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.NURSING FLASH
Universal healthcare bill dies in CA
CBS News
A bill that would have created the nation's only government-funded universal healthcare system died in the California Assembly recently as Democrats could not gather enough support to bring it for a vote ahead of a legislative deadline. The bill had to pass by midnight on Monday to have a chance at becoming law this year. Democrats needed 41 votes for that to happen, a threshold that did not seem impossible given that they control 56 of the 80 seats in the state Assembly and universal healthcare has long been a priority for the party. But intense lobbying from business groups put pressure on more moderate Democrats, who face tough reelection campaigns this year in newly-redrawn districts. Plus, Democrats were missing four lawmakers from their caucus — including three of their more liberal members — who had resigned recently to take other jobs.
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.NURSE WELLNESS
The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Supporting Nurse Well-being
NAM
A nation cannot fully thrive until everyone — no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they make — can live their healthiest possible life, and helping people live their healthiest life is and has always been the essential role of nurses. Ultimately, the health and well-being of nurses influence the quality, safety, and cost of the care they provide, as well as organizations and systems of care.
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Care for yourself one small way each day
CDC
You may experience increased stress during this pandemic. Fear and anxiety can be overwhelming and cause strong emotions. It’s important to take care of your family and friends, but it should be balanced with care for yourself. Everyone reacts differently to stressful situations. The changes that can happen because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ways we try to contain the spread of the virus can affect anyone. During times of increased social distancing, people can still maintain social connections and care for their mental health.
Coping with stress during a COVID-19 outbreak will make you, your loved ones, and your community stronger.
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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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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
ICN President reaffirms close links with WHO and joint commitment to support and sustain the nursing and healthcare workforce
ICN
The International Council of Nurses’ new president Dr. Pamela Cipriano
met with World Health Organization Director General Dr. Tedros recently to confirm the continuing close collaboration between the two organizations. Dr. Cipriano said the highly successful meeting included lengthy discussions about ICN’s new report, Sustain and Retain in 2022 and Beyond, which focuses on the effects of the pandemic on the global nursing workforce as well as on other areas of mutual concern, including nurses’ safety, staffing levels, preventing violence, vaccine equity and ethical migration practices.
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How midwives and doulas are working to end birth disparities
Next City
Statistically, Black mothers have more and more serious complications for their births. Often, the concerns and issues they raise are disregarded by doctors, which can increase the risk of death and complications for both mothers and babies.
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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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Survey: 94% of nurses say there's racism in healthcare
Medscape
Ninety-four percent of nurses report that there's either "a lot" or "some" racism in their profession, according to a new survey. The primary area where racism is experienced by nurses is in their career paths. Incivility and bullying and interactions with colleagues are other acts associated with racism, reports the survey of more than 5,600 nurses. Ernest Grant, PhD, RN, president of the American Nurses Association (ANA), said in a statement that he and his colleagues are "disturbed, triggered, and unsettled by the glaring data and heartbroken by the personal accounts of nurses." Grant is co-lead of the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing, which released the survey.
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Most nurses of color report workplace racism
MedPage Today
In 2013, an act of racism that seemed torn from the pages of a medical ethics textbook led to a lawsuit in Michigan: a white supremacist with a newborn in the hospital asked that no Black nurses be allowed to touch his son, and the hospital allegedly honored that request.
While the lawsuit between the four nurses and the hospital was settled "amicably," per the health system, the damage was not so easily undone. Almost a decade later, nurses are still reporting racist incidents, not only with patients, but also their colleagues. Some call it the "open secret" of nursing, and like many U.S. institutions, healthcare and nursing retain an enduring legacy of racism.
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Innovation landscape — Solving shortages: How technology can help meet California's immediate health workforce needs
CHCF
The healthcare safety-net system, a patchwork of programs and providers that serve Californians with low incomes, faces unique challenges in recruiting and maintaining its clinical staff due to workforce shortages and inequitable distribution of healthcare providers across California.
To address these shortages, many healthcare systems serving patients living on low incomes turn to the temporary workforce to fill their needs. Staffing agencies play an important role in supporting these healthcare organizations with recruitment, given that many have few resources to maintain a temporary provider pool or a sizable human resources department. In recent years, technology-enabled staffing services have emerged and addressed some limitations of traditional staffing agencies, including limited transparency and high cost.
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.COVID CORNER
California appears to pass peak of Omicron variant wave
Modern Healthcare
California showed signs it turned the corner on the Omicron wave of the coronavirus pandemic, with infection rates falling and hospitalizations well short of the overwhelming deluge officials feared a few weeks ago. Over 15,000 people are hospitalized with coronavirus, a huge figure but well short of last January's peak of about 22,000 and half of what officials had feared. Positivity rates are down 15% from earlier this month and the state's projection model shows the number of hospitalizations falling by half, to less than 7,700, in another month.
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Moderna wins full approval for its COVID-19 vaccine, as Novavax seeks authorization for its version
STAT
The ever-evolving landscape of COVID-19 vaccines shifted again recently, with Moderna winning full approval for its jab from the Food and Drug Administration, and Novavax submitting a long-awaited application to the agency for an emergency use authorization for its vaccine. The approval of Moderna’s vaccine, Spikevax, makes it the country’s second fully licensed vaccine to protect against SARS-CoV-2. It’s also the first product the Cambridge, MA, biotech has brought through licensure in the United States. The Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine, Comirnaty, became the first to be fully approved in August.
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Paediatrics study finds nurses 'especially' impacted by pandemic
Nursing Times
A study looking at the effects of the pandemic on paediatric oncology services around the world has found that nurses especially faced tougher conditions. The study, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric oncology providers globally: A mixed-methods study, was published by Wiley online in the American Cancer Society Cancer Journal.
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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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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
The best social media platforms for recruiting nurses
Alabama Media Group
Just like everyone else, nurses use social media. A 2019 study found that 84.5% of healthcare professional participants said social media positively influenced their practice. The primary reasons for using social media included networking, receiving work-related messages, keeping up with the news, and leisure.
And with the chronic nursing shortage, companies need to consider creative ways to attract and recruit nurses. With targeted nursing and advertising, you can reach nurses where they spend time online.
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Vaccine mandate to kick in for first wave of health workers
Medscape
Healthcare workers in about half the states faced a Jan. 27 deadline to get their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine under a Biden administration mandate that will be rolled out across the rest of the country in the coming weeks.
While the requirement is welcomed by some, others fear it will worsen already serious staff shortages if employees quit rather than comply.
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Moderna starts trial for Omicron-specific booster shot
Medscape
Moderna Inc said recently it had started a mid-stage study, testing a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine specifically designed to target the Omicron coronavirus variant, a day after rival Pfizer Inc launched a similar trial.
The company said while a third shot of its original coronavirus vaccine increased neutralizing antibodies against the variant at the lower dose, their levels declined six months after the booster dose was administered.
However, neutralizing antibodies remained detectable in all participants, Moderna said.
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Zika vaccine shows promising results in preclinical studies
Texas Biomedical Research Institute via EurekAlert!
A Zika virus vaccine candidate is effective at preventing the Zika virus passing from mother to fetus in preclinical animal studies, according to a new study in the journal npj Vaccines.
The research is a collaboration between Trudeau Institute, Texas Biomedical Research Institute’s Southwest National Primate Research Center, and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, where the vaccine was developed.
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Antibiotic-resistant infections killed more than 1.2 million people in 2019
Healio
Antibiotic-resistant infections, on the rise globally, killed more than 1.2 million people in 2019, according to a new estimate published recently in The Lancet.
Additionally, researchers estimated that nearly five million deaths in 2019 were “associated” with bacterial antimicrobial resistance.
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2 powerful drugs now adding to U.S. overdose crisis
Medical Xpress
Emerging reports show that two little-known drugs are making lethal new contributions to America's drug overdose crisis.
Para-fluorofentanyl and metonitazene are being seen more often by medical examiners looking into overdose deaths, according to a government report published recently. They often are taken with — or mixed with — illicit fentanyl, the drug mainly responsible for the more than 100,000 U.S. overdose deaths in the last year.
Increasingly, one or the other of the two drugs is the sole reason for some overdose deaths, said Dr. Darinka Mileusnic-Polchan, one of the report authors.
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Living near or downwind of unconventional oil and gas development linked with increased risk of early death
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health via EurekAlert!
Elderly people living near or downwind of unconventional oil and gas development — which involves extraction methods including directional (non-vertical) drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — are at higher risk of early death compared with elderly individuals who don’t live near such operations, according to a large new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The results suggest that airborne contaminants emitted by UOGD and transported downwind are contributing to increased mortality, the researchers wrote.
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Higher social determinants of health burden linked to increase in obesity
News-Medical
Cumulative social disadvantage, as denoted by higher social determinants of health burden, is associated with a higher likelihood of obesity independent of clinical and demographic factors, according to a new study in Obesity, The Obesity Society's flagship journal. The population-based study is the first to examine this hypothesized association in a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States.
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Researchers target 'Jekyll and Hyde' bacteria behind respiratory infections
University of Queensland via Medical Xpress
Researchers have discovered a way to kill a type of bacteria that causes millions of respiratory infections in children and the elderly, paving the way for more effective treatment.
University of Queensland researchers were able to deactivate a protein critical to the survival of Haemophilus influenzae bacteria, which colonizes the respiratory tract from early childhood.
Associate Professor Ulrike Kappler said the bacteria was an example of the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story, causing problems if it "switched character."
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Study finds link between lifetime workplace exposure to pesticides and elevated COPD risk
News-Medical
Lifetime workplace exposure to pesticides is linked to a heightened risk of COPD, the umbrella term for a group of respiratory diseases that cause airflow blockage and breathing problems, finds a large population-based study, published online in the journal Thorax.
The findings are independent of key risk factors for COPD: smoking and asthma.
Workplace exposures are important preventable causes of COPD, with recent estimates indicating that around 14% of all such cases are related to work, say the researchers.
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