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.NURSING FLASH
ANA Nightingale Tribute: Honoring Nurses Who Have Passed Away
ANA\C
Deadline to submit names is: April 25, 2022
The Nightingale Tribute, held annually during ANA’s Membership Assembly, honors registered nurses or licensed vocational nurses who have died during the past year.
If you know of a nurse who has passed away since June 2021, please submit his/her full name and the year of passing to anac@anacalifornia.org to be added for the tribute presentation.
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.HIGHLIGHTS
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The 12-month Online RN-BSN program provides students, who are current RNs, the opportunity for educational and professional advancement. This program is designed to meet the needs of working registered nurses in providing them new perspectives by learning from other nurses. Students will be able to apply real-world solutions in their current positions immediately.
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Pre-Licensure Lobby Day for Nursing Students (Recording)
ANA\C
This event was held on April 4, 2022, in partnership with the California Nursing Student Association (CNSA) and was for all pre-licensure nursing students in California to discuss legislation, regulation, and policy directly impacting healthcare.
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Nurse advocacy through media communications
American Nurse
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the media has shared images of nurses donning trash bags as protective clothing when supplies ran out and bearing facial marks from long hours wearing masks and respirators.
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Sutter nurses plan 1-day walkout at 3 Sacramento-area hospitals over staffing, PPE
Sacramento Bee
Nurses and other healthcare workers at Sutter Health plan a one-day walkout at three Sacramento-area hospitals and 12 others statewide recently after contract negotiations stalled, union leaders said. “The Sutter nurses voted for this strike,” said Renee Waters, a registered nurse who works in the intensive care unit. “We are striking because Sutter is not transparent about the stockpile of PPE supplies and contact tracing. They resist having nurses directly involved in planning and implementation of policies that affect all of us during a pandemic.”
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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
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As violence against nurses escalates, new measures seek to curb it
Medscape
Nurses are the ones most affected by violence in the healthcare workplace because they provide the most care. Although there is a perception that most violence occurs in the emergency department or on psych units, it most often happens in a patient's room, former AACN board member Anna Dermenchyan told Medscape. "It happens in the room and on regular floors, places where nurses may be alone with the patient and in close proximity."
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Amazon wants a hospital C-leader whisperer
Becker's Hospital Review
Amazon is looking to hire a health executive adviser with a clinical operations background and experience working with healthcare provider organizations and their C-level teams.
The adviser would serve as a liaison between non-profit healthcare organizations and Amazon Web Services to drive the adoption of cloud technology in the sector.
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.NURSE WELLNESS
Nurse.org launches exclusive online community for nurses — here's how to join:
Nurse.org
Want to connect with fellow nurses and nursing students? Ready to join a community of nurses that supports and uplifts, shares hilarious stories from the bedside, get first access to the latest information around healthcare, and can join live streams by our very own Nurse Alice and other community leaders? Welcome to Nurse.org’s new Nurse Network.
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Nurses: An unstoppable force
American Nurse
We’ve entered the third year of a global pandemic combined with increasing staff shortages, and nurses continue to demonstrate their fortitude, compassion, and professionalism. This year’s All Pro Nursing Team Award submissions proved that point. Over 40 teams shared their stories, projects, successes, and plans for the future.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
Why nurses are raging and quitting after the RaDonda Vaught verdict
NPR
Emma Moore felt cornered. At a community health clinic in Portland, OR, the 29-year-old nurse practitioner said she felt overwhelmed and undertrained. Coronavirus patients flooded the clinic for two years, and Moore struggled to keep up.
Then the stakes became clear. On March 25, about 2,400 miles away in a Tennessee courtroom, former nurse RaDonda Vaught was convicted of two felonies and now faces eight years in prison for a fatal medication mistake.
Like many nurses, Moore wondered if that could be her. She'd made medication errors before, although none so grievous. But what about the next one? In the pressure cooker of pandemic-era health care, another mistake felt inevitable.
Four days after Vaught's verdict, Moore quit. She said the verdict contributed to her decision.
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The oncology shortage is here. Rural areas face an uphill battle
Medscape
Two thirds of rural counties lack an oncologist, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology's 2020 State of the Oncology Workforce in America report. That leaves about 32 million Americans without a cancer specialist nearby.
The pandemic has brought the oncology staffing crunch into sharper focus, as doctors opt to retire or leave medicine early and patients who delayed screenings or treatment in 2020 are now presenting with more advanced, resource-intensive cancers. Rural areas are among the hardest hit by the oncology shortage, said Barbara L. McAneny, MD, CEO at New Mexico Cancer Center, which provides cancer care at multiple sites across the state.
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FDA panel meets to craft future vaccine strategy
Medical Xpress
An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will meet April 13 to discuss the best way forward with coronavirus vaccines, as evidence grows that variants are eroding the power of the country's current shots.
"As we prepare for future needs to address COVID-19, prevention in the form of vaccines remains our best defense against the disease and any potentially severe consequences," Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in a news release announcing the panel meeting last month.
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How worried should you be about BA.2?
Northeastern University via Medical Xpress
The Omicron variant swept around the globe, bringing a significant surge in COVID-19 cases and a resurgence of public health concerns about the pandemic a few months ago. That wave has long since receded, but the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has further mutated.
Now, after spurring another wave of cases in Europe, the BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has been declared the dominant strain by the World Health Organization. In several major cities in the U.S., scientists have detected elevated levels of BA.2 in wastewater surveillance and are monitoring COVID-19 cases there.
But that doesn't mean this mutated version of the Omicron variant is on the verge of causing another massive wave of cases, says Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute and Sternberg Family Distinguished Professor at Northeastern.
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U.S. life expectancy drops for 2nd year in a row
HealthDay News
Researchers report that life expectancy in the United States dropped in 2021, continuing a troubling trend that began in the first year of the pandemic.
Specifically, average U.S. life expectancy tumbled from 78.86 years in 2019 to 76.99 in 2020. It then fell by a smaller amount in 2021, to 76.60 years, the new report found.
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WHO calls for action as unhealthy air quality impacts 99% of global population
Healio
WHO updated its air quality database to include ground measurements of annual mean concentrations of nitrogen dioxide, as well as measurements of particulate matter with diameters equal to or smaller than 10 μm or 2.5 μm.
According to the organization, nearly the entire global population breathes unhealthy levels of nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter, both of which “originate mainly from human activities related to fossil fuel combustion.”
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Never-ending costs: When resolved medical bills keep popping up
News-Medical
There's no national data to indicate how often patients or their families receive medical bills that were previously paid or forgiven, but hospital billing experts say they frequently see it happen. Patients receive bills for claims their insurers already paid. A reminder statement arrives even after a patient submitted payment.
Unlike "surprise bills," which often result from policy gaps when a provider is out of network, these are bills that were resolved but continue to pop up anyway. They can carry financial consequences — patients wind up paying for something they don't truly owe or bills get passed on to debt collection agencies, triggering more phones calls and red tape. But often it's the emotional toll that wears on patients most, spending hours on the phone with customer service each time the bill resurfaces or reliving the situations that led to the bill in the first place.
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Long-term follow-up reduces risk of type 2 diabetes
Norwegian University of Science and Technology via EurekAlert!
Type 2 diabetes is an inherited disease, but habits can affect the risk of getting it. Obesity due to fatty and high-calorie foods, often in combination with limited activity, increases the risk considerably.
A new study at NTNU and St. Olav's Hospital Centre of Obesity has followed people in the risk group for five years. Participants were offered organized physical activity and courses on diet.
“We’re seeing that follow-up from the health services in Norwegian municipalities over a long period of time can help reduce the risk of developing diabetes 2 and improve people’s health,” says researcher Ingrid Sørdal Følling at NTNU’s Department of Health and Nursing.
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Study finds a steady decline in mammography use by breast cancer survivors
News-Medical
The rate of mammography use by breast cancer survivors has steadily declined since 2009, particularly among younger survivors, according findings published recently in the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
The investigators reviewed a nationwide commercial claims database to review annual mammography rates in patients ages 40 to 64 years with a personal history of breast cancer diagnosis. For survivors between ages 50 and 64, they found approximately 74% were getting annual mammograms from 2004-2009, but the rate slipped to 67% by 2016. For the 40- to 49-year-old group, annual mammography rates held steady at 70% from 2004-2009 before dropping to 57% by 2016.
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Cats and dogs may pass antibiotic-resistant bacteria to their owners
Healio
Cats and dogs could be passing antibiotic-resistant bacteria and resistance genes to their owners, according to study findings that will be presented this month at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
“Our results emphasize the need for continuous local surveillance programs for this type of resistance, mainly in companion animals, where we do not have much data,” Juliana Menezes, a PhD student at the University of Lisbon in Portugal, told Healio.
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Smokers with heart disease could gain 5 healthy years by quitting
European Society of Cardiology via EurekAlert!
Smoking cessation adds the same number of heart disease-free years to life as three preventive medications combined, according to research presented at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2022, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology.
“The benefits of smoking cessation are even greater than we realized,” said study author Dr. Tinka Van Trier of Amsterdam University Medical Centre, the Netherlands. “Our study shows that kicking the habit appears to be as effective as taking three medications for preventing heart attacks and strokes in those with a prior heart attack or procedure to open blocked arteries. Patients could gain nearly five years of healthy life.”
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