Paula Ryan

"We are pleased to have reached an agreement that will provide a competitive pay scale with other area hospitals, while also recognizing the need to add nursing staff to ensure our patients get the care they expect and deserve," said Paula Ryan, RN, a staff nurse at the hospital and chair of the nurses' local bargaining unit.

Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Healing Hands for Haiti International Foundation has recently established a subset branch in Boston known as Boston Healing Hands, Inc., an organization that both Larkin and MNA member Paula Ryan are committed to fostering.

"Boston Healing Hands is associated with Healing Hands for Haiti in Utah, but we do our own fundraising and outreach programs," explained Larkin, who with Ryan established a pre-op and post-op hydrocephalus program that has proven highly successful.
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Ryan, a nurse at Quincy Medical Center for 40 years, the past 19 in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit, echoed Larkin's assessment of the duo's program. Healing Hands. Janet Larkin (seated, holding a child with hydrocephalus) and Paula Ryan, MNA members and RNs at Quincy Medical Center during a recent visit to Haiti as part of a Boston Healing Hands mission.
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"It's impressive that simple basic education about the disease and the necessity for proper hygiene following surgery made such a difference in the fatality rate," said Ryan, extending kudos to the Haitian interpreter who assisted the duo with the program.

"Our work with Healing Hands is extremely rewarding," said Ryan.
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Despite the emotional upheaval it can generate, both Ryan and Larkin recommend and encourage other nurses and health care professionals to become involved in Boston Healing Hands and similar missions of mercy.
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Janet Larkin (seated, holding a child with hydrocephalus) and Paula Ryan, MNA members and RNs at Quincy Medical Center during a recent visit to Haiti as part of a Boston Healing Hands mission.

"We are pleased to have reached an agreement that will provide a competitive pay scale with other area hospitals, while also recognizing the need to add nursing staff to ensure our patients get the care they deserve," said Paula Ryan, RN, a staff nurse at the hospital and chair of the nurses' local bargaining unit.