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LAWMAKERS AGREE PATIENTS NEED STANDARDS OF CARE
Standards of Care Act passes House Committee
(St Paul) – February 21, 2013- The Standards of Care Act passed the Minnesota Labor, Workplace and Regulated Industries Committee, moving the bill that sets staffing levels for hospitals to ensure safe patient care.
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Minnesota Representative Joe Atkins (DFL-Inver Grove Heights) and Senator Jeff Hayden (DFL-Minneapolis) stick up for nurses and counter the St Paul Pioneer Press editorial against the Standards of Care Act.
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NOTES ON NURSING
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Sleepy Eye Nurses Vote For Union Representation with Minnesota Nurses Association24 registered and licensed practical nurses at Sleepy Eye Medical Center have the power of 20,000 additional voices at their workplace with today’s decision to join the Minnesota Nurses Association.
Media all over the state is signaling that MNA has the momentum to achieve a momentous breakthrough for patients in our state.
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Three minutes from our Wednesday, February 13, press conference introducing the Standards of Care Act.
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Transcript:
There will likely be, probably layoffs of other employees, if a mandated government ratio went into effect.
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Lawmakers join the Minnesota Nurses Association in advocating for the Standards of Care Act that ensures enough nurses are on duty according to patient needs per unit and per shift and that hospitals will abide by nationally accepted, evidence-based standards.
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HEALTH CARE
New Ulm Wellness Project Shows Healthy Results New figures from the project show that the share of New Ulm residents with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and high triglycerides has gone down — modestly but measurably.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, February 11, 2013: Hope for health in New Ulm; Strike authorized for TC janitors/guards »
Nurses at the Capitol
MNA nurses flooded the Capitol on Tuesday, bringing the message that patients are at risk in Minnesota hospitals, and we must have a statewide standard of care to ensure patients get the nursing care they deserve.
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200 nurses with the Minnesota Nurses Association union descend on the State Capitol to advocate for patients and the Standards of Care Act, which would protect all those who are hospitalized by establishing standards for staff care.
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NOTES ON NURSING
MNA’S Nurses Day on the Hill 2013 in pictures
Legislators learned a lot about patients at risk in acute care hospitals, and why MNA members support the Governor’s proposed budget and Health Care for All.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, February 6, 2013: Nurses lobby for patient care; Good-bye Saturday mail »