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.NURSING FLASH
.HIGHLIGHTS
Dr. Quanna Batiste-Brown, DNP, RN, NEA-BC — An effective toolkit to address racism in nursing and healthcare
UCLA Health Connect
Dr. Quanna Batiste-Brown received an award from the American Nursing Association California chapter for her contribution to the Racism in Nursing and Healthcare Workgroup toolkit. “We are still living through the structural racism that is embedded in America,” says Quanna Batiste-Brown, DNP, RN, chief nursing officer in Ambulatory Care at UCLA Health. “I think addressing it in nursing is one of the things we can do to move forward.”
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.NURSE WELLNESS
Healthcare's state of mental health
HealthLeaders Media
The pandemic has added new stressors for the healthcare workforce. “Physicians, nurses, and healthcare workers had to learn about this new disease as fast as possible, taking on multiple roles as healers, priests, and therapists to their patients, each other, and to their family members,” says Dr. Izzy Justice, a neuroscientist and the author of eight books on emotional intelligence. Justice says the pandemic is one of many stressful events that happened (and are still happening) simultaneously. “COVID-19 came on the heels of the Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements, a divided political climate, and the growth of social media,” he says.
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4 tips to support a coworker who is struggling emotionally
Nurse.org
We are navigating rough waters but we are always stronger together. Small acts of kindness can ignite massive changes to the environments we work in. You never know the impact you may have on someone who is struggling. We aren’t meant to do life or nursing alone and I challenge you this week to take a look around and try one of the tools above.
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Angry and abused, healthcare workers still overwhelmingly love careers, poll shows
HealthLeaders Media
Heading into the third year of a wearying pandemic, America's healthcare workers report significant levels of burnout, even anger about the complications of politics and rising incidents of abuse from patients and their families. But three-fourths of them still say they love their jobs, an exclusive USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll of doctors, nurses, paramedics, therapists and others finds.
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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
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Nurse anesthetists highlight the impact of racism and nursing
Cision
A national survey revealed racism remains a challenge across the nursing profession. Two members of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) who were appointed to working groups for the study said that their participation in the survey was vital since, "at the end of the day, patient outcomes are impacted." Edwin N. Aroke, PhD, CRNA, a tenured associate professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing, serves as a subject matter expert on the research working group, and Monica Rose, PhD, CRNA, adjunct faculty at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Nurse Anesthesia Program, and anesthesia independent contractor, serves as a subject matter expert on the education work group. Both work groups are part of the American Nurses Association (ANA) National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing.
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5 myths about nursing
Washington Post
It’s not always better to be treated by a doctor than a nurse. The pandemic has shined a spotlight on the critical role of nurses in hospitals — and the risks they routinely encounter while doing their jobs. The field of nursing, however, is still deeply misunderstood. This is perhaps no surprise: nurses’ work is often undervalued compared with that of doctors, and almost 90% of the nursing workforce is women. Here are five common myths about the profession.
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New ILO/WHO guide urges greater safeguards to protect health workers
ILO
The joint publication encourages countries to strengthen the protection of health workers by improving the management of occupational health and safety at national, sub-national and health facility levels.
The International Labor Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have published a new guide on developing and implementing stronger occupational health and safety program for health workers, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to exert great pressure on them.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken an additional heavy toll on health workers and has demonstrated dangerous neglect of their health, safety and well-being. More than one in three health facilities lack hygiene stations at the point of care. Fewer than one in six countries had in place a national policy on a healthy and safe working environment in the health sector.
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California 'gig-worker' nurses could soon book directly with hospitals as independent contractors
Nurse.org
It’s Uber for nurses. Yup, that’s right. Instead of policies at the leadership level that could enact positive and lasting change for both current and future nurses, there is a push to introduce legislation that will make nurses independent contractors working in an “on-demand” fashion with hospitals and facilities as they are needed. But some are concerned the move could further exploit nurses and negatively impact the travel nursing industry especially.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
Nurse leaders issue a call to action to fight hypertension and cardiovascular disease
HealthLeaders Media
With hypertension as a leading cause of cardiovascular disease, affecting nearly one in two adults in the United States, a new study has developed a "Call to Action for Nurses" to take a leading role in improving cardiovascular health.
The paper was published online recently in Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing.
Nursing leaders from 11 national organizations identified the critical roles and actions of nursing in improving HTN control and cardiovascular health, in response to the 2020 Surgeon General's Call to Action to Control Hypertension.
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As 'stealth Omicron' advances, scientists are learning more
Medical Xpress
The coronavirus mutant widely known as "stealth Omicron" is now causing more than a third of new Omicron cases around the world, but scientists still don't know how it could affect the future of the pandemic. Researchers are slowly revealing clues about the strain, a descendant of Omicron known as BA.2, while warily watching it become ever more prevalent.
"We're all keeping an eye on BA.2 just because it has done particularly well in some parts of the world," including parts of Asia, Africa and Europe, said Dr. Wesley Long, a pathologist at Houston Methodist in Texas.
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SARS-CoV-2 is moving between humans and wildlife around the U.S.
University of Pennsylvania via Medical Xpress
In 2020, Denmark culled millions of mink to quell a source of zoonotic COVID-19 transmission, the passage of the SARS-CoV-2 virus between humans and animals. Last year, zoo animals including lions, tigers, and gorillas got sick with the virus, presumably infected by their keepers. And earlier this year, pet hamsters were implicated in precipitating a new outbreak in Hong Kong.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, coronaviruses were known to cause certain varieties of the common cold as well as diseases important in animal populations. As the pandemic has stretched on, it's become clear that SARS-CoV-2 has a penchant for infecting a wide range of animal species.
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Researchers call for a patient-centered approach to treating obesity
University at Buffalo via EurekAlert!
It’s one of the most polarizing questions among clinicians: is treating obesity while also reducing weight stigma and eating disorder risk mutually exclusive?
In a recent commentary published online ahead of print in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, a team of researchers takes aim at what they say is an outdated approach many healthcare providers still have when it comes to treating patients with overweight or obesity.
In short, health professionals on both sides of the debate should strive to improve access to compassionate, evidence-based and patient-centered care in order to fight weight stigma and end diet culture, the researchers argue, adding that the emphasis should be on health, not weight.
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Children with congenital Zika syndrome 11 times more likely to die, large study finds
Healio
In the United States, among children born to mothers with Zika virus infection, the incidence of congenital Zika syndrome is about one in 20 infants, according to recently published estimates.
Even exposed infants who do not develop congenital Zika syndrome have been shown to be at a higher risk for abnormal development.
Now, a new study from Brazil — the country at the center of the 2015-2016 epidemic — has helped clarify on a large scale the increased risk for mortality that infants born with congenital Zika syndrome face.
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Direct oral challenge delabels nearly all ICU patients who report penicillin allergy
Healio
Medical ICU patients with low-risk penicillin allergy labels would benefit from point-of-care delabeling, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.
Patients admitted to medical ICUs frequently are predisposed to infections, increasing their need for antibiotics, the researchers wrote, noting that critically ill, immunocompromised patients with multiple drug allergy labels would disproportionately benefit from penicillin and from penicillin allergy delabeling.
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AHA targets 'low-value' heart care in new scientific statement
Medscape
Low-value healthcare services that provide little or no benefit to patients are "common, potentially harmful, and costly," and there is a critical need to reduce this kind of care, the American Heart Association says in a newly released scientific statement.
Each year, nearly half of patients in the United States will receive at least one low-value test or procedure, with the attendant risk of avoidable complications from cascades of care and excess costs to individuals and society, the authors note.
Reducing low-value care is particularly important in cardiology, given the high prevalence and costs of cardiovascular disease in the United States.
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New analysis on intersectionality in cancer care
News-Medical
Intersectionality posits that social categorizations and personal identities are interconnected in a way that creates a unique nuanced lived experience for individuals rather than an additive experience. For example the experience of a queer Black woman living in a rural area is not the sum of being queer, Black, and in a rural location, as these identities are not mutually exclusive.
An analysis published in Psycho-Oncology examines published research on intersectionality relative to disparities in cancer care.
The analysis included 28 studies and found that the intersection of sexual minority status with race/ethnicity was association with lower diagnostic screening, lower receipt of preventative services, and an increase in distrust of the healthcare system.
The results uncover the various ways in which patients with intersectional identities may be at higher risk for negative cancer outcomes.
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Legionnaires' disease shows steady increase in U.S. over 15+ years
Medscape
Legionnaires' disease in the United States appears to be on an upswing that started in 2003, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The reasons for this increased incidence are unclear, the researchers write in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
"The findings revealed a rising national trend in cases, widening racial disparities between Black or African American persons and white persons, and an increasing geographic focus in the Middle Atlantic, the East North Central, and New England," lead author Albert E. Barskey, MPH, an epidemiologist in CDC's Division of Bacterial Diseases in Atlanta, Georgia, said in an email to Medscape Medical News.
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Researchers may be close to a cure for type 1 diabetes
HealthDay News
Science could be well on its way to a cure for type 1 diabetes, as researchers hone transplant therapies designed to restore patients' ability to produce their own insulin, experts say.
At least one patient — a 64-year-old Ohio man named Brian Shelton — can now automatically control his insulin and blood sugar levels without the need for medication, following a transplant of experimental pancreatic stem cells.
Shelton's therapy isn't a perfect cure. He must take a heavy dose of immune-suppressing drugs to keep his body from rejecting the transplant, and those drugs pose their own health hazards.
But the therapy created by Vertex Pharmaceuticals could provide immediate relief to thousands who are lined up for a pancreas transplant because their type 1 diabetes has progressed to the point where it's life-threatening, said Sanjoy Dutta, chief scientific officer for JDRF International.
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Smart packaging could improve how older adults take medication
University of Waterloo via EurekAlert!
Approximately half of the patients with chronic diseases in developed nations do not take their medication properly. With an aging population where taking multiple medications is common, incorrect medication-taking — called medication non-adherence — is a problem impacting the health of patients and costs the healthcare system billions of dollars.
There has been a surge of telehealth technology to address this issue in the last two decades, from complex at-home medication dispensing devices to reminder apps. Smart packages are used to electronically monitor when patients take their medication. When the prescription is not followed as advised by their physician the smart system can notify patients and their caregivers.
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