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 seconds?
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, December 14, 2012: Alarms don’t prevent falls, nurses do; Big bucks for HC C-Suites »
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 a reduction in safety events in a context where these events were already uncommon.”
Perspective: “Get Over a Death in 2 Months.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, December 13, 2012: Hold the Mayo at Megamall; ID’ing patients at risk »
Twin Cities nurses look below for your voting schedule. We’ll see you next week!
Think of yourself in your early 20s-young, energetic, maybe a little naïve in some ways. All it takes is a look into one’s old closet or record collection to realize that.
… Read more about: Save money by skimping on Medicare? »
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.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, December 12, 2012: Rural RNs more likely to commute for better salaries »
LABOR UPDATES
Right To Work Passes Michigan House The Michigan House approved the first of two right-to-work bills Tuesday that would weaken union power in the historical labor stronghold as hundreds of protesters rallied at the Capitol.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, December 11, 2012: RTW passes MI House; U.S. lives longer, sicker »
The Minnesota Nurses Association is happy to welcome Rick Fuentes to represent its 20,000 members in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
… Read more about: MNA Welcomes New PR person »
More than 150 nurses will vote Tuesday, December 11, on a new Tentative Agreement between the Minnesota Nurses Association and Douglas County Hospital.
… Read more about: New TA to be voted on by Alex Nurses »
LABOR NEWS
Nurses Join Fight Against Michigan Right To Work Legislation More than a dozen Michigan nurses stood on the steps of the Michigan Capitol this morning, their mouths covered in red duct tape in protest of right to work legislation.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, December 10, 2012: Nurses Protest RTW in MI »
NOTES ON NURSING
MNA Nurses Reach Tentative Agreement with Twin Cities Hospitals The Minnesota Nurses Association and Twin Cities Hospitals reached agreement last night on new three-year-contracts, which are being unanimously recommended by the MNA Negotiating Committee for ratification by the membership.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, December 7, 2012: TC Nurse Contract Tentative Agreement; Sham Democracy in Michigan »
Joint Press Release
Contact: Rick Fuentes: 651-414-2863/cell: 612-741-0662
Jan Rabbers: 651-414-2861/cell: 612-860-6658
Minnesota Nurses Association and North Memorial Health Care, Park Nicollet Health Services, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics, Fairview Health Services, HealthEast Care System and Allina Health
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… Read more about: MNA Nurses Reach Tentative Agreement with Twin Cities Hospitals »
NOTES ON NURSING
Nurses Top Gallup Ethics and Honesty Poll for 12th Time in 13 Years. Nurses’ high rating this year is not unexpected; they have scored at the top of all professions every year since they were first included in the list in 1999 — apart from 2001, when Gallup asked about “firefighters” on a one-time basis after the Sept.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, December 5, 2012: RNs tops in ethics again; MN faces $1.1B deficit »
