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.NURSING FLASH
ANA\C on Nurse.org Podcast
ANA\C
Dr. Marketa Houskova DNP, MAIA, BA, RN, Executive Director of the American Nurses Association of California joins Nurse Alice in this episode to talk about the role of ANA\C, the Board of Registered Nursing, and how nursing being more familiar with policy and politics is the only way to really advance the profession.
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American Nurse Journal — Nurse leaders and advocacy
American Nurse Journal
Author: Dr. Marketa Houskova, DNP, MAIA, BS, RN, Executive Director of the American Nurses Association of California.
Nursing leadership means different things to different nurses. As executive director of
the American Nurses Association\California (ANA\C), my leadership is focused on statewide policy, legislation, and regulation advocacy via coalition, partnership, and consensus building.
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The Future Is Now: Nurses Advancing Health Equity Conference
ANA\C
April 24, 2022 | Sheraton Grand Sacramento | 1230 J St. Sacramento, CA 95814
About the Event
54.
Fifty-four.
That's the number of recommendations the Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030 published. But how will nurses take on these recommendations to advance health equity in California? This year, our annual conference focuses on actions nurses can take to improve health equity in their institution, their communities, and within their profession.
Event Schedule and Presenter Announcement to follow.
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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
'A slap in the face': Nurses told to use vacation and sick days to stay home if they test positive
NBC News
Early in the pandemic, nurses were celebrated as heroes, with nightly symphonies of clapping or banging pots and pans. Now, many are being asked to go into work despite positive COVID tests — or they say they are being told they must use their vacation and sick days to stay home when they contract the coronavirus.“You’re talking about a group of people who sat at bedsides — not one a night, multiple, because we were consistently losing people. We were holding the iPads as people said their last goodbyes,” said Ana Bergeron, a registered nurse who is the president of a local union affiliate. “I can’t tell you how sick it makes me now being called a hero, because that’s not how we’re being treated by our employers.”
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The 12-month Online RN-BSN program provides students, who are current RNs, the opportunity for educational and professional advancement. This program is designed to meet the needs of working registered nurses in providing them new perspectives by learning from other nurses. Students will be able to apply real-world solutions in their current positions immediately.
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Gallup 2021: Nurses continue their reign as America's most trusted professionals
Daily Nurse
“I want to congratulate every nurse across the nation for earning this well-deserved recognition,” said ANA President Ernest Grant, PHD, RN, FAAN. “The fact that this is the 20th year in a row that the American public has voted nurses #1 is a testament to your consistent professionalism, despite the challenges of the persistent pandemic. We are all indebted to you and will continue to acknowledge and honor your courage, commitment, and expertise during the COVID-19 pandemic and well beyond.”
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Apply to Sacramento’s #1 hospital! Joining the UC Davis Health team connects you to a world-class university medical center that fosters collaboration and provides ongoing learning for all health care professionals. UC Davis Health offers excellent compensation and benefits, including competitive insurance plans, holidays, paid vacation/sick leave, retirement benefits and more.
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Johns Hopkins Medicine to reassign non-clinical employees to patient care support roles amid staffing shortages
Baltimore Fishbowl
In response to staffing shortages and the recent surge in COVID-19 cases, non-clinical employees at Johns Hopkins Medicine will be reassigned to take on patient care support roles, according to an email from Robert Kasdin, senior vice president and chief operating officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine, to all staff. Only employees who volunteer to work in a COVID-19 ward will be assigned there, the email says, and staff members can provide their preferred reassignment location, dates, and times.
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Infection preventionists can only lend a shoulder to overworked nurses
Infection Control Today
Nurses feel underappreciated and overused by hospital systems. That’s the main message recently when members of National Nurses United (NNU), a labor union boasting 175,000 members nationwide, staged protests across 11 states. Bonnie Castillo, RN, NNU executive director, said in a statement that “the working conditions that our employers and the federal government are telling nurses and health care workers to endure are both grossly unfair and unsustainable... We need permanent protections based on science, and we need them now because when nurses and health care workers aren’t safe, we cannot keep our patients safe.”
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At NorthBay Healthcare, we are devoted to creating an environment that nurtures and nourishes a commitment to compassionate care, and just as importantly, allows you to flourish. So join us, and be part of an incredible community of dedicated professionals who share the same passion to provide exceptional patient care.
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California could become first U.S. state to offer universal health care to residents
The Guardian
The bills to create and fund universal health care face opposition from powerful lobbies for doctors and insurance companies. California is considering creating the first government-funded, universal health care system in the U.S. for state residents. The proposal, which lawmakers will begin debating shortly, would adopt a single-payer health care system that would replace the need for private insurance plans.
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To COVID-19 war nurses
American Nurse
From this Iraq war nurse to all of you COVID-19 war nurses: I see you.
I see your utter exhaustion from long days and extra shifts.
I see your despair that the stream of casualties seems endless.
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The UGT2A1/UGT2A2 locus is associated with COVID-19-related loss of smell or taste
STAT
Loss of sense of smell (anosmia) or taste (ageusia) are distinctive symptoms of COVID-19 and are among the earliest and most often reported indicators of the acute phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection. It is notable from other viral symptoms in its sudden onset and the absence of mucosal blockage. While a large fraction of COVID-19 patients report loss of smell or taste, the underlying mechanism is unclear.
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L.A. nurses protest COVID-positive health care workers being allowed back to work without isolation
KTLA
A group of nurses gathered in downtown Los Angeles recently to speak out against new California state guidance that lets coronavirus-positive health care workers return to work amid the staffing shortages hitting hospitals. The California Department of Public Health issued new guidance over the weekend that lets health care workers who test positive for the virus or are exposed to it return to work immediately — without isolation and without testing — if they are asymptomatic and wearing N95 masks. State officials said the changes, in place through Feb. 1, were made “due to the critical staffing shortages currently being experienced across the healthcare continuum because of the rise in the Omicron variant.”
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Medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorders: Implications for surgical patients
American Nurse
Perioperative considerations nurses need to know for elective surgery.
• Nursing care requires familiarization with medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorders, as well as adjuvant analgesia for safe post-operative pain management for these patients.
• Nurses must understand the interactions/precautions of MAT in all phases of perioperative care.
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Medicare plans to restrict access to controversial, pricey Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm to patients in clinical trials
STAT
The proposed move would likely mean some patients will not be able to access the Biogen drug, which is the first Alzheimer’s treatment approved in nearly two decades. Since it got the green light this summer, doctors and scientists have raised questions about whether it actually works, government watchdogs have begun investigating whether the Food and Drug Administration followed proper procedure to approve it, and policy experts have questioned whether it is effective enough to justify its hefty price tag.
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Beyond the pandemic: Be your own nurse
American Nurse
Relieve stress with a self-care plan. Nursing practice in the United States is predominantly patient- and family-centered, no matter the care setting, and we’re accustomed to having the resources we need, even when faced with rapid practice changes. COVID-19 has changed that. Hundreds of thousands of people have gotten sick, including our colleagues, our own families, and ourselves. Because the virus doesn’t have a clear trajectory, we shifted quickly from a patient-centric to a public health focus (the most good for the most people), but resources have been compromised, including supply lines and logistics, jobs, schools, the economy, and leadership at all levels.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
School nurses feel voiceless, overworked amid debate over changing COVID guidelines
Newsweek
The debate over who knows what's best when it comes to protecting kids during a pandemic continues to be waged by parents and school districts across the nation. But as voices on both sides have continued to grow louder and louder, those who specialize in school public health say they haven't been given a chance to be heard.
While families and district officials have often had few doubts about handing student health care matters over to school nurses, the pandemic — alongside the barrage of information constantly emerging about the coronavirus — has all but stripped school nurses of their expert status.
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Justices block broad worker vaccine requirement, allow health worker mandate to proceed
News-Medical
The Supreme Court recently blocked a key Biden administration COVID-19 initiative — putting a stop, for now, to a rule requiring businesses with more than 100 workers to either mandate that employees be vaccinated against COVID or wear masks and undergo weekly testing. The rule, which covers an estimated 80 million workers, took effect recently.
At the same time, however, the justices said that a separate rule requiring COVID vaccines for an estimated 10 million health workers at facilities that receive funding from Medicare and Medicaid could go forward. The justices removed a temporary halt imposed by a lower court late last year that affected health care facilities in half the states.
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Real-world, rapid COVID-19 testing shows few false positives
HealthDay News via Medical Xpress
In a Canadian employer screening program, the overall rate of false-positive results using rapid antigen test screens for SARS-CoV-2 is very low, according to a research letter published online recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "The results demonstrate the importance of having a comprehensive data system to quickly identify potential issues," the authors write. "With the ability to identify batch issues within 24 hours, workers could return to work, problematic test batches could be discarded, and the public health authorities and manufacturer could be informed."
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For the first time, U.S. faces a blood shortage crisis
Healio
The American Red Cross has declared, for the first time, a national blood crisis.
Amid National Blood Donor Month, the U.S. is facing its worst blood shortage in over a decade, according to a press release. Meanwhile, the demand for blood from hospitals and surgery centers is “as high as it’s ever been,” Baia Lasky, MD, the medical director of the American Red Cross, told Healio.
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Even poorly matched flu vaccines protects children from serious illness, study shows
Healio
A new study reinforced that influenza vaccination protects children from serious illness even when vaccines are a poor match for circulating viruses.
The study’s authors found that vaccination during the 2019-2020 season was 63% effective overall against critical influenza among children. Vaccination reduced the risk for severe influenza among children by 78% against influenza A viruses that matched the vaccine viruses, by 47% against mismatched influenza A viruses, and by 75% against mismatched influenza B-Victoria viruses, they reported.
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Could the 'mono' virus help trigger multiple sclerosis?
HealthDay News
For years, researchers have suspected that the Epstein-Barr virus, best known for causing mononucleois, might also play a role in triggering multiple sclerosis. Now a new study strengthens the case.
The study, of more than 10 million U.S. military personnel, found the risk of developing multiple sclerosis shot up 32-fold after infection with Epstein-Barr.
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HPV vaccines could shift rates of many cancers, not only cervical
Medscape
The recent headline news about dramatic reductions in cervical cancer among young women as a result of vaccinating against human papillomavirus does not tell the whole story of how vaccination could also have an impact on many other cancer types.
It is "really important" to understand that "with all that good news about cervical cancer rates dropping dramatically… HPV is also implicated in a wide range of cancers," Daniel Kelly, RN, PhD, co-Chair of the HPV Action Network of the European Cancer Organisation, told Medscape Medical News.
HPV is also associated with anal, penile, vaginal, vulval, and oropharyngeal cancers, rates of which have been increasing in recent years.
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Rural, urban disparities seen for quality of home health care
HealthDay News
There are significant and persistent differences in quality of care between rural and urban home health agencies, according to a study published online recently in the Journal of Rural Health. The researchers found that rural agencies were less likely to be for-profit and accredited and were more likely to be hospital-based, serve both Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and have hospice programs. There was consistent outperformance by rural agencies on timely initiation of care over time, while urban agencies consistently outperformed on hospitalization and emergency department visits over time. Over time, these gaps between rural and urban agencies were steady, with the exception of the gap in hospitalization, which slightly narrowed.
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Not much new in new clinical guidelines for tick-borne illness
Medscape
The recently published "Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Tick-Borne Illness," from the Wilderness Medical Society, are a good compilation of treatment suggestions but are not, in fact, new recommendations, lead author Benjamin Ho, MD, of Southern Wisconsin Emergency Associates, in Janesville, WI, acknowledged in an interview with Medscape Medical News.
Ho emphasized that the focus of the report was on "practitioners who practice in resource-limited settings" and are "the group's way of solidifying a...standard of practice" for such physicians.
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Intervention leads to increase in primary care screenings for older adults
Regenstrief Institute via EurekAlert!
Falls and dementia are some of the most common syndromes affecting the health of older adults, but many primary care physicians are not specifically trained to screen for them. The Indiana Geriatrics Education and Training Center created a successful intervention combining education and workflow that increased primary care screenings for these geriatric conditions.
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