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MNA Daily NewsScan, December 10, 2012: Nurses Protest RTW in MI
LABOR NEWS Michigan Nurses Association protests on the Capitol steps in Lansing against Michigan Right To Work legislation today. Nurses Join Fight Against Michigan Right To Work Legislation More...
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MNA Daily NewsScan, December 11, 2012: RTW passes MI House; U.S. lives...
LABOR UPDATES Debbie Nault from the Michigan Nurses Association stands with other members of the association on the state Capitol steps in Lansing, Mich., Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, protesting...
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MNA Daily NewsScan, December 12, 2012: Rural RNs more likely to commute for...
LABOR UPDATES Wages in Minnesota Rise for the Richest, Fall for the Poor It’s being called a “lost decade” for low- and middle-income Minnesotans. Steve Sack, Star Tribune NOTES ON NURSING Study:...
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MNA Daily NewsScan, December 13, 2012: Hold the Mayo at Megamall; ID’ing...
NOTES ON NURSING New Model IDs Patients At Risk for Serious Safety Events “A reliable system to identify, mitigate, and escalate risk can be implemented in a children’s hospital and is associated with...
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MNA Daily NewsScan, December 14, 2012: Alarms don’t prevent falls, nurses do;...
NOTES ON NURSING Hospital Alarms Fail to Prevent Injury “My own 2 cents: If an alarm sounds when someone stirs, is any hospital or nursing home so well-staffed that someone can materialize within...
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MNA Daily NewsScan, December 17, 2012: Do EHRs mean bigger problems?; RNs to...
NOTES ON NURSING Electronic Health Records May Turn Small Errors into Big Ones According to a review by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, mistakes and near misses involving electronic...
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MNA NewsScan, December 18, 2012: Nurses call for action on nation’s ravaged...
NOTES ON NURSING Nurses Call for Action on Nation’s Ravaged Mental Health Services “This is a massive tragedy that is being played out on a smaller scale every day in emergency rooms, in mental...
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MNA NewsScan, December 19, 2012: Hospital lays off hundreds and still...
LABOR UPDATES More Young Adults Are Homeless Across the country, tens of thousands of underemployed and jobless young people, many with college credits or work histories, are struggling to house...
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MNA NewsScan, December 20, 2012: Mayo games?; 11K new jobs
HEALTH CARE Is Mayo Gaming the System? The CEO of St. Peter’s River’s Edge Hospital and two area physicians have asked the Attorney General to investigate Mayo Clinic Health Systems in St. Peter...
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MNA NewsScan, December 21, 2012: TC nurses approve 3 yr contract; Hospital...
NOTES ON NURSING Twin Cities Nurses Ratify Contract Although negotiations between nurses and hospitals in 2010 featured a loud public debate over nurse-to-patient staffing ratios, the parties didn’t...
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MNA NewsScan, January 9, 2012: Medicare Penalizes MN hospitals; For...
HEALTH CARE Poor Performance Means Less Medicare Reimbursement for Most Minnesota Hospitals Medicare is revamping its payment system for hospitals as part of an effort to make them accountable on...
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MNA Legislative Update, January 11, 2013
Legislative Session Begins On Tuesday, the 2013 Session of the Minnesota Legislature began. Both the House and Senate have introduced their first key pieces of legislation: The House and Senate each...
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MNA NewsScan, January 14, 2013: More Nurses Mean Fewer Readmissions
NOTES ON NURSING Improving Nurses’ Work Environment Can Help Reduce Readmissions The study, led by Matthew McHugh, PhD , JD, MPH, RN, FAAN, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania...
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MNA NewsScan, January 16, 2013: Where’s the love from NIH for RNs?
NOTES ON NURSING Nursing Receives Unproportionately Low Percentage of NIH Budget Specifically, nurses get 0.75% of the US National Institutes of Health budget, even though nurses make up the majority...
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MNA NewsScan, January 23, 2013: When paying it forward pays us back; Prolong CPR
NOTES ON NURSING When Paying It Forward Pays Us Back One such example is the Transitional Care Model (TCM), which provides planning and home follow-up by trained nurses for chronically ill Medicare...
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MNA NewsScan, January 28, 2013: Medical errors & caregiver injuries need...
NOTES ON NURSING OpEd: Report Medical Errors and Caregiver Injuries Every 24 hours across the nation there are, on average, 4,658 newly identified hospital-acquired infections, 1,369 patient falls...
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MNA NewsScan, January 30, 2013: Docs weigh in-patients are not safe
HEALTH CARE Docs Weigh In: Workloads are Unsafe (JAMA abstract only) For resident physicians, workload so heavy as to result in physician fatigue is associated with increased medical errors and has...
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MNA NewsScan, February 4, 2013: On forced flu shots; Staffing “dangerously...
NOTES ON NURSING Forced Flu Shots Not the Cure Too many hospitals, whose mantra is profits, not patient safety, favor forced vaccinations while cutting nursing or housekeeping staff, and denying...
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MNA NewsScan, February 6, 2013: Nurses lobby for patient care; Good-bye...
NOTES ON NURSING MNA’S Nurses Day on the Hill 2013 in pictures Legislators learned a lot about patients at risk in acute care hospitals, and why MNA members support the Governor’s proposed budget and...
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MNA Day on the Hill 2013
200 nurses with the Minnesota Nurses Association union descend on the State Capitol to advocate for patients and the Standards of Care Act, which would protect all those who are hospitalized by...
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