11.   Adams and his supporters said the nursing board is protecting nurse-managers, while holding staff nurses accountable for lapses in patient care.

12.   Kiernan said another hospital employee, a staff nurse, had been suspended without pay pending a hearing.

13.   Ms. Sullivan said on Thursday that an administrative hearing was expected soon regarding the staff nurse who was suspended in the incident.

14.   Pro-split leaders had argued that the earlier vote, held on a Wednesday, failed to reflect the will of staff nurses who could not get out of work.

15.   Richard Thalman, a staff nurse, suggested that it is the very formlessness of her role that makes her useful.

16.   She had previously been a case manager in neo-natal intensive care at Beth Israel and a staff nurse there, among other jobs.

17.   She has advanced from being an emergency staff nurse to a nurse with a family-oriented practitioner specialty to an emergency nurse practitioner.

18.   Shortages of staff nurses routinely plague hospitals across the United States.

19.   The program was established for employees who were missing work because of sick children, said staff nurse Amy Schumaker.

20.   These activities are the legal responsibility of the staff nurses, and hospitals will not allow them to be delegated.