Cities across the state are grappling with what to do about synthetic drugs. Staffers at public shelters in Duluth have caught more than 100 people smoking, snorting, or injecting synthetics in the past year even though city council members have battled with a local head shop to halt sales.
… Read more about: Meeting Friday to battle Synthetic Drug Problem »
NOTES ON NURSING
In Australia, Nurses Fight for Patient Ratios “You’re less likely to have the nursing hours you need the further you are from the city,” Miss Telfer said.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, June 3, 2013: RN concern for patient safety is worldwide »
NOTES ON NURSING
MNA OpED: Law Change Will Benefit Patients (originally published in the New Ulm Journal) Everyone who’s a patient in a hospital, who might be a patient in a hospital, or who cares about somebody in a hospital will be grateful that the Staffing Plan Disclosure Act was signed into law on May 9.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, May 29, 2013: »
Originally posted in the New Ulm Journal: http://www.nujournal.com/page/content.detail/id/534962/Law-change-will-benefit-patients.html?nav=5004
Everyone who’s a patient in a hospital, who might be a patient in a hospital, or who cares about somebody in a hospital will be grateful that the Staffing Plan Disclosure Act was signed into law on May 9.
… Read more about: Editorial: Law change will benefit patients »
NOTES ON NURSING
Expert Affirms Nurses’s Warnings About Electronic Health Records System At a meeting of the Marin Healthcare District board on May 14, a group of Marin General nurses told the board problems with the new computer system were diverting them from their patients and causing errors, such as sending orders to the wrong patients.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, May 28, 2013: Nurses warn about electronic health system; The Obamacare shock »
Put Nurses in the Spotlight This Summer
Attention MNA Members
The summer months offer a great opportunity for nurses to enhance our visibility as an organization and a profession.
… Read more about: Parades, Fairs, Festivals and Nurses »
470 Registered Nurses at Mankato Mayo entered contract negotiations today as a united group determined to address troubling staffing issues at the hospital that members believe put patients at risk.
… Read more about: Mankato Nurses Boldly Begin Negotiations with Community Utmost in Mind »
NOTES ON NURSING
More Proof: Heart Patients Survive with Better Nurse Staffing “This finding suggests that the correlation between cardiac arrest incidence and case survival was partly attributable to the hospital factors in the model,” the authors write.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, May 22, 2013: More proof- heart patients survive with better nurse staffing »
The hand-wringing and the vote-counting are over.
Minnesota finally has a budget that protects the middle class, invests in our future, and protects the health of seniors.
… Read more about: Governor and legislative leaders rebalance the budget »
HEALTH CARE
Is the Future of American Health Care in Oregon? “The governor has a notion that you can move away from medical billing and towards a more flexible approach to health-care spending that makes more sense for the community,” John McConnell, a health economist at Oregon Health and Science University, is telling me.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, May 20, 2013: MN health care innovation cuts costs for the poor; poverty up in the suburbs »
Health and Human Services
As we near the end of the session, the major budget bills are nearing completion.
… Read more about: MNA Legislative Update, May 17, 2013 »
NOTES ON NURSING
Federal Report Shows Wide Disparity in Nursing Supply The U.S. Nursing Workforce Report issued by the Health Resources and Services Administration National Center for Health Workforce Analysis predicts continuing shortages as more than 500,000 RNs are expected to retire within the next seven years.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, May 15, 2013: RN supply/demand gap to be 1.2M by 2020 »