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.NURSING FLASH
.HIGHLIGHTS
TODAY! 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 urge CA Senate to pass mental health resilience bill for healthcare workers
Nurse.org
Beatrice Adegboyega BSN, RN, PCCN on behalf of American Nurses Association\California
Everyone has been affected by the pandemic in one way or another. Healthcare workers in particular have been on the frontlines for nearly two years and the mental health consequences associated with everyday factors are becoming more evident.
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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
Nurse stands trial for deadly medical error
MedPage Today
Nurses worry conviction could set precedent as the profession struggles with burnout, exhaustion. The trial of a nurse facing criminal charges for a deadly medical error got underway in Nashville, TN, recently, and it's raising concerns among nurses about the precedent it could set — particularly at a time when they're struggling with lingering burnout and exhaustion.
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National ANA's Statement on Nurse RaDonda Vaught
ANA
A jury recently convicted former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught of criminally negligent homicide and impaired adult abuse after she mistakenly administered the wrong medication that killed a patient in 2017.
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20% of households have medical debt, totaling $88 billion
HealthLeaders Media
A report released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) estimates nearly $88 billion in past-due medical bills for the 2021 year. Additionally, the report found that 20% of households in the United States have medical debt.
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Closing the healthcare gender gap can save lives
HealthLeaders Media
Discussions of a "gender gap" often tend to focus on wages or workplace opportunities, but there's an equally insidious type of gender gap that can impact healthcare — and it can take a costly and sometimes deadly toll.
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.NURSE WELLNESS
Purpose and meaning are essential to creating joy in healthcare workplaces
HealthLeaders Media
"Creating joy directly is not a goal that I would try to pursue. It is really about cultivating a workplace where meaning and purpose thrive — that creates the space for joy to exist."
— Elizabeth Goelz, MD, associate director of the Hennepin Healthcare Institute for Professional Worklife
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
New burn nursing specialty certification expected by 2023
Nurse.org
The American Burn Association in conjunction with the Board of Certification of Emergency Nurses is developing the first and only burn certification for registered nursing. The Certified Burn Registered Nurse is expected to be available by 2023. “Following years of extraordinary advocacy by the American Burn Association and the burn nursing community to set the stage for a burn nursing-specific professional credential, and knowing the impact specialty certification has on ensuring optimal patient safety and outcomes as well as nurse success and satisfaction, BCEN is honored to take on this important endeavor,” said BCEN CEO Janie Schumaker, MBA, BSN, RN, CEN, CENP, CPHQ, FABC.
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BA.2 is behind more than 1 in 3 COVID cases in U.S.
Medscape
More than a third of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are now caused by the Omicron subvariant BA.2.
Although the proportion of BA.2 cases is increasing, overall infections are still declining from the record highs seen in January, according to Reuters.
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Small airways disease may persist for many with long COVID
Healio
Small airways disease was common in patients with persistent symptoms following COVID-19, independent of severity of initial infection, according to a single-center study published in Radiology.
“For the first time, we’re describing small airways disease in this population of COVID-19 patients with persistent symptoms,” Alejandro P. Comellas, MD, professor of internal medicine and faculty in the division of pulmonary, critical care and occupational medicine at Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, said in a related press release. “Something is going on in the distal airways related to either inflammation or fibrosis that is giving us a signal of air trapping.”
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FDA details problems at plant behind recalled baby formula
Medscape
Baby formula maker Abbott failed to maintain sanitary conditions and procedures at the Michigan manufacturing plant recently linked to a cluster of infant illnesses, according to findings released March 22 by federal safety inspectors.
The Food and Drug Administration posted its initial inspection findings from the Abbott plant that's been tied to several infant hospitalizations, including two deaths, due to a rare bacterial infection. Abbott recalled various lots of three popular powdered infant formulas in mid-February. FDA inspectors have been on-site inspecting the Sturgis, MI, facility since late January.
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TB cases declined in U.S. during pandemic
HealthDay News
Reported cases of tuberculosis dropped significantly across the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, but delayed or missed diagnoses may have contributed to the decline.
"Delayed or missed tuberculosis disease diagnoses are threatening the health of people with TB disease and the communities where they live," said Dr. Philip LoBue, director of the division of tuberculosis elimination at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Polio vaccination campaign kicks off in Malawi and neighboring countries
News-Medical
A vaccination campaign targeting 23 million children has kicked off in Malawi and neighboring countries to contain an outbreak of wild polio declared last month, the World Health Organization says.
Malawi confirmed a fresh outbreak of the virus — the first in the country for 30 years — on Feb. 17 after a three-year-old girl developed acute paralysis, triggering concerns of a major outbreak.
The wild poliovirus type 1 case was genetically linked to samples of patients analyzed in 2020 in Sindh, a province of Pakistan where this type of the virus is endemic.
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Study connects shorter course of antibiotics to fewer antibiotic resistance genes
American Society for Microbiology via EurekAlert!
Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem worldwide that threatens the efficacy of available treatments and can lead to extended hospital stays and increased mortality. Researchers have long sought ways to address the problem. Given that antibiotic use fuels resistance, reducing antibiotic use offers an appealing strategy for curbing resistance.
“It makes sense intuitively,” said epidemiologist Melinda Pettigrew, Ph.D, at the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, CT, but limited data exist on how treatment duration affects resistance genes. The ultimate goal, she said, is to find an optimal dosage that reduces the use of antibiotics without compromising the health of patients.
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Racial minorities are less likely to receive CPR when they need it
American College of Cardiology via EurekAlert!
Black and Hispanic individuals who experience a witnessed cardiac arrest at home or in public are substantially less likely than white individuals to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation from a bystander, according to a study being presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 71st Annual Scientific Session.
Nearly 1,000 Americans suffer from cardiac arrest outside of the hospital each day, with most occurring at home. People who receive CPR immediately are two to three times more likely to survive with brain functioning intact compared to those who do not receive CPR immediately. This nationwide study found that Black and Hispanic individuals were 41% less likely than white individuals to receive CPR when suffering cardiac arrest in public and 26% less likely to receive CPR when the cardiac arrest occurred at home.
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New method of pancreatic islet cryopreservation marks breakthrough for diabetes cure research
University of Minnesota via Medical Xpress
Engineering and medical researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Mayo Clinic have developed a new process for successfully storing specialized pancreatic islet cells at very low temperatures and rewarming them, enabling the potential for on-demand islet transplantation. The breakthrough discovery in cryopreservation is a major step forward in a cure for diabetes.
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Statin use in older adults linked to lower risk for parkinsonism
Healio
Older adults had a 16% lower risk for developing parkinsonism after taking statins for six years compared with those not on statins, a report published in Neurology showed.
“Our results suggest people using statins may have a lower risk of parkinsonism, and that may be partly caused by the protective effect statins may have on arteries in the brain,” Shahram Oveisgharan, MD, assistant professor of neurological sciences at Rush Medical College in Chicago, said in a press release from the American Academy of Neurology. “Our results are exciting, because movement problems in older adults that come under the umbrella of parkinsonism are common, often debilitating and generally untreatable.”
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A non-hormonal pill could soon expand men's birth control options
American Chemical Society via Medical Xpress
Women have many choices for birth control, ranging from pills to patches to intrauterine devices, and partly as a result, they bear most of the burden of preventing pregnancy. But men's birth control options — and, therefore, responsibilities — could soon be expanding. Now, scientists report a non-hormonal male contraceptive that effectively prevents pregnancy in mice, without obvious side effects.
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