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By Joan Spitrey
 When most think of nurses, they imagine the trained professional caring for them in a time of need in the hospital or long-term care center. However, the world of nursing is so much more diverse than the traditional bedside caregiver. One of the draws to nursing is the incredible opportunity that a nursing education and license can provide. Here are some "nontraditional" nursing roles you may not have considered.
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This week, your duly elected representatives from all C/SNAs (Constituent State Nurses Associations) are meeting in Washington, D.C. for the annual ANA Membership Assembly! Each C/SNA sends 2 Representatives and Observers (optional) to represent the voice of the individual state association. Similarly like during ANA\C General Assembly 2016 where ANA\C leadership updated & reported to its Members on our activity, ANA also must report & update its Members (i.e. to the individual state associations) on ANA activities and top issues, such as bylaws, budget or Parliamentary Consultations, along with topic-driven discussion panels & dialogue forums. ANA Hill Day 2017 is being held on Thursday, June 8 with registered attendees spending the day at the U.S. Capitol, meeting with elected officials and staff, advocating on the importance of ACCESS to care, safe staffing, healthcare reform, to name a few. We will be publishing reports from ANA\C attendees in the next Nursing Voice.
Last week we met with representatives from Western Governors University that accounts for almost 7,600 nursing students in CA. WGU is a non-profit university determined to keep tuition affordable and ANA\C looks forward to continued conversations with them. We would like to thank Drs. Jones-Schenk and Martanegara for their visit and for their nursing leadership! Also, last week, we were invited to meet with Dr. Morris, Executive Officer of BRN, to discuss BRN sunset bill, the need for CE contact hours standards, CE Contact Hours Consultant and additional subject matter expert nurses. We thanked Dr. Morris for his ongoing leadership, innovation & operational improvements and reassured him ANA\C is here as a trusted partner.
Elizabeth Ames (Blue Jay) Marion Baconawa (Rancho Cordova) Concord Bautista (Spring Valley) Amy Bearden (Danville) Regina Brown (Chino) Amber Chamberlain (Lake View Terrace) Tara Chapman (Yucca Valley) Hang Dai (Westminster) Kathy Dawson (San Diego) Annaliza Carina Del Rosario (Santa Clara) Robert Deloach (West Hollywood) Colleen Dinunzio (Yorba Linda) Troy Don (Pasadena) John Emmanuel Garrido (San Gabriel) Tyler Graham (Yucaipa) Bertha Guerra (Highland) Joanne Hardy (San Diego) Elizabeth Hawkins (Moreno Valley) Janeane Horan (Alpine) Veronica Johns (Long Beach) Whitney Jones (Chino) Kathleen Kelly (Pasadena) Grace Khatcherian (Ventura) Melissa Klarcyk (Elverta) Cindy Knoth (Lake Forest) Margaret Levine (San Rafael) Sandra Long (San Diego) Sonni Longson (San Diego) Sharon Matthews (Compton) Megan Mavety (South San Francisco) Kim McCasland (Covina) Cheryl Missildine (Yorba Linda) Chinomso Mpumechi (Alta Loma) Haidee Munson (San Diego) Barabara Namayanja (Corona) Abby Nauman (San Diego) Rebecca Norwick (Windsor) Evelyn Oluoha (San Diego) Kathleen Perez (Calexico) Malisa Phommasith (North Hollywood) Gwendolyn Preston (Pasadena) Sarah Provencher (San Diego) Mia Ragsdale-Avila (San Bernardino) Abad Rahman (Los Angeles) Monique Reese (Fairfield) Randy Reynolds (Hemet) Camay Rooney (Chino) Malinda Salter (Yuba City) Mary Grace Schurter (Fresno) Estelle Schwarz (Calabasas) Colleen Simmons (Sacramento) Andrea Stariha (Mill Valley) Alexandra Stefans (Oakland) Audrey Swan (Santa Rosa) Tracie Tolmie (Redondo Beach) Margaret Treleaven (Granite Bay) Melissa Truchan (Indio) Paul Watson (Vacaville) Cody Zamora (Fairfield)
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Last week, the Senate and the Assembly came up with their budget proposals and consequently meet in Conference Committees to reconcile those differences. The first hearing was held on May 30th, 2017 and continued daily. The Governor is supposed to sign a budget by June 15th. This year Sen. Holly Mitchell (a great friend of ANA\C) serves as Chair. The other Senators on the committee are Ricardo Lara, Richard Roth, Jim Nielsen and John Moorlach. Assembly appointees are Phil Ting, co-chair, Phillip Chen, Kevin McCarty, Jay Obernolte, Shirley Weber and Joaquin Arambula (another great nursing champion).
Spring is in the air; and with it, warmer temperatures, and an increased likelihood of being outdoors. We are now well into the 6th month of the Year of the Healthy Nurse. ANA has designated the month of June as the month of Cancer Awareness, Skin Health, and Men’s Health. Please visit our dedicated webpage for materials, including resources from our partners, the American Cancer Society (ACS), the Oncology Nurses Society (ONS), and the Men’s Health Network (MHN).
Our dedicated webpage for the month of June also features a special Message from Dr. Richard Wender, Chief Cancer Control Officer at ACS, as well as ANA’s new Health Risk Appraisal, a survey of health behaviors and health trends of nurses around the country.
We are pleased to announce that ANA President Pamela F. Cipriano, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN and ANA Enterprise Chief Executive Officer Marla J. Weston, PhD, RN, FAAN, are both on the ballot for Modern Healthcare's "100 Most Influential People in Healthcare" ranking!
Please vote here for up to five nominees you believe should make the final list. Thank you to those who have already cast votes!
Voting closes on Friday, June 23. The final ranking of the "100 Most Influential People in Healthcare" will be published in Modern Healthcare on Monday, Aug. 21. Please spread the word by encouraging your colleagues, family and friends to vote as well.
| | EDUCATIONAL EVENTS & RESEARCH |
July 17 – Sept. 25, 2017 | Blended Online Course | 12.4 Contact Hours
The Nursing Knowledge Center presents a new interactive education series, Fundamentals of Nurse Staffing Building an Optimal Staffing Model. This new course provides insight on how to build an optimal staffing plan that includes staffing model construction, data-driven staffing plans for work environments, formulas, and management of overtime. With short-term margin pressure, rising nurse salaries, and an impending workforce shortage, staffing and scheduling are top concerns of nurses.
Over the course of six weeks, you will be immersed in independent study combined with multimedia knowledge checks, live instructional webinars, and live discussion boards with your peers and other professionals. Experts will lead your personal learning journey and guide your cohort through this interactive course. All resource materials will be provided as you gain new knowledge, skills, and abilities that will help you understand, build, and integrate the components of a staffing plan. More Information and Registration.
As a special gesture of appreciation to all ANA\C NURSES, the California Science Center is pleased to offer a discount to this major exhibit. Experience the West Coast debut of inventor Dr. Gunther von Hagens’ BODYWORLDS: Pulse — a convergence of aesthetic anatomy, health, and wellness. More than 200 plastinated specimens— including whole bodies, body configurations, translucent slices, and organs — are curated and presented in galleries that feature the various systems of the body. Use promo code BRAIN during your online purchase to get $3 off adult tickets & $1 off child tickets to the exhibit. Also enjoy $2 off adult and $1 off child tickets to any IMAX film*. To learn more about the exhibit and to purchase your tickets, go to www.californiasciencecenter.org, click on the BODYWORLDS: Pulse banner, and follow the prompts to redeem the discount.
*IMAX discount can only be redeemed if also purchasing tickets to the exhibit.
| | NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY |
The Journal of Nurse Practitioners
Healthcare professionals strive to provide culturally sensitive and high-quality mental and physical healthcare to children and adult patients, regardless of their age, race, religion, sexual practices, or personal belief system. Conveying a sense of understanding of a patient’s culture and a nonjudgmental attitude toward their behaviors may be a means to “meet patients where they are,” and lay a foundation for a trusting relationship that can lead to improved health outcomes.
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Daily Nurse
The history of nursing used to be part and parcel of most nursing programs. However, due to a plethora of changes in healthcare, nursing, and technology, there is little room to include this important content. Today, many nursing programs provide a brief overview of nursing’s rich history because the curriculum is overladen with content. Most historians concur that learning about one’s past history provides one with a greater understanding and appreciation of the issues that inform their current and future practice and policies.
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Medical News Today
Obesity in childhood has long term health implications stretching into adulthood, a new study in the journal Obesity Reviews reveals. Examining data collected from over 300,000 participants across 18 studies, researchers from the University of Surrey identified increased arterial damage and enhanced likelihood of pre-diabetes in participants who were obese in childhood. The damage, an increased thickness of these vital arteries, heightens the likelihood of an individual suffering from a cardiovascular ailment, such as heart disease, in later life.
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Reuters
Some people who avoid risk factors for heart disease like obesity and diabetes may be able to maintain the blood vessels of a healthy 29-year-old well into old age, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers examined data on 3,196 adults age 50 and older to see how their odds of what's known as vascular aging — reduced elasticity in blood vessels — was influenced by seven risk factors for heart disease: high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, high blood sugar, inactivity, poor diet, obesity, and smoking.
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The Huffington Post
In Spiritual Care and Nursing: A Nurse’s Contribution and Practice we find out about a much needed adjustment on today’s medicine. The whitepaper is written by the HealthCare Chaplaincy Network, a global non-profit who has been an advocate for spiritual healing since 1961. By helping heal the spirit, the body can heal as well.
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Medscape (free login required)
Bariatric surgery reduces not only the incidence of overall cancer in obese women, as has been previously reported, but also the risk for female-specific cancers. In particular, it is associated with a significantly reduced risk for endometrial cancer, new results from the Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study indicate. Findings were published in the May issue of Gynecologic Oncology.
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HealthDay News
The prevalence of arthritis is 31.8 percent in the most rural areas and 20.5 percent in the most urban areas of the United States, according to research published in the May 26 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Michael A. Boring, from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues examined the prevalence of arthritis and arthritis-attributable activity limitation (AAAL) across urban-rural areas overall and among selected subgroups. Data were analyzed from the 2015 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
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Harvard Business Review
Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. In the years since, “performance” has become more complex, now including dozens or even hundreds of quality measures. “Numbers that numb” has become an all-too-common description for performance reports in many organizations.
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MedPage Today
The central question when starting treatment for a newly diagnosed relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) patient is essentially this: do you come out swinging, or do you take a more step-wise approach? With 15 disease-modifying therapies available — ranging in impact from the old staple of interferon injections to more potent oral drugs and powerful infusion therapies, to chemotherapy-like alemtuzumab — the choice isn't an easy one.
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MedPage Today
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has okayed cetirizine ophthalmic solution 0.24 percent (Zerviate), the first topical ocular formulation of this well-known antihistamine, to treat ocular itching associated with allergic conjunctivitis. The drug's efficacy was established in three randomized controlled trials in patients with a history of allergic conjunctivitis, in which the drug significantly reduced ocular itching, both statistically and clinically, compared with placebo at 15 minutes and eight hours after treatment.
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