On Friday morning, Methodist Hospital returned striking nurses back to work — but it wasn’t a smooth transition for patients or nurses. Nurses filed a number of Concern for Safe Staffing reports as well as internal quality tracking reports about compromises in patient care. Nurses anxious to return to their patients on med-surg floors were held in conference rooms for as long as two and one-half hours and when they finally got to the floor, found that patients hadn’t received morning medications on time and that other patient care needs hadn’t been met in a timely manner.

Mutual Aid is Community Caring
by Becky Nelson, RN, Secretary of the Minnesota Nurses Association
It is no secret that ICE has created chaos and uncertainty in our Twin Cities communities of color.
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