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Becker's Hospital Review
Hospital and health system boards increasingly need members with clinical experience to meet the governance needs of today's industry to help their organizations improve care quality, address population health and reduce costs.
Nurses, however, despite playing a vital role in patient care delivery, have not traditionally had these board opportunities. According to the most recent American Hospital Association governance data, from 2014, nurses make up only 6 percent of hospital board members.
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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.
 Our own Liz Dietz, the Chairwoman of ANA PAC Presidential Committee , met with Congresswoman Debbie W. Schultz recently!
At the end of February 2016, ANA reached out to all its members inviting them to e-VOTE for their presidential candidate on ANA website. The voting booth was closed just before the Super Tuesday on March 2, 2016, and we are awaiting the results!
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| | NEWS FROM ANA & AROUND CALIFORNIA |
ANA
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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Script Your Future
ANA\C is a partner of Script Your Future and its Steering Committee.
Script Your Future California will begin expanding outreach efforts throughout the state, collaborating with coalition partners to educate and inform people about the importance of taking medication as directed. Efforts will focus on retiree and community-based organizations, and labor groups interested in providing free health programming, education, and training for members.
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ANA Enterprise
Today, the nursing workforce consists of nearly 3.4 million registered nurses, and there will be far more registered nurse jobs available than jobs in any other profession through 2022, at more than 100,000 per year in the United States alone. We know that our organization must continue to grow, flourish, and change as well, in order to fearlessly lead nurses forward.
As the organizing structure of ANA, the Foundation, and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the ANA Enterprise will leverage the combined strength of each organization to drive excellence in practice and ensure the voice and vision of nurses are recognized.
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Health Leaders Media
If there's one thing healthcare leaders can agree on, it's that a good RN is hard to find. But sometimes, the bigger challenge is keeping them onboard once they've been discovered. Between the constant pressure to do more with less and the long hours and heavy workload expected of nurses, it's no surprise that nurse burnout is prevalent. "Nurses are at risk for burnout due to the demands of the role of a nurse today," says Rusty McNew, RN, regional chief nurse executive for the Texas region at Tenet Healthcare Corporation.
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Medical Xpress
A novel technique to use the body's natural sodium (salt) content to provide a more detailed picture of tissue health and disease is to be pioneered by MRI experts at The University of Nottingham. Current clinical MRI uses hydrogen in the body's water and fat to produce scans, but this does not provide all the information about tissue health and disease progression stages. Sodium ions naturally occurring in the body are much smaller than water molecules and are involved in many body functions associated with pathology. Sodium MRI has great potential to be a useful new high and ultra-high field scanning target in the future.
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Kaiser Health News
Encouraging doctors and nurses to wash their hands frequently has always been considered an easy and effective way to curb the spread of infection in hospitals and other health facilities.
But a new research letter published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine points to another key group of people who aren’t always keeping their hands so clean and, it turns out, probably should: patients.
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MedPage Today
Current asthma prevalence among obese women in the U.S. is almost double that of normal-weight women, but the same association was not seen in men, according to a CDC report.
In 2011–2014, obese women had a 14.6 percent prevalence for asthma versus 7.9 percent for normal-weight women and 9.1 percent for overweight women, reported Lara Akinbami, MD, of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) in Atlanta, and colleagues. Current asthma prevalence did not differ significantly by weight status for men.
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MedPage Today
A substantial portion of E. coli urinary tract infections (UTIs) in children were resistant to commonly used antibiotics, both in first world countries and less developed parts of the world, according to a meta-analysis. In an analysis of 58 studies from 26 countries that documented antibiotic resistance in pediatric UTIs, resistance rates to ampicillin, cotrimoxazole and trimethoprim in first world countries came in at 53.4 percent, 30.2 percent and 23.6 percent pooled resistance, respectively, researchers reported.
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Internal Medicine News
The closer that older adults come to meeting the American Heart Association's "ideal" targets for seven factors that determine cardiovascular health, the lower their risk for cognitive decline, according to a report published online March 16 in Journal of the American Heart Association.
A secondary analysis of data from a prospective population-based cohort study of stroke risk demonstrated that better alignment with the AHA's "Life’s Simple 7" cardiovascular health metrics correlated with less decline in mental processing speed, and, to a lesser extent, in executive function and episodic memory.
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Medical Xpress
Recent medical advances have resulted in increased survival of children with complex medical conditions (CMC), such as cerebral palsy, complex chromosomal anomalies, major congenital heart diseases and respiratory disease. Healthcare services for this population are complex and include frequent transitions across inpatient, outpatient, subspecialty and community settings with poor coordination of care, contributing to increased hospital use. Quantifying severity of illness and intensity of service needs have typically used taxonomies designed for adult patients.
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ANA
In order to provide optimal conditions for patient safety, nurses must first understand how safety relies on staffing levels and quality of care. At the closing plenary session at the 2016 ANA Conference nurses discussed tips and tools to make the connection between quality, staffing and safety.
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News-Medical
Though hospitals are making strides in avoiding central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), a report released March 16 shows patients are still experiencing these serious, and sometimes fatal, infections too frequently. This is the first in a series of five in-depth reports examining key quality and safety measures at hospitals nationwide based on data from the 2015 Leapfrog Hospital Survey with analysis by Castlight Health.
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By Joan Spitrey
 Nursing is a hands-on profession. Highly trained and educated, nurses are the true caregivers to patients in hospitals, homes and communities. Although the healthcare industry has grown exponentially with technology, there certainly is still room for improvement. Many nurses have gone to work and thought to themselves, "There has got to be a better way to do this." The first nurse hackathon aims to help by bringing the value of nursing innovation to the forefront.
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