Show Your (Online) Support for Bagley RNs!
2012-06-26
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?
MNA Daily NewsScan, June 26, 2012: Twin Cities #1 in fitness; rural health care changing
2012-06-26
HEALTH CARE
Twin Cities Ranks #1 in Fitness High rates of physical activity helped to propel Minneapolis-St. Paul to the top of the list of the American College of Sports Medicine’s 2012 American Fitness Index (AFI) for the second year in a row, while raised obesity levels and smoking pushed Oklahoma City to the bottom.
Change is Coming to Rural Health Care, Whatever the Supreme Court Decides Even if the Supreme Court rules some part of the law unconstitutional, he said, “I don’t think it will derail the move forward toward change. It’s not prudent for health organizations to sit back and wait.
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MNA Awards: Nominate a Nurse!
2012-06-25
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.
Would you like to see that special registered nurse be recognized by the profession?
The MNA awards, presented at the Convention in October every year, honor the RN members of MNA who exemplify the best of the nursing profession and of our union.
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MNA Daily NewsScan, June 25, 2012 – Nursing the wounded; HC to add 5.6M new jobs by 2020
2012-06-25
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. First Lady Michelle Obama and Second Lady Jill Biden recently launched an initiative to create specialized training in veterans health care so nurses nationwide can better care for this coming wave of new vets.
HEALTH CARE
Health Care to Create 5.6 Million New Jobs by 2020 The healthcare industry will spawn 5.6 million new jobs by 2020 – most of them high-paying – but most unemployed Americans won’t have the expensive schooling necessary to land them.
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MNA Daily NewsScan: June 22, 2012 – Maple Grove Hospital Drops Accretive, New Jobs Needed
2012-06-22
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!
Stories we’re scanning:
Health Care
- So Long, Accretive: Maple Grove Hospital is the second Minnesota health care provider to cut its ties to Accretive Health, the consulting firm sued by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson for alleged patient privacy violations and strong-arm debt collection tactics.
- Listen to Nurses! New study: Hospitals that listen to and support their front-line staff are more likely to provide high-quality care, recruit and retain better employees.
MNA Daily NewsScan, June 21, 2012: 26k uninsured die each year; hospitals lag in workforce diversity
2012-06-21
Editor’s Note: Our thoughts are with colleagues and community in Duluth and elsewhere in the state, in the aftermath of flood devastation.
HEALTH CARE
26,000 Uninsured Die Each Year The study, released on Wednesday by the consumer advocacy group Families USA, estimates that a record high of 26,100 people aged 25 to 64 died for lack of health coverage in 2010, up from 20,350 in 2005 and 18,000 in 2000. That makes for a rate of about 72 deaths per day, or three per hour.
$129 Marked for Community Health Centers The 2010 federal healthcare overhaul established the Community Health Center Fund to provide $11 billion over five years to fund health center operations, expansions and construction.
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MNA Daily NewsScan: June 20, 2012 – “Baby Prisons”, Robin Hood Recap and Your Health
2012-06-20
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!
Stories we’re scanning:
Health Care
- “Baby Prisons”: Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson’s offices shares disturbing new details regarding the ongoing investigation of Accretive Health and its debt collectors allegedly harassing patients and family members inside Twin Cities hospitals.
- Americans’ Health a “Mixed Bag”:New CDC Report notes we’re smoking less, but not exercising enough and still following unhealthy diets, leading to obesity.
MNA Daily NewsScan, June 19, 2012: Robin Hood Tax Day; underemployed & underpaid
2012-06-19
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. In Guatamala, Manhattan, El Paso, Minneapolis and numerous sites around the globe, thousands of nurses who see too much suffering as Wall Street bankers get paid six-figure bonuses are calling for a new public health measure – economic justice. Read why nurses are at the forefront of this movement.
California Court Says Unsupervised Nurses Can Administer Anesthesia The order will have its greatest impact in rural areas, where nurses commonly administer anesthesia in hospitals, under a doctor’s orders but without in-person supervision.
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MNA Daily NewsScan: June 18, 2012 – Robin Hood Tax and State of the (Labor) Unions
2012-06-18
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!
Stories we’re scanning:
Labor
- NPR Examines Labor, Middle Class: For many full-time employees in the United States, the five-day work week, paid overtime and holidays are expected benefits. This wasn’t always so, and many workers’ benefits today are the achievements of labor unions.
- MNA RNs Prepare for Robin Hood Tax Action: Tomorrow (June 19) is going to be a day to remember, as MNA RNs join celebrities, economists and activists nationwide in calling for the implementation of a Robin Hood Tax.
MNA RNs to join national effort Tuesday, will call for Robin Hood Tax
2012-06-18
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.