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By Keith Carlson
 When a nurse gets a performance review from his or her manager, playing well with others may not be high on the priority list, but it should be. In the days of elementary school report cards, playing well with others can be a hallmark of being a good student. The well-behaved school-age kid shares crayons, waits patiently in line to use the water fountain, and cooperates at the pencil sharpener. When nurses don't play well with others, all hell can break loose on a unit or within an agency.
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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!
Transitioning to practice can be both challenging and exhilarating. While ANA has many resources to help RNs throughout their career, some are designed specifically for RNs in their first years of practice, including a new webinar series that will address many early career concerns. These live and interactive webinars are FREE to attend.
Do you know that Nursys e-Notify, an on-line employer notification system, can provide updated discipline and licensure data directly to your organizations? How is that possible, you ask? It is thanks to the BRN staff that enters all the relevant data & information directly into the Nursys database that you and your organization can keep the highest level of the best quality nursing care be provided by the highest level of nursing personnel. Read Dr. Morris statement here.
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Angelica Adriano (Irvine) Jesse Aguilera (San Francisco) Rony Alaniz (Fresno) Michelle Alder (Oakland) Auriel Baek (Carson) Stefanie Barr (Beaumont) Kevin Bartow (Calimesa) Elsie Blanco (Tracy) Sheri Bradley (Redding) Pamela Brunner (Redlands) Kathy Bryant (Chino Hills) Lauren Bucolo (Palo Alto) Dolores Buslon (Valencia) Sheila Cabrera (Santa Clarita) Gloria Campbell (Los Angeles) Melissa Carassus (San Francisco) Aksha Chandra (Newhall) Lee Cherbonnier (Modesto) Gladys Cormier (Gardena) Cynthia Crisologo (San Diego) Kathy Dellinger (Granada Hills) Cambria Diehl Holcomb (Grass Valley) Victoria Donato-Hernandez (Whittier) Alanna Dowches (San Diego) Terri Drew (Sebastopol) Karima Dunlap (Pittsburg) Lauren Ellis (Fresno) Melissa Fassbinder (Fullerton) Christine Feld (Templeton) Michael Florimbi (Woodland Hills) Courtney Fry (Redding) Rebecca Gassett (Vallejo) Penelope Ghiorso (Davis) Emmeline Gonzalez (Lakewood) Judith Gregory (Loma Linda) Devin Harris (Shingle Springs) Jane Heath (Laguna Beach) Eunice Herrera (Long Beach) Martha Heubach (La Mesa) Ashley Howell (Loleta) Ellonora Isaac (Santa Maria) Brian Jan (Cupertino) Kimberly Johnson (San Carlos) Stephanie Konen (Loomis) Celia Lastic (Long Beach) Alysha Lippard (Sebastopol) Philip Long (Oakland) Jo-Ann Magpoc (San Diego) Daophasouk Markovich (Anaheim) Jazmine Martinez (Alhambra) Lisa Massarweh (Oakland) Tamara McKinnon (Capitola) Arturo Melgoza Ramirez (San Mateo) Rachael Meza (Twentynine Palms) Abigail Pangelinan (Lakewood) Maria Perlman (Alameda) Angela Robinson (Temecula) Alexandra Rodriguez (LA Quinta) Whitney Rosario (Santa Rosa) Pamela Rose (Newbury Park) Marian Sams (Fresno) Grace Senoga (Vacaville) Lynda Sherwood (Palmdale) Shanthi Solomon (Angwin) Brooke Torna (Anaheim) Vy Tran (San Jose) Leslie Ung (Monterey Park) Brianna Wallace (San Diego) Erica Walling (Lancaster) Archie Williams (Ojai) Ronny Zamora (Ontario)
We launched new online course bundles on:
These are available for you and/or your staff — just click on the links for more information. These course bundles are facilitated by expert SMEs and save you a great deal of money while enabling you to get the CE and CE prep work you and your staff need. For group rates, please contact Ron Lippock directly ron.lippock@ana.org.
Following their failure to hold a vote on the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a fundamentally flawed bill that, according to CBO estimates, would cause millions to lose health coverage, Congressional Republicans are currently in a two-week recess with more questions than answers. Despite renewed negotiations, the basic dynamic hasn’t changed: changes made to garner votes from the conservative House Freedom Caucus cost votes from republican moderates, making the path to passage unclear. Proposed revisions under discussion, such as allowing states to apply for waivers from essential health benefit requirements for private insurance plans and flexibility in community rating, only exacerbate ANA’s concerns. The AHCA’s shortcomings and the ongoing discussions underline the importance of these two weeks when Members of Congress will be home in their districts.
Next Steps:
It’s vital that all who are concerned about affordability and access to quality care reach out to their members of Congress to urge them to oppose the AHCA and the dangerous proposals under discussion. We need our leaders to help improve, not undo our health care system.
Resources
- To help in your outreach, check out this comprehensive recess toolkit created by ANA coalition partner Families USA. From tips for in-person meetings and attending town halls to speaking out on social media, there’s something for everyone who wants to get involved in the fight to #ProtectOurCare.
- For additional information or help with targeted messaging to your specific member of Congress, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the ANA government affairs team.
- Visit ANA’s Health Care Reform webpage, where you can find a wealth of resources including our recently released a one-pager on the Increasing Impact of Medicaid on the U.S. Healthcare System.
- As always stay up to date by visiting anacapitolbeat.org following @RNAction on Twitter and signing up for alerts on rnaction.org.
The annual call for nominations for appointed positions on ANA committees and subsidiary boards is now open. Please see the downloadable PDF for more information. Thank you for considering giving your time and talent in service to ANA. Deadline: 5 p.m. ET, Friday, June 23.
It’s time to nominate nurse leaders for Modern Healthcare’s annual “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare” list, a prestigious recognition program that honors transformative leaders in healthcare. Please take action TODAY to submit nominations for ANA President Pamela F. Cipriano, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, and ANA CEO Marla J. Weston, PhD, RN, FAAN. To submit a nomination, click here and complete the online form. The “nominee” section of the form asks for an address. Please use ANA’s address: 8515 Georgia Avenue, Ste. 400, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910. Also, please note that you can nominate more than one person. The nomination deadline is Friday, April 28.
| | EDUCATIONAL EVENTS & RESEARCH |
Mindfulness, the practice of being fully present in each moment, has been scientifically demonstrated to enhance the function and neural networks of the brain, resulting in improved focus and concentration, enhanced performance and overall health improvement. It is also a self-care practice that helps lower stress, strengthen resiliency and cultivates the ability to respond consciously instead of reactively – or out of autopilot. Many healthcare organizations are implementing mindfulness programs to address the unmet self-care needs of nurses to enhance their well-being and build a high-performing, engaged workforce. Click here to register for April 19, 2017 webinar.
April 20 | 12 p.m.
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 healthcare providers be able to hire all the RNs needed now and in the long term? Learn more and register here.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017 | 1-2 p.m. EST
A nurse getting a "seat at the table" has been a long-standing issue for the profession. Serving on boards is a key component for any nurse trying to elevate their career and the profession as a whole, enabling them to make decisions and have a lasting and profound impact on issues affecting nurse safety, patient care and outcomes, and the culture of nursing as a whole. In this new ANA Leadership webinar, Nurses on Boards , learn:
- Why nurses should want to sit on boards – benefits to careers and profession as a whole,
- What skills you need to succeed as a board member,
- How to determine which boards are the right ones to pursue, and
- How the process works – from being selected to what board work actually entails.
For more information and to register click here.
Wednesday-Friday, June 7-9, 2017 | Denver, Colorado
The Nursing Workforce & Health Reform: Trends and Opportunities in a New Political Era The 2017 National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers Conference will assess how the 2016 Presidential and Congressional elections are reshaping the delivery and financing of health care delivery and influencing the agenda of the nursing workforce in the U.S. In addition to assessing the new political landscape, sessions will focus on the expanding roles of registered nurses in primary care and behavioral health care, how nurses must produce value in value-based payment systems, what’s new in forecasting the future supply and demand for nurses, and much more. This conference will enhance your knowledge, enrich your networking, and better prepare you to meet the challenges that lie ahead for nurses in practice, education, research, and policy. Click here for more information and to register.
Over the course of this two-day immersive and interactive journey, a variety of influences on and in the healthcare environment will be explored that can affect the nurse’s actions and efforts to do the right thing for the right reasons. Click here for more information.
New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming is celebrating its 11th year. New Connections is a career development program for early career researchers, providing support to grantees and other individuals who are part of a network of eligible researchers. Through grantmaking, mentorship, career development and networking, New Connections enhances the research capacity of its grantees and network members. The researchers in this program come from multiple disciplines (health, social sciences, business, urban planning, architecture and engineering); work to build the case for a Culture of Health with strong qualitative and quantitative research skills; and produce and translate timely research results. For more information click here.
| | NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY |
U.S. News & World Report
In many U.S. hospitals, nurses from other countries help keep emergency rooms and inpatient units running. From the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s to currently understaffed hospitals, foreign nurses continue to ease shortages in parts of the nation. As the U.S. braces for a wave of aging patients, and an exodus of retiring nurses, foreign nurses are expected to be needed as much as ever.
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Healio
Sexual and gender minorities diagnosed with cancer may encounter specific challenges, including discrimination and greater risks for anxiety and depression, according to an ASCO guideline published in Journal of Clinical Oncology. “Sexual and gender minorities face unique challenges related to cancer risk, discrimination and other psychosocial issues,” ASCO president Daniel F. Hayes, MD, FASCO, FACP, said.
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Reuters
Different types of problems are most likely to afflict people at different times of life, so common risk factors for depression change over the years, too, Dutch researchers say.
But when a risk factor is uncommon among peers — like widowhood or poor health in youth — it can have an outsized effect on depression risk, the study team reports in The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
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Medscape (free login required)
The incidence of childhood cancers has increased in recent decades, but the survival rates for childhood leukemia are very high, particularly in developed countries.
"Of the many statistics reported, the one that is likely to get the most attention is the reported 13 percent increase in overall incidence rates of childhood cancers," says Prof. Philippe Autier of the University of Strathclyde Institute of Global Public Health at the International Prevention Research Institute in Lyon, France.
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Nurse.com
A report released by the American Heart Association indicates that by 2035, heart disease will cost the U.S. $1.1 trillion, according to HealthDay News reported. The U.S. will spend $749 billion in direct medical costs treating heart-related diseases in 2035 — more than double the $318 billion now spent annually, according to the AHA report. Indirect costs tied to lost productivity also drive costs up by another$368 billion.
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Healio
Rural children from small communities exhibited a higher prevalence of mental, behavioral and developmental disorders than children living in cities and suburbs, according to data from the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. “Indicators of poor mental health among adults — for example, serious mental illness among men, major depressive episodes among men and women, and recent serious psychological distress among women — have been found to be higher in large rural counties than in small, rural, suburban and urban counties,” Lara R. Robinson, PhD.
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MedPage Today
Multiple factors including nurses' experience and assignments determined how fast they responded when monitoring alarms were triggered in a children's hospital, a video analysis found.
Nurses were more likely to respond to physiologic monitor alarms when they had less than one year of experience, when there was a 1 to 1 nursing assignment or, when prior alarms requiring intervention had sounded, reported Christopher P. Bonafide, MD, of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues.
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STAT
Human intelligence has long powered hospitals and healthcare. We rely on clinicians to solve problems and create new solutions. Advances in artificial intelligence are now making it possible to apply this form of computer-based "thinking" to healthcare. Here are three areas — training, surgical robots, and data mining — in which I believe it will begin making a difference sooner rather than later.
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FierceHealthcare
Some smaller or cash-strapped hospitals that are struggling under the industry’s ongoing physician shortage are turning to nurse practitioners to fill in the gaps as hospitalists.
Expanding the scope of practice for nurse practitioners and physicians’ assistants is seen as a way to make up for the decrease in primary care doctors. The Department of Veterans Affairs has taken the approach to allow for more timely access to care, for example — although there is a stark divide between how doctors and nurses feel about the move.
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Reuters
Obesity is a strong predictor of high blood pressure early in life, but a U.S study suggests the connection may be stronger for Hispanic and white teens than for adolescents in other racial and ethnic groups. Researchers examined weight, blood pressure and racial and ethnic data from more than 21,000 youth attending 27 secondary schools in the Houston area. About one-third were overweight or obese, and 2.7 percent had hypertension, or high blood pressure.
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