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.NURSING FLASH
The 2021 American Nurses Association\California Elections is open. Go Vote!
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The slate is most impressive, and the Ballot Committee commends all who expressed interest in elevating their engagement with ANA\C.
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Please give each of the accomplished and engaged candidates your fullest consideration as we look to support all nurses and those in our care.
A big thank you to Josh, Trarina and Katarina for serving on the Ballot Committee.
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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
Governor Newsom formally appoints Alex Padilla to the U.S. Senate and nominates Dr. Shirley Weber as Secretary of State
California Governor
As Americans celebrate the legacy of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his work to expand voting rights and representation, Governor Gavin Newsom recently formally submitted the appointment of Alex Padilla to become California’s first Latino U.S. Senator and the nomination of Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber to become the state’s first African American Secretary of State. The announcement comes as Kamala Harris formally resigned her position as U.S. Senator this morning as she prepares to make history by becoming the first African American and woman to become Vice President of the United States when she is inaugurated alongside President-elect Joe Biden.
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California hospital pays employees $300 to get COVID-19 vaccine
CBS Sacramento
We’ve already seen many hesitating before vaccinating. Even some frontline workers are resisting it. That’s what prompted local hospital officials to come up with the idea to pay their workers to get the shots. When the COVID-19 vaccine became available, Dean Berghorst didn’t hesitate to roll up his sleeve.
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Nurse who vaccinated president-elect Joe Biden says, 'it was an honor'
ANA\California
Director of Employee Health Services at Christiana Hospital in Delaware, Tabe Mase, FNP-C, MSN, MJ, CHC, COHN-S, sat down with Nurse Alice of Nurse.org on our digital livestream, Nurse News Now, to share her experience of vaccinating Biden and her views on why nurses are so vital to leading and paving the way in the vaccination efforts against the novel coronavirus.
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Take your career to the next level when you complete the RN to BSN degree program at Mount Saint Mary's University. Designed for working nurse professionals, our 100% online program lets you learn on your own schedule. To attend an information session or learn more, click here.
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Cooling vests may ease clinicians' PPE heat strain
Medscape
Nurses who wear cooling vests under their PPE feel less burdened by heat during their shifts, a new study finds. An analysis of data from 17 nurses who wore a cooling vest under their PPE on one day and PPE only on another found that the vests led to a slight improvement in body temperature but a much bigger improvement in the sensation of being too hot, according to the report published in Temperature.
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CVS and Walgreens under fire for slow pace of vaccination in nursing homes
Kaiser Health News
As of Jan. 14, more than 4.7 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID vaccines had been allocated to the federal pharmacy partnership, which has deputized pharmacy teams from Walgreens and CVS to vaccinate nursing home residents and workers. Since the program started in some states on Dec. 21, 2020, however, they have administered about one-quarter of the doses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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'The Bedside Report' webinar
The Nurses Pub
"The Bedside Report" is a webinar for anyone wanting to gain insight about what's up in the nursing world. During our one-hour "Bedside Report," feel free to engage with a panel of elite professionals and mentors with various backgrounds and specialties. Get your most taxing questions answered as well as interact with professionals with a wealth of expertise! You will have the opportunity to ask ANYTHING and get the answers you always needed, so come ready with your questions!
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Promoted by PulseCheck
What follows the chaos of a code blue event, the acquisition, and handling of the code blue records, is crucial to managing the overall event and follow-up. Many nurses are still charting on slips of paper, the back gloves, or on their scrubs. An article from the Journal of Emergency Medicine found that electronic code blue documentation solutions reduce omission errors by 28% and redundant entries by 36% compared to paper recorders. But, how to do this with traditional desktop-based systems? A mobile, tablet-based system is essential to eliminate lost records and avoid transcription errors. Click below to learn more.
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The fight against healthcare turnover — a 5-chapter guide to improve retention and staff hard-to-fill positions
Becker's Hospital Review
Since 2015, the average hospital has turned over 89% of its workforce, according to an analysis of industry data conducted by DailyPay. Market analysts say that healthcare's turnover is second worst, only to hospitality. This guide offers an overview of retention patterns in healthcare and how hospitals can staff the hardest positions to fill in healthcare and fight turnover.
Read the guide to learn:
• How you can improve attrition in the healthcare industry
• The true cost of turnover and staffing gaps
• An overview of a payment tool designed to fight turnover
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ANA COVID-19 Video Education series | Racial Disparities and COVID-19
ANA

Racial Disparities and COVID-19 Free for all nurses. No registration required. View immediately.
Racial Health Disparities are not new to the U.S. healthcare system. But now more than ever, you can have a direct and lifesaving impact on the recognition, care and treatment, and recovery from COVID-19 in vulnerable populations. Access below.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
Managers can improve nurse loneliness
Oncology Nursing News
Even though nurses may be around people all day — from colleagues to patients — they may still feel lonely, which could lead to job dissatisfaction, compromised patient care, and a high turnover rate among nurses, according to recent research published in the Journal of Nursing Management.
Thankfully, there are steps that nurse managers can take that may decrease feelings of loneliness, though there is still more research that is needed on the topic.
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Nurse-led intervention increases advanced care planning discussions
Healio
A nurse navigator-led intervention called ACPWise that was incorporated into an electronic health record interface increased the frequency of advanced care planning discussions in primary care, data show.
Previous research has shown that advanced care planning increases “goal-concordant care” and decreases hospitalizations, in-hospital mortality and healthcare costs, according to researchers. ACPWise was designed to streamline the process for documenting conversations about ACP to decrease primary care physicians’ workflow, a study author told Healio Primary Care.
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U.S. COVID-19 vaccine rollout nears 1 million doses per day
HealthDay News via Medical Xpress
One month after the United States began what has become a troubled rollout of a national COVID vaccination campaign, the effort is finally gathering real steam.
Close to a million doses — over 951,000, to be more exact — made their way into the arms of Americans in the past 24 hours, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Jan. 13. That's the largest number of shots given in one day since the rollout began and a big jump from the previous day, when just under 340,000 doses were given, CBS News reported.
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Study: Minorities should be designated vulnerable to COVID
Medical Xpress
Researchers writing in a British Medical Journal are recommending that ethnic minorities should be considered "extremely vulnerable" to COVID-19, a distinction that could give groups hard-hit by the pandemic earlier access to potentially life-saving vaccines.
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What happened to the flu this year?
HealthDay News
The United States has far fewer flu cases than normal, and experts say it's probably due to measures people are taking to protect themselves from COVID-19.
Flu season usually peaks between December and February. Influenza typically causes about 45 million illnesses, 810,000 hospitalizations and 61,000 deaths in the United States each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But so far this flu season, there have been just 925 reported cases of the flu nationwide.
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Scientists artificially infect mosquitoes with human malaria to advance treatment
University of Witwatersrand via ScienceDaily
Scientists have identified novel antiplasmodial lead compounds for mass drug administration and vector control to eliminate malaria. Antiplasmodial lead compounds are those that counter parasites of the genus Plasmodium, which is the parasite that infects mosquitoes and causes malaria in people.
Study findings were published in Nature Communications recently, at a time when malaria incidence generally peaks after the holiday season.
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Nearly 500,000 Americans diagnosed with Lyme disease each year, analysis finds
Healio
An average of nearly half a million Americans are estimated to have received a diagnosis of Lyme disease each year from 2010 to 2018, according to a new analysis published in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Lyme disease in commonly underreported in the United States. In 2017, for example, the U.S. reported a record number of tickborne diseases — nearly 60,000, most of them Lyme disease — but the CDC noted that the actual number of cases was much larger.
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ADA lowers target HbA1C levels for children with Type 1 diabetes
Texas Children's Hospital via EurekAlert!
A recent review of data supports stricter control of hemoglobin A1C levels among pediatric patients with T1D. This review was led by Dr. Maria J. Redondo, pediatric endocrinologist at Texas Children's Hospital and professor at Baylor College of Medicine, in collaboration with Dr. Sarah Lyons, pediatric endocrinologist at Texas Children's and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, along with other leading endocrinologists and diabetes experts across the U.S.
This article, published in the journal Diabetes Care, presents the evidence used by Redondo and her colleagues at the American Diabetes Association Professional Practice Committee to issue the new guidelines for optimal A1C in children with T1D in January 2020.
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Study may lead to novel synthetic drugs to combat bacterial infections
News-Medical
Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and EMBL Hamburg have discovered remarkable molecular properties of an antimicrobial peptide from the skin of the Australian toadlet. The discovery could inspire the development of novel synthetic drugs to combat bacterial infections.
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In lab study, nanoparticle shows promising results for treating severe allergies
University of California, Los Angeles via PhysOrg
Although there are now some preventive measures for food-induced anaphylaxis, there are not yet any long-lasting solutions — treatments capable of locking the immune system into a state of tolerance, so that it doesn't respond to allergens.
Now, a UCLA research team has developed a possible way to impart long-term relief from allergies by inducing an active state of immune tolerance.
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