Minnesota nursing homes now have enough flu vaccine.(NEWS) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (11/6/2004)
...factory. Carter, of the nursing home association, said...had some doubts" that Minnesota's nursing homes would be able to...her team on "a great job." She said the Health...have been confirmed in Minnesota. "We've got a slow...

Nursing Shortage Eases at Minnesota Hospitals -- for Now. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (7/14/2003)
...uit her part-time nursing job with an agency and took...lost by spouses whose jobs have been downsized...also are doing a better job of keeping the nurses...officials are training nursing supervisors to be better...demographics," said Minnesota Hospital Association...

Minnesota Nursing Crisis Continues. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (8/8/2002)
...Business News Aug. 8--Minnesota hospitals continue to...Vollmuth, president of the Minnesota Nurses Association...an attempt to make the job more attractive and has...promotional campaigns for the nursing profession. In addition, hospitals and nursing schools are joining forces...

Nurse shortage pinches; An estimated 1,700 nursing jobs are unfilled in Minnesota. The shortage has stressed the health care industry, forcing the closure of homes for the disabled and frustrating foreign nurses recruited to work here.(NEWS) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (9/27/2000)
...for more than a year. With nursing jobs going begging, she decided...the firm's director of nursing, arranged to bring three Korean...response," she said. In Minnesota, about 1,700 nursing jobs are empty, according...

Minna Freiberg was a role model for nurses; She led the Minnesota Nurses Association and was a director of nursing at the former Ramsey Hospital.(NEWS)(Obituary) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (10/17/2009)
...and then took a job at St. Joseph Hospital...room supervisor and nursing instructor. After...master's degree in nursing administration from the University of Minnesota in 1964, she was promoted to director of nursing and director of the...

MN:-nurse, tired of putting up with guff, quits: leaving 'without cause'--U.I. benefits denied.(Minnesota, unemployment insurance, Mission Farms Nursing Home Inc.) Nursing Law's Regan Report (7/1/2006)
...eight-month period her nursing supervisor, Heidi Larsen, drove her to quit her job. Nurse Humenik identified...determined that most of the nursing staff was not properly...also suggested that the nursing home was inappropriately...The Court of Appeals of Minnesota affirmed the decisions...

Training rules hamper nursing homes; Tightened federal rules for "feeding assistants" in neighboring states could prolong a worker shortage in Minnesota.(NEWS) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (2/17/2001)
...an attempt by Minnesota to ease a shortage of nursing-home workers...or lose their jobs. About 450 North...letters the 88 nursing homes received...thousand other non-nursing workers at the...a proposal in Minnesota - attempted unsuccessfully...

No zoo, no driving test, National Guard nursing elderly in Minnesota strike.(Knight Ridder Newspapers) Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service (10/1/2001)
...and 920 members of the Minnesota National Guard to try...Employees, and the Minnesota Association of Professional...day. _Members of the Minnesota National Guard, called...performing the duties of nursing assistants. Senate...Guard to take over the jobs of striking workers...where workers ...

Nursing-home understaffing is chronic; Shortage of aides is keeping beds empty - and seniors waiting The work is physically and emotionally demanding, the pay modest, which explains the nursing-home crisis across Minnesota.(NEWS) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (2/3/1997)
...It's a wonderful job, but some people say...sandwiched her 14 years as a nursing assistant at St. Luke...those most likely to need nursing-home care - will soar...230. "More and more nursing homes say they've got...a spokesman for the Minnesota Health and Housing Alliance...