As Massachusetts hospitals continue to hand out red slips to nurses for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine, members of the state’s largest nursing association gave testimony to lawmakers about escalating job pressures that have prompted an alarming number of nurses to quit.  “Morale is low, burnout is high, and many nurses are walking away from the bedside with no plan to return,”  Mary Havlicek Cornacchia, a member of the Massachusetts Nursing Association Board of Directors, told the Epoch Times. Several MNA members testified at a three-hour hearing on Dec. 6, held by the Massachusetts Future of Work Commission—a legislative body that reviews the need for potential policy changes in the workplace. Cornacchia, also an operating room nurse at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, said if the state’s fast rising nursing shortage isn’t addressed soon, Massachusetts will have a critical shortage in health care providers. In citing multiple surveys—including a …