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Discussions about virtual reality (VR) often center on the technology; specifically, sophisticated headsets like Oculus Rift, which was showcased at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). While VR is still in its infancy, many innovations will surface in 2016, supported by conversations about VR's health and medical applications. Experts predict that the VR market will soar to $15.89 billion by 2020, according to MarketsandMarkets.
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The Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP) recently selected 88 nurse practitioner (NP) leaders for induction to FAANP in June 2016. The new FAANP members will continue the tradition of impacting national and global health through their outstanding contributions. ANA/C would like to congratulate one of their members, Beth Haney, DNP, on being named one of AANP's fellows!
To read more about Beth, click here.
To read more about the 2016 AANP fellows, click here.
Monday, April 11, 2016
Registration opens March 4: www.anacalifornia.org
Don’t miss this energetic day full of procedural information, inside knowledge and expert wisdom. Together, we can break the barriers between nurse leaders and elected leaders!
Oct. 14-15, 2016
Redondo Beach, CA
Networking opportunities, Association Business and a dynamic lineup of speakers and topics.
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Celebrate National Nurses Week with gifts featuring the 2016 official theme, “Culture of safety..It starts with YOU” offered by The American Nurses Association and Jim Coleman, Ltd.
Free mini sample kit, a $49.99 value, with orders over $1,000. Enter to win a $100 Nurses Week sample kit.
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We're facing a new public health crisis in communities across America. Opioid overdoses have quadrupled since 2000. In areas of the country most impacted, restrictions on who can provide treatment have left patients without care when they need it most. Patients need treatment, no matter what disease they are suffering from – and nurses need the tools and resources to help patients recover.
That's why ANA is joining with a nationwide coalition of providers and advocates making recommendations to lawmakers on how to help nurses help their patients. Congress is talking a lot about this epidemic, and they're ready to listen to us – but our best chance to make an impact is to share the on-the-ground expertise of nurses like you.
Can you share your story now? Tell us: as a healthcare provider, have you had experience with opioid addiction?
Yes, I have direct experience.
No, but I want to be prepared.
ANA
Do you often feel tired or lack energy while “on the clock”? Traditional eight-hour workdays have long been a thing of the past for nurses as the condensed model of twelve-hour shifts has been embraced.
When surveyed about a condensed workweek, nurses continually report high levels of satisfaction, as they believe it improves their work-life balance. However, despite the popularity of the condensed workweek, the unpredictability of actual shift lengths often results in nurses putting in unplanned overtime beyond their scheduled week — which leads to burnout.
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By Keith Carlson
 As the population continues an aging process that will peak around 2050, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the nursing profession will itself continue to age. With a nursing shortage being reported in states around the U.S., retaining and leveraging the skills of older nurses is worth examining. A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2006 white paper strongly recommended practices for the retention of older nurses, as well as the harnessing of their individual and collective wisdom.
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ABC News
They were young Army nurses in World War II, sharing a room and experiences that forged an extraordinary bond.
A monsoon destroyed part of their hospital on a South Pacific island. They were swamped with the sick and wounded near the front lines. A disease outbreak killed colleagues. Yet Amelia "Mimi" Greeley and Ruth "Brownie" Girk survived, and so did a friendship that still spurs near nightly phone calls as both turn 100.
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By Scott E. Rupp
 The Health Care Cost Institute has released six policy briefs assessing the impact of national and state policies on healthcare costs and utilization, and the findings seem to span the entire range of the healthcare spectrum. There is one finding that seems to stand out: The entire reimbursement for telehealth services is nearly 40 percent lower than nontelehealth care. Though the other findings are not nearly as shocking, they are insightful to helping paint a fuller picture of healthcare.
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Medical Research
Previous work has shown that adequate vitamin D nutrition is associated with a lower risk of multiple sclerosis. Results from studies examining whether adequate vitamin D exposure during early-life are also associated with a lower risk of MS have been mixed. One study reported that daughters of mothers with high dietary vitamin D intake during their pregnancy had a reduced risk of multiple sclerosis, while two studies measuring 25-hydroxy vitamin D either in a blood sample from the pregnant mother or from a sample taken from the neonate, were not associated with future multiple sclerosis risk in the child.
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Health Leaders Media
In 2012, a study published in the Journal of Nursing Administration reported that nurses ranked resistance from nurse leaders and nurse managers as one of the top five barriers to implementing EBP. Now a new study published in Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing has found that, while chief nurse executives say they strongly believe EBP results in high-quality care, only 3 percent of the 276 CNOs and CNEs ranked EBP as a top priority. And 74 percent reported that they allocated zero to 10 percent of their annual operating budgets to build and sustain EBP in their organizations.
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GE Healthcare Camden Group
As healthcare providers scramble to adapt to changing government regulations, growing consolidation pressures, and the transformation from volume to value-based care, frustration with the patient experience is an increasing concern, according to “The State of Consumer Healthcare: A Study of Patient Experience from Prophet and GE Healthcare Camden Group,” which was published recently.
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By Katina Smallwood
 No one likes coming down with flu. And at the recent Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices conference in Atlanta, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released some promising data regarding this year's flu shot. Although flu season is not yet over, the shot has proven to be 59 percent effective so far, a marked improvement over the 20 percent effectiveness rate of last year's vaccine.
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News-Medical
Patients risk experiencing anxiety and fear when health care does not meet individual patients' needs. New approaches to reduce anxiety for instance over radiotherapy are needed and design research is well-suited to meet these challenges. This is according to a dissertation at Umeå University in Sweden.
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The Sentinel Watch
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has renewed its commitment to ending healthcare disparities with its #123forEquity Pledge to Act Campaign. More than 700 hospitals to date have signed on, pledging to increase cultural competency training and stratify at least one quality measure by race, ethnicity, income, or some other social determinant of health within 12 months of taking the pledge.
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MedPage Today
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging "relentless effort" to prevent healthcare-associated infections and especially those caused by antibiotic-resistant organisms, according to the agency's director, Tom Frieden, MD. "Healthcare professionals have the power to change the direction of antibiotic resistance nationally," Frieden told reporters in a telephone media briefing to discuss a Vitals Signs report on healthcare-associated infections. But to do so, they have to pay attention to preventing infections "every time they care for a patient," he said.
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Medical Daily
Fetuses in 29 percent of pregnant women with Zika virus infection were found to have a range of severe abnormalities, according to preliminary results from a small study that raised new concerns about the potential link between Zika and serious birth defects. The list of "grave outcomes" found in the study of pregnant women in Rio de Janeiro, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, included fetal death, calcification of the brain, placental insufficiency with low to no amniotic fluid, fetal growth restriction and central nervous system damage, including potential blindness.
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