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By Keith Carlson
 With superlative clinical preparation grounded in time-tested nursing skills of assessment, diagnosis, communication and patient support, advanced practice registered nurses are in an excellent position to powerfully impact the availability of high-quality primary care to a rapidly aging population. As the population over 65 continues to grow during a shortage of geriatricians, APRNs can fill in the gaps, shoring up the healthcare infrastructure at a point of potential crisis.
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Monday, April 11, 2016
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Oct. 14-15, 2016
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Networking opportunities, Association Business and a dynamic lineup of speakers and topics.
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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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ANA
How often do you encounter patients in mental health crises? Healthcare providers often misperceive that they will only encounter patients experiencing mental health crises in busy emergency departments, on inpatient psychiatric units, or when working emergency hotlines. However, this is not the case in today’s changing healthcare landscape.
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ANA
When ANA launched our presidential endorsement campaign this year, we had no idea that we would be making history — but thousands of members like you cast your ballots, setting a record number of votes for this year's campaign.
The unprecedented participation in our endorsement campaign makes it clear that you have a message to share with the country: we need to support a candidate who will fearlessly fight for all of us.
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American Safety & Health Insitute
The first of GEI's Global Health spring break delegations have arrived in Vietnam. For a total of four successive weeks, master trainers Patty Kelly (newborn care) and Linda Bell (emergency cardiac care) and their changing teams are teaching at hospitals and universities in Binh Phuoc, Vinh, Anh Son, Tra Vinh and Ho Chi Minh City.
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Medscape (free login required)
A nurse made a decision to wait to carry out a medication administration order to protect a patient who might be pregnant. But is this legal?
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Advance Healthcare Network
Among physicians, there's an old joke that half of everything we know about medical practice is wrong, but, unfortunately, we don't know which half that is. Consumers are often unsettled to find that medical science does not progress in a linear fashion-particularly when they have already undergone a procedure or taken a medication that then falls out of favor.
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Medical Xpress
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University are challenging the convention that tetanus and diphtheria vaccine boosters need to be administered every 10 years. Their paper in Clinical Infectious Diseases recommends current adult vaccination schedule should be revisited. Researchers looked at the magnitude and duration of immunity to tetanus and diphtheria to provide an evidence-based evaluation of the current adult vaccine schedule. Their analysis shows adults will remain protected against tetanus and diphtheria for at least 30 years without the need for further booster shots, after completing the standard five-dose childhood vaccination series.
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Medical News Today
If you take long naps or feel particularly sleepy during the day, you could be on the way to developing high blood pressure, high cholesterol, excess fat around the waist and high blood sugar, all of which increase the risk of heart disease. These symptoms are collectively known as metabolic syndrome. These are the findings of research being presented at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session in Chicago.
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Health Leaders Media
CNOs rank evidence-based practice low on their priority lists even though its use is necessary to achieve their top goals of improving quality and safety. OSU's CNO shares specifics on how nurse execs can build EBP-friendly cultures.
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Advance for NPs & PAs
A diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder is no longer restricted to veterans returning from war. Given that 5.2 million Americans have experienced a traumatic event in their lifetimes and 6-10 percent of patients in primary care having PTSD, it may be beneficial to incorporate a screening for this condition in primary care. Primary care providers are in a unique position. They have an opportunity to diagnose PTSD in the acute phase, thus allowing the patient to start treatment early.
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Reuters
U.S. health officials are reminding healthcare workers to use standard protective gear when delivering babies to prevent possible infection with Zika or transmission of the virus to newborns.
The Zika virus that is quickly spreading in the Caribbean and the Americas is primarily transmitted by mosquito bites, but the virus has also been detected in body fluids, including blood, urine, amniotic fluid and saliva, and several cases of sexual transmission have occurred.
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MedPage Today
Critically ill children who received tube feeding for a week prior to starting intravenous nutrition had fewer infections and shorter hospital stays than children who began IV feeding shortly after admission, a small randomized trial found.
Children for whom parenteral nutrition was withheld until their eighth day in the ICU were associated with a rate of new infection 7.8 percentage points lower than children who received early parenteral nutrition.
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HealthDay News
Heart attack victims in the United States are becoming younger and fatter, a new study reveals.
The average age of people suffering the deadliest heart attacks fell from 64 years old to 60 years old over the past two decades, Cleveland Clinic researchers report. And obesity is now implicated in 40 percent of severe heart attacks.
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Infection Control Today
According to this week’s FluView report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, flu activity increased in the United States. The number of states reporting widespread flu activity increased from 37 to 40 and an additional eight influenza-associated pediatric deaths were reported this week. CDC recommends an annual flu vaccine for everyone 6 months of age and older. In late February, CDC reported flu vaccine effectiveness of nearly 60 percent this season. Vaccination is recommended as long as influenza viruses are still circulating.
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