NOTES ON NURSING
Nursing Receives Unproportionately Low Percentage of NIH Budget Specifically, nurses get 0.75% of the US National Institutes of Health budget, even though nurses make up the majority of health professionals in the US.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, January 16, 2013: Where’s the love from NIH for RNs? »
Health Leaders magazine named Lori Swanson, Minnesota’s Attorney General, one of its HL20-leaders who are making health care better- in its December, 2012 issue.
… Read more about: More honors for Minnesota AG Lori Swanson »
NOTES ON NURSING
Improving Nurses’ Work Environment Can Help Reduce Readmissions The study, led by Matthew McHugh, PhD , JD, MPH, RN, FAAN, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, found that increased nurse-to-patient staffing ratios and a good work environment for nurses were associated with reduced 30-day readmission rates for Medicare patients with heart failure, myocardial infarction, and pneumonia.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, January 14, 2013: More Nurses Mean Fewer Readmissions »
Legislative Session Begins
On Tuesday, the 2013 Session of the Minnesota Legislature began. Both the House and Senate have introduced their first key pieces of legislation:
… Read more about: MNA Legislative Update, January 11, 2013 »
HEALTH CARE
Poor Performance Means Less Medicare Reimbursement for Most Minnesota Hospitals Medicare is revamping its payment system for hospitals as part of an effort to make them accountable on quality.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, January 9, 2012: Medicare Penalizes MN hospitals; For profit=poor care »
As the 2013 legislative session opens, a look at what the Minnesota Nurses Association, its members, and allies hope to achieve.
… Read more about: What’s MNA Fighting for? »
MNA Legislative Preview
Session Begins January 8
The 2013 Minnesota legislative session starts on Tuesday, January 8.
… Read more about: MNA Legislative Preview-2013 session starts tomorrow! »
http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/185824962.html
Nurses from Bagley, Bemidji, and Thief River Falls gather at Centennial Park in Thief River Falls to ask for patient safety standards.
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Northland nurses rally for patients’ safety say “patients are falling through the cracks.” http://ow.ly/gydja
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Vernice Ferguson, Nursing Advocate, passes away. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/us/vernice-d-ferguson-leader-and-advocate-of-nurses-dies-at-84.html?_r=1&
… Read more about: Vernice Ferguson, Nursing Advocate, pass »
Jodi Jones, a state psychiatric nurse with 25 years of experience, has won her arbitration case with the Minnesota Security Hospital in St.
… Read more about: MNA wins job and back pay for St. Peter Nurse »
