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By Keith Carlson
 As 2017 moves into February, all eyes are on the Donald Trump administration in relation to the promised repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Nurses, physicians, hospitals, insurers and patients are all feeling the uncertainty. As the most trusted professionals in the United States year after year, nurses are seen as reliable sources of information and advice by friends, family and neighbors. How can nurses navigate the shifting sands of American healthcare and insurance coverage?
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Term of office is May 8, 2017 – early May 2019
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ANAC is proud to congratulate Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, California for Magnet designation from the Commission on the Magnet Recognition Program. We'd like to recognize ANA\C members at Rady's for their leadership and nursing excellence and appreciate all the hard work of the nursing staff.
Judy Akin Palmer (San Juan Capistrano) Armineh Babakhanian (Los Angeles) Brett Barrett (Woodland Hills) Jamila Canatsey (Escondido) Jennifer Cannon (Anderson) Aundrea Contreras (San Jose) Natasha Crespo-Jones (Vacaville) Kimberly Daniels (Glendale) Patrice Duhon (Hayward) Cecilie Euser (Irvine) Amy Farmer (Upland) Jessica Gamez (Chico) Parvaneh Gerami (Elk Grove) Maricel Handleman (San Rafael) Nancy Harper (Palmdale) Caitlin Hendricks (Petaluma) Lisa Hirth (Huntington Beach) Shannon Huth (Oakland) Judy Johnson (Bermuda Dunes) Emilee Johnson (Carson) Kelley Johnson (Hermosa Beach) Naitté Jordan (Modesto) Mariam Karuga (Livermore) Doreen Lawful (Fortuna) Suzanne Manning (Goleta) Milena Mardahay (Los Angeles) Brian Marquez (Brea) Ann Obrien (San Ramon) Mindy Ofiana (Upland) Courtney Parisi (Santa Monica) Junee Ramos (Concord) Rebecca Remy (Oakland) Maria Cristina Role (Coronado) Bunhom Sagasta (Bakersfield) Marilyn Shoemaker (Hesperia) Angelo Tolentino (Los Angeles) Emilia Tynan (Penn Valley) Brittany Vattuone (El Segundo) Kim Whitnack (Oroville) Teresa Zazueta (North Hollywood)
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Celebrate this Valentine’s Day not only with love from your heat, but for your heart!
The American Nurses Association’s focus for this month in the Year of the Healthy Nurse calendar is cardiovascular health.
Take a look at just some of the great resources available to help RN’s improve their Cardiovascular Health:
ANA Resources: Keep updated and sign up for ANA Advocacy Alerts
- Our healthcare reform webpage, which includes our principles for designing a post-ACA healthcare system.
- Our Capitol Beat blog gives you insider information about how we are advocating for you and patients with the new Congress and administration.
- Looking to take action? Sign up for advocacy alerts and we’ll tell you how to get involved in real time.
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Sign Up for Free Career Advice
Register now to attend American Nurses Association's Career Connect Webinette Series, featuring author, nationally certified critical care nurse, and blogging sensation Kati Kleber! Kati will be offering tips and tricks on how to grow in your nursing career through these free, 15-minute "webinettes."
Register now for access to live discussions on the following subjects:
- Resume and Interview Tips: Feb. 28, 2 p.m. EST
- How to Avoid Burnout: March 29, 2 p.m. EST
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- Presenting Two Career Paths: The Power of the Advanced Beginner: May 17, 2 p.m. EST
For more information and to register, Click here
Wednesday – Friday, June 7-9, 2017 | Denver, Colorado
The Nursing Workforce & Health Reform: Trends and Opportunities in a New Political Era
The 2017 National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers Conference will assess how the 2016 Presidential and Congressional elections are reshaping the delivery and financing of health care delivery and influencing the agenda of the nursing workforce in the US. In addition to assessing the new political landscape, sessions will focus on the expanding roles of registered nurses in primary care and behavioral health care, how nurses must produce value in value-based payment systems, what’s new in forecasting the future supply and demand for nurses, and much more. This conference will enhance your knowledge, enrich your networking, and better prepare you to meet the challenges that lie ahead for nurses in practice, education, research, and policy. More Information and to Register.
| | NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY |
DailyNurse
Evidence-based practice. Those three words seem to be all the buzz in healthcare in recent years, and there is a good reason why. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the science of our nursing care: It keeps us current, up-to-date, and providing the best care to our patients for the best reasons.
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The Clinical Advisor
New guidelines for sepsis and septic shock emphasize frequent patient re-evaluation and patient-specific tailoring of hemodynamic therapy. The guidelines were presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and were published online in Critical Care Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine. The guidelines, developed by the SCCM and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, serve as an update to the "Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2012."
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Advance Healthcare Network
Nurse practitioners make up over 50 percent of primary care providers, seeing to the health and wellbeing of patients daily, writing prescriptions when necessary and applying their learned skills to each appointment. With the ever-increasing shortages of healthcare physicians and NPs filling in the gap, it would only make sense for NPs to be able to practice to the full scope of their abilities. Full practice authority (FPA), however, is not the standard in every state.
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Reuters
Many people with type 1 diabetes don't check frequently enough for buildup of ketones, acids that can cause serious damage to the kidneys and other organs, according to a U.S. study.
Ketone monitoring is particularly important when patients with type 1 diabetes are sick or have consistently high glucose levels, the authors write in Diabetes Care.
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HealthDay News
Flu and pneumonia vaccines may reduce heart failure patients' risk of dangerous respiratory infections, a new review suggests.
More than 5 million Americans have heart failure, when the heart is too weak to pump enough blood to meet the body's needs. Respiratory infections are the leading cause of hospitalization for people with heart failure. These infections are associated with high death rates in a hospital, the review authors said.
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Medscape (free login required)
An advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) wants to know whether she can work as a staff registered nurse (RN) on an occasional or as-needed basis. For example, a staff nurse earns a master's degree and becomes certified as a nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist but can't find a job and must continue working as a staff nurse.
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University of Southampton via ScieneDaily
Scientists from the University of Southampton have discovered an important way that the immune system can learn to recognize and fight cancers.
The team, led by Professor Aymen Al-Shamkhani and funded by Cancer Research U.K., has shown that a protein called Akt, is vital for the way the body remembers a cancer it has eradicated.
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Medical News Today
Groundbreaking research has discovered a way for people with late-stage ALS to participate in meaningful communication through the use of a brain-computer interface. This technology could revolutionize lives and offer hope to more than 12,000 individuals in the United States with the disease. A multinational team conducted a study to explore whether a brain-computer interface based on functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) could enable communication in completely locked-in syndrome. The study results were published PLOS Biology.
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Medscape (free login required)
Women with breast cancer may survive longer after undergoing breast-conserving surgery than after undergoing mastectomy, particularly if they are older than 50 years, have earlier-stage disease, and have more comorbidities, say Dutch investigators. They found that breast-conserving therapy (BCT), consisting of breast-conserving surgery plus radiation therapy, was associated with significant improvements in both breast cancer–specific and overall survival of around 30 percent compared with mastectomy.
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Medical News Today
Asthma affects millions of people in the United States — adults and children alike. New research suggests that insomnia may be a risk factor for developing asthma in adulthood. According to the most recent estimates from the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology, approximately 1 in 10 children and 1 in 12 adults have asthma. The research team calculated the risk of incident asthma among adults with insomnia compared with their asthma-free counterparts. In total, the study examined 17,927 participants aged between 20 and 65.
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