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The Ongoing Crisis of Sexual Harassment in Healthcare nThe Newsletteru of the Massachusettsr Nursess Associatione n Vol. 89 No. 1 The ongoing crisis of sexual harassment in healthcare April 2019 Look for us on Facebook & Twitter On the web: massnurses.org As an MNA member, you are entitled to receive substantial group discounts on valuable programs and services. 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Join us as an Associate Member! The MNA has an exciting opportunity for non-unionized RNs working in the commonwealth. Our “associate membership” option, which is available at a reduced rate, opens the door for you to become involved with the MNA and it’s 23,000+ members. Joining as an associate member also provides you with access to the discounts, benefits, and resources that MNA union nurses enjoy daily, including full access to the organization’s free CE programs. To learn more, email [email protected] or visit http://bit.ly/AssociateMemberInfo. *Please note that joining as an associate member does not provide you with voting rights or the right to serve on the MNA’s board of directors, nor does it provide you with the workplace protections and benefits that are contained within MNA contracts. 2 April 2019 Massachusetts Nurse Advocate President’s Column • “Phishing emails” and the risks they pose no progress on the issue, even though they for healthcare institutions (pg. 11) told voters they “heard them” and that they elcome to the • Our 2019/2020 legislative agenda and all were “committed” to making changes and WApril edition we are hoping to win at the Statehouse improvements. of the MassNurse, the (pgs. 14-15) What the hospital industry really did MNA’s newsletter that, at the end of the election was hijack our • The “hidden” benefits of union member- issue and used it to lull the public into this month, is being ship (pg. 7) sent to all registered believing they’d follow through on their • CE course listings, including a new class nurses in the state of corporate band-aid agenda. There have that addresses the issue of substance use Massachusetts! One been no improvements, not even band-aid disorder among healthcare workers (pg. 16) of our organization’s improvements, and staff nurses continue resolutions for 2019 • And pages that cover everything from our to desperately tread water … waiting to be Donna Kelly-Williams and beyond is to stay member benefits (pg. 2), to a Nurse’s Week heard, waiting to be respected, waiting for in regular touch with all RNs, not only MNA celebration opportunity from the MNF improvements. members. We are committed to sending you and a summer photo contest (pg. 13) The hospital industry will not willingly come forward with improvements. It is up four issues of the MassNurse each year, with It is the MNA’s long-term goal to have each to us. We need to win these improvements the one you are holding now being your of its upcoming newsletters as jam packed as by taking charge, and we need to win them inaugural edition. this one, and to always include the content for our patients and ourselves. Our reason for sharing this magazine that will help you both professionally and This is why the MNA is still here nearly with you four times annually is that we are, personally. 120 years after its founding: Because MNA and always have been, the premier resource An item not covered in this edition was is, and always will be, the voice of the bed- for bedside nurses in Massachusetts. We the success we had at last month’s annual side nurse. n have also been the voice of bedside nurses MNA Labor Summit. This was our seven- in the commonwealth for nearly 120 years teenth time holding this event, and I have to now. But as times and technologies have say it was probably our best yet. We had close changed, it has become a bit more challeng- to record-breaking attendance. Our speak- ing to find and connect with all of the state’s ers — including nationally known union MNA 2025 wonderful registered nurses. Ever-changing organizer Richard Bensinger and a panel email addresses and social media accounts of proud, grateful USW leaders — were top- On a regular basis, the MNA assesses — although great for communicating with notch. And our breakout clinics provided the current healthcare environment RNs who are already MNA members — have participants with resources and tools that and our organizational resources with made it harder for us to stay in touch with they could use immediately with members members and staff for the purpose of you. So we opted to go a little old school: in order to improve communication and determining a five-year plan that aligns Sending you a jam-packed, paper newsletter grow solidarity. Everyone left excited, moti- with members’ goals. This process is that you can thumb through at your con- vated, and ready to take on what’s next. again underway, and we will soon be venience. And what’s next, you ask? What’s next is engaging those interested at regional This edition is, without doubt, jam packed. we continue to grow, build, and organize meetings, bargaining unit meet- And the content touches on numerous and in order to tackle the challenges that still ings, telephone town hall meetings, varied topics: plague our patients and our practice each and via web/email communications. • The issue of sexual harassment in health- day, each shift, and each hour. Namely, the The MNA’s board will then identify care (pgs. 4-5) lack of established safe patient limits. common themes and develop a vision Our research and assessment following • A Q&A with the recently unionized RNs at and plan for what’s next. So start think- St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford (pgs. 8-9) the 2018 election show that this is still the issue that nurses, patients, and the public ing about what you want the MNA to • Contract, grievance, and arbitration wins/ look like in 2025 and beyond; we will updates (pgs. 6, 10, & 12) want resolved. Meanwhile, while we are regrouping, the hospital industry has made need your input! Directors (At-Large/Labor): Beth Amsler, 2017-2020; Layout Design: Chris Doucette Michael D’Intinosanto, 2016 – 2019; Robin Lucia, 2016 – 2019; Production Manager: Erin M. Servaes nurse Kirsten Maxfield, 2017-2020; Katie Murphy, 2016 – 2019; Published quarterly by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, ISSN 0163-0784: USPS 326-050 Mary Havlicek Cornacchia, 2017-2020; Colleen Wolf, 2017-2020 President: Donna Kelly-Williams, 2017 – 2020 340 Turnpike Street, Canton, MA 02021. Directors (At-Large/General): Linda Barton, 2016 – 2019; Vice President: Karen Coughlin, 2016 – 2019 Periodical postage paid at Canton, MA and additional mail- Ellen MacInnis, 2017 – 2020; Kathy Reardon, 2016 – 2019; Secretary: Ellen Farley, 2017– 2020 ing offices. Betty Sparks, 2016 – 2019; Seamus Whelan, 2017 – 2020; Treasurer: Nora Watts, 2016 – 2019 Susan Wright-Thomas, 2017 – 2020 Postmaster: Send address corrections to Massachusetts Regional Directors, Labor: Nurse, Massachusetts Nurses Association, 340 Turnpike Street, Labor Program Member: Region 1: Mark Brodeur, 2016-2019; Donna Stern, 2017-2020 Canton, MA 02021. Gloria Bardsley, 2017-2020 Region 2: Ellen Smith, 2017-2020; Lynne Starbard, 2016-2019 Region 3: Beth Piknick, 2016-2019; P. Karen Duffy, 2017-2020 Executive Director: Julie Pinkham Region 4: Kay Marshall, 2017-2020 Managing Editor: David Schildmeier Region 5: Dan Rec, 2016-2019; Joan Ballantyne, 2017-2020 Editor: Jen Johnson Massachusetts Nurse Advocate April 2019 3 #MeToo Who? The Ongoing Crisis of Sexual Harassment in Healthcare by Judith Parè, PhD, RN, MNA Director of Nursing he explosion of the #MeToo movement has either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an resulted in countless stories in the media about individual’s employment, 2) submission to or rejec- women and men who have been victims of sexual tion of such conduct by a person is used as the basis for Tharassment. It should come as no surprise then that these employment decisions that affect an individual, or 3) same problems plague the healthcare sector, as no part such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably of our society is immune to these abuses. interfering with a person’s work performance, otherwise Therapists who specialize in counseling healthcare work- negatively affects an individual’s employment opportu- nities, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive ers who are victims of sexual harassment report that one working environment (EEOC, 1990).
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