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.NURSING FLASH
Last Chance!
ANA\California
Elect the next American Nurses Association \ California Board of Directors. Find your link to vote in your email inbox. (Can’t find it? Check your spam folder.)
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.
Vote for ANA\California Board of Directors and ANA MA Representatives now!
Deadline to vote is Feb. 11, 2021.
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ANA\C Call for Bylaws Proposals!
ANA\California
The ANA\C Committee on Bylaws (COB) is seeking members’ voices toward the improvement of ANA\C through changes in the Bylaws. This is a great opportunity to empower and engage members in putting forward their ideas and recommendations for change. The ANA\C COB is now open to receive proposal for amendments of the bylaws effective Jan. 22-Feb. 22, 2021.
Those of you that already submitted a change proposal to the bylaws last year, we have that on file. There is no need to send it again.
● Step 1 – REVIEW the current ANA\C Bylaws.
● Step 2 - EMAIL your proposed revision to: bylaws@anacalifornia.org or anac@anacalifornia.org
● Subject Line: Bylaws Proposal; use the attached template for your proposals.
● Step 3 – REVIEW proposed changes 30 days prior to General Assembly; a follow-up email will be sent out to all ANA\C members to review bylaws amendments on March 13, 2021.
● Step 4 – ATTEND ANA\C General Assembly on April 13, 2021 to exercise your rights to vote on bylaws amendments approval.
Event details to follow for the ANA\C General Assembly.
Deadline for proposal for amendment: Feb. 22, 2021.
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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
How to Get Nurses a Seat at the Table with Marketa Houskova, Executive Director of ANA\California
Nurse Leader Network
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Marketa Houskova DNP, MAIA, BA, RN, Executive Director of American Nurses Association - California to discuss why nurses routinely do not have a seat at the table. She shares how nurses have siloed themselves into specialties, which has created a lack of a unified voice for our profession. Less than 20% of nurses utilize their voice to change policies and advocate for what our profession needs and in this episode you will learn the #1 thing you can do as a nurse today to secure our seat where it is needed-leading healthcare nationally and globally.
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Leading nursing organizations launch the National Commission to address racism in nursing
ANA
The Commission will examine the issue of racism within nursing nationwide and describe the impact on nurses, patients, communities, and healthcare systems to motivate all nurses to confront systemic racism.
To further inform our work, we would like to engage in an open dialogue with nurses to discuss your direct and indirect experiences of racism within the workplace as a nurse. We invite you to participate in a listening session to share your experiences during one of the following sessions in February. If you would like to participate, please email practice@ana.org with your desired session date and time.
February Focus Group Dates:
• Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, 4:00-5:30 p.m. EST
• Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, 12:00-1:30 p.m. EST
If you are interested in participating, please email our Nursing Practice team at practice@ana.org indicating the day you would like to participate.
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The 2021 CHCF California Health Policy Survey
CHCF
The COVID-19 pandemic has surfaced many long-standing challenges in California’s healthcare system. As we enter the second year of the public health crisis, the California Health Care Foundation and NORC, a national survey research firm, conducted this annual representative statewide survey of California residents between Nov. 19, 2020 and Jan. 12, 2021. The report includes Californians’ experiences of the healthcare system in the last year and the health policy agenda they want to set for state policymakers.
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Moving beyond Florence: Why we need to decolonize nursing history
Nursing Clio
This objection that some have to “Beyond Florence” is that they perceive our aim as trying to replace or erase the significance of Nightingale, rather than appreciating it as an attempt to add to our understanding of her, and of nursing history more broadly.
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California Governor's Budget Summary 2021-22
Governor Gavin Newsom
ICYMI: Governor Newsom has released his budget, including healthcare and COVID-19 expenditures. The budget includes a total $14 billion investment in our economic recovery.
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Ambulatory APRN's on the Frontline of COVID-19 Care
ANA
As you care for patients with COVID-19, do you wish you had your most trusted and knowledgeable nurse colleague by your side? A nurse you can rely on to reassure and guide you with valuable tips on providing care and keeping safe? ANA is here with the next best thing: an on-demand webinar presented by experienced nurse practitioners who are caring for COVID-19 patients on the frontlines of ambulatory care — one who works in an urgent care setting in Seattle and the other in private practice in North Carolina.
Free for all nurses. No registration required. View immediately.
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COVID-19 and mental health: Self-care for nursing staff
ANA
Along with incalculable loss, the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has had devastating effects on the
mental health of people with COVID-19, their families, and the community at large. Healthcare workers
face tremendous stress, both emotionally and physically, from the grueling work hours and the threat of
contracting the virus at work.
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 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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Nurse Burnout and Retention
ANA
According to the American Nurses Association’s National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators, “Researchers discovered that a 25% increase in nurse job enjoyment over a two-year span was linked with an overall quality of care increase between five and 20%. Get the help you need!
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Project Firstline: A new ANA and CDC collaboration
ANA
Nurses are our nation's first line of defense against infectious diseases like COVID-19. That's why ANA has partnered with the CDC to present Project Firstline, an interactive series of free online tools that give you the training and infromation you need about infection prevention and control. New courses will be added as information advances so you can stay prepared with the latest knowledge. Together, we can stop the spread.
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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
Nurse midwife aims to help nurses to identify human trafficking victims
Nurse.org
Dr. Pamela Glenn, CNM, MS, a faculty member for Walden University’s College of Nursing, has dedicated years to educating and advocacy on human trafficking awareness.
Nurses in particular play a unique role in helping to identify and rescue victims of human trafficking. Dr. Glenn explains just how nurses can sharpen their skills to screen patients for human tracking and how we can all get involved in the fight against modern-day human slavery.
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Survey: More than 100,000 U.S. nurses quit due to burnout in 2017
HCP Live
Burnout is highly prevalent among U.S. nurses who leave or are considering leaving the medical field, according to a secondary analysis of survey data.
The new findings, from investigators at Emory University, contribute to the understanding of the largest proportion of the country’s healthcare workforce at a time when greater strain is being put on the individual caregiver.
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New COVID-19 vaccines: How the promising Novavax and Johnson & Johnson jabs work
The Conversation via Medical Xpress
Thanks to the efforts of scientists, healthcare workers and trial participants around the world, a number of COVID-19 vaccines have now been authorized for general use. But while millions have been given a jab, billions still need to be vaccinated. We need to produce as many doses as we can.
So it's good news that two additional vaccines are on the horizon. Vaccine developers Novavax and Johnson & Johnson recently released data from the phase 3 clinical trials of their jabs, which will hopefully join the list of those approved later this year.
Both of these vaccines share some similarities with those already being delivered, but they also have some notable differences. Here, let's take a look at how they work and how effective they could be.
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Repeated testing for COVID-19 is vital, economic and public health analysis shows
University of Texas at Austin via Medical Xpress
As a new presidential administration takes steps to examine options to control the spread of COVID-19 through increased testing, epidemiologists at The University of Texas at Austin and other institutions have a new analysis that shows the value of having all people in the U.S. tested on a regular, rotating basis to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus and the loss of life from COVID-19. The team's model is outlined in a paper published online recently in The Lancet Public Health.
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Study indicates that 2019-2020 flu season was driven by a new, more transmissible strain
News-Medical
The 2019-2020 flu season in the U.S. was unusual in a number of ways. Cases picked up in August rather than the more typical fall and early winter months, and it hit children particularly hard. It was also dominated early on by a Type B influenza virus instead of one of the much more common Type A viruses like H1N1 or H3N2.
A new study by researchers at the University of Georgia suggests that these dynamics were driven largely by a new, more transmissible strain encountering a population with very little existing immunity to it.
Their findings, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have implications for future vaccination and preparedness strategies.
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ACA linked to increase in cancer detection among adults younger than 65 years
Healio
The Affordable Care Act had a significant impact on cancer detection among adults nearing the age for Medicare enrollment, according to research published in Health Affairs.
“These results strongly suggest that continued improvements in health insurance coverage under the ACA would further reduce the remaining Medicare cancer detection discontinuity at age 65, thus improving the health outcomes of adults who were previously uninsured or underinsured,” Fabian Duarte, PhD, associate professor of economics at the University of Chile, and colleagues wrote.
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FDA warns of increased risk for heart-related issues, cancer linked to Xeljanz
Healio
The FDA has issued a safety alert warning patients and health providers of an increased risk for serious health-related problems and cancer linked to tofacitinib compared with TNF inhibitors among older patients.
As part of the alert, the FDA has recommended that healthcare professionals consider the benefits and risks associated with tofacitinib when making treatment decisions for patients with rheumatoid arthritis or ulcerative colitis. Physicians should continue to follow the recommendations included in the drug’s prescribing information.
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Experimental vaccine blunts the deadliest of synthetic opioids
Scripps Research Institute via EurekAlert!
As the opioid epidemic raged on with an even greater force during COVID-19, the Scripps Research laboratory of chemist Kim Janda, PhD, has been working on new therapeutic interventions that may be able to prevent the bulk of deaths from opioid overdose.
Janda and his team have developed experimental vaccines that have shown in rodents to blunt the deadly effects of fentanyl — which has been driving the boom in opioid deaths — as well as its even more fatal cousin, carfentanil, a growing source of overdoses and a chemical terrorist threat.
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Childhood diet has lifelong impact
University of California - Riverside via ScienceDaily
Eating too much fat and sugar as a child can alter your microbiome for life, even if you later learn to eat healthier, a new study in mice suggests.
The study by UC Riverside researchers is one of the first to show a significant decrease in the total number and diversity of gut bacteria in mature mice fed an unhealthy diet as juveniles.
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Neuromuscular training in cardiac rehabilitation improves quality of life in heart attack patients
News-Medical
Neuromuscular training improves balance, stability, coordination and reaction speed, increasing patients’ ability to perform daily chores and allowing them to gain quality of life.
Ten lecturers from the Degrees in Physical Therapy, Nursery and Medicine of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University of Valencia have assessed in a clinical trial the efficiency of an innovative cardiac rehabilitation program for patients who have suffered an acute coronary syndrome, such as a heart attack or angina.
This program, which incorporates neuromuscular training to cardiac rehabilitation for the first time, has shown greater efficiency than traditional strength-resistance training.
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Neanderthals' gut microbiota and the bacteria helping our health
Università di Bologna via EurekAlert!
Neanderthals' gut microbiota already included some beneficial micro-organisms that are also found in our own intestine. An international research group led by the University of Bologna achieved this result by extracting and analyzing ancient DNA from 50,000-year-old fecal sediments sampled at the archaeological site of El Salt, near Alicante.
Published in Communication Biology, their paper puts forward the hypothesis of the existence of ancestral components of human microbiota that have been living in the human gastrointestinal tract since before the separation between the Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals that occurred more than 700,000 years ago.
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