Rural Maine Healthcare Act - LR 2713, in Emergency Session

Members of the Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses United (MSNA/NNU) applaud the Maine Legislative Council's vote last week to consider LR 2713, “An Act to Protect Rural Maine Healthcare," in the legislature’s upcoming Emergency Session in January.

December 4, 2017

• Maine

Healthcare Workers celebrate at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital

Healthcare Workers at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth Vote by Landslide to Join Maine State Nurses Association

Voicing concerns about patient and economic protections, medical laboratory technicians, CT/radiology technologists, respiratory therapists and licensed practical nurses at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth voted to join Maine State Nurses Association.

Maine State Nurses Association
December 1, 2017

• Organizing Victories

• Maine

Maine News

Maine nurses oppose Pacific trade pact’s gifts to billionaire drug companies

Nurses are patient advocates — and by extension advocates for our patients’ families and our communities — and today we are sounding an alert on theTrans-Pacific Partnership, an international agreement that puts the public health of Maine, and the nation, at risk.

Cokie Giles, Special to the BDN / Bangor Daily News
January 22, 2016

• Maine

Unionized Nurses at EMMC Vote to Authorize Strike

Unionized nurses at Eastern Maine Medical Center voted Thursday to authorize a strike if the hospital fails to better address their patient safety concerns, including “unsafe staffing.”

Jackie Farwell, Bangor Daily News
June 5, 2015

• Maine

Work with nurses to improve care

Nurses at Mount Desert Island Hospital have struggled since 2004 to make new technology a safe and effective tool to enhance patient care. But management has not taken the nurses seriously when they reported “near misses” with medications. Due to the nurses’ diligence, a new group of remote pharmacists have been employed, and so far, the mistake rate has declined.

Cokie Giles, RN, President of the Maine State Nurses Association / Mount Desert Islander
February 13, 2015

• Maine

Maine Blog

Bonnie Castillo, RN and Executive Director of CNA/NNU

As Largest US Nurses Union Goes Through Leadership ‘Shift Change,’ Our Fight is Unwavering

What will happen now that I’ve taken over as the next Executive Director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United?

Bonnie Castillo, Executive Director of NNU/CNA
March 13, 2018

• Medicare For All

• Nationwide• California• Maine• MIssouri• Texas• Ohio• Florida• Illinois

Maureen Hayward, RN

Maureen Hayward RN and Chief Steward of Maine State Nurses Association on Nurse Talk Radio

We're talking about recent Legislation that was introduced to the Maine State Legislative Committee to hold hospitals accountable for elimination of major care facilities.

Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio
December 4, 2017

• Nurse Talk

• Maine

NNU Nurses Across America March for Healthy Planet, Healthy Patients

A toxic environment leads to illnesses that become a nurse’s job to heal. That’s why 70 National Nurses United (NNU) RNs stood together with 300,000 other marchers to demand environmental justice at the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

National Nurses United
May 1, 2017

• Environmental Justice

• California• District of Columbia• Florida• Maine• Michigan• Minnesota• North Dakota• Nationwide

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