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.NURSING FLASH
ANA Nightingale Tribute: Honoring Nurses Who Have Passed Away
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Today is the last day to submit any names.
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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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
Striking Stanford nurses will lose health benefits
Nurse.org
Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard’s Children’s Hospital nurses have been working without a contract since March 31, 2022. As a result of ongoing failed negotiations, thousands of nurses went on strike for the first time in 20 years as of April 25. More than 90% of the 5,000 nurses who belong to the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA) union at the two hospitals voted for the strike.
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Emergency Nurses Association unveils new residency program
HealthLeaders Media
The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) has launched a new initiative — the Emergency Nurse Residency Program — focused on preparing new nurses for the emergency department (ED), while helping hospitals retain those nurses. The new residency program develops critical-thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills of a new graduate nurse or a new-to-the-ED nurse before they practice independently, according to ENA.
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Hospitals turn to signing bonuses to lure nurses, survey says
MedPage Today
A fourth of hospital leaders said they expect 100 or more nurse position openings in 2022. More than half of all hospitals are improving pay packages and two in every three are offering sign-on bonuses as a means of filling nurse vacancies, according to a 2022 survey of hospital executives conducted by Avant Healthcare Professionals. Both of these represent considerable jumps from before the pandemic, when under 30% of hospitals turned to better pay packages and fewer than 40% looked to sign-on bonuses to help fill registered nurse (RN) openings.
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Why nurses from abroad are in high demand in North Dakota and across the U.S.
PBS
Recruitment of foreign-trained nurses has hit a record high in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic. But these workers, many of whom come from the Philippines, can sometimes wait years to come to the U.S. due to visa backlogs. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from North Dakota on some of the challenges and opportunities they might face when they arrive.
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Healthcare indexes find more Americans dissatisfied, struggling to afford healthcare
HealthLeaders Media
West Health and Gallup, an analytics firm, collaborated on the development of the indexes. The latest Healthcare Affordability Index and Healthcare Value Index have found that a growing number of Americans are displeased with their healthcare — in addition to its rising cost.
According to the reports, 44% of American adults (an estimated 112 million) are struggling to pay for their healthcare. Another 93% believe they're not getting their money's worth. West Health, in collaboration with analytics firm Gallup, gathered and compiled the data from the opinions of 6,600 American adults.
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.NURSE WELLNESS
Finding effective means of rest as a nurse and mother
AJN Off the Charts blog
When I had my first of two children almost nine years ago, I switched from full time (three 12-hour shifts per week) to part time (two 12-hour shifts per week). With my husband working four 10-hour days per week, this arrangement has allowed our family the incredible privilege of not needing childcare outside of the family.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
International Nurses' Day 2022 will demand 'real investment' in nursing
Nursing Times
The need for “real investment” to be made into the nursing workforce around the world will be the call to action from this year’s International Nurses’ Day, organizers have said.
The global celebration of the nursing profession is held annually on May 12 — the anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale — and is led by the International Council of Nurses.
Each year carries a theme, and for 2022 it is “Nurses: A Voice to Lead — Invest in nursing and respect rights to secure global health.”
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Pandemic redeployment caused stress to nurses
Anglia Ruskin University via EurekAlert!
Many nurses who were redeployed to front line roles during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced stress and anxiety as a result — but were also highly motivated to provide the best possible care, according to a new study published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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30% of COVID patients in study developed 'long COVID'
Medscape
About 30% of COVID-19 patients developed the condition known as long COVID, UCLA researchers said in a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
The UCLA researchers studied 1,038 people enrolled in the UCLA COVID Ambulatory Program between April 2020 and February 2021. Researchers found that 309 of them developed long COVID.
A long COVID diagnosis came if a patient answering a questionnaire reported persistent symptoms 60-90 days after they were infected or hospitalized. The most persistent symptoms were fatigue and shortness of breath in hospitalized participants. Among outpatients, 16% reported losing sense of smell.
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Experts weigh in on CDC's new forecasting center for infectious diseases
HealthDay News
Back in December, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held a detailed briefing to warn public health officials about an emerging COVID variant dubbed Omicron.
Officials were incredibly specific, said Lori Tremmel Freeman, CEO of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, predicting that Omicron would enter the United States in four weeks and grow in intensity within six weeks.
And it all pretty much rolled out as forecast.
"It was impressive, and it really made sense that this is the kind of surveillance that needs to happen so that we can begin to understand how future outbreaks are going to impact us," Freeman said.
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U.S. data show 'concerning decline' in routine pediatric vaccinations
Healio
Data published April 21 in MMWR raised concerns about a decline in routine pediatric vaccinations during the pandemic.
According to the report, during the 2020-2021 school year, national vaccination coverage among kindergarten children dropped from 95% to lower than 94%.
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Opioid-related deaths affecting more younger adults, study finds
Public Library of Science via Medical Xpress
From 2003 through 2020, as opioid-related mortality in Ontario, Canada increased five-fold, the age distribution also shifted downward — with rates now peaking for people in their mid-30s — according to a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Patrick Brown of University of Toronto, and colleagues.
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FDA introduces draft guidance for evaluating food allergens
Healio
The FDA has issued draft guidance detailing how it will evaluate the public health importance of food allergens that are not among those currently identified by law in the United States.
“This draft guidance is part of the FDA’s efforts to evaluate evidence about non-listed food allergens... in a consistent and transparent manner, which can inform potential future FDA actions to better help protect the health of food allergic consumers,” Stefano Luccioli, MD, medical officer and allergy specialist with the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, told Healio.
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Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in U.S. seniors, Black patients reaches alarming levels
HealthDay News
The majority of antibiotic prescriptions for U.S. seniors and Black and Hispanic Americans are inappropriate, a new report reveals. For the study, researchers analyzed federal government data on more than seven billion outpatient visits to doctors' offices, hospital clinics and emergency departments nationwide between 2009 and 2016. Nearly eight million visits led to antibiotic prescriptions, the researchers reported at a meeting of the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Pinterest rife with misleading cancer nutrition info
Medscape
Pinterest is packed with misleading cancer-related nutrition information, a new analysis shows.
A user searching for "recipes for cancer" or "cancer recipes" on the site would have a one in three chance of linking to a page selling a product or service and a 95% chance of seeing content making a health claim, researchers found.
Nearly 42% of the content claimed to prevent, 27% claimed to treat, and almost 11% purported to cure cancer.
"We were certainly surprised at the sheer number of health claims made on these posts," co–lead researcher Margaret Raber, MPH, DrPH, with Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, told Medscape Medical News. The finding was especially surprising, "given that Pinterest's community guidelines specifically limit medically unsupported health claims."
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Emerging superbug MRSA in humans found in urban hedgehogs in Finland
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases via EurekAlert!
For the first time, a highly transmissible strain of the antibiotic-resistant superbug MRSA currently plaguing hospitals in Northern Europe has been isolated from hedgehogs in Helsinki. The study by Venla Johansson and colleagues from the University of Helsinki, Finland, is to be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in Lisbon, Portugal.
The researchers say that the findings suggest a spillover of antimicrobial resistant bacteria and genes to urban wildlife and should be closely monitored to limit the global emergence of novel antimicrobial resistance traits in the future.
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New evidence shows cancer is not as heritable as once thought
University of Alberta via Medical Xpress
While cancer is a genetic disease, the genetic component is just one piece of the puzzle — and researchers need to consider environmental and metabolic factors as well, according to a research review by a leading expert at the University of Alberta.
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