Lawmakers counter PiPress editorial against Standards of Care (Page 74)

Minnesota Representative Joe Atkins (DFL-Inver Grove Heights) and Senator Jeff Hayden (DFL-Minneapolis) stick up for nurses and counter the St Paul Pioneer Press editorial against the Standards of Care Act.

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Rep. Joe Atkins (DFL-Inver Grove Heights)

Link to article:

http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_22631041/taking-exception-safe-nurse-patient-staffing-saves-lives

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Minnesota Representative Joe Atkins (DFL-Inver Grove Heights) and Senator Jeff Hayden (DFL-Minneapolis) stick up for nurses and counter the St Paul Pioneer Press editorial against the Standards of Care Act.

Link to article:

http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_22631041/taking-exception-safe-nurse-patient-staffing-saves-lives
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photoMedia all over the state is signaling that MNA has the momentum to achieve a momentous breakthrough for patients in our state. When MNA and legislators Sen. Jeff Hayden and Rep. Joe Atkins announced the introduction of the Standards of Care Act, here’s what WCCO wrote: “the staffing proposal has a strong shot.”
Let’s keep the energy going, nurses. Let’s get Standards of Care in every facility, on every shift, for every patient. The following links should give you goose bumps, and we hope they inspire you to stay active in this campaign.
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Transcript:

There will likely be, probably layoffs of other employees, if a mandated government ratio went into effect.

And, what do you say about those, just the very issues they raise about patient safety because of the kinds of decisions they have to make?

Well hospitals obviously share the concern for patient safety. It is a top priority of hospitals to work on patient safety issues. And that is why we’ve been ranked very high on all the national rankings for hospitals. The Agency for Health Care Quality and Research ranked Minnesota hospitals and our health care delivery system here in Minnesota number one in the country.
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Lawmakers join the Minnesota Nurses Association in advocating for the Standards of Care Act that ensures enough nurses are on duty according to patient needs per unit and per shift and that hospitals will abide by nationally accepted, evidence-based standards.

 

Here’s the link to the media advisory:

http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=b76817cab8adb00ed10718346&id=fea5d555da

 
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HEALTH CARE

New Ulm Wellness Project Shows Healthy Results    New figures from the project show that the share of New Ulm residents with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and high triglycerides has gone down — modestly but measurably. Rates of obesity have also stabilized, alongside a small weight decrease across the population.

No One Fix to Slow Hospital Readmission Epidemic    Nearly 1 in 5 Medicare patients is hospitalized again within a month of going home, and many of those return trips could have been avoided. But readmissions can happen at any age, not just with the over-65 crowd who are counted most closely.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, February 11, 2013: Hope for health in New Ulm; Strike authorized for TC janitors/guards  »

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NOTES ON NURSING

Nurses on the Hill 2013

MNA’S Nurses Day on the Hill 2013 in pictures

Legislators learned a lot about patients at risk in acute care hospitals, and why MNA members support the Governor’s proposed budget and Health Care for All. Revisit MNA’s Blog later today for a video featuring nurse stories.

HEALTH CARE

Boost in Hospice Care By Way of ICU   Yes, more people are getting hospice care — but they are getting it for only a few days and often, only after highly aggressive care near the end of life, including multiple hospitalizations and stays in intensive care units.
… Read more about: MNA NewsScan, February 6, 2013: Nurses lobby for patient care; Good-bye Saturday mail  »

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Linda-Hamilton_1by MNA President Linda Hamilton, RN, BSN

After nine years, hospitals are still reporting 314 adverse events that could have been prevented.

Patients are suffering; families are grieving because systems did not adequately protect them from preventable mistakes, such as falls and the development of pressure ulcers.

Beyond the sobering revelations of Wednesday’s 2013 Adverse Health Event report, nurses at the bedside are deeply concerned that other troubling instances are not reported.   We catch our breath with every “near miss,” every late medication, every discharge with hasty instruction.  We provide a safety net through our continual monitoring, but we see the foundation of that net eroding more each day.
… Read more about: Preventable Adverse Events Are a System Failure  »