nurses

The union contract resolves a difficult negotiation. Hospital nurses voted by mail-in balloting in July to authorize a three-day strike if they could not reach an agreement with their employer. Now, visiting nurses have taken a similar vote.

A majority of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified nurse midwives have signed union cards seeking to vote on whether to join the Massachusetts Nurses Association, the same union that represents registered nurses.

Local hospitals are still conserving N95 masks and requiring nurses to reuse them.Shannon Sherman, co-chair of the union that represents registered nurses…

A nurse at Cape Cod Hospital says staff have enough supplies to care for COVID-19 patients, but they’re anxious about running out, and about bringing the…