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NPR looking for on-the-job injuries that affect nurses, CNA's and other staff at hospitals and nursing homes

NPR reporter Daniel Zwerdling and colleagues are researching on-the-job injuries that affect nurses, CNA’s and other staff at hospitals and nursing homes. If you have suffered a back, neck, shoulder or other injury that interferes with your work – and even your daily life – will you please contact us through this survey?  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lMJNg602x8TKHjK42e1IDUbZKA2iGd2npnF5D7ptbno/viewform?usp=sharing
 
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Support SB 483 for workplace violence prevention

AFT Healthcare-Maryland President Debra Perry submitted testimony in favor of Senate Bill 483 February 20th. That bill proposes additional protections for workers in healthcare facilities. Perry’s testimony documented numerous incidents of violence that had befallen healthcare workers in state facilities and requested that legislators pass the bill SB 483.

The bill calls for the creation of a committee to study workplace violence prevention measures and the establishment of specific procedures that greatly reduce the opportunities for a violent incident to occur in state healthcare facilities.

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Bonuses, Increases Scheduled for State Employees

AFT Healthcare-Maryland President Debra Perry reports that her union and the Department of Health and Human Resources have worked together to enable registered nurses who provide direct care to patients in the state’s 24/7 hospitals to receive a $300 bonus if they work all of their scheduled shifts throughout the month of December and do not call out.

Perry also reminds state employees that they will receive a 3 percent COLA increase in January thanks to AFT-Healthcare and the Maryland Professional Employees Council.

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Free Training Available to DHMH Nurses

AFT Healthcare-Maryland president Debra Perry reports that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) and the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing are co-sponsoring free training courses for all DHMH nurses.

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MPEC, AFT Healthcare Contract Negotiations Meeting Scheduled

The Maryland Professional Employees Council (MPEC) and AFT Healthcare-Maryland will continue their negotiations with state officials on a new Memorandum of Understanding in a meeting scheduled for November 1, 2013, at the Maryland Department of Transportation in Hanover, Maryland. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m.

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AFT Healthcare-Maryland Calls for Investigation of Hospital Attack

AFT Healthcare-Maryland president Debra Perry has called for an immediate investigation of unsafe working conditions at the Thomas B. Finan Center in Cumberland, Maryland, where a staff member was brutally attacked and injured October 14th.  The staff member was stabbed in the back of the head with a seven-inch galvanized spike while trying to restrain a combative patient.

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