Scholarship / grants available through the Minnesota Nurses Association Foundation | MNA offers learning opportunities at no cost for members seeking to enhance their knowledge in labor relations, nursing practice & education trends and advocacy skills.
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Color-coded Tracks
- Labor Relations -unions, labor history, advancing representation skills
- Nursing Practice & Education Trends - research, innovations, professional development
- Advocacy - social justice, advancing policy
EVENTS (education offered at specific times and locations)
Date & Location | Title | Description | Audience | Learning Mode | Contact Hrs. |
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June 11
| Ethics Book Club: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande | We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous errors. Learn more |
| Discussion | 1.8 |
Sept. 10
| Ethics Book Club: The House on Henry Street by Lillian Wald | Nurses have greatly influenced social advocacy through times of laws that were against women’s rights. In 1915, at the peak of her career, Wald published The History of Henry Street. Dedicated to “the comrades who have built the house,” the book became a classic for generations of nursing, sociology, and social welfare students. Learn more |
| Discussion | 1.8 |
Dec. 3
| Ethics Book Club: Don't Call Me Inspirational by Harilyn Rousso | In her empowering, and at times, confrontational memoir, Harilyn Rousso, who has cerebral palsy, describes overcoming the prejudice against disability - not overcoming disability. Learn more |
| Discussion | 1.8 |
Independent Study
| Title | Description |
| Introductory Steward Training program
| Fundamental information about the Steward Leadership role in a MNA collective bargaining unit. 8.4 Minnesota Board of Nursing Contact Hours
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HIPAA—The Health Insurance To take this course, go to the MNA Member Log In at https://mymna.mnnurses.org and click on the Practice and Education button at the top of the page. | What RNs Need to Know About Privacy Rules and Nursing Contact Hours: This program for 4.0 contact hours is designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing continuing education requirements. However, the nurse is responsible for determining whether this activity meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education. This program expires 8/31/13. |
Mentoring Relationships Independent Study Article in Spring Minnesota Nursing Accent To access this article, Click Here. | MNA members only – to receive 2.0 nursing contact hours login to the MNA member portal at www.mnnurses.org, click on “Event Registration” and then on “Mentoring Relationships Test and Evaluation Questions.” This program expires 4/30/14. |
Self-Pace Learning (Classes you can schedule for presentation at your own location. Requires a minimum of 10 participants)
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Step One Grievance Handling Contact Business Agent | Practice communication techniques that include a formal complaint process. 1.2 Minnesota Board of Nursing Contact Hours Presentation on site at your facility Audience: MNA members |
Deliberate Conversations Contact Business Agent | Practice deliberate conversations within a structured format so that you can support nurses to best advocate for themselves and our patients. 1.2 Minnesota Board of Nursing Contact Hours Presentation at your facility Audience: MNA members |
Staffing Campaign: Basics of Staffing Part 1 Contact Business Agent | The basic elements of nurse staffing. 1 Hr. 1.2 Minnesota Board of Nursing Contact Hours Presentation at your facility (requires minimum of 10 people) Audience: All RNs |
Staffing Campaign: Basics of Staffing Part 2 Contact Business Agent | Learn components of an action plan regarding staffing to keep patients safe. 1.2 Minnesota Board of Nursing Contact Hours Presentation at your facility (requires mimimum of 10 people) Audience: All RNs |
Power: Understanding and Using It Part 1 Contact Business Agent | Learn concepts of power and how it is utilized in the workplace. 1.2 Minnesota Board of Nursing Contact Hours Presentation at your facility (requires minimum of 10 people) Audience: All RNs |
Power: Understanding and Using It Part 2 Contact Business Agent | An opportunity for nurse leaders to apply strategies and tactics in support of an action plan to solve workplace problems. 1.2 Minnesota Board of Nursing Contact Hours Presentation at your facility (requires minimum of 10 people) Audience: All RNs |
For the Good of Main Street: Some Cuts Don’t Heal Contact Business Agent | Recognize threats to a nurses values imposed by corporatization of America. 1.2 Minnesota Board of Nursing Contact Hours Presentation at your facility (requires minimum of 10 people) Audience: Open |
Building a Healthcare System Based on Nursing Values Part 1 | Promote awareness of the deficiencies of the current health care finance delivery system and what a health care system based on nursing values would be like. 3.3 Minnesota Board of Nursing Contact Hours View online Audience: Open |
Building a Healthcare System Based on Nursing Values Part 2 | See above |
MNA Ethics Committee Book Club for Nurses Contact Geri Katz
| A forum for nurses to discuss ethical themes as illustrated in modern literature and the implications of those themes to current practice. 1.8 Minnesota Board of Nursing Contact Hours Feature Books: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult Still Alice by Lisa Genova The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman Transplant by John Elefteriades, MD Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Patricia Skloot Midwives by Chris Bohjalian Impaired: A Nurse’s Story of Addiction and Recovery by Patricia Halloran Audience: MNA Members |
Refusing an Unsafe Assignment Contact Business Agent | Refusing an Unsafe Assignment A program to prepare nurses to advocate for safe patient assignments. 1.2 Minnesota Board of Nursing Contact Hours. Audience: MNA members |
Have an idea for writing an independent study article?
The MNA Practice and Education Commissions have an opportunity for you to enhance professional development by sharing your nursing practice expertise or any other written academic project into a Continuing Education Independent Study Article. Fellow colleagues can earn Board of Nursing contact hours from your written work. The article will be published in the Minnesota Nursing Accent, which is an indexed publication in CinAHL.
Writing an Independent Study Guidelines If you have questions, please contact MNA (phone: 651-414-2800)
