NOTES ON NURSING
Can Patient Photos Help Reduce Error? Putting children’s photos in their electronic hospital charts could help reduce one type of medical error, a study published Monday suggests.
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Colleen Espinosa is a float pool nurse at North Memorial Hospital, and she’s a perfect example of why we need a Main Street Contract For America and a Robin Hood Tax – two causes championed by National Nurses United and MNA.
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What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.
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Nurses, Patients Voice Concerns Over Avoidable Hospital Staffing Crisis The whole system seems to be “missing something” when it reaps massive profits but can’t keep hospitals properly staffed.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan – May 31, 2012: RNs Say Hospital Staffing Crisis Avoidable with Ratios; Listen to Frontline Staff »
Senator Al Franken today held a U.S. Senate field hearing on the coercive hospital debt collection tactics of Chicago-based Accretive Health, who have operated at North Memorial and Fairview health care systems in Minnesota.
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Note: Senate Media is live streaming this event. Here’s the link if you have Windows
MNA we will post our own video later today.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, May 30, 2012: Video of Franken Hearing on Debt Collection; Fake Innovation Wastes HC $$ »
What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.
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Minnesota Nurse Jean Ross has been asked by Sen. Al Franken to testify at a U.S. Senate field hearing inside the Minnesota State Capitol. The hearing is being conducted to examine if current federal laws effectively protect patients’ access to care and privacy.
Attention MNA Nurses
Hospitals are making record profits despite the economic downturn. One alarming tactic that’s becoming more common is hospital debt collectors posing as health care staff to get payment from patients, sometimes before they’ve ever been treated.
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What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan: May 25, 2012 – MNA Releases new e-book on Social Media, NPR Explores Unsafe Staffing Epidemic, Fairview parts ways with CEO Mark Eustis »
BREAKING: Fairview CEO Out in Wake of Debt Collection Furor
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Art, Gardens & Basketball Courts -Yes.
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