You are browsing the archive for Nurses.

Mom’s a nurse and so am I

May 10, 2012 in Alexandria Echo Press

There’s a special group of women working at Douglas County Hospital they’re mothers and daughters working together and they’re all nurses.
This week is National Nurses Week and it’s also nearly Mother’s Day a wonderful opportunity to cast the spotlight on six mother-daughter pairs who have chosen the nursing profession. Continue Reading

Surgery patient miffed that nurse accused of stealing painkiller gets probation

September 2, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald

“I was the victim in this case, I was on a table, vulnerable,” said the patient, Larry V. King, a deputy with the Carver County (Minn.) Sheriff’s Office, who said he was angry that former Twin Cities nurse Sarah May Casareto received only probation. “I can’t describe the experience I went through in a courtroom because I can’t use the language to describe the agony I went through.” Continue Reading

Nurses plan informational picketing in Bemidji, Minn.

August 5, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald

Nurses plan to conduct informational picketing outside a Bemidji hospital where their contract expired nearly six months ago. Continue Reading

Nurses at Bemidji hospital reject contract offer

July 29, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald

The Minnesota Nurses Association represents 230 RNs at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center. The hospital says it’s open to further negotiations and will be fully operational during contract talks. Continue Reading

First nursing pins awarded by fledgling Mayville State program

July 14, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald

Mayville State University’s fledgling nurse-training program took flight today when its first five students received their licensed practical nurse pins. Continue Reading

Unmasking the Faribault, Minn., suicide nurse

May 9, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald

A chain of events led to a prosecution that attracted international attention and ended in Wednesday’s sentencing of Melchert-Dinkel, 48, a former nurse from Faribault, Minn., to a year in jail for assisting two suicides of people from other countries. Continue Reading

Hibbing, Minn., nurses set 3-day strike

April 22, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald

Nurses have scheduled a three-day strike next month at the Range Regional Health Services hospital in Hibbing. Continue Reading

Minnesota Senate to review ethics complaint against GOPer

February 9, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald

The Minnesota Senate’s Subcommittee on Ethical Conduct will review a complaint by several Democratic senators over a Republican colleague’s e-mail saying he wouldn’t meet with his election rival’s supporters. Continue Reading&

Rice Hospital RNs hold rally as mediation talks begin today

January 21, 2011 in West Central Tribune

WILLMAR Registered nurses at Rice Memorial Hospital wore red T-shirts and held handmade signs in a show of solidarity this morning as mediation got under way between hospital management and the nurses’ bargaining unit. Continue Reading

Minnesota wins praise for improved highway safety

November 18, 2010 in Grand Forks Herald

Minnesota has made the greatest progress of any state in enacting laws aimed at making roads safer, according to a report Wednesday by the Emergency Nurses Association.
Continue Reading