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By Joan Spitrey
 Popular consumer reporter John Stossel recently wrote an opinion piece on the lack of customer service he received while in the hospital. He was recently diagnosed with lung cancer, for which he was admitted to New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Although Stossel acknowledged his medical care was excellent, he could not help but notice the lack of customer care that consumers have grown to expect. He brought up some key issues healthcare workers have been navigating for years.
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| | NEWS FROM ANA & AROUND CALIFORNIA |
Oct. 14-15, 2016
Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach and Marina in Redondo Beach, California
 Dr. Pamela Cipriano is the 35th president of the American Nurses Association (ANA), the nation’s largest nurses organization representing the interests of 3.4 million RNs. A distinguished nursing leader, Dr. Cipriano has held executive positions in health care systems, academia and national professional organizations. In 2015, she was named to Modern Healthcare magazine's prestigious Top 100 People in Healthcare and Top 25 Women in Healthcare listings.
Known nationally as a strong advocate for health care quality, Dr. Cipriano has served on several boards and committees for high-profile organizations, including the National Quality Forum and the Joint Commission. Dr. Cipriano was the 2010-11 Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute of Medicine.
Mark Your Calendar for this Exciting Conference! More Information Coming Soon.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Minority Fellowship Program (MFP)at the American Nurses Association provides opportunities for minority psychiatric nurses to attain masters and doctoral degrees in mental health and substance abuse disorders prevention, treatment, and recovery across the life span. Support is available for the following:
- MFP- TRADITIONAL: Full-time behavioral health nurses pursuing a doctoral degree in Psychiatric Mental health or Substance Abuse. Able to demonstrate a commitment to a career in substance abuse and/or psychiatric mental health issues affecting minority populations.
- MFP- YOUTH: Students admitted to or currently matriculating in a full-time accredited master’s degree program in behavioral health (psychiatric nursing) or substance abuse disorders prevention and treatment. Committed to developing a career that focuses on providing behavioral health services to children, adolescents, and youth transitioning into adulthood (16– 25).
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ANA
Celebrate National Nurses Week with gifts featuring the 2016 official theme, “Culture of safety..It starts with YOU” offered by The American Nurses Association and Jim Coleman, Ltd.
Free mini sample kit, a $49.99 value, with orders over $1,000. Enter to win a $100 Nurses Week sample kit.
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ANA
The 2017 ANA Annual Conference will be held in Tampa, FL, March 8-10, 2017. The Conference call for abstracts is open until May 2, 2016 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time. The primary contact for each abstract submitted will be notified by electronic communication of their acceptance status by July 2016.
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ANA
Nurses Week celebrates the courage and dedication of all nurses. Our leaders in Washington could learn from your example. During this Nurses Week, nurses from all across the country will call on Congress to build a Culture of Safety for all nurses — but to do that, they need to hear your voice.
Share your thoughts now: What does a Culture of Safety mean to you? Take this 30-second survey to set Congress on the right path!
We will compile your answers, feedback and thoughts into one letter during Nurses Week — a letter written by YOU laying out what a Culture of Safety really means.
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American Nurses Foundation
FREE WEBINAR | May 10, 2016 | 1- 2 p.m. ET
You encounter patients, families, and communities from all walks of life and must understand the preferred cultural values, beliefs, worldview, and practices of those you care for, every day. Culturally congruent care and diversity in your workplace can help close persistent gaps in care linked to race, ethnicity, language, disability, sexual orientation, or gender expression and can also contribute to increased patient safety, better quality of care, and improved health outcomes.
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ANA
On behalf of the
ANA
Committee on Appointments (COA), it is my pleasure to announce
that the
annual
call for nominations
for
appointed
positions on
ANA committees and
subsidiary
boards
is now open until
5:00 p.m. ET on
Monday, June 27.
I am also pleased to announce that a new form
is now available to ease
the process for
C/SNAs, the IMD, Organizational Affiliates and individual members to nominate their fellow
members
for committee or board appointment. Individual
members
are still
able and
encouraged to submit self-nominations to be considered by the COA.
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| | NURSING & HEALTHCARE NEWS |
Oncology Nurse Advisor
A nurse-directed independent survey for patient feedback can inform measurable improvements in patient education and satisfaction survey scores, reported Amber Williams, BS, RN, OCN®, in an oral presentation at the ONS 41st Annual Congress.
Patients receiving chemotherapy primarily receive information about side effects and symptom management from ambulatory chemotherapy nurses, including home care instructions.
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Healio
School-based obesity interventions that included school nurses resulted in positive BMI outcomes for students, according to recent research in the Journal of School Health. “One potential means of implementing effective school-based interventions is to involve school nurses,” Arlene Smaldone, PhD, CPNP, assistant dean of scholarship and research at Columbia University School of Nursing, and colleagues wrote. “Our findings demonstrate that school-based interventions that involve nurses led to small but significant decreases in BMI, BMIz and BMI percentile.”
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FierceHealthIT
Requirements that nurses be licensed in every state they want to work in are creating barriers to use of new forms of healthcare, including telemedicine, according to some industry professionals, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Six states have enacted legislation to adopt a licensure compact to allow nurses to practice telemedicine across states: Wyoming, Virginia, South Dakota, Idaho, Florida and Tennessee. Seven more have bills pending.
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Healio
A team-based approach, including a physician, registered nurse and health technician, was effective in managing BP among patients with hypertension, and can provide a framework for the implementation of such care in the patient-centered home, according to data published in the Journal of Primary Care and Community Health.
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CDC
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued new guidance and information for protecting workers from occupational exposure to Zika virus. (1) Interim guidance for outdoor workers, healthcare and laboratory workers, mosquito control workers, and business travelers to protect against occupational exposure to Zika virus; (2) Interim guidance and recommendations for employers to use to protect their workers; (3) Interim guidance and recommendations for workers to consider to protect themselves from mosquito bites and exposure to an infected person’s blood or other body fluids.
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By Mark Huber
The problem of emergency room overcrowding is not new. It creates a chain of failure, particularly when ambulances with critically ill patients aboard — on the ground or in the air — must divert to a secondary hospital, and therefore delay the onset of care.
Diversion often has another unsavory consequence: dropping off insured patients at out-of-network hospitals, subjecting them to sticker shock bills for any work that needed to be done in the facility, but outside the ER. How to best handle this problem has been debated for more than two decades.
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By Denise A. Valenti
In William Shakespeare's "Hamlet," the tragic character states, "To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream — ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come."
However, the sleep of death is what close to 15 million adults risked as they filled their sleep, sedative, anxiolytic or anticonvulsant prescriptions containing benzodiazepine. A new study published in the April issue of the American Public Health Association Journal reported an increase in overdose mortality related to benzodiazepine prescriptions between the years 1996 and 2013.
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MedPage Today
Patients who've suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) need more sleep than those who haven't sustained a head impact, researchers found.
In a small study of 31 patients with "acute, first-ever" TBI who were compared with 42 healthy controls, those with TBI needed 8.1 hours of sleep per every 24-hour period 18 months after their injury, compared with 7.1 hours for controls.
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FierceHealthcare
Hospitals could save at least 33,000 lives each year if they followed the patient safety policies and procedures of the highest-scoring hospitals in The Leapfrog Group's Spring 2016 Hospital Safety Score update, a new study finds.
In all, an estimated 206,021 people die avoidable deaths in U.S. hospitals each year, the analysis showed.
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Medical Xpress
Extreme heat and heavy rainfall are related to increased risk of hospitalization for asthma in Maryland, according to a study by University of Maryland School of Public Health researchers.
Based on more than a decade of asthma hospitalization data (115,923 cases from 2000-2012), researchers observed higher risk of asthma hospitalization after extreme heat or extreme precipitation events. The increases in risk were particularly high during summer months.
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Oncology Nurse Advisor
Oncology nurses at Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, established a clinical trial infusion nurse orientation to improve training for nurses so they can better care for patients on investigational trials, according to a presentation at the ONS 41st Annual Congress.
Oncology clinical trials, particularly those in the early phase, are often detailed, complex, and require close attention to detail and a high level of assessment skills.
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