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Becker's Hospital Review
In 2025, states on the east and west coasts will likely have nursing shortages, while states in the middle of the country will have a surplus of nurses, according to Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies.
Arizona will have the largest nurse shortage, with 28,100 fewer registered nurses than necessary. North Carolina and Colorado will need 12,900 nurses each by 2025. Meanwhile, Ohio is projected to have a 75,400-nurse surplus by 2025.
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On Feb. 20-21, 2017, ANA\C was invited to present at Stanford Health Care on The Importance of Nursing Advocacy and Leadership at the Nursing Ground Rounds and at the Shared Leadership Council. We met with nurse leaders, nurse managers, front line nursing staff and also with Wendy Foad, the Interim Chief Nursing Officer. We would like to express our gratitude for this invitation to Wendy, Janette Moreno and Anita Girard. When nurses lead changes happen.
Linda Abramovitz (Belmont) Beverly Loida Bautista (Milpitas) Michelle Brimer (Atascadero) Beverly Byrd (Cerritos) Yuchieh-Joanne Chang (Santa Monica) Adella Davis-Sterling (Lakewood) Chris Drati (Inglewood) Debra Flott (Granada Hills) Victor Gallardo (Murrieta) Allan Garma (Oakland) Krista Greaves (Folsom) Sikandar Gul (Sacramento) Jennifer Hajj (San Gabriel) Derrick Hall (Bakersfield) Trinie Harris (Fremont) Emma Hubscher (Bakersfield) Kristian Jamerson (Lakeside) Karin Lightfoot (Palo Cedro) Morgan McCormick (Petaluma) Noah Melehan (Scotts Valley) Marta Nason (Simi Valley) Aldrin Nieves (Daly City) Beatrice Olteanu (Orange) Jacqueline Perry (Los Angeles) Jessica Ritchey (Quincy) Faith Robinson (View Park) Ruth Rosenblum (San Jose) Heidi Salzgeber (Long Beach) Tami Shumaker (Apple Valley) Ellaine Sioson (Rancho Cordova) Brina Suttle (Fillmore) Megan Tarzon (Redwood City) Kathleen Vandewark (Sacramento) Kelly Widger (Tracy) Meredith York (San Clemente) Serra Zadoorian (San Francisco)
The American Nurses Association (ANA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced last week that they have created the Nursing Infection Control Education (NICE) Network. This is a collaboration of 20 specialty nursing organizations that hold organizational-level membership in ANA and are committed to empowering nurses to protect themselves and their patients from infection. ANA will serve as the primary contractor for the project, which runs through May 31, 2018, and will provide nurses, who have been rated by the public as the most honest and ethical profession for 15 years straight, with real-time, tailored infection control training critical for an effective response to infectious diseases. For more information, click here.
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| | EDUCATIONAL EVENTS & RESEARCH |
Thursday, Feb. 23, 4-5:30 p.m. Arizona Time
The Minority Fellowship Youth Program at ANA cordially invites you to a free online webinar, "Building Strong Brains: The Role of Life Experiences in Shaping Brain Development," presented by Freida Hopkins Outlaw, PhD, RN, FAAN. Dr. Outlaw is an MFP alum and the MFP Executive/Academic Program Consultant at ANA.
Tune in and learn more about:
- The Science of the Brain
- How Trauma Impacts the Development of the Brain
- Adverse Childhood Experiences(ACEs)
- The Link Among the Developing Brain, Trauma, and ACEs in the Development of Children and Youth
Register Today
March 23-24, 2017 | UCLA
Shaping an Ethical Environment is the theme for the 4th Ethics of Caring National Nursing Ethics Conference (NNEC). Nurses are actively engaged in influencing the processes and actions that create ethical environments and directly impact the nurse, the delivery of care, interprofessional collaboration and ultimately, patient outcomes. Recognizing that nurses’ voices are required to participate in shaping those environments, the conference will emphasize the development of skills needed to manage ethical dilemmas and to enhance practice and leadership.
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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 healthcare delivery and influencing the agenda of the nursing workforce in the U.S. In addition to assessing the new political landscape, sessions will focus on the expanding roles of registered nurses in primary care and behavioral healthcare, 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. Click here for more information and to register.
Over the course of this two-day immersive and interactive journey, a variety of influences on and in the healthcare environment will be explored that can affect the nurse’s actions and efforts to do the right thing for the right reasons. Read more here.
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HealthDay News
About half of patients with chronic plaque psoriasis have fatigue, according to a study published online in the British Journal of Dermatology. Researchers evaluated the prevalence and degree of fatigue among patients with chronic plaque psoriasis. Fatigue severity was assessed in 84 patients and 84 healthy controls using three generic fatigue instruments: fatigue Visual Analogue Scale (fVAS), the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS), and the Short Form 36 (SF-36) vitality scale.
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HealthData Management
Medical record administrators are continuing to have difficulties exchanging patient records with other providers. Data exchange is particularly difficult when receiving providers are not on the same electronic health record as the sender, according to results of a survey conducted in January by Black Book Research, which found that more than 40 percent of responding administrators admitted to record exchange challenges.
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MedPage Today
Clinicians should help develop a plan for families and schools to use in the case of allergy-related emergencies, said the American Academy of Pediatrics. A child at risk of anaphylaxis should have a prescription for an epinephrine autoinjector for use in a community setting, as well as a written allergy and anaphylaxis plan at the beginning of each school year, wrote Julie Wang, MD, and colleagues for the AAP Section on Allergy and Immunology.
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Medscape (free login required)
New consensus guidelines for the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis (CF) further standardize the diagnostic criteria for infants through adults and may inform targeted treatment based on specific genetic variants of the pulmonary disease. Of particular note, the consensus recommendations, developed for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation by an international panel of experts and published online in the Journal of Pediatrics, recommend that clinicians use the most recent classifications for CF transmembrane conductance regulator mutations to diagnose the disease in patients of all ages.
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Medical News Today
A large-scale meta-analysis using more than 10,000 participants concludes that vitamin D supplementation may help to prevent a major cause of global death — acute respiratory tract infections. Respiratory tract infections have a wide array of risk factors, including overcrowding, a damp living environment, air pollution, and parental smoking.
A number of observational studies have also reported a nutritional risk factor — vitamin D deficiency. Some researchers have concluded that vitamin D has the ability to trigger an immune response to certain viruses and bacteria. However, the links between respiratory tract infections and vitamin D supplementation have remained controversial.
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The New York Times
Lowering blood pressure to 120 — instead of the current guideline of 140, or even high for older people — could prevent more than 100,000 deaths a year in the United States alone, researchers report. The projections are based on earlier findings from the Sprint study, an analysis of more than 9,300 people age 50 and older, that found that intensive blood pressure treatment could be lifesaving for adults at high risk for cardiovascular disease.
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By Scott E. Rupp
 Not everything patients tell their physicians may be making its way into their electronic health records. According to a recent study of eye clinic patients in JAMA Ophthalmology, researchers found "inconsistencies between patient self-report on an eye symptom questionnaire and documentation in the EMR." While the study was limited to one location in a specific care sector, there's probably a bit of truth for healthcare as a whole and its use of electronic health records.
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HealthDay News
Flu activity spiked sharply across the United States this week, federal health officials reported. Deaths from flu-related conditions continued at high levels, and hospitalizations among people over 65 and under the age of 4 are up. So far, 20 children have died from flu, said Lynnette Brammer, an epidemiologist for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The Huffington Post
When packing boxes to move each item handled becomes a moment to reflect on the past. The more commonly used items are packed without much thought — but, the forgotten pictures and folders hidden in the the closets and at the bottoms of old desk drawers stir up a range of memories and emotions. In this case, it’s not my personal move; we are relocating the headquarters of Visiting Nurse Association Health Group of New Jersey.
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The Daily
Intuition — often described as a “gut feeling” — factors prominently in clinical reasoning and decision-making by healthcare professionals. But new research from Case Western Reserve University concludes there is no relationship between a nurse’s years of work experience or gender and his/her use of intuition.
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Monthly Prescribing Reference
Data from a secondary analysis showed that an online tool can accurately predict which patients with chest pain are likely to have normal non-invasive test results and remain free of cardiac adverse events. Full findings are published in JAMA Cardiology. Currently, guidelines recommend noninvasive testing for patients with stable chest pain though many of these patients may have normal test results and no adverse events. Researchers assessed a risk tool that was developed to use only pretest data to identify the "minimal-risk cohort" — patients with chest pain with normal coronary arteries and no clinical events at follow-up.
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