NURSES, LABOR, HEALTH CARE
Watch live as nurses lead an international call for the Robin Hood Tax that will heal the world.
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… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, May 18, 2012: RNs leading HUGE march in Chicago to heal the world »
Nursing
Board of Nursing Seeking to Expand LPN Scope – Listening Sessions Today Bethel University, 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. MNBON proposals reflect a corporate health care employer’s dream to muddy the lines of responsibility between RNs and LPNs – allowing health care facilities to get more work for less money. It also pits our two practices in a fabricated fight that will only result in jeopardizing public safety. Please attend!
NNU’s Rose Ann DeMoro Named To Most Influential Health Care Leaders List for 10th Straight Year This year, DeMoro was placed at number 31 on the list which is dominated by government officials and corporate executives.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, May 17, 2012 – Practice scope issues discussed TODAY; SEIU tentative agreement; Docs Ditch Rx Pads »
What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round 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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Labor Updates
What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round 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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Labor
Crow Wing County RNs Expect Decision Today on Civil Lawsuit Regarding Unfair Labor Practices The unions reported the lawsuit is not whether the county’s proposal to tie pay to performance is a good idea. “The county’s idea, like all bargaining proposals, should be negotiated,” the unions stated. “The unions’ lawsuit simply asks the court to find that the county must first negotiate the elimination of the current pay structure and not act on its own.”
Twin Cities Hospital Workers Voting Whether to Strike The workers hold a variety of jobs, including nursing assistants, ER techs and maintenance and food service personnel.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, May 15, 2012 – Crow Wing RNs Await Results of Civil Law Suit; Nursing Careers and an Aging Population »
The Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation and Saint Paul Regional Labor Federation Invite Our Union Sisters and Brothers to Attend Our We Are One Solidarity Event and Labor 2012 Kickoff
During the 2011 – 2012 legislative session, workers were the center of attacks from Minnesota’s Legislative Majority. We narrowly kept the proposed Right to Work constitutional amendment off the ballot. It’s time to celebrate our victory, and talk about what we need to do next so that we’re not fighting Right to Work again in 2013.
Please join us for a BBQ and rally that is being jointly hosted by the Minneapolis and Saint Paul Regional Labor Federations.
… Read more about: Upcoming: “We Are One” Labor Union Event on May 17 – RSVP today! »
What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round 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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Notes on Nursing
Session Ends
The House adjourned in the wee hours of Thursday morning, and the Senate followed suit on Thursday afternoon. This session, we saw more involvement from MNA nurses on legislative issues than at any other time in recent MNA history. Everyone who reached out to their elected officials, educated their colleagues about the issues, or came to the Capitol should feel proud. Nurses are a respected and influential force at the Capitol because of all of your work.
MNA Priorities
What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round 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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Notes on Nursing
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan: May 11, 2012 – Nursing Shortage: Fact or Fiction? »
Notes on Nursing
National Nurse Licensure is DEAD (for now). The House adjourned for the session in the wee hours of this morning, WITHOUT taking a final vote on the National Nurse Licensure Compact. That means it’s dead for this year. It will most likely come back next session, so stay tuned, but for now, be proud of all the calls, emails, letters and visits that nurses made to stop this dangerous bill!
Chicago Tries to Revoke Nurses’ Permit to March What in the world? The registered nurses of National Nurses United cannot wait to welcome one of the world’s leading defenders of common people to their uncommon May 18th march and rally in Chicago.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, May 10, 2012: Natl Nurse Licensure Dead; Nurses Will March in Chicago; HC Execs Make $1M A Year »
SPEAK UP FOR OUR NURSING STANDARDS
The Minnesota Board of Nursing wants to significantly change the Nurse Practice Act to alter Scope of Practice language.
This is NOT a friendly change.
Their proposals reflect a corporate health care employer’s dream to muddy the lines of responsibility between RNs and LPNs – allowing health care facilities to get more work for less money. It also pits our two practices in a fabricated fight that will only result in jeopardizing public safety.
For the sake of your license and the future of nursing, attend an upcoming “listening session” hosted by the Minnesota Board of Nursing.
… Read more about: Update! Speak up to MN Board of Nursing About LPN Scope Expansion »