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Press Release-Lawmakers Agree patients need Standards of Care

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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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February 21, 2013

Lawmakers counter PiPress editorial against Standards of Care

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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February 21, 2013

MNA NewsScan, February 20, 2013: Sleepy Eye Nurses Join MNA

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.

February 20, 2013

MNA Launches Standards of Care Campaign

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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February 15, 2013

Standards of Care Press Conference highlights

Three minutes from our Wednesday, February 13, press conference introducing the Standards of Care Act.
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February 14, 2013

MHA’s response to the Standards of Care Act

Transcript:

There will likely be, probably layoffs of other employees, if a mandated government ratio went into effect.
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February 14, 2013

Standards of Care Act introduced this Wednesday at the Capitol

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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February 12, 2013

MNA NewsScan, February 11, 2013: Hope for health in New Ulm; Strike authorized for TC janitors/guards

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.
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February 11, 2013

MNA Legislative Update, February 8, 2013

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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February 8, 2013

MNA Day on the Hill 2013

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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February 7, 2013

MNA NewsScan, February 6, 2013: Nurses lobby for patient care; Good-bye Saturday mail

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.
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February 6, 2013

MNA NewsScan, February 4, 2013: On forced flu shots; Staffing “dangerously low” in Britain too

NOTES ON NURSING

Forced Flu Shots Not the Cure Too many hospitals, whose mantra is profits, not patient safety, favor forced vaccinations while cutting nursing or housekeeping staff, and denying paid sick leave, as most industrialized nations ensure.
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February 4, 2013