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.NURSING FLASH
RN Day at the Capitol Virtual Conference
ANA\California
What an amazing day spent with terrific nursing advocates, Senators and Assembly members, success stories, legislative updates, and so much more. We recorded the whole event, which can be accessed on our Youtube Channel.
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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
Give mental healthcare to nurses BEFORE they need it!
ANA\C
The record-shattering death toll caused by COVID-19 has put an untold strain on an already stressed healthcare workforce.
AB 562 will make crucial services available immediately to nurses and other healthcare professionals who need them BEFORE they develop severe chronic conditions. This includes providing assessments and services, as well as establishes privacy and confidentiality guidelines, among other things.
Support AB 562 (Low) and the health and well-being of our nursing and healthcare workforce!
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Reopen schools safely with the help of School Nurse Consultants!
ANA\C
California is one of 10 states without a school nurse official at the state level during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The pandemic has shown that the public health of our schools is an issue that can affect broad aspects of the operation of schools and communities. How, when, and where to reopen schools safely takes a lot of expertise, communication, and coordination between different agencies at different levels of government.
It is clear that a school nurse consultant at the highest levels in the Department of Education could lend strong insight into how schools can operate safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Defend your patient's right to End of Life options
ANA\C
Nearly 2,000 mentally capable, terminally ill individuals with six months or less to live wanted to peacefully end unbearable suffering — but couldn't.
A study by Kaiser Permanente Southern California shows one-third of terminally ill adults who request to use the End of Life Option Act die before completing the time-consuming process.
Furthermore, certain healthcare facilities can forgo participation in medical aid in dying (under the provisions of the End of Life Option Act) — ignoring the law and opting to not give this option to their patients.
Help terminally-ill adults make a peaceful transition with the accurate information they need.
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Will your next prescription be for the pharmacy or the farmacy?
ANA\C
The leading causes of death in the United States from disease are heart disease, followed by cancer, chronic lung disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease. (National Center of Health Statistics, 2021, March 1). Diabetes is increasing at a rapid rate in the U.S. (Diabetes Research Institute, 2020).
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STOP Violence Against Nurses — The bill that could make a difference
ANA\C
One in four nurses has been assaulted at work. That's not okay! The likelihood of healthcare workers being exposed to violence is higher than for prison guards or police officers. Healthcare settings have become even more risky during the pandemic. H.R. 1195 would require the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to create and enforce specific safety standards for healthcare and social service employers. Now, it needs your support to help move it forward.
Please contact your elected officials today to ask them to support this critical bill.
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New legislative watch update! — To support or to watch? That is the question.
ANA\C
ANA\California's Executive Director, Dr. Marketa Houskova, and Lobbyist, Roxane Gould, are back again with another update for nurses on the 2021-22 Legislative Session. Important bills discussed:
1. AB 562 (Low) - Mental Health Services for Health Care Providers
2. AB 285 (Holden) - State School Nurse Consultant
3. SB 380 (Eggman) - End of Life
4. AB 410 (Fong) - Nurse Licensure Compact
5. AB 1400 (Kalra) - Guaranteed Health Care for All
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The House of Representatives is voting this week on legislation addressing violence against nurses, and we need you to raise your voice to help get it passed. Share your story now and tell your lawmaker to vote YES for H.R. 1195!
ANA
One in four nurses has experienced workplace violence and the stories are horrifying, and all too common. Every single day, nurses are stabbed, punched, grabbed, kicked, verbally assaulted, or worse. And care settings have become even more risky and intense during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tell your member of Congress to support and vote in favor of passing this important legislation. Send your letter today >
The Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act (H.R. 1195) will require healthcare and social service industry employers to develop and implement a comprehensive workplace violence prevention plan. It will impact not just nurses but other healthcare workers who work alongside us. Can you spare one minute to show your support for this bill, and help it pass the House?
For those who have not made your voice heard on this important legislation — this is your chance. And for our advocates who have been with us every step of the way — thank you! Let’s stand together, we CAN pass H.R. 1195 with the bipartisan support needed to set it up for success in the Senate.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
To tackle nurse and staff burnout, healthcare needs to staff efficiently and emphasize employee well-being
HealthcareFinance
Burnout among nurses, physicians and other healthcare workers was a pervasive problem even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but now that the U.S. has been living with the coronavirus for over a year, some on the front lines are starting to bow to the pressure.
This was exemplified in a recent survey from the American Nurses Foundation, which found that the pandemic is causing 92% of nurses to consider leaving the workforce. Nearly half cite insufficient staffing as one of the primary reasons.
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Frontline healthcare workers develop 'care bundle' that reduces PPE-related injuries
Healio
Healthcare workers said a “care bundle” they created that includes WaterWipes, Eucerin Aquaphor Soothing Skin Balm and Mepitac Tape reduced the number of facial pressure injuries caused by prolonged use of personal protective equipment.
To address the “clear and present problem” of PPE-related injuries, Zena Moore, PhD, MSc, director of Health Sciences Skin Wounds and Trauma Research Centre at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland’s University of Medicine, and colleagues provided 300 employees within their health system’s COVID-19 wards, ICUs and EDs with a bundle and instructions on how to use it.
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Lessons in equity from the frontlines of COVID-19 vaccination
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center via EurekAlert!
When the first COVID-19 vaccines were approved for emergency use in December 2020, healthcare systems across the Unites States needed to rapidly design and implement their own approaches to distribute COVID-19 vaccines equitably and efficiently. This new role has required Beth Israel Lahey Health to develop new strategies and build large operational teams to organize and successfully vaccinate more than 14,000 patients a week across Eastern Massachusetts. In an Insight article published in JAMA Health Forum, Leonor Fernandez, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Peter Shorett, MPP, Chief Integration Officer at BILH, identify five key lessons about health equity that have emerged from BILH's vaccination campaign for the health system's approximately 1.6 million patients.
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Globally, U.S. ranks near bottom in COVID-19 response
University of California - Berkeley via Medical Xpress
Vermont, Alaska, and Maine were the three most effective states in responding to the coronavirus pandemic last year, a new analysis by UC Berkeley's Othering & Belonging Institute has found. The institute created an index to measure the performance of all 50 states and 172 countries primarily based on three factors: rates of infection, death, and testing. Globally, out of the 172 countries in the index, the three most successful responses to COVID-19 came from the United Arab Emirates, Denmark, and Iceland. Other successful countries that were profiled in the report include New Zealand, Vietnam, and Rwanda. These countries each responded quickly and aggressively after the pandemic struck with contact tracing, testing, and isolation of cases.
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How worried should you be about coronavirus variants? A virologist explains
The Conversation via Medical Xpress
Spring has sprung, and there is a sense of relief in the air. After one year of lockdowns and social distancing, more than 171 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the U.S. and about 19.4% of the population is fully vaccinated. But there is something else in the air: ominous SARS-CoV-2 variants.
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NIH experts call for accelerated research to address concurrent HIV and COVID-19 pandemics
National Institutes of Health via EurekAlert!
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting people with or at risk for HIV both indirectly, by interfering with HIV treatment and prevention services, and directly, by threatening individual health. An effective response to these dual pandemics requires unprecedented collaboration to accelerate basic and clinical research, as well as implementation science to expeditiously introduce evidence-based strategies into real-world settings. This message comes from a review article co-authored by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, and colleagues published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
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The future of cancer for Americans
HealthDay News
At first glance, it appears that little will change between now and 2040 when it comes to the types of cancers that people develop and that kill them, a new forecast shows.
Breast, melanoma, lung and colon cancers are expected to be the most common types of cancers in the United States, and patients die most often from lung, pancreatic, liver and colorectal cancers, according to the latest projections.
But beneath the surface, changes are occurring due to a shift in the nation's top causes of cancer, and those trends are likely to affect treatment and research for decades, experts say.
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'Hypertension' and 'high-normal' labels may cause more harm than good in low-risk patients
Healio
Labeling low-risk individuals based on a high BP reading led to increased worry and disease perceptions and no changes in willingness to make lifestyle changes, researchers reported.
“This is the first randomized investigation comparing the effect of different guideline labels for high BP ('hypertension' vs. 'high-normal' BP vs. control) on psychosocial and behavioral outcomes,” Danielle Marie Muscat, PhD, research fellow in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, and colleagues wrote in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
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Diabetes diagnosis varies among people of African descent
Medscape
When used to diagnose diabetes or prediabetes, the A1c level performs differently among persons of African descent, depending upon their specific ethnicity, new research suggests.
Findings from a meta-analysis by Lakshay Khosla, BA, and colleagues of 12 U.S. studies were published online recently in Preventing Chronic Disease.
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Stroke risk remains significant for up to 5 years post-traumatic brain injury, study finds
News-Medical
Stroke risk for patients with traumatic brain injuries is at its highest in the four months following injury and remains significant for up to five years post-injury, finds a new systematic review led by a team at the University of Birmingham.
Previous studies have associated TBI with a long-term risk of neurological diseases including dementia, Parkinson’s and epilepsy, and TBI has been proposed as an independent risk factor for stroke.
This latest review, which brings together 18 studies from four countries and was published recently in the International Journal of Stroke, is the first of its kind to investigate post-injury stroke risk.
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Weight loss may reduce our vulnerability to food marketing
Medical News Today
A study by researchers in Canada and France found that women with obesity were more responsive to food marketing strategies.
Bariatric surgery, which involves changes to the digestive system to promote weight loss, reduced their vulnerability to marketing to the same level as that in women with moderate weight.
The research suggests that a person’s susceptibility to food marketing is not a permanent personality trait.
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