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By Keith Carlson
 Nurses have embraced new media and digital technologies with varying degrees of enthusiasm since well before the turn of the century. Some nurses and nursing organizations utilize blogs, podcasts, social media and video as platforms for health promotion, entrepreneurship, leadership and career development. Such technologies can continue to be harnessed for the good of the nursing profession and the healthcare ecosystem in general.
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Empowering Nurses to Protect Themselves and Their Patients: The Importance of Collaboration Between Nurses and Environmental Services
The webinar was attended by more than 2,500 people. As soon as the webinar recording becomes available, we will share it with you and post it on our website and social media platforms. For more information, click here.
Hosted by ANA\C & California Nursing Students' Association
Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017 | 1:00–3:00 PM |
Sacramento State University
Folsom Hall |
7667 Folsom Boulevard |
Room 1050 |
Sacramento, CA 95826
Annie Tat MS, BSN, RN ANAC member is the Nurse Advocate behind this fantastic event.
One nurse, one nursing student, one person can make a difference.
If you want to see how you can empower yourself and others to make change within our legislative process, come join us!
Speakers include: Marketa Houskova, RN, BA, MAIA who is the state director of American Nurses Association California and Roxanne Gould, ANAC lobbyist who has more than 25 years working in the legislative process.
Invited guests include: Senator (Dr.) Richard Pan, Mayor Darrell Steinberg, and Assemblymember Kevin MCarty (TBD if they will attend).
Topics include: Legislative process overview, how to contact/ talk to your legislators, dos/don'ts of the legislative process, writing letters, how to give a 30 second elevator speech, how to have effective meetings
Click here to register.
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On Monday, Aug. 21, California Legislature returned from summer recess. The Legislators will have 3 weeks to debate hundreds of bills that need to go through fiscal committees.
Bills voted on by both houses will go to the Governor’s desk. The Governor will have 30 days to sign bills into law or to veto them. We will update you with new laws in October 2017.
Will be heard this week in Senate Appropriations committee. This bill would authorize CSU
(California State University) system to grant DNP Doctoral Degrees in Nursing. Currently CSU is a part of a pilot DNP project that will expire in 2018. The importance for Doctorally prepared Nursing faculty and future Nurse leaders has been supported by the IOM (Institute of Medicine) Report 2010. ANA\C is working closely with CSU, ACNL, CANP, and CANA and other nursing organizations to get this bill passed. We will keep you updated.
The 2015-2016 Post-Licensure Nursing Program Data Summary and Historical Trend Analysis report and the 2015-2016 Updated Prelicensure Interactive Database are now available on the BRN website. Data includes student enrollment, graduation, demographic and faculty data for California prelicensure and post-licensure programs. These are now available on the BRN website.
Also, BSN and other Healthcare Loan Repayment Applications from the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) are currently being accepted through Oct. 16, 2017. Click here to visit the website.
- You could qualify for up to SIX WEEKS of partially paid leave.
- You could receive approximately 55 percent of your salary during California Paid Family Leave (PFL).
- PFL is not just for bonding with a newborn.
- This is your money.
- It’s worth it.
Visit http://californiapaidfamilyleave.com/ to learn more.
Charlene Dianne Alcantara (North Hollywood) Carrie Becerra (San Jose) Angelina Blas (Los Angeles) Brandi Bowen (Valley Village) Patrick Ceralde (San Leandro) Laurie Christino (Long Beach) Stacie Coffman (Citrus Heights) Jacqueline Conde (Oceanside) Snooky Genalin Dagala (Buena Park) Brenda Delrosario (La Puente) Natisa Dill (Hercules) Tanya Ekwood (North Hollywood) Leah Fitzgerald (Los Angeles) Ellen Fleischman (San Diego) Rebecca Forbes (Rio Vista) Mandy Gibson (San Jose) Jacqueline Gonzalez (La Puente) Aaron Grace (Rocklin) Lori Harshman (Tollhouse) Lynnette Hutcherson (San Pedro) Robert Juner (Elk Grove) Aurelia Lake (Chico) Kelly Larrabee (San Diego) Ivonne Loya (Baldwin Park) Elizabeth Lytle (Morgan Hill) Mary Macneil (Oakhurst) Heidi Markus (Big Bear Lake) Teresa Martin (San Diego) Caron McMan (Carlsbad) Mary McMillen (Fountain Valley) Kayla Morris (Blythe) Celia Noehren (San Diego) Haider Nurzay (Elk Grove) Diane Ongarato (Redondo Beach) Ramona Orozco (Clovis) Meena Pabbi (Castro Valley) Marguerite Parrish (San Jose) Ashley Pillai (Escondido) Gina Pryer (Bellflower) Elinore Ramas (Pleasanton) Diane Royer (San Diego) Cherryll Santos (Oxnard) Rajwinder Sohal (Sacramento) Cassie Song (LA Crescenta) Heather Spencer (Porter Ranch) Elizabeth Stevenson (Anaheim) Jamie Struve (Sacramento) Mable Taylor (Beaumont) Aleta Taylor (Moreno Valley) Christine Tse (Los Angeles) Kathy Vigil (Whittier) Chandra Witt (Redding) Ililta Zerezghi (Sacramento)
Sept. 18-Nov. 27, 2017 | Online Interactive Blended Course
The Nursing Knowledge Center presents an interactive education series: Fundamentals of Nurse Staffing: Building an Optimal Staffing Model. This 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 overtime management. With short-term margin pressure, rising nurse salaries, and an impending workforce shortage, staffing and scheduling are top concerns for 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. Learn More and Register.
The ANA Professional Issues Panel on Moral Resilience has drafted a proposed Call to Action, Cultivating Moral Resilience and a Culture of Ethical Practice. ANA is soliciting public comment on the proposed draft. The deadline for comments is 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sept. 15.
The ANA Ethics Advisory Board has drafted a proposed Position Statement, Nursing Advocacy for Gender Diverse Populations. ANA is soliciting public comment on the proposed draft. The deadline for comments is 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sept. 15.
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The Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation: Grand Challenge Do It In 10 Days! Hydration Challenge starts TODAY! The goal of the challenge is to gradually increase the amount of water nurses drink per day and help them surpass adequate intake over 10 days. We all know the importance of staying hydrated (especially in summer), but most of us still are not doing it. Let's do it together! Sign up today to get started.
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HealthDay News
The rate of opioid drug overdose deaths among older teenagers in the United States has taken a turn for the worse, a new federal report finds.
The number of drug overdose deaths among 15- to 19-year-olds rose 15 percent for males from 2014 to 2015 and 35 percent for females from 2013 to 2015, according to the report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But the disturbing numbers may not simply be a case of the well-publicized epidemic of opioid painkiller abuse spreading to another age group.
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DailyNurse
Many nurses work for health care organizations that have social media policies to govern their online behavior in the workplace. It’s navigating social media at home when the risk can increase for inappropriately posting identifying patient, coworker, or hospital information on personal computers or other electronic devices.
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By Scott E. Rupp
 A new survey of 300 hospitals and health systems, conducted by Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, claims to show how factors outside the healthcare system affect patients' long-term well-being and what healthcare organizations can do to address these challenges. The research was collected from a national survey and shows that the outcomes were structured to identify these leaders' current social needs, activities, investments and potential future efforts.
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Monthly Prescribing Reference
Patients with celiac disease may have a significantly increased risk of pneumococcal infection, according to a new study published in The American Journal of Medicine.
Researchers conducted a systematic review of three manuscripts, with a final analysis including a total of 50,547 celiac disease patients.
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Medscape (free login required)
Many nurses read, and commented on, the Medscape article Nurses Sue Over Hostage, Rape Incident at Illinois Hospital. This report highlighted the dangers faced by nurses when caring for prison inmates. Here's what happened: Tywon Salters, an inmate being treated at Delnor Hospital in Geneva, Illinois, overpowered a corrections officer who was guarding him and grabbed his gun. He took two nurses hostage, beat them, and raped one of them at gunpoint while the corrections officer cowered in another hospital room. Those nurses, their husbands, and two other nurses are suing the corrections officer, the county he works for, and the company that provides security for the hospital.
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Medscape (free login required)
A rising tide of serious neurologic complications among adults in Brazil has been linked to the spread of the Zika virus, new research shows. "Our study is the first prospective study assessing the occurrence of neurological complications in adults secondary to Zika virus infection, with all previous data based solely on case series and case reports," senior author, Osvaldo Jose Moreira do Nascimento, MD, PhD, from the Neurology Department at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, said.
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Healio
More than 3.4 million American children and adults have epilepsy, a number that is increasing and higher than ever before, according to findings recently published in Morbidity and Mortality Report.
"Epilepsy has been assessed only intermittently in population surveys," Matthew M. Zack, MD, and Rosemarie Kobau, MPH, of the division of population health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC wrote. "Groups interested in reducing epilepsy prevalence need updated estimates of the numbers of persons living with epilepsy nationally and within their states."
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Daily Nurse
Nurses choose the area of nursing they want to work in for many reasons. Sometimes, though, they choose the patients they want to treat because the disease affecting the patients also affected their family in some way. That’s exactly what happened with Melisa Fincher, RN, charge nurse at Black Bear Lodge (BBL) in Cleveland, Georgia.
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Medscape (free login required)
Although overall prevalence and death rates for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) declined between 1990 and 2015, population growth and aging have driven up worldwide numbers for these lung conditions, according to estimates from the 2015 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study published online Aug. 16 in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
Asthma remains the most common chronic respiratory disease globally, but in 2015, COPD caused an estimated eight times more deaths, at 3.2 million vs 0.40 million.
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HealthDay News
For patients with congenital heart disease and atrial arrhythmias, the most common presenting arrhythmia is intra-atrial re-entrant tachycardia (IART), according to a study published in the Aug. 15 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Fabien Labombarda, MD, from the Montreal Heart Institute, and colleagues conducted a multicenter cohort study involving 482 patients with congenital heart disease and atrial arrhythmias.
The researchers found that IART was the most common presenting arrhythmia (61.6 percent), followed by atrial fibrillation, and focal atrial tachycardia (28.8 and 9.5 percent, respectively).
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