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NOTES ON NURSING
Nurses’ Rx for Healing – A Robin Hood Tax Nurses are on the streets throughout the world today to demand a small Robin Hood tax on Wall Street transactions.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, June 19, 2012: Robin Hood Tax Day; underemployed & underpaid »
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HEALTH CARE
Health Cost Relief Only Temporary If health care spending isn’t brought in line with overall economic growth, Americans will eventually face agonizing choices between paying medical bills and funding other priorities such as education and infrastructure.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, June 14, 2012: No unions = huge wage gap; Mich. nurses deliver big message to state »
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HEALTH CARE
Health Care Costs Causing More Americans to Go Without Needed Care Health care costs are weighing on Americans’ minds — and sapping their budgets, according to a new survey that shows that within the last year, more than half of people needing medical care didn’t get it because of the expense.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, June 12, 2012: American exceptionalism? Not when it comes to HC; Sutter RNs strike update »
NOTES ON NURSING
Can Patient Photos Help Reduce Error? Putting children’s photos in their electronic hospital charts could help reduce one type of medical error, a study published Monday suggests.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, June 5, 2012: Another chance to get health care right? Labor woes at Belmont »
Senator Al Franken today held a U.S. Senate field hearing on the coercive hospital debt collection tactics of Chicago-based Accretive Health, who have operated at North Memorial and Fairview health care systems in Minnesota.
NURSES
Note: Senate Media is live streaming this event. Here’s the link if you have Windows
MNA we will post our own video later today.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, May 30, 2012: Video of Franken Hearing on Debt Collection; Fake Innovation Wastes HC $$ »
Minnesota Nurse Jean Ross has been asked by Sen. Al Franken to testify at a U.S. Senate field hearing inside the Minnesota State Capitol. The hearing is being conducted to examine if current federal laws effectively protect patients’ access to care and privacy.
Attention MNA Nurses
Hospitals are making record profits despite the economic downturn. One alarming tactic that’s becoming more common is hospital debt collectors posing as health care staff to get payment from patients, sometimes before they’ve ever been treated.
… Read more about: Sen. Franken To Hold Hearing Related to Debt Collection Tactics »
NURSES, LABOR, HEALTH CARE
Watch live as nurses lead an international call for the Robin Hood Tax that will heal the world.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, May 18, 2012: RNs leading HUGE march in Chicago to heal the world »
Nursing
Board of Nursing Seeking to Expand LPN Scope – Listening Sessions Today Bethel University, 1:00 p.m.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, May 17, 2012 – Practice scope issues discussed TODAY; SEIU tentative agreement; Docs Ditch Rx Pads »
Notes on Nursing
National Nurse Licensure is DEAD (for now). The House adjourned for the session in the wee hours of this morning, WITHOUT taking a final vote on the National Nurse Licensure Compact.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, May 10, 2012: Natl Nurse Licensure Dead; Nurses Will March in Chicago; HC Execs Make $1M A Year »
