Originally posted in the New Ulm Journal: http://www.nujournal.com/page/content.detail/id/534962/Law-change-will-benefit-patients.html?nav=5004
Everyone who’s a patient in a hospital, who might be a patient in a hospital, or who cares about somebody in a hospital will be grateful that the Staffing Plan Disclosure Act was signed into law on May 9.
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NOTES ON NURSING
Expert Affirms Nurses’s Warnings About Electronic Health Records System At a meeting of the Marin Healthcare District board on May 14, a group of Marin General nurses told the board problems with the new computer system were diverting them from their patients and causing errors, such as sending orders to the wrong patients.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, May 28, 2013: Nurses warn about electronic health system; The Obamacare shock »
Put Nurses in the Spotlight This Summer
Attention MNA Members
The summer months offer a great opportunity for nurses to enhance our visibility as an organization and a profession.
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470 Registered Nurses at Mankato Mayo entered contract negotiations today as a united group determined to address troubling staffing issues at the hospital that members believe put patients at risk.
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NOTES ON NURSING
More Proof: Heart Patients Survive with Better Nurse Staffing “This finding suggests that the correlation between cardiac arrest incidence and case survival was partly attributable to the hospital factors in the model,” the authors write.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, May 22, 2013: More proof- heart patients survive with better nurse staffing »
The hand-wringing and the vote-counting are over.
Minnesota finally has a budget that protects the middle class, invests in our future, and protects the health of seniors.
… Read more about: Governor and legislative leaders rebalance the budget »
HEALTH CARE
Is the Future of American Health Care in Oregon? “The governor has a notion that you can move away from medical billing and towards a more flexible approach to health-care spending that makes more sense for the community,” John McConnell, a health economist at Oregon Health and Science University, is telling me.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, May 20, 2013: MN health care innovation cuts costs for the poor; poverty up in the suburbs »
Health and Human Services
As we near the end of the session, the major budget bills are nearing completion.
… Read more about: MNA Legislative Update, May 17, 2013 »
NOTES ON NURSING
Federal Report Shows Wide Disparity in Nursing Supply The U.S. Nursing Workforce Report issued by the Health Resources and Services Administration National Center for Health Workforce Analysis predicts continuing shortages as more than 500,000 RNs are expected to retire within the next seven years.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, May 15, 2013: RN supply/demand gap to be 1.2M by 2020 »
NOTES ON NURSING
Angels Fund Set Up for RNs and Co-Workers Lost in Limo Fire This year’s Nurses Week was sadly darkened by the death of two RNs and three other caregivers in a tragic limousine fire on the San Mateo Bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, May 13, 2013: Fund set for RNs, colleagues lost in limo fire; ND highest in worker death »
The Mayo’s Destination Medical Center appears to be a done deal. Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars will transform Rochester into a gilded city worthy of hosting a gold standard of health care in the world, but something’s missing from all the talk – patients.
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Standards of Care Campaign
Yesterday, Governor Dayton signed HF588/SF471 into law after it passed its final hurdle on the first day of Nurses Week when the House took a last procedural vote on Monday.
… Read more about: MNA Legislative Update, May 10, 2013 »