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.NURSING FLASH
New events are happening with ANA\C. Don't forget to mark your calendars!
ANA\C
• Webinar: Increasing Nurses’ Participation in Legislative Policymaking - 4-Part Series (Starting on March 3, 2022)
• Webinar: Care Incarcerated - March 17, 2022
• Virtual Lobby Day: Pre-Licensure Nursing Student Day - April 4, 2022
• Virtual The Future is Now: Nurses Advancing Health Equity - General Assembly - April 24, 2022
• Virtual RN Day at the State Capital - April 25, 2022
RSVP for the events here.
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.HIGHLIGHTS
Dr. Lorna Breen Healthcare Provider Protection Act signed into law
The White House
On Friday, March 18, 2022, the President signed into law, H.R. 1667, the “Dr. Lorna Breen Healthcare Provider Protection Act,” which authorizes programs to improve mental and behavioral health among healthcare providers. This includes $135 million in federal funding for mental health education and awareness campaigns aimed at protecting the well-being of healthcare workers.
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Coming soon: BRN Advisory Committee Meeting
California Board of Registered Nursing
An agenda has been posted to the Board of Registered Nursing’s website for its March 29, 2022, Advanced Practice Registered Nursing Advisory Committee Meeting.
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Nurses to Joint Commission: Require safe staffing levels for accreditation
Becker's Hospital Review
Nurses across the country are calling on The Joint Commission to require "safe staffing ratios" as a condition of accreditation for healthcare facilities, the Chicago Tribune reported March 15. The nurses, working with an advocacy group called Impact in Healthcare, are also urging the accrediting body to create a clinician-led task force to determine appropriate staffing levels for various healthcare settings, annually report hospitals' compliance with staffing ratios, and conduct peer-reviewed research on the topic.
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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
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.COVID CORNER
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10 recommendations to improve pandemic preparedness
HealthLeaders Media
Federal, state, and local policymakers have a lot of work to do to prepare the country for the next pandemic, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) says in a new report.
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.NURSE WELLNESS
Blue light and sleep for nurses
American Nurse
Healthy sleep holds as much significance as diet and exercise to optimal health and well-being. Poor or insufficient sleep has been associated with increased risk for motor vehicle accidents, work injuries, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, depression, and other mental health disorders.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
Doctors and nurses highlight what is needed to fill gaps and future-proof the healthcare system
News-Medical
Thousands of doctors and nurses from across the globe reveal what is needed to fill gaps and future-proof today’s healthcare system in a new report from Elsevier Health, published two years after the COVID-19 pandemic began. The comprehensive “Clinician of the Future” report, conducted in partnership with Ipsos, uncovers just how undervalued doctors and nurses feel and their call for urgent support such as more skills training — especially in the effective use of health data and technology; preserving the patient-doctor relationship in a changing digital world; and recruiting more healthcare professionals into the field. Their voices have been elevated in this first global, multiphase research report to not only understand where the healthcare system is following the COVID-19 pandemic, but where it needs to be in 10 years to ensure a future that both providers and patients deserve.
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The importance of soft skills
DailyNurse
The medical field relies upon teams of highly skilled workers. From clinical competency to medical administration, everyone who is a part of a patient’s care has to be well trained and able to carry out their particular role to a high standard. However, nurses in particular also need an array of soft skills to achieve their maximum potential in the medical field.
Soft skills are those skills that don’t necessarily require formal training and can be used in an array of situations. They are “core” skills and act like glue to help everything else work smoothly. In fact, 91% of organizations want more soft skills, cited as one of the four major trends transforming workplaces.
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WHO predicts COVID could still 'echo around the world'
Medscape
After several weeks of declines in new reported cases of COVID-19, the numbers are increasing globally once again, particularly in parts of Asia and Western Europe, the World Health Organization says.
"These increases are occurring despite reductions in testing in some countries, which means the cases we're seeing are just the tip of the iceberg," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said at a news briefing March 16.
As a result, local outbreaks and surges in COVID-19 cases are likely, "particularly in areas where measures to prevent transmission have been lifted," he said.
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16 million people may lose Medicaid coverage when public health emergency ends
Healio
Almost 16 million Americans who enrolled in Medicaid during the public health emergency could lose coverage when the emergency declaration ends, data show.
The findings are from a report by the Urban Institute with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Urban Institute previously estimated that about 15 million Americans could lose coverage when the emergency declaration ends, Healio reported.
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Big U.S. gene database has volunteers from all walks of life
Medical Xpress
Scientists are getting their first peek at the genes of nearly 100,000 Americans in what's considered a uniquely diverse genomic database — part of a quest to reduce health disparities and end cookie-cutter care.
The National Institutes of Health released the data recently to help researchers start unraveling how people's genes, environments and lifestyles interact to drive their health. And half the study's participants are from racial and ethnic groups historically left out of medical research.
That diversity "will add a kind of knowledge that just isn't out there," said Dr. Josh Denny, who heads the NIH's massive "All of Us" study that eventually aims to have such data from one million Americans.
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Study finds methadone the most effective drug in medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder
Case Western Reserve University via Medical Xpress
Medications for opioid-use disorder are associated with lower death rates and improved quality of life for people in recovery.
But which of the most commonly used medications for OUD are most effective? And how does that effectiveness improve when coupled with behavioral therapy?
A new study, conducted with Case Western Reserve University, and recently published in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, examined those questions in hopes of improving recovery rates for what has become a national epidemic. The research found that, overwhelmingly, methadone was associated with the lowest risk of treatment discontinuation, followed by buprenorphine, then naltrexone. Among patients on buprenorphine, after a period of time, the risk of discontinuation of treatment was similar to that of methadone.
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Hospital mortality from non-SARS-CoV-2 causes up among seniors
HealthDay News
Among Medicare beneficiaries, there was an increase in mortality rates in the 30 days after hospital admission for non-SARS-CoV-2 causes during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online recently in JAMA Network Open.
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More countries eliminate maternal, neonatal tetanus
Healio
Maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination has been achieved by 80% of the 59 countries identified in 1999 as being still at risk for the infection, according to a report published in MMWR.
In addition to 47 countries eliminating maternal and neonatal tetanus — Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are the newest additions to the list — reported neonatal tetanus cases decreased by 88% and estimated deaths by 92% from 2000 to 2020, according to the authors.
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New ACC guidance on cardiovascular consequences of COVID-19
Medscape
The American College of Cardiology has issued an expert consensus clinical guidance document for the evaluation and management of adults with key cardiovascular consequences of COVID-19.
The document makes recommendations on how to evaluate and manage COVID-associated myocarditis and long COVID and gives advice on resumption of exercise following COVID-19 infection.
The clinical guidance was published online recently in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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If blood pressure rises upon standing, so may risk for heart attack
American Heart Association via EurekAlert!
Among young and middle-aged adults with high blood pressure, a substantial rise in blood pressure upon standing may identify those with a higher risk of serious cardiovascular events, such as heart attack and stroke, according to new research published recently in the American Heart Association’s peer-reviewed journal Hypertension.
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Younger patients with appendicitis are more likely to have cancer of the appendix
American College of Surgeons
Although appendectomy is still the most effective treatment for acute appendicitis, nonoperative management is increasingly common, as recent studies have shown that antibiotics can be an effective initial treatment for many patients. A new analysis of cases in the National Cancer Database finds, however, that there is an increased risk of cancer of the appendix for younger patients. The increase appears to be driven by a rise in carcinoids, a slow-growing type of neuroendocrine tumor, according to study findings published online as an article in press in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
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