Twin Cities hospitals came out with a press release today bashing Twin Cities nurses and making disingenuous statements and untrue allegations.
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Guest Blog Post by Mary Kohout, RN, Fairview Southdale Hospital
I worked this past weekend in the ICU.
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From his commentary on the National Institute of Health Policy Blog:
NURSES MAY GO ON STRIKE IN MPLS – ST.
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… Read more about: KSTP TV Coverage of May 19 Vote »
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From our friends at the U of M’s Labor Education Service. Thank you nurses for standing up and speaking so passionately and eloquently for patient safety!
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One of our Twin Cities nurses e-mailed Allina CEO Ken Paulus asking why hospital executives got bonuses during the 2009 economic recession.
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The video below illustrates the fundamental issue at the heart of this entire dispute: Hospitals are (1) Applying business/profit models like Toyota’s “Lean Production” to the “business” of caring for critically ill human beings and (2) Trying to keep up with one another in a medical arms race to create the fanciest, day-spa type facilities to attract patients.
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Media Contact: John Nemo, MNA Public Relations, 651-414-2863
ST. PAUL (May 19, 2010) – Twin Cities nurses made history Wednesday by voting to authorize the largest nursing strike in U.S.
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