The Nurse Chronicle

On Wednesday, Federal Judge John Adams ordered Affinity Medical Center in Massillon, Ohio to immediately reinstate nurse and union supporter Ann Wayt and to recognize the Ohio National Nurses Organizing Committee as the elected representative of the hospital’s nurses.

  After more than two years and 42 negotiation sessions, 200 nurses at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Massachusetts have been unable to reach an agreement on a new contract.  On Wednesday, the hospital declared that negotiations in its 28-month labor dispute were at an impasse and that it planned to implement its contract proposal without agreement from the nurses.

On Thursday, the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, which represents over 212,000 nurses in the state, announced its support of proposed legislation legalizing medical marijuana in Pennsylvania.  While the American Nurses Association has publicly supported the legalization of medical marijuana for over a decade, Thursday’s announcement marked the first time a major professional medical association in Pennsylvania has publicly supported the legalization of medical marijuana.