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.NURSING FLASH
VaxForce: New program recruits and matches health professional volunteers with vaccination efforts
VaxForce
HealthImpact is proud to announce the launch of VaxForce, the volunteer workforce management system that matches health professionals and students with vaccination operations throughout California. By making qualified staff available to agencies in need of health professionals and students, VaxForce is filling a critical need in the effort to get all Californians vaccinated. VaxForce’s volunteer workforce is comprised of licensed professionals as well as students in the fields of nursing, medicine, pharmacy, physician assistant, and dentistry who have reached out to offer their services.
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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
(Recap) BRN Oversight Sunset Hearing
ANA\C
The CA Legislature held Joint Hearing of the Senate Business, Profession, and Economic Development and the Assembly Business and Professions for Sunset Review Oversight of the BRN. Roxanne Gould, ANA\California's Lobbyist, testified during the public comments portion. Get the highlights below.
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#EndNurseAbuse Bill reintroduced (H.R. 1195)
ANA
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.
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Health Heroes launch #ThisIsOurShot campaign to promote COVID-19 vaccines, fight misinformation
Primary Care Collaborative
Tens of thousands of healthcare providers have united with other frontline workers and more than two dozen state and national organizations to launch #ThisIsOurShot, a campaign to build trust in COVID vaccines. As the nation’s vaccine supply increases, getting accurate information to those considering vaccination can help achieve herd immunity as quickly as possible. “Watching someone you know get vaccinated first makes you feel more comfortable getting vaccinated yourself. That’s powerful!” said Dr. Hussain Lalani, a Dallas-based internal medicine resident and co-founder of #ThisIsOurShot. “But we also know that misinformation is circulating online and failing to combat it can be lethal. #ThisIsOurShot is built on the premise that getting shots in arms is a team activity and we all have a role to play.”
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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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The Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Series: ANA IPC Fundamentals ECHO
ANA
Project ECHO™ (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a movement to demonopolize knowledge and amplify local capacity to provide best practice care for underserved people all over the world. The ECHO model is committed to addressing the needs of the most vulnerable populations by equipping communities with the right knowledge, at the right place, at the right time.
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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 four 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 19.
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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
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Ventilator Management
ANA
Part of ANA's skills-oriented and popular COVID-19 education series, the 65-minute webinar, "Ventilator Management: Essential Skills for Non-ICU Nurses," is now also available as easy to access and view eight- to 17-minute videos. This program presents key skills needed when caring for a patient on a ventilator.
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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 State of COVID-19 Vaccine Development: What You Need to Know
ANA
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 five- 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 one 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 young nurses overwhelmed, exhausted over the last year: 5 key survey findings
Becker's Hospital Review
About 71% of young nurses said they felt overwhelmed over the past year, according to survey results published recently — just ahead of the March 11 anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic's start.
The American Nurses Foundation, the charitable branch of the American Nurses Association, collected responses from 22,316 nurses between Jan. 19 and Feb. 16.
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Nurses have 'crucial' role in stroke care, from ED admission through discharge
Healio
The American Heart Association released a set of three scientific statements that outline the nurse’s role in the management of ischemic stroke, with separate statements for hyperacute/emergency care, the ICU and stroke units.
The scientific statements, which were announced in a press release from the American Heart Association, were published as three separate pieces in Stroke.
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Who will own the vaccines? A call for transparency and fair pricing
Yale University via Medical Xpress
Discussion of COVID-19 vaccines dominates the news: who will have access? When will they receive their shots? What's the difference between Pfizer and Moderna vaccines? But the topic seldom turns to costs and who will eventually own the rights to these critical technologies.
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COVID breath-testing — could it be next? Research says yes
University of Canterbury via Phys.org
Anyone who's experienced a sharp swab up the nose and a tense, isolated wait for results will surely be interested in a pain-free COVID test with a speedy result delivered in minutes, not days.
A new study led by University of Canterbury researchers at the Biomolecular Interaction Centre, along with Callaghan Innovation's Protein Science and Engineering team and MacDiarmid Institute researchers from Massey University, has shown it may be possible to detect COVID-19 in as little as five minutes, thanks to a simple breath test.
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U.S. Congress has clear opportunity to supercharge global health R&D, shows report
News-Medical
The U.S. Congress and Biden-Harris administration have a clear opportunity to supercharge global health research and development in the wake of a pandemic that has revealed both the sector's chronic neglect and amazing potential, according to a detailed agency-by-agency action plan released by the nonprofit Global Health Technologies Coalition.
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Task force: Start lung cancer screening at age 50 years, 20 pack-years of smoking
Healio
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued its final guidance on lung cancer screening, lowering the age to start screening to 50 years and the required smoking history to 20 pack-years. As an update to its 2013 guidance — which called for screening starting at age 55 years for those with at least a 30 pack-year smoking history — the USPSTF now recommends annual screening with low-dose CT for those aged 50 to 80 years and a 20 pack-year smoking history who currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years, in accordance with draft guidance issued in July. The task force also recommends screening cessation once a person has not smoked for 15 years or develops a health condition that limits their life expectancy or prevents them from undergoing lung surgery.
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Global battle against antibiotic resistance requires tailored solutions
Radboud University Medical Center via EurekAlert!
The global battle against antibiotic resistance can only succeed if local contexts are taken into account. "A tailored approach is needed in each country," says Heiman Wertheim of Radboud University Medical Center. "There is no 'one-size-fits-all' solution." This was the main finding of a study on antibiotic resistance in African and Asian countries funded by the British Wellcome Trust. Wertheim is the lead investigator of a large group of international researchers who recently published an article on this study in The Lancet Global Health.
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Driven by those who oppose vaccinations, measles outbreaks cost everyone money
HealthDay News
A single measles outbreak cost one U.S. county $3.4 million, a new government study estimates, underscoring the societal burden of inadequate vaccination rates.
The outbreak occurred in Clark County, WA, in early 2019, and ultimately infected 71 people — mostly children younger than 10 who hadn't received the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.
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Heart attack diagnosis missed in women more often than in men
European Society of Cardiology via EurekAlert!
Chest pain is misdiagnosed in women more frequently than in men, according to research presented at ESC Acute CardioVascular Care 2021, an online scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology. The study also found that women with chest pain were more likely than men to wait over 12 hours before seeking medical help.
"Our findings suggest a gender gap in the first evaluation of chest pain, with the likelihood of heart attack being underestimated in women," said study author Dr. Gemma Martinez-Nadal of the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain. "The low suspicion of heart attack occurs in both women themselves and in physicians, leading to higher risks of late diagnosis and misdiagnosis."
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Global study significantly underestimated prevalence of certain eating disorders
Healio
The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study should formally include binge-eating disorder and other specified feeding or eating disorders, according to study results published in The Lancet Psychiatry.
Doing so would have implications for government funding towards eating disorder research and healthcare, researchers noted.
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Swallowable capsule-camera instead of endoscopy: Now in patients
Medscape
A miniature camera the size of a capsule that is swallowed and that then transmits images of the inside of the gut can reveal cancer and gastrointestinal diseases. The device, which will be studied in a trial conducted by the National Health Service in England, is used by patients at home as a substitute for endoscopy.
"What sounds like sci-fi is now becoming a reality," said Sir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England. "These minute cameras pass through your body [and] they take two pictures per second checking for signs of cancer and other conditions like Crohn's disease."
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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!
