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.NURSING FLASH
.HIGHLIGHTS
BALA donation to Shriners
ANA\C
ANA\C went to Shriners Children's Hospital on May 12 and donated over 100 pairs of BALA shoes to their nurses in honor of our Mental Health Campaign. Three more hospitals are already scheduled! Are you next? Send in your submission to: relations@anacalifornia.org.
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American Nurses Association reacts to sentencing of nurse RaDonda Vaught
Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report
Former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught has been sentenced to three years of probation after a jury convicted her of criminally negligent homicide and impaired adult abuse for mistakenly administering the wrong medication that resulted in the death of a patient in 2017. The following statement is attributable to both the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the Tennessee Nurses Association (TNA): "We are grateful to the judge for demonstrating leniency in the sentencing of Nurse Vaught. Unfortunately, medical errors can and do happen, even among skilled, well-meaning, and vigilant nurses and health care professionals."
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.WEBINARS
Substance use disorders among nurses
ACNL
June 15, 2022 — 12:00 p.m.
The American Nurses Association (ANA) estimates one in 10 nurses misuse drugs or alcohol. Though primary research is limited, the global pandemic has added stressors to nurses that could increase the nurse population's risk of substance use disorder.
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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
National Nurses Week 2022: A feature with Mary Sullivan Smith on creating a healthy work environment for nurses
HealthLeaders Media
Nurses busy with patient care generally don't take time for their own self-care and nurse executive Mary Sullivan Smith, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, wanted to change that. Around that same time, she was pursuing her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, so Sullivan Smith, senior vice president, chief operating officer, and chief nursing officer of New England Baptist Hospital, chose as her capstone project, "Mindfulness training for acute care nurses to promote a healthy workplace."
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Driving the nursing profession forward with continuous professional development
Off the Charts
The last few years have been especially challenging for the nursing profession. We fought a virus that wreaked havoc on our patients, families, and on ourselves. We struggled with equity, diversity, and inclusion issues and we had to adjust how we educate nursing students, moving from in-person to hybrid and online models. Faced with inadequate numbers of competent staff, we developed innovative workforce and care models while focusing on fostering resiliency.
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Apply to Sacramento’s #1 hospital! Joining the UC Davis Health team connects you to a world-class university medical center that fosters collaboration and provides ongoing learning for all health care professionals. UC Davis Health offers excellent compensation and benefits, including competitive insurance plans, holidays, paid vacation/sick leave, retirement benefits and more.
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How Roe v. Wade's fall would create a public health crisis in California
San Francisco Chronicle
If the Supreme Court overturns the landmark ruling, California will likely see tens of thousands of women travel from other states to obtain abortions. Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California leaders doubled down on efforts to defend abortion access and welcomed people from other states to have the procedure hereafter news broke recently that the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision protecting abortion rights nationwide.
The court has not yet acted to repeal Roe, but a draft opinion leaked to Politico revealed a majority of justices is preparing to do so. That would let individual states decide whether to ban the procedure within their borders.
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Lifting up others to close the gender gap in healthcare leadership
HealthLeaders Media
While women make up 80% of the healthcare workforce, a recent study conducted by JAMA Network Open found that only 15.3% of CEOs in health systems are women. Additionally, only 17.5% of the board of director chairpersons are women. This disparity is seen across upper leadership in hospitals and health systems, even with the increased integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion practices into healthcare organizations. Leaders can help women and others to lessen this disparity by sharing their own stories and lifting those up who aspire to serve.
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At NorthBay Healthcare, we are devoted to creating an environment that nurtures and nourishes a commitment to compassionate care, and just as importantly, allows you to flourish. So join us, and be part of an incredible community of dedicated professionals who share the same passion to provide exceptional patient care.
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Thousands of nurses to march across the country to demand policy changes
HealthLeaders Media
Thousands of nurses will be marching in state capitals across the country shortly.
“Nurses right now, I’m going to tell you, are very tired. We’re tired so we’ve decided to stand together as a collective to be heard on issues that have been plaguing the nursing field,” said Registered Nurse Lisa Guimaraes.
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Continuous glucose monitoring: The basics
American Nurse
Blood glucose self-monitoring helps patients with diabetes understand the interrelationships among food, activity, and medication to achieve their glycemic targets. It also aids treatment effectiveness assessment. Patients continue to use blood glucose meters, but in the early 2000s, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) revolutionized home monitoring. CGM devices comprehensively optimize diabetes management by reviewing activity levels, medication and insulin dosing, food intake, and stress to provide patients with information about how self-care decisions affect glucose levels. As CGM accuracy, reliability, and convenience continue to improve, more healthcare providers use them.
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Fiscal and enrollment implications of Medicaid continuous coverage requirement during and after the PHE ends
KFF
Early in the pandemic, Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), which authorized a 6.2 percentage point increase in the federal Medicaid match rate (“FMAP”) for states that meet certain “maintenance of eligibility” (MOE) requirements, with the goal of providing broad fiscal relief to states while preventing coverage losses during the pandemic. The additional funds were retroactively available to states beginning Jan. 1, 2020 and continue through the quarter in which the Public Health Emergency (PHE) period ends. The MOE, which includes a requirement that Medicaid programs keep people continuously enrolled, expires at the end of the month in which the PHE ends.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
Nurses report glaring gender pay gap, overwork in new survey
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Despite an overall increase in salaries, registered nurses report glaring differences in pay and concerns about equity and overwork that could affect already troubled pandemic-era staffing levels, a new survey finds.
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Nurses, get on (a) board: How you can make a difference in your community and beyond
DailyNurse
As a nurse, you play a critical role at the bedside, but you also can serve a vital function in the far different and potentially unfamiliar setting of the boardroom. In those spaces, you have the chance to influence healthcare standards, practices and policies. “It is the responsibility of nurses to seek out and serve in roles where they can shape strategies and policies, because through their work in clinical, academic and community settings, they see the implications of decisions,” says Laurie Benson, BSN, executive director, Nurses on Boards Coalition. “They’re ideally and uniquely suited to serve on boards that make decisions about policies.” In general, she notes, boards exhibit great receptivity to including nurses and the nursing perspective.
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'Tragic milestone': 1 million American lives lost to COVID-19
HealthDay News
It's a number many Americans have grimly expected but may still find hard to comprehend: over one million of their fellow citizens killed by COVID-19.
"Today, we mark a tragic milestone: one million American lives lost to COVID-19," President Joe Biden remarked in a speech posted May 12 on the White House website. "One million empty chairs around the dinner table. Each an irreplaceable loss. Each leaving behind a family, a community, and a Nation forever changed because of this pandemic. Jill and I pray for each of them."
Biden ordered that U.S. flags be flown at half-staff May 12 in honor of those lost.
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Breakthrough COVID deaths increasing in U.S.
Medscape
Breakthrough deaths are making up a larger portion of those who have died from COVID-19, according to a new analysis from ABC News.
That means more COVID-19 deaths are occurring among those who are vaccinated against the coronavirus. But public health experts say that should be expected as more Americans reach full vaccination status.
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Common steroids after 'long COVID' recovery may cut risk of death by up to 51%
Frontiers via EurekAlert!
Researchers from the University of Florida Gainesville showed last December that hospitalized patients who seemingly recovered from severe COVID-19 run more than double the risk of dying within the next year, compared to people who experienced only mild or moderate symptoms and who had not been hospitalized, or who never caught the illness.
Now, a team including some of the same authors shows, for the first time, that among patients hospitalized for COVID-19 who seemingly recovered, severe systemic inflammation during their hospitalization is a risk factor for death within one year. This may seem paradoxical, as inflammation is a natural part of the body’s immune response, which has evolved to fight infection. But in some illnesses, including COVID-19, this response may overshoot, causing further harm.
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FDA moves to ease nationwide shortage of baby formula
HealthDay News
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration announced May 10 that it is continuing its efforts to boost the country's supply of infant formula.
Amid shortages due to high demand and recall and supply issues, stores have limited the number of products consumers can purchase. Mothers across the United States have been desperately searching for more formula: Some are driving several hours, only to find more empty shelves, while others have looked up homemade infant formula recipes online. But the FDA has advised parents not to try to make formula at home.
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Indian Health Service announces funding to address Alzheimer's in tribal communities
Healio
The Indian Health Service has announced it will allocate $5 million in funding toward resources to address Alzheimer’s disease among tribal communities.
This is the first time the IHS has allocated funding toward Alzheimer’s disease. “These new resources will promote healthy living to reduce cognitive decline, encourage early detection and diagnosis due to dementia, and support caregivers,” IHS acting director Elizabeth Fowler, said in a statement released by HHS. “This funding will also provide greater flexibility for awardees to meet the unique needs within their communities.”
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Rising income inequality linked to Americans' declining health
The Ohio State University via Medical Xpress
Rising levels of income inequality in the United States may be one reason that the health of Americans has been declining in recent decades, new research suggests.
The study found that the level of income inequality that Americans experienced as children was linked to adult markers of health such as chronic inflammation and lung function, as well as the risk of developing diseases such as diabetes and cancer.
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AAP publishes guidance for pediatric end-of-life care
Healio
The AAP has published guidelines for pediatric end-of-life care, including recommendations for communicating with families and for planning advance care.
The guidelines are in a clinical report authored by Jennifer S. Linebarger, MD, MPH, FAAP, Victoria Johnson, DO, FAAP, and Renee D. Boss, MD, MHS, FAAP, of the AAP’s Section on Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
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Medication that lowers risk of overdose underused
Washington University School of Medicine via Medical Xpress
Less than half of Americans who received treatment for opioid use disorder over a five-year period were offered a potentially lifesaving medication, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Saint Louis University have found. And treatment with the medication was even more rare for those with what's known as polysubstance use disorder — when opioid users also misuse other substances, such as alcohol, methamphetamine, benzodiazepines or cocaine.
The findings build on the knowledge that medications to treat those who use opioids are generally underutilized.
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Huge study of diverse populations advances understanding of type 2 diabetes
University of Massachusetts Amherst via EurekAlert!
Ongoing worldwide research of diverse populations by an international team of scientists, including a University of Massachusetts Amherst genetic epidemiologist, has shed important new light on how genes contribute to type 2 diabetes.
The study was published recently in Nature Genetics. “Our findings matter because we’re moving toward using genetic scores to weigh up a person’s risk of diabetes,” says co-author Cassandra Spracklen, assistant professor of biostatistics and epidemiology in the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences.
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