NOTES ON NURSING
Nurses Top Gallup Ethics and Honesty Poll for 12th Time in 13 Years. Nurses’ high rating this year is not unexpected; they have scored at the top of all professions every year since they were first included in the list in 1999 — apart from 2001, when Gallup asked about “firefighters” on a one-time basis after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Moms, Nurses Plead to Keep Birthing Center “Ironically, we were so busy with three births so far today, many of the nurses from the birthing center who were going to speak here today are unable to make it,” Sussman said as he stood in his scrubs, ready to return to the hospital.
HEALTH CARE
Supreme Court Skeptical of Hospital Claims A majority of Supreme Court justices on Tuesday sounded skeptical of a suit brought by hospitals to reopen Medicare claims as much as 25 years old because of calculations that were found to have underpaid them.
LABOR NEWS
Minnesotal Projects $1.1B Budget Deficit Minnesota faces a budget
shortfall of $1.1 billion for the next two years as Democrats prepare to take over the Legislature next month.