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.NURSING FLASH
[Survey] Conflicts Nurses Faced During COVID-19 — Partnership by ANA\California, HealthImpact, and UC Irvine
ANA
Researchers in the Department of Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) are partnering with HealthImpact and the American Nurses Association\California to explore the impact of COVID-19 on frontline nurses. This important study will help us better understand the types of conflicts that frontline nurses have faced working with COVID-19 patients. It is our hope that this information will help us learn how to better support our nurses during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
You are eligible to participate if you are:
● 18 years or older
● Fluent in English
● A Registered Nurse licensed to practice in California
● Spent at least three months directly caring for COVID-19 patients since March 2020
The study involves two online 15-30 minute surveys (one now and one three months from now). Some individuals may also be invited to participate in two focus groups. These focus groups are optional and you can participate in the study without attending a focus group.
You will receive a $30 gift card for each survey and each focus group you complete (up to $120 in gift cards total).
https://uci.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ac1uniGD8KWEAWV
Participation in this study is completely voluntary and confidential.
If you have any questions about the research, please feel free contact the lead researcher:
Alyson Zalta, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine
949-824-3409; azalta@uci.edu
Thank you for helping us learn how to best support our nurses.
Sincerely,
Garrett Chan, PhD, RN, APRN, FAAN
CEO, HealthImpact
Marketa Houskova, DNP, MAIA, RN
Executive Director, ANA\California
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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
SB 380 (Eggman) moves to Senate floor
California Legislative Information
ANA\California supported SB 380 (Eggman) relating to end of life passed out of committee and will be heard next on the Senate floor.
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Long working hours are literally killing people
BBC News
According to a new study from the WHO, the plight of long working hours is actually killing hundreds of thousands of people each year. The study found that more than 700,000 people globally died in 2016 from strokes and heart disease tied directly to working unhealthfully long hours. It also noted that men, particularly those living and working in South East Asia and the Western Pacific, were most affected.
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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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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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School nurses, health service corps part of $7.4 billion virus plan
PBS
The government is providing $7.4 billion to expand the nation’s public health capacity, including hiring school nurses to vaccinate kids, setting up a healthcare service corps and bolstering traditional disease detection efforts, White House officials said recently.
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Video education on Reducing COVID-19 Racial Disparities
ANA
Free for all nurses. View immediately.
Racial Health Disparities are not new to the U.S. healthcare system. But now more than ever, you can have a direct and lifesaving impact on the recognition, care and treatment, and recovery from COVID-19 in vulnerable populations.
Click here to access all ANA Racial Disparities video education content
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
America's nurse shortage is a crisis in the making. Training nurses to be leaders could solve it
Fortune
America’s almost four million nurses fill dangerous positions, and during the pandemic, more nurses have lost their lives on the front lines than any other healthcare worker. One recent study reports that nurses have accounted for 32% of all healthcare worker–related deaths owing to COVID, and that nurses have lost their lives at nearly twice the rate of physicians. It’s also no secret that nurses are often unsung relative to doctors, and often underpaid relative to the long hours and dangerous environments in which they work. The pandemic is proving that nurses are the backbone of our country’s healthcare system — but it is also demonstrating the many ways in which we fall short in supporting them.
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The UCSF School of Nursing’s PhD Program prepares nurse leaders for thriving careers in scientific research.
- In-state tuition and fees covered for the first three years
- Stipends to assist with living expenses
- Access to renowned faculty mentors
- Opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration
Join our  virtual info sessions to learn more.
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The best (and worst) states for nurses in 2021, according to WalletHub
Advisory Board
Arizona is the best state for nurses, according to a report from WalletHub released earlier this month. For the report, WalletHub researchers assessed all 50 states on 22 weighted metrics grouped into two dimensions, "Opportunity & Competition" and "Work Environment."
Researchers based 70% of a state's score on 10 metrics related to opportunity and competition.
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COVID booster shots likely needed within a year
Medical Xpress
Fully vaccinated people will likely need a COVID-19 booster shot within about a year, the nation's top infectious diseases expert and Pfizer's CEO said recently.
"We know that the vaccine durability of the efficacy lasts at least six months, and likely considerably more, but I think we will almost certainly require a booster sometime within a year or so after getting the primary," Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN.
Fauci also said that variant-specific booster shots may not be needed.
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Stark racial disparities persist in vaccinations, state-level CDC data show
Medscape
Black Americans' COVID-19 vaccination rates are still lagging months into the nation's campaign, while Hispanics are closing the gap and Native Americans show the highest rates overall, according to federal data obtained by KHN. The data, provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in response to a public records request, gives a sweeping national look at the race and ethnicity of vaccinated people on a state-by-state basis. Yet nearly half of those vaccination records are missing race or ethnicity information.
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Thousands of industry professionals subscribe to association news briefs, which allows your company to push messaging directly to their inboxes and take advantage of the association's brand affinity.
Connect with Highly Defined Buyers and Maximize Your Brand Exposure
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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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Walking in their shoes: Using virtual reality to elicit empathy in healthcare providers
Elsevier via EurekAlert!
Research has shown empathy gives healthcare workers the ability to provide appropriate supports and make fewer mistakes. This helps increase patient satisfaction and enhance patient outcomes, resulting in better overall care. In an upcoming issue of the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, published by Elsevier, multidisciplinary clinicians and researchers from Dalhousie University performed an integrative review to synthesize the findings regarding virtual reality as a pedagogical tool for eliciting empathetic behavior in medical radiation technologists.
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FDA signals tougher stance on required ClinicalTrials.gov postings
Medscape
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration signaled it may soon enforce a federal requirement that sponsors of certain trials provide data to the public via the ClinicalTrials.gov database.
The agency recently warned Acceleron Pharma that it might face penalties of $10,000 per day if it did not meet a 30-day deadline to submit information from a 2017 study to the ClinicalTrials.Gov website. It is the first such enforcement threat from the FDA, which to this point has sought voluntary compliance.
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Efforts to end HIV, hepatitis and STIs were off-track even before pandemic, report finds
Healio
Efforts to end HIV, viral hepatitis and STIs by 2030 were off-track even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, according to a new report.
The report, published by WHO, highlighted achievements and gaps in strategies to address HIV, viral hepatitis and STIs between 2016 and 2021. It says “time is running short” to eliminate these public health threats by 2030, calling that goal “enormous yet feasible.”
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When cardiac deaths rose during pandemic, minorities suffered most
HealthDay News
During the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, heart disease and stroke deaths rose in the United States, but a new study shows the increases were much larger in minority groups.
Researchers compared monthly cause-of-death data for March to April 2020 to the same period in 2019. They found that heart disease deaths rose about 19% among Black people, Hispanic folks and Asian individuals. These groups also saw a 13% relative increase in deaths from stroke and other types of disease caused by interrupted blood flow to the brain, researchers reported.
Increases were two and four percent, respectively, among white people, according to findings published recently in the journal Circulation.
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When Medicare chips in on hepatitis C treatment for Medicaid patients, everyone wins
University of Southern California via EurekAlert!
Untreated hepatitis C can lead to serious and life-threatening health problems like cirrhosis and liver cancer. Direct-acting antiviral therapies introduced in recent years are highly effective, with cure rates above 95%.
But most Medicaid beneficiaries with hepatitis C don't get these drugs, which cost $20,000-$30,000, due to state budget constraints.
Now, a new USC study finds that a Medicaid-Medicare partnership could cover the lifesaving medications — and still save $1 to $1.1 billion over 25 years. Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that provides health coverage for low-income families and others. Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people 65 and older.
The study was published in the American Journal of Managed Care.
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Secondhand tobacco exposure early in life may decrease lung function in childhood
Healio
Secondhand exposure to tobacco smoke in utero and in early childhood was associated with decreased lung function by age six, according to research presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.
“Previous studies have established an association between tobacco smoke exposure and decreased target lung function,” Hanna Knihtilä, MD, PhD, research fellow in the Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, said during a presentation. “However, most of these studies only measure the exposure at one time point and were based on Western data, which tend to underestimate... secondhand exposure.”
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