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.NURSING FLASH
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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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
Future of Nursing report: Broader scope in COVID should stay
Medscape
The new Future of Nursing report released recently recommends that the broader scope of practice many states allowed for nurses during the pandemic should be made permanent. That recommendation is one of dozens the authors detailed in the National Academy of Medicine's "The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity."
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Patient gets 6 COVID-19 vaccine doses in a single shot
Medscape
A nurse in Italy accidentally administered six doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a patient as a single shot, according to CBS News. The 23-year-old patient received the vaccination recently and was observed at the Noa Hospital in Tuscany for 24 hours. She was given fluids and anti-inflammatory and fever medications and released shortly after. She didn't experience any adverse reactions.
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Many unvaccinated Latinos in the U.S. want the shot, new survey finds
New York Times
Latino adults in the United States have the lowest rates of COVID-19 vaccination, but among the unvaccinated they are the demographic group most willing to receive the COVID shots as soon as possible, a new survey shows. Issues of access and fears of employment and immigration consequences have kept their COVID vaccination rates low, the findings suggest.
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Viral anti-vaccine infertility misinformation reaches new extremes
NBC News
The reason, said Yehuda Goldberg, owner of Brothers Butcher Shoppe in Ontario, is that evidence is surfacing that people who have been vaccinated are "shedding spike proteins," which appears to be affecting women's menstrual cycles. While medical experts say that isn't true, Goldberg said that what he's reading shows that just being around someone who has been vaccinated can cause reproductive health issues for women and that he doesn't want to endanger any of his female customers.
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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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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
'Nurses are essential' to AI integration in healthcare
HealthTech Magazine
The adoption of platforms and applications that use artificial intelligence and machine learning continues to expand in healthcare, improving workflow and aiding critical decisions.
By 2026, global spending on AI-powered health technologies is expected to exceed $40 billion, according to a report last year from MarketsandMarkets. The effective implementation of these next-generation technologies depends on many stakeholders, including nurses.
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With new mask guidance comes the challenge of following it
Medical Xpress
While millions of Americans rejoiced in the news recently that the fully vaccinated can now skip masks in most indoor and outdoor settings, some worried that it will be nearly impossible to distinguish those who have gotten their shots from those who have not.
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Delaying second Pfizer vaccines to 12 weeks significantly increases antibody responses in elderly people, finds study
University of Birmingham via Medical Xpress
Antibody response in people aged over 80 is three-and-a-half times greater in those who have the second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine after 12 weeks compared to those who have it at a three-week interval, finds a new study led by the University of Birmingham in collaboration with Public Health England. The study, supported by the UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium, of 175 people who were aged over 80 and living independently is the first direct comparison of the immune response in any age group between those who are given the second Pfizer vaccine at a three-week interval and those at a 12-week interval. The Pfizer vaccine was originally authorized for a three-week interval between doses; however several countries, including the UK, chose to expand this to a 12-week interval to allow a higher percentage of the population to receive one vaccine dose quicker.
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Experts call for urgent action to reduce global burden of cardiovascular disease in women by 2030
The Lancet via EurekAlert!
The Lancet Women and Cardiovascular Disease Commission outlines 10 ambitious recommendations to improve health outcomes for millions of women around the world and achieve the global targets set.
In the first-ever global report on cardiovascular disease in women, researchers call for urgent action to improve care and prevention, fill knowledge gaps, and increase awareness to tackle the worldwide leading cause of death among women. The all female-led Commission report was published in The Lancet and presented during a plenary session at the American College of Cardiology's 70th Annual Scientific Session.
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Patients hospitalized with flu, CAP frequently have bacterial coinfection
Healio
Around 10% of patients hospitalized for influenza and community-acquired pneumonia also had a community-onset bacterial coinfection, and these patients experienced worse outcomes and higher costs, according to a large U.S. study. “Little is known about the microbiology of bacterial coinfection in seasonal influenza pneumonia,” Patricia S. Bartley, MD, MSc, an infectious disease specialist at the Cleveland Clinic, told Healio. “We wanted to fill in this gap to help direct empiric antibiotic choices for patients hospitalized with influenza pneumonia.”
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A simple new definition for 'metabolically healthy obesity'?
Medscape
Scientists have proposed a simple new definition for "metabolically healthy obesity" to identify individuals who do not have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease death and total mortality.
The team — led by Anika Zembic, MPH, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany — performed an assessment of anthropometric and metabolic risk factors as well as mortality data from two cohorts that "yielded a simple definition to categorize participants with obesity as metabolically healthy or unhealthy." They defined "metabolically healthy" as systolic blood pressure < 130 mm Hg and no use of blood pressure-lowering medication; waist-to-hip ratio < 0.95 (in women) and < 1.03 (in men); and no prevalent type 2 diabetes.
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New pre-clinical model could hold the key to better HIV treatments
Weill Cornell Medicine via ScienceDaily
A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Children's National Hospital has developed a unique pre-clinical model that enables the study of long-term HIV infection, and the testing of new therapies aimed at curing the disease. Ordinary mice cannot be infected with HIV, so previous HIV mouse models have used mice that carry human stem cells or CD4 T cells, a type of immune cell that can be infected with HIV. But these models tend to have limited utility because the human cells soon perceive the tissues of their mouse hosts as "foreign," and attack — making the mice gravely ill.
By contrast, the new mouse model, described in a paper in the Journal of Experimental Medicine recently, avoids this problem by using a subset of human CD4 cells that mostly excludes the cells that would attack mouse tissue. The researchers showed that the mice can usefully model the dynamics of long-term HIV infection, including the virus's response to experimental therapies.
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Removing race correction in lung function tests shows more severe disease in Black patients
Healio
In a new study, removing “race correction” from the interpretation of pulmonary function test results signaled more prevalent and severe lung disease in Black patients.
“The use of race correction in clinical algorithms has been the subject of significant recent debate, as it may mask and thus reinforce the effects of structural racism,” Alexander T. Moffett, MD, clinical fellow in the division of pulmonary, allergy and critical care of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, said during a presentation at the American Thoracic Society International Conference. “Race correction, a standard practice in pulmonary function testing interpretation, results in a decrease in the predicted lower limit of normal for both FEV and FVC. The empirical consequences of applying race correction for the interpretation of pulmonary function testing are unknown.” In this study, removing race correction from pulmonary function tests resulted in an increase in the percentage of patients with any pulmonary defect from 59.5% to 81.7%.
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Parents' input key when screening toddlers for autism
HealthDay News
Early screening for autism can speed up diagnosis and treatment, and now new research shows that pediatricians are more likely to act when parents express concerns.
According to pediatricians surveyed in the study, only 39% of toddlers who had failed a screening looking for autism signs were then referred to additional expert evaluation. "The lack of referral follow-through was because pediatricians thought that the results of the screen were wrong," said lead researcher Karen Pierce, a professor in the department of neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego.
However, "if a parent noted that they were concerned, the referral rate increased to 70%," Pierce said in a university news release.
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