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By Keith Carlson
 As a nurse, you have a breadth and depth of specialized knowledge that spans both the clinical and nonclinical. Whether you work in the ICU, hospice or school nursing, you hold significant expertise in your nursing brain. A nurse is more than just her clinically related knowledge. Have you ever considered how your non-nursing knowledge can feed and empower the nurse you are and make you a more effective clinician, researcher or educator?
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 On Monday April 3, 2017, ANA\C hosted its annual RN Day – A Day at the Capitol 2017. We had a slew of interesting and dynamic speakers, such us Kelley Johnson, BSN, RN [Miss Colorado 2015 & Show Me Your Stethoscope inspiration] and Dr. Joseph Morris, PhD, RN, the Executive Officer of the CA BRN. We were also fortunate to have Asm. Friedman, Sen. Dodd and Asm. Arambula to come and greet our nurses and nursing students!
Asm. Arambula spoke passionately about the public health needs of his Fresno district, Asm. Friedman expressed her appreciation for nurses as a cancer survivor herself, and Sen. Dodd spoke as the proud father of an L&D RN daughter.
From our 135 registered participants, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to Stephanie Smith, Melissa Byrne, Annie Tat for their selfless support & volunteering during the event. We would also like to acknowledge the extraordinary work our own Teresa Manquera did at the office preparing this event. Last but not least, our deep gratitude goes to Dr. Liz Dietz, ANA\C Legislative Director for her leadership. Thank you and see you back in 2018!
ANA\C needs you! Interested in working with CDC on a nation project? Interested in infection control, anti-microbial resistance, public policies and education?
Join our growing TASK FORCE and be the nurse leader others look up to. Check our NICE Network webpage and contact anac@anacalifornia.org to sign up.
We are looking forward to working with you!
What an exciting news! Next to the ANA – CDC national project where ANA\C is a proud partner even the United Nations announced the establishment of an Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). “As we enter the era of sustainable development, [we] would like to emphasize that antimicrobial resistance really does pose a formidable threat to the attainment of development, particularly in developing countries”. ANA & CDC recognized this threat and is hard at work to increase awareness and distribute appropriate data to combat infection control. Join ANA\C Task Force and become an EXPERT! Sign up at anac@anacalifornai.org. For more on the UN announcement, click here.
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Christian Karl Antonio (Daly City) Marijane Aquino (Rancho Cucamonga) Ghezahegn Asamere (Granada Hills) Kathy Banks (Hayward) Ma Cristina Batino (Pacifica) Andrew Bierman (Mission Viejo) Lauren Blanchard (Oakland) Tina Brasil (Watsonville) Maryann Campbell (Novato) Leonard Cazares (Moreno Valley) Francis Marie Comorposa (Escondido) I. Cristina Crafton (Glendale) Lisa Desocio (Fresno) Kristyl Dickerson (Whittier) Bryan Dunn (Shell Beach) Gayle Endo (Los Angeles) Florina Fernandes (Hollister) Roylyn Fernandez (Hercules) Ma Aryanna Francisco (Orange) Lisa Garrett-Stielau (El Cajon) Sandra Gavney (Mountain View) Thuyhong Geralde (Moorpark) Tamra Gorman (Taft) Maria Granados (San Diego) Yaming Gu (Pittsburg) Melissa Guillen (Rialto) Samantha Hastie (Stanford) Matthew Hinkle (San Carlos) Pamela Hockett (Tustin) Chris Holland (Huntington Beach) Zijie Huang (Los Angeles) Andrea Iversen (Annapolis) Donald Johnson (Laguna Niguel) Karin Kasuga (Davis) Danelle Kelley (Moreno Valley) Jodi Kushner (Folsom) Sandra Lacy (Burney) Reynaldo Lazaro (Redwood City) Maria Shary Ann (Lee Walnut) Alicia Lennon-Ashby (Bakersfield) Angela Louie (San Francisco) Kelly Ly (Glendale) Reina Mabanta (Fremont) Astghik Margaryan (Van Nuys) Billy Mendes (Downey) Selene Mendoza (San Jose) Carol Mero (Portola) Sharon Millerick (Cotati) Dolores Munoz (Yorba Linda) Richard Nicholson (California City) Lea O'Dell (Pacifica) Francine Pacente (Cathedral City) Tawny Patterson (Riverside) Deanna Phillips (Pacoima) Leslie Posada (Anaheim) Arvie Powell (Gardena) Andrea Powell (Modesto) Connie Quach (San Diego) Samuel Ramsey (San Diego) Kaori Reilly (Redlands) Merilee Rockefeller-Kolpaczyk (Monterey) Becky Rodkin (Reseda) Elizabeth Saez (Escondido) Lucila Salinas (Parlier) Sylvia Silva (Carson) Roxann Sparks (Merced) Theresa Stauffer (San Diego) Priscilla Trujillo (Valley Village) Teresa Turbyfill (Twentynine Palms) Stephanie Vargas (Buena Park) Sarah Wanzer (Hanford) Nicholas Weitzel (San Diego) Tiffany Weitzman (San Jose) Laura Zoelle (West Covina)
The American Nurses Association has developed a webinar series designed exclusively for New RNs in their first years of practice and soon-to-graduate nursing students: How to Thrive in Your First Year as an RN.
The first webinar, How to Bounce Back After Challenges at the Bedside will be held on April 26, from 12:00 to 1:30 pm ET.
Register now! — attendance is FREE
- The American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) has posted its draft acute care nurse practitioner scope of practice, standards of practice and standards of professional performance for public comment at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5GXW9XK. Please access the files and provide your recommendations and comments for each section before the closing deadline of April 7, 2017.
- ANA’s Committee on Nursing Practice Standards seeks public comment on its “Draft Recognition of a Nursing Specialty, Approval of a Specialty Nursing Scope of Practice Statement, Acknowledgment of Specialty Nursing Standards of Practice, and Affirmation of Focused Practice Competencies.” This 2017 document will replace and reflects significant revision of ANA’s 2010 “Recognition of a Nursing Specialty, Approval of a Specialty Nursing Scope of Practice Statement, and Acknowledgment of Specialty Nursing Standards of Practice.” Access the draft document and response survey at www.nursingworld.org/PublicComment-DraftRecognitionNursingSpecialty. Please use this opportunity to contribute to ANA’s focus on transparency and recognition of the important insights of public examination of its products. Do encourage colleagues, students, organizations and other stakeholders to also review and submit comments. The closing date for submission of comments is midnight EDT April 24, 2017.
Please see the latest announcement from ANA’s Healthy Nurse Healthy Nations [HNHN] with April’s focus STRESS (the invisible enemy). Nurses, physicians, CNAs, PTs, OTs, LVNs, PAs - you name it seeing how we are a part of an interdisciplinary team - we all deal with stress on daily basis. Recent studies show more than 80% of incidence of ‘high’ or ‘much increased’ stress levels at work for nurses and that number goes even higher after crisis situations such as resuscitation or death of a patient. In order to combat it, first we must acknowledge it and talk about it because just because we don’t see it does not mean it is not there, silently killing us. AHNA Also offers a TOOL KIT! For more information, click here.
| | EDUCATIONAL EVENTS & RESEARCH |
April 20, 2017 | 12-1 p.m. Pacific Time | Register here
Over the past six years, employers have shifted from reporting a surplus of nurses to suggesting there is a shortage. How do these reports align with national data, and with state and national forecasts? How are changes in our national and state health care system affecting RN employment? Will health care providers be able to hire all the RNs needed now and in the long term?
Join us for a webinar to discuss these questions and their answers. We will describe the latest findings from the UCSF survey of nurse employers, the Hospital Association of Southern California’s hospital vacancy and turnover survey, HealthImpact’s Survey of New Graduate RNs, and other recently-released data. Please share the registration link with any you feel might be interested.
| | NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY |
By Jason Poquette
 When I graduated from pharmacy school almost 25 years ago, filling prescriptions for opioids in a community setting wasn't a topic of great concern. We did it. We made sure the dosing was appropriate and counseled the patients about side effects. We knew about forged prescriptions and probably caught some. But today's pharmacists must take many more things into consideration whenever we fill a prescription for a controlled substance.
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Forbes
In 2014, an event occurred that forever transformed online communication. For the first time ever, mobile internet use became more common than PC/desktop browsing. Simply put, more people began to use mobile devices to connect with businesses, organizations, and the healthcare industry. In the healthcare industry, one of the keys to success for any hospital is its ability to communicate with patients, clinicians, and other stakeholders. How can the use of cutting-edge technology improve these communication processes?
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Medscape (free login required)
Burnout is prevalent among not only physicians and nurses but also clinical associates and office staff, and new data quantify the working conditions that are associated with the high rates.
Overall, 41 percent of primary care team members working in a Veterans Affairs (VA) patient-centered medical home report burnout, report Christian D. Helfrich, PhD, MPH, from the Seattle-Denver Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Washington, and colleagues.
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By Joan Spitrey
 Just as the new international Surviving Sepsis guidelines come to publication this month, a Virginia physician becomes a small voice for practice change among his peers. Dr. Peter Marik believes he may have stumbled upon a possible aid in the survivability of sepsis. In his recent study in the CHEST Journal, Marik and his colleagues describe their success with the use of intravenous vitamin C, hydrocortisone and thiamine in their patients with septic shock.
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Becker's ASC Review
Nurse leadership is a key aspect of any ASC's success; they oversee clinical quality and help establish the safety culture of a facility. They are also instrumental in ensuring high-quality patient experience.
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Medical News Today
When it comes to oral contraceptives, women often hear about the increased cancer risk they pose. A new study, however, finds that the using birth control pills may protect against certain cancers for at least 30 years. From an analysis of more than 46,000 women, researchers from the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom found that women who had ever used oral contraceptive pills were at lower risk of colorectal, ovarian, and endometrial cancers, compared with women who had never used the pill.
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By Terry Lynam
 Not all opioid antagonists come in a bottle. Some behavioral healthcare providers are fighting the scourge of opioid abuse by equipping colleagues, patients, families and community partners against the epidemic. "The demand for substance-abuse services is skyrocketing, and a large driver of that is the opioid-abuse problem," said Bruce Goldman, LCSW, director of substance-abuse services at Zucker Hillside Hospital in New York. "I've been in this field for many years, and I've never seen so many sudden, tragic deaths of otherwise healthy, young, productive people."
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Becker's ASC Review
PracticeMatch released a survey on nurse practitioner and physician assistant compensation and career satisfaction. The survey included more than 1,000 NP and PA respondents. Thirty-eight percent of NPs and 44 percent of PAs report being very satisfied in their current roles; one-fourth of the total respondents said they were extremely satisfied and only 6 percent said they were unsatisfied.
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HealthDay News
Heroin use in the United States jumped fivefold over a decade, and young, white males are the epidemic's most likely victims, a new study finds.
One addiction specialist blamed the lax use of prescription opioid painkillers — narcotics such as Oxycontin, Percocet and Vicodin — for the surge in heroin use.
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By Christina Thielst
 Patient portals and the functionality they offer have the potential to increase access to service, improve convenience and more effectively engage patients and consumers. They can also increase efficiencies for both patients and their providers. Unfortunately, some of those who have adopted patient portals complain that they have made the investment, only to realize low adoption and utilization rates. So, why might patients not be using your patient portal?
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