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.NURSING FLASH
.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
Sunset Review – Oversight Hearing for BRN in 3 days!
California State Assembly Committee on Business and Professions
The California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) will be participating in the BRN Joint Sunset Hearing on March 12, 2021. Each year, the Assembly Business and Professions Committee and the Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee hold joint sunset review oversight hearings to review the boards and bureaus under the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA). The DCA boards and bureaus are responsible for protecting consumers and the public and regulating the professionals they license. The sunset review process provides an opportunity for the DCA, the Legislature, the boards, and interested parties and stakeholders to discuss the performance of the boards, and make recommendations for improvements.
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#EndNurseAbuse Bill Reintroduced in House of Representatives
American Nurses Association
Overall, the likelihood of healthcare workers being exposed to violence is higher than prison guards or police officers. And care settings have become even more risky and intense during the COVID-19 pandemic. For years, ANA has been leading the charge to end nurse abuse, through its #EndNurseAbuse campaign, raising awareness about this issue and pushing for administrative and legislative solutions. Our hard work has paid off – workplace violence legislation has recently been introduced in Congress and has quickly received bipartisan support. Now, it needs your support help to move it forward. Ask your lawmaker to vote in favor of this legislation and help end nurse abuse now!
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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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Effective Mental Health Self-Care Tools during the Pandemic
Nursing World
We offer six "Quick Videos" featuring Mental Health Self-Care Tools as well as two free, complete full webinars. You must register to watch the complete webinars, or you may click on any of the Quick Videos below to watch them. In these Quick Videos, you will learn of resources available to help nurses deal with mental health challenges and the stress from COVID-19, including self-compassion techniques, building resiliency, mindfulness meditation and suicide prevention.
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Health Equity + Anti-Racism Leadership Institute – ANHE
Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments.
Recognizing the need for nurses and nursing students to center anti-racism and health equity while taking leadership in environmental health and in their professional settings, the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments is holding the Health Equity + Anti-Racism (HEAR) Leadership Institute. The HEAR Leadership Institute will run from May through September 2021 and include 4 virtual workshops, small group collaboration, and coaching. This program is open to all nurses and nursing students interested and passionate in taking leadership around health equity and anti-racism! Applications are now open. The deadline to apply is March 19th.
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Health Policy and Media Engagement: #SocialMedia101: Your @InfluenceRx_
GW Nursing
GWU Nursing is hosting an online webinar to help healthcare professionals to develop their online influence.
"This interactive webinar provides healthcare professionals an introduction to using social media to disseminate their expertise in scholarship, clinical practice, and science. We will share strategies to increase the visibility and reputation at an individual and organizational level as well as connect with colleagues, journalists, students and alumni. We provide specific tips on maximizing your professional impact using Twitter and begin to think strategically for how to develop your social media skills."
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Promoted by PulseCheck
Code Blue resuscitation events have errors that happen 25% to 40% of the time. Eliminating these errors through better guideline adherence could save thousands of lives per year (American Heart Association’s Resuscitation Journal). Equally as crucial as well-established care guidelines are capturing the care provided to cardiac arrest patients. Ensuring that the event is well documented and that the documentation is immediately available for post-arrest patient care is essential. A tablet-based documentation solution provides an exceptionally intuitive, easy to use, and clinically designed interface to improve timing errors during code blue events. Click “learn more” below for more information.
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The Los Angeles Times has just endorsed SB 380
Los Angeles Times
Eggman's bill would make other improvements to the End of Life Option Act, such as requiring healthcare systems to provide information about the law to patients even if they don't participate and prohibiting them from gagging their doctors from talking about the law with patients. But most notably, the bill would make the law permanent. Otherwise, it would end on Dec. 31, 2025.
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Should Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) be covered by Medi-Cal?
California State Assembly Committee on Budget
The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Health & Human Services has scheduled a hearing on the Governor's proposed Medi-Cal authorization of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) for adult patients with Type 1 diabetes on Monday, March 8 at 2:30 p.m.
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Improve patient health and add income to your practice with an evidence based weight loss program. No billing, no ICD-10 codes, no inventory. Coach part time or full time and create personal and financial well-being for yourself. Explore a new business paradigm: from sick care to Coach care.
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At NorthBay Healthcare, we are devoted to creating an environment that nurtures and nourishes a commitment to compassionate care, and just as importantly, allows you to flourish. So join us, and be part of an incredible community of dedicated professionals who share the same passion to provide exceptional patient care.
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RN Day at the Capitol Virtual Conference
ANA\California
RN Day at the Capitol Virtual Conference is a must-attend event for nurses interested in nursing advocacy and learning more about how legislation impacts our profession. Registration required — visit the event page for more info.
Conference agenda, and speaker info to follow.
Click here to register
At this specially formatted virtual conference* we're bringing some of the biggest and newest names** in nursing advocacy to share knowledge, skills, and real-life examples of advocacy. Enjoy speakers from national, state, and local levels to learn how they create change in the nursing profession.
This even includes pre-recorded sessions from presenters that can be enjoyed at any time. Then join our LIVE Q&A sessions with each speaker starting April 13th - 16th.
Are you satisfied with the support you've received during the pandemic?
Are you able to practice at the top of your license?
Do you feel represented?
If you answered "No" to any of these questions, then this event is for you.
*CEUs will be offered for this event.
**Speakers and event schedule to follow.
Click here to register
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Medical staff volunteers needed
The Laurel Foundation
APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE NOW!
July 31-Aug 5 | Serving transgender/gender diverse ages 6-17 | Idyllwild, CA
We are currently seeking volunteer Medical Staff (LVN, RN, NP, PA or MD licensed in CA) for our upcoming 2021 summer camps both Camp Laurel (serving youth affected by HIV/AIDS) and Camp Mulberry (serving transgender/gender diverse youth)! For our 2021 camps, we have additional regulations and policies put into place based on state and local guidelines and policies set by the American Camp Association. Every precaution will be taken to ensure the safety and health of everyone at camp this year. We know the kids need camp this summer and are working on how best to provide a safe program for all. Camp will be very different this year but it will be CAMP! We hope you can join us for this very special summer!
Aug. 7-14* | Serving youth affected by HIV/AIDS ages 6-17 | Angelus Oaks, CA
Camp Laurel will be held in the beautiful mountains of Angelus Oaks, California! Campers will be able to enjoy classic camp activities such as high ropes, hiking, canoeing, arts & crafts, and much more! We hope you can join us for this week of fun. Send email if interested: LHardiman@Laurel-Foundation.org
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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.
The popular and highly informative ANA COVID-19 webinar, "The State of COVID-19 Vaccine Development: What You Need to Know," is now also available as easy to access and view 5 to 15 minute videos.
The full 42-minute webinar covers unique aspects of the SARS CoV-2 virus and implications for vaccine development; phases of vaccine development and testing; and vaccine distribution. You can register to watch the full webinar and earn 1 hour of CNE.
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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 here.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
Majority of patients are receptive to interaction with robots for evaluating symptoms
News-Medical
In the era of social distancing, using robots for some health care interactions is a promising way to reduce in-person contact between health care workers and sick patients. However, a key question that needs to be answered is how patients will react to a robot entering the exam room. Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital recently set out to answer that question.
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4 unspoken truths about nurses, PTSD and the pandemic
Nurse.org
The seven PM applause has long faded. The word “hero,” along with the faces of nurses, is no longer used in commercials flooding our televisions. Thank you dinners and notes aren’t flooding the hospitals. COVID vaccine numbers are slowly starting to rise across the country and Americans are starting to remember what the world looked like before the pandemic, but the truth is that the devastating effects of the novel coronavirus continue to ravage the world, and the number of individuals that have succumbed to the disease is astounding.
Nurses fighting on the front lines have been battling COVID-19 for a year, but the true effects will be long lasting. The impact of the coronavirus on the nation has been unprecedented, and a similar battle is being fought by nurses — for their mental health .
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How to fight misconceptions about COVID-19 vaccines
Virginia Commonwealth University via Medical Xpress
While approval of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and now Johnson & Johnson comes as a beacon of hope, the government's rollout of these vaccines has been slower than expected. And many people, for a variety of reasons, are now contemplating whether they want to get vaccinated. A recent poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that one in three Americans said they would not get a COVID-19 vaccine. That type of hesitancy could hurt the chances of stopping the spread of the disease, which leading infectious disease scientists—including Anthony Fauci, M.D.—say can't happen without 70 to 85 percent of the U.S. population getting inoculated.
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Increased vaccine supply is a crucial step in eliminating the burden on nurses
FierceHealthcare
Vaccine distribution has dominated headlines since the new year—and rightfully so. We are now closer than ever to seeing the end of this pandemic. Much-needed relief for our nation’s hospital workers—especially nurses—is finally in sight, but we must be careful not to underestimate the amount of effort still needed to deliver hundreds of millions of vaccines over the next few months. As vaccination efforts ramp up and inevitably evolve, nurses and other healthcare providers will require thoughtful support to combat burnout that has been building for over a year.
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Travel nurses deal with stress, loneliness and mistrust while serving as a COVID-19 rapid deployment system
CNN
Travel nursing used to be an exciting opportunity to see new sights, but since the pandemic it has become a rapid deployment system for people who are looking to help those in need, said Sophia Morris, vice president of account management of the travel nurse agency Aya Healthcare.
Tens of thousands of nurses have met the increasing demand caused by the pandemic by traveling and accepting short contracts at hospitals that need them most.
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Top US health official says not time to end COVID-19 curbs
Medical Xpress
A top US health official warned March 3 that measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 had to stay in place if the pandemic is to be beaten, after Texas dropped its mask-wearing mandate. The United States has recorded over 500,000 deaths from the coronavirus, but has recently made progress with its vaccination plan, and some states are easing controls—triggering alarm from health experts and the federal government.
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Ebola outbreaks in DRC, Guinea prompt CDC rules for air passengers
Healio
The CDC said it will begin requiring airlines to collect information from air travelers entering the United States from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Guinea, where two separate Ebola outbreaks are ongoing.
The CDC also said that the U.S. government will funnel air passengers from the two countries through particular airports.
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Fine particulate matter from wildfire smoke more harmful than pollution from other sources
University of California - San Diego via EurekAlert!
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego examining 14 years of hospital admissions data conclude that the fine particles in wildfire smoke can be several times more harmful to human respiratory health than particulate matter from other sources such as car exhaust. While this distinction has been previously identified in laboratory experiments, the new study confirms it at the population level.
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High life satisfaction linked to better overall health
University of British Columbia via ScienceDaily
New research from UBC finds that higher life satisfaction is associated with better physical, psychological and behavioral health. The research, published recently in The Milbank Quarterly, found that higher life satisfaction is linked to 21 positive health and well-being outcomes.
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Many older adults keep and use leftover antibiotics
HealthDay News via Clinical Advisor
A sizable minority of older adults have used leftover antibiotics for a nonintended purpose, according to research published online in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
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We've gathered some of the biggest names in nursing advocacy to join us for our virtual conference. The host of "Bad Decisions Podcast", 2019 & 2020 ANA Innovation Award Winners, Sacramento Fire Captain, and others! Enjoy getting CEUs on your own time with our pre-recorded sessions!
