What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan rounds up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories. As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!
Stories we’re scanning:
NURSING
- Please keep the unidentified St. John’s Hospital nurse in your thoughts today: The nurse was punched and kicked while trying to stop a man from assaulting a pregnant woman in her hospital room.
- Report: Hospital nurses suffer from depression at twice the rate of the general population.
HEALTHCARE
- NBC’s national “Rock Center” program landed in Minnesota last night with its coverage of the ongoing scandal involving debt collectors behaving badly inside Twin Cities Hospitals.
- MNA President Linda Hamilton and 1st Vice-President Bunny Engeldorf talked with several news outlets yesterday about how nurses are reacting to the Supreme Court’s Ruling regarding the Affordable Care Act. Here’s a sampling of some of the coverage:
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