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.NURSING FLASH
MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
What lessons did COVID-19 teach your healthcare organization? Use what you learned to improve
By Lisa Mulcahy
 Every hospital administrator, physician and caregiver has been tested and changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the challenges your facility faced were no doubt huge and tremendously difficult, you and your teams can now take the lessons you learned while operating during COVID-19 to improve patient care to its highest degree — and you can innovate for the future through key steps that will ensure you’re prepared for anything. Use the following science-based advice for identifying and implementing the changes you need to offer your best to the community.
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The power of nurse-facilitated advance care planning
McKnight's Senior Living
The pandemic has revealed the critical need for advance care planning conversations facilitated by skilled clinicians. Nurses are some of the key players at the frontline of patient care, so it is only natural that they are increasingly being recognized for their ability to conduct these sensitive conversations with patients and their families.
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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
A Call for Meaningful Change
CHCF
A new CHCF report, Listening to Californians with Low Incomes: How They Experience the Health Care System and What It Means for the Future, looked at the health experiences of people during the pandemic and found higher reported levels of mental health pain and suffering among Californians with low incomes than among people with greater wealth. While the underlying trends that emerge from this report are not new, they have been exacerbated by the public health crisis.
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Economic Factors Are Shaping Individual Vaccine Decisions, Polling Suggests
CHCF
Only about 35% of Latinx and 36% of Black residents are at least partially vaccinated, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis of data from the California Department of Public Health. Vaccination rates are far higher among White, Native American, and Asian American / Pacific Islander residents. Fifty-two percent of White Californians are at least partially vaccinated, as are 49% of Native American and 63% of Asian American / Pacific Islander residents.
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How Can Suicide in At-Risk Youths be Prevented?
Medscape
Children in the welfare system were more likely to use mental health services within 6 months before their suicide, mandating prevention. A new study suggests care in the last year of life meets patients' wishes, but there is still some room for improvement.
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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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(In The Media) ANA\California Launches Taskforce To Address Racism in Nursing
Nurse.org
In a recent interview, some of the Taskforce members shared examples of three Anti-Racism transformational change areas for the nursing community to focus on,
- Facilitate constructive and sustainable conversations
- Implement reporting systems that support accountability and follow-up
- Standardize actions among key decision-makers.
Read on to learn why these three focus areas are important to the nursing community.
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[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 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.
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(CEU Training) Introduction to Infection Control and Virus Basics
Nursing World
This educational activity is made up of four (4) episodes designed to prepare frontline healthcare personnel and the public health workforce to protect themselves, their patients, and their communities from infectious disease threats. This series of trainings is intended to present not just the recommended infection control practices, but the science and reasoning behind them.
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Why earn your MSN online from the University of Cincinnati?
- Ranked top 20 Best Online Grad Nursing Program by U.S. News & World Report
- AANP Certification Pass Rate 96% for MSN Family Nurse Practitioner program
- Learn from doctorally prepared faculty practicing in the APRN specialty they teach
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ANA Policy, Innovation and Advocacy Forum is coming Sept. 14!
ANA
Explore the interplay between health delivery systems and policy innovations. Better understand how nurses can amplify their voice through advocacy. Examine how virtual care is enhancing access to services, reducing disparities, and improving safety. Discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the healthcare policy landscape. Learn successful strategies to apply design thinking to your work and life. Find out about the health priorities of the new administration.
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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
How to help vaccinated patients navigate FOGO (fear of going out)
Medscape
Remember FOMO (fear of missing out)? The pandemic cured most of us of that! In its place, many are suffering from a new syndrome that has been coined "FOGO" (fear of going out). As the COVID-19 vaccines roll out, restrictions lessen, and cases decline, we face new challenges. The pandemic showed us that "we are all in it together." Now our patients, family, friends — and even we, ourselves — may face similar anxieties as we transition back.
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Americans want telehealth to stay, national poll shows
Medscape
A significant proportion of patients want telehealth services to remain a permanent part of healthcare, newly released results from a national poll show.
Sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association, the findings show 82 percent of survey respondents have used telehealth services and 43 percent want to them to continue, even after the pandemic is over.
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Help your patients with an evidence based weight loss and wellness program. As a result of weight loss, you can improve clinical outcomes and reduce chronic disease burden. Improve the health of your patients and your practice with a simple and effective healthy lifestyle program.
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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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'Prescription' to sit less, move more advised for mildly high blood pressure and cholesterol
American Heart Association via ScienceDaily
A "prescription" to sit less and move more is the optimal first treatment choice for reducing mild to moderately elevated blood pressure and blood cholesterol in otherwise healthy adults, according to the new American Heart Association scientific statement published in the American Heart Association's journal Hypertension.
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People who use methamphetamine likely to report multiple chronic conditions
New York University via EurekAlert!
People who use methamphetamine are more likely to have health conditions, mental illness, and substance use disorders than people who do not use the drug, according to a new study by researchers at the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research at NYU School of Global Public Health. The findings are published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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CDC unable to estimate flu vaccine effectiveness after historically mild season
Healio
The United States experienced “unusually low” influenza activity this past season, likely as a result of the various measures taken to curb the spread of COVID-19, including mask wearing, social distancing and reduced travel.
The season was so mild, in fact, that there are not enough available data to estimate how effective the 2020-2021 influenza vaccines were, Timothy M. Uyeki, MD, MPH, MPP, chief medical officer in the CDC’s Influenza Division, told Healio.
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Updated society guidelines address prevention of second stroke
Healio
Health care providers should perform diagnostic tests to determine the cause of a first stroke within 48 hours of symptom onset, according to an updated American Heart Association and American Stroke Association Clinical Practice Guideline.
The guideline also provides treatment recommendations based upon the cause of a first stroke or transient ischemic attack. Potential causes may include, but not limited to, blockages in large arteries in the neck or brain, damage to the small arteries in the brain from high blood pressure or diabetes, or irregular heart rhythms.
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UN optimistic on conquering AIDS by 2030
Medical Xpress
Forty years on since the first AIDS cases were reported, the United Nations said June 3 it was cautiously optimistic that the human immunodeficiency virus—the virus that causes the disease—could be beaten by 2030. The UNAIDS agency said at least 40 countries were on track to achieve a 90-percent drop in AIDS-related mortality by 2030, including nine countries in eastern and southern Africa.
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Vaccine protection may diminish need for yearly boosters
Medical Xpress
Scientists have found clues that the world's leading COVID-19 vaccines offer lasting protection that could diminish the need for frequent booster shots, but they caution that more research is needed and that virus mutations are still a wild card. Critical studies are underway, and evidence is mounting that immunity from the mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna does not depend exclusively on antibodies that dwindle over time. The body has overlapping layers of protection that offer backup. Pfizer and Moderna have fueled booster questions by estimating that people might need yearly shots, just like with flu vaccinations, and the companies are working to have some candidates ready this fall. But companies will not decide when boosters get used. That will be up to health authorities in each country.
Other experts say boosters may be needed only every few years.
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Exclusive: Survey reveals majority of nurses have experienced sexual harassment
Nursing Times
Three in every five nurses have been sexually harassed at work, with many having been made to believe that enduring such behavior is “just part of the job,” a survey by Nursing Times and the union Unison has revealed. The concerning results show that, of more than 2,000 nursing staff and students who took part in the poll, 60 percent said they had experienced sexual harassment at work, while 39 percent had witnessed a colleague being harassed. However, significantly, only 27 percent of respondents who had been sexually harassed had reported it to their employer.
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