MNA NewsScan, January 16, 2013: Where’s the love from NIH for RNs?
NOTES ON NURSING
Nursing Receives Unproportionately Low Percentage of NIH Budget Specifically, nurses get 0.75% of the US National Institutes of Health budget, even though nurses make up the majority of health professionals in the US.
Nurse-Led Recycling Initiative Reduces OR Waste Pallotta and her OR colleagues were spurred to action when they read a study that found a large proportion of OR products could be recycled. What followed was a nurse-driven, evidence-based study and analysis of HackensackUMC’s practices and how they could be altered.
LABOR UPDATES
MnSCU, 4-year Faculty Reach Contract Agreement The agreement includes a 2.2 percent pay raise, retroactive to last fall, said Nancy Black, president of the Inter Faculty Organization.
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