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.NURSING FLASH
.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
ANA\California San Diego Task Force honored, 1 year and 200 protests later
ANA\C
Last month, three leading members accepted ANA\California’s President’s Award on behalf of the San Diego Task Force during our annual conference. Now those nurses are being recognized by local news outlets (again) for their astounding work battling racism and inequity. Read the latest media stories here.
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[Results] 2021 Frontline Nurse Mental Health and Well-Being Survey
Trusted Health
Nurses are still struggling with the impacts of the last year, reporting significant declines in their mental health; high levels of depression, stress and PTSD; moral injuries, and bouts of compassion fatigue. Even more concerning — in the midst of a nationwide nursing shortage that pre-dated the pandemic, nearly half of the respondents in our survey reported feeling less committed to the profession than they were before the pandemic. This finding was particularly pronounced amongst nurses under 40, who were 22% more likely than average to report that their commitment to nursing had decreased.
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Sunset review oversight hearing: Board of Registered Nursing
Comittee on Business and Professions
We call upon all nurses in California to submit their comments/testimonies regarding their personal experiences with the BRN at the link below. There is no need for complicated letters or complex statements. Just describe your experience as the Sunset hearing is about how well BRN is serving you and the public. You now have the opportunity to share it. There are about a half million of RNs in CA and if we choose to harness it we will have great power. Your state elected officials should hear from you and now is the perfect time! You can look up your elected official at the link below. However, ANA\C will not be issuing a public template. We will submit our previous comments in a written form and we will testify — if public testimony will be available. We will of course keep you updated.
From the CA Senate: "We encourage the public to provide written testimony before the hearing by visiting the committee website at https://abp.assembly.ca.gov/.
"To listen only, but not testify, for this hearing in the Senate Chamber, please dial 1-888-251-2909 and use Access Code 7362831."
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Nurses Week deals you actually want
USA Today
Now in the midst of Nurses Week 2021, it's time to take advantage of all the goodies and freebies companies are offering as thanks to all the hard work nurses (all of you!) put in day and night. Until Wednesday, May 12, there are numerous deals and discounts to take advantage of — from Dunkin' to Chipotle, check them out!
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What are ANA\California members saying in the media?
ANA\C
We’re increasing nurses’ presence in media one article, podcast, blog, and video at a time. In the last couple of weeks, ANA\California members have contacted us to schedule a guest post. Enjoy educational articles on nursing stress and mental health, racism in nursing, legislation, and so much more. Or, pitch your article idea to communications@anacalifornia.org.
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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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ANA Nightingale Tribute: Honoring nurses who have passed away
ANA
Deadline to submit names is May 25, 2021.
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 2020, please submit his or her full name here to be added for the tribute presentation.
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Webinar series: Stronger Together
Chamberlain University
May 12, 2:00p.m.-2:30p.m. CDT
Self-Care Strategies in the Work Environment
This presentation will engage the attendees to discover the importance of caring for themselves and discussing some self-care strategies that could be utilized in the work environment.
Register Here
May 19, 2:00p.m.-2:30p.m. CDT
Resilience in Nursing Students
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted healthcare workers at an astounding rate. Nursing students workloads have increased their stress and decreased their ability to cope with the demands of home, school, and work. Integrating resilience into the curriculum and supporting self-care of nursing students extends into their ability to cope and have success in their professional and personal lives.
Register Here
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
Pandemic spurs more nurses to consider leaving their roles, McKinsey report finds
Healthcare Dive
More than 22% of nurses say they may leave their current position within the year, with many planning to leave for another job outside of nursing or retire, according to a McKinsey report published recently. Nurses in long-term care settings were more likely to consider leaving their roles than those in inpatient settings, and female nurses were twice as likely to say they're considering leaving than male nurses.
To recruit and retain more nurses, employers need to offer adequate compensation for expertise and effort, provide flexible scheduling options and give more support overall, McKinsey said.
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- In-state tuition and fees covered for the first three years
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World mulls next step as U.S. backs IP waiver on vaccines
Medical Xpress
Activists cheered, Big Pharma complained and government leaders assessed next steps recently after the Biden administration's blockbuster move to support an easing of patent and other protections on COVID-19 vaccines that many hope will help poorer countries get more doses and speed the end of the pandemic. The move to support waiving intellectual property protections on vaccines under World Trade Organization rules marked a dramatic shift for the United States, which had previously lined up with many other developed nations opposed to the idea floated by India and South Africa.
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How to craft the vaccine message for the undecided
University of California Los Angeles via Medical Xpress
More than 140 million Americans have gotten the COVID-19 vaccine. Healthcare and government leaders hope that tens of millions more will do so.
One key to getting that many needles in that many arms may turn on the messaging used to persuade people that getting the vaccine is the right thing to do. As the country seeks to turn the page on the pandemic, two UCLA professors who specialize in the impact of messaging efforts — Hal Hershfield and Keith Holyoak — have identified opportunities and challenges on the road to herd immunity.
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Better healthcare guidance needed for trans people
Anglia Ruskin University via EurekAlert!
Clinical practice guidelines for dealing with the physical and mental health of transgender people highlight the current lack of a solid research base which must be improved, according to a new study published in the journal BMJ Open.
A team of researchers from Anglia Ruskin University and King's College London searched world literature for all international clinical practice guidelines on the healthcare needs of gender minority and trans people. Results showed that higher quality guidelines tended to focus mainly on HIV, and most others were on transition-related interventions. There were noticeable gaps in the topics of guidelines, with none addressing primary care or more general health needs of gender minority and trans people. There was little information on mortality and quality of life, and there was no patient-facing material.
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Tdap information on social media, professional sites often incorrect or incomplete
Healio
Information on the Tdap vaccine was often incomplete on professional websites and incorrect on social media, particularly Facebook and Instagram, according to researchers. “Since 2012, the CDC [has] started recommending Tdap vaccination for pregnant mothers in order to provide passive immunity to their newborns,” Shanyi Feng, a medical student at the Western University of Health and Science College of Osteopathic Medicine, said during a presentation at the virtual American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting. “Despite the recommendation, cases of newborn pertussis are still a problem across the United States.”
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Vaping linked to visual impairment
Medscape
People who use e-cigarettes have a high rate of visual impairment, researchers say, and that association is independent of and in addition to traditional cigarette use.
The statistical correlation doesn't prove that vaping causes visual impairment. But it parallels earlier studies that link tobacco smoking to visual impairment, and vaping to lung damage. And it raises new questions about whether e-cigarettes are a safe alternative.
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Prioritize goals of older patients with multimorbidities
Medscape
When caring for older adults with multiple chronic conditions, prioritizing patient goals is more effective and efficient than trying to address each condition in isolation, said Mary Tinetti, MD, Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Public Health and chief of geriatrics at Yale University, New Haven, CT. During a virtual presentation at the American College of Physicians annual Internal Medicine meeting, the gerontologist noted that primary care providers face a number of challenges when managing elderly patients with multimorbidity. These challenges include a lack of representative data in clinical trials, conflicting guideline recommendations, patient nonadherence, and decreased benefit from therapies due to competing conditions, she said.
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Stroke clinical trials under-enroll women, due in part to upper age limits
Healio
Acute stroke trials under-enrolled women, and trials with an upper age threshold of 80 years further limited enrollment, according to findings from a database search of more than 100 trials published in JAMA Neurology.
“Under-enrollment of women (relative to their frequency in the underlying stroke population) raises questions about the generalizability and representativeness of the data,” Mathew J. Reeves, BVSc, PhD, FAHA, professor in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at Michigan State University, told Healio Neurology. “It threatens the validity of the evidence base if the trials that we base much of our clinical guidelines on include fewer women. More directly, it means that any sex-specific estimates of treatment effects are going to be more imprecise because they are based on fewer women.”
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State of mind matters for survival after heart attack
HealthDay News
Poor mental health after a heart attack may increase young and middle-aged adults' risk of another heart attack or death a few years later, a new study suggests.
The study included 283 heart attack survivors, aged 18 to 61 with an average age of 51, who completed questionnaires that assessed depression, anxiety, anger, stress and post-traumatic stress disorder within six months of their heart attack.
Based on this information, the researchers ranked the study participants as having mild, moderate or high mental distress.
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Personalized sweat sensor reliably monitors blood glucose without finger pricks
American Chemical Society via ScienceDaily
Many people with diabetes endure multiple, painful finger pricks each day to measure their blood glucose. Now, researchers have developed a device that can measure glucose in sweat with the touch of a fingertip, after which a personalized algorithm provides an accurate estimate of blood glucose levels.
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