Minnesota Nurses

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

• U.S. Patients Report Inferior Care: Not only are sick Americans facing serious financial problems from high healthcare costs (43 percent), but many are experiencing problems with healthcare quality, according to a new poll released yesterday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, NPR and the Harvard School of Public Health.
• CEOs Raking in the $$$: The healthcare industry saw the largest increases in executive pay out of all sectors, according to a Wall Street Journal and Hay Group CEO compensation survey.

Labor Updates

• MNA RN on CNN: MNA RN Jennifer Michelson talked Live with CNN from the streets of Chicago during the 2012 Staff Nurse Assembly. Take a look:

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

• “Money Hungry” Tactics: The Star Tribune pulls the curtain back even further on Fairview’s decision to use debt collectors in the ER.
• Hold Up! New study finds that revenue-driven surgery and poor planning often ends up sending patients home too early.

Labor Updates

• SEIU Takes Strike Vote: SEIU Healthcare Minnesota members voted overwhelmingly this week to authorize a 2-5 day strike. More than 3,500 workers at eight different Twin Cities hospitals are involved in ongoing contract negotiations.
• Crow Wing County Decision Expected Soon: Several Labor Unions – including MNA – are waiting on a ruling from a judge regarding an Unfair Labor Practice charge filed against Crow Wing County officials.
• “They Couldn’t Shut Us Down”: Musician Tom Morello tells Rolling Stone that Friday’s National Nurses United rally in Chicago is back on track because “We [the people] stood up.”

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

• Patient Safety and Alphabet Soup: RN talks about advocating for patient safety and taking effective action within a hospital system’s framework of “alphabet soup” committees, etc.

Notes on Nursing

• Vietnam and Minnesota RNs: Book “Sisterhood of War” chronicles involvement of Minnesota nurses who served during the Vietnam War.

Labor Updates

• Chicago Sun-Times: Nurses want to see a “Robin Hood Tax” on Wall Street trades in order to help the sick.
• Bill Moyers Interviews NNU’s RoseAnn DeMoro: Legendary journalist and broadcaster Bill Moyers sat down over the weekend with National Nurses United’s Executive Director, RoseAnn DeMoro, to talk about some of the key facets of NNU’s Main Street Contract For America and more. Watch the video below:

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

• Debt Collectors in the ER? Story Continues: Under fire, Accretive to release more data today.

Notes on Nursing

• Nursing Shortage: Myth or Reality? Minnesota Public Radio explores the issue. Jobs appear to be in short supply now, but experts still predict a nursing shortage of nearly 1 million by 2020.

Labor Updates

• Help “Stamp Out” Hunger: National Association of Letter Carriers Union’s 20th annual campaign makes it easy to donate nonperishable food items to those in need.
• Crow Wing County Employees File Suit: Workers – including nurses - are suing the county, charging an unfair labor practice charge related to pay increases.