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Thursday Media Availability: MNA President to Comment on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

MEDIA AVAILABILITY
Contact: John Nemo, MNA, 651-414-2863 or john.nemo@mnnurses.org

ST. PAUL (June 27, 2012) – Linda Hamilton, RN, BSN, President of the Minnesota Nurses Association, will be available Thursday to comment from an everyday nurse’s perspective on the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the Affordable Care Act and how it impacts Minnesota patients and families.
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June 27, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan: June 27, 2012 – “SiCKO” Stars Reunite, MNA’s Bagley Nurses Need Support

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!
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June 27, 2012

Show Your (Online) Support for Bagley RNs!

Our Bagley RNs are mired in a tough fight with management right now. If you have a minute, can you share some thoughts/words of encouragement for them from your own experience?

June 26, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan, June 26, 2012: Twin Cities #1 in fitness; rural health care changing

HEALTH CARE

Twin Cities Ranks #1 in Fitness High rates of physical activity helped to propel Minneapolis-St.
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June 26, 2012

MNA Awards: Nominate a Nurse!

Do you know a special registered nurse?

As nurses, we all know someone who is an outstanding practitioner, an inspiring educator or mentor, an unfailing supporter of nurses in collective bargaining, a nurse executive who models leadership, or a researcher who has made a real difference to patients.
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June 25, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan, June 25, 2012 – Nursing the wounded; HC to add 5.6M new jobs by 2020

NURSING

Nursing the Wounded There’s a new effort being made to train more of the nation’s nurses to help care for this growing population of veterans.
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June 25, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan: June 22, 2012 – Maple Grove Hospital Drops Accretive, New Jobs Needed

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!
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June 22, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan, June 21, 2012: 26k uninsured die each year; hospitals lag in workforce diversity

Editor’s Note: Our thoughts are with colleagues and community in Duluth and elsewhere in the state, in the aftermath of flood devastation.
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June 21, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan: June 20, 2012 – “Baby Prisons”, Robin Hood Recap and Your Health

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!
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June 20, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan, June 19, 2012: Robin Hood Tax Day; underemployed & underpaid

Stories we’re scanning:

NOTES ON NURSING

Nurses’ Rx for Healing – A Robin Hood Tax Nurses are on the streets throughout the world today to demand a small Robin Hood tax on Wall Street transactions.
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June 19, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan: June 18, 2012 – Robin Hood Tax and State of the (Labor) Unions

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!
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June 18, 2012

MNA RNs to join national effort Tuesday, will call for Robin Hood Tax

Dozens of national organizations including National Nurses United and Health GAP, celebrities including Mark Ruffalo, Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello and Coldplay’s Chris Martin, leading economists including Jeffrey Sachs, former JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs executives and global leaders such as Desmond Tutu have joined together for an unprecedented coalition, calling for a “Robin Hood Tax” on Wall Street.

June 18, 2012