Standards of Care/Staffing Disclosure Act
The Standards of Care/Staffing Disclosure Act (SF471/HF588), creating a Department of Health study of the correlation between nurse staffing and patient outcomes and requiring public reporting of hospital staffing, passed the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday, and passed the full Senate on Thursday.
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LABOR UPDATES
CEO Pay Gap Up 1000% Since 1950 Today Fortune 500 CEOs make 204 times regular workers on average, Bloomberg found.
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NOTES ON NURSING
Successful Nurse-Intensive Chronic Disease Management Experiment in Jeopardy But Health Quality Partners, with its emphasis on continuous nurse-to-patient contact, did work.
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The bargaining team for HealthEast’s Home Care nurses got a boost from MNA’s E & GW Commissioners who joined them at the table on Wednesday.
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St. Luke’s nurses approved a new contract they won after coming to a one-day, wage-only focused negotiations showing they were ready to bargain together after three years of strong member engagement.
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Washington DC’s Farragut Square turned into Sherwood Forest this weekend as 2,000 Robin Hoods rallied for a Wall Street Tax to pay for healthcare, medical research, and education.
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NOTES ON NURSING
Nurses Fight State by State for Minimum Staffing Laws Legislatures in at least seven states and the District of Columbia are trying to answer that question as they debate bills that would require hospitals to have a minimum number of nurses on staff at all times.
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NOTES ON NURSING
Boston Nurses Talk of Caring for Wounded and Families of Marathon Bombing The screams and cries of bloody marathon bombing victims still haunt the nurses who treated them one week ago.
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Standards of Care Campaign Update
House File 588 (HF588) passed the full Minnesota House of Representatives 73-58 on Wednesday.
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Over 70 registrants braved a host of weather-related forces on Thursday to attend the spring education program sponsored by MNA’s Ethics Committee.
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The Standards of Care Act (HF588) passed the full Minnesota House of Representatives 73-58 earlier this afternoon. There was bipartisan support for our bill to require the Department of Health to study the correlation between staffing and patient outcomes and hospitals to report their staffing quarterly to the public.
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NOTES ON NURSING
Nurse Crisis in New York Despite an increase in candidates, the State Nursing Association said hospitals aren’t hiring.
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