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Physicians are in a unique position to help victims of human trafficking as they are likely to encounter them in emergency rooms and clinics, says Dona Constantine, senior risk management and patient safety specialist at the Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc. in California.
That’s why it's important that physician learn what to look for to identify victims of human trafficking and get them help, Constantine, pictured right, told FiercePracticeManagement in an exclusive interview.
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Earlier this week, Phillip Bautista, Membership Director, and Marketa Houskova, ANA\C Staff, attended an important regional meeting that brought representatives of 5 state nursing associations together to discuss future development, strategic planning and operational structure of the Western Multi-State Division (Western MSD) that ANA\C officially joined earlier this year. This work group discussed issues such as staffing, membership retention, marketing & social media platforms, and professional development needs & strategies for Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Arizona and CA. Discussion is ongoing and we will keep you updated."
Mila Arispe (Fresno) Jackie Lou Atanacio (Torrance) Cameron Azizi (Pomona) Christina Bell (Long Beach) Sonia Cardenas (San Diego) Daisy Castro (Palmdale) Helen Chang (San Dimas) Elizabeth Faughnan (Piedmont) Lisa Foster (San Diego) Julie France (Irvine) Angela Garcia (Bakersfield) Raymund Gutierrez (San Jose) Lance Hill (Hanford) Patricia Iluore (Los Angeles) Giena Laroza-Allen (San Diego) Gina Levi (San Marcos) Alba Lopez (Coachella) Natalie Olsen (San Francisco) Heather Otto (San Jose) Sherri Portillo (Salinas) Paula Ramirez (Los Angeles) Aisha Rawlinson (Pittsburg) Amanpreet Sandhu (Milpitas) Carlos Sandoval (Atascadero) Rosalie Shinsato (Santa Clara) Heather Smith (Campbell) Paul Tabladillo (Monrovia) Kathleen Veith (Monterey) Gabriel-Thomas Vest (Indio) Shara Anne Vinco (San Jose) Theresa Wilson (Newcastle) Fei Zhang (Sunnyvale)
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ANA
For the second consecutive year, ANA President Pamela F. Cipriano, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, has been named one of Modern Healthcare’s “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare.” This awards and recognition program honors individuals in healthcare who are deemed by their peers and an expert panel to be the most influential individuals in the field. In addition to her appearance on last year’s “Most Influential” list, Dr. Cipriano has also been recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s “Top 25 Women in Healthcare.”
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| EDUCATIONAL EVENTS & RESEARCH |
Sept. 6-9, 2016 | San Francisco, CA
Interested in Capacity Workshop? Do you have questions about Geriatric clinical trials that you were afraid to ask? Want to learn more about Imaging and Biomarkers? The International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) is holding their 2016 International Congress in San Francisco on Sept. 6-9, 2016 at the Hilton Union Square.
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We are conducting a survey regarding current practices of nurse educators specific to testing policies and procedures in pre-licensure nursing programs. The survey will provide valuable insight into current practice and identify gaps in knowledge or skill related to teacher-made exams for assessing learning.
The survey population includes all educators within a pre-licensure nursing program. No identifying information from the survey will be used in the analysis nor reported. Only aggregate data will be reported or published. Questions may be addressed to one of the three researchers via the email address listed below. Informed consent will be implied by completion of the survey. The survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
At the end of this survey, you will be given the option of providing your contact information to be entered into a drawing to win a $100 Amazon gift card. A name will be drawn on Aug. 23 and Sept. 6 and 20, 2016. Participants who provide their email address will also receive a follow-up summary of the survey results. Participants may only complete the survey and enter the drawing one time. The survey will be closed on Sept. 27, 2016.
Complete the survey using this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/nationalsurveytesting
Thank you,
Tim Bristol, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF
Karin Sherrill, MSN, RN, CNE, ANEF
Virginia Wangerin, PhD, RN, CNE
For questions, please email us at karin.j.sherrill@gmail.com
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Advance Healthcare Network
With the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community (LGBT) community appearing in the news so frequently these days, questions about this cohort have been moved to the forefront of society. Healthcare providers sometimes struggle with the care and management of transgender patients. Recent studies have documented the need for inclusion of the care of the LGBT population into general medical education.
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Daily Nurse
Have you ever noticed how many altruistic nurses there are out there in the world or even just in your own community? I’ll bet you dollars to stale breakroom donuts that you’re one of them. It seems as though it’s an inseparable quality inherent in most health care providers. Altruism is a great personality trait to have in many instances. It keeps the compassion in our work evident. It fearlessly upholds our love for our fellow beings and gives us every day heroes to keep our hope in humanity strong. It was likely a driving force that helped move you and many others toward a career in nursing. But once there, have you also noticed how it can be the very detriment to the longevity of it?
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Reuters
The type of brain bleeding that causes the most lethal kind of stroke has declined substantially since 1998, possibly as a result of falling smoking rates, according to researchers in Finland.
Bleeding in the space between the brain and the thin tissue covering it, known as subarachnoid hemorrhage, affects fewer than 200,000 people in the U.S. each year and represents about 10 percent of all strokes.
About 50 percent of all cases die within a year, the study authors note in the journal Neurology.
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The Huffington Post | Commentary
Darkness gave way to the blue lights glowing in the distance. The hum of the oxygen created a beautiful white noise that seemed almost hypnotizing. The room was surprisingly quiet. Typically the sounds are echoing off the walls but at this particularly moment I felt the peace within the space that sometimes gets lost with the everyday hustle and bustle that comes naturally within the NICU world.
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Reuters
Scientists are testing an experimental medicine that's designed to have the painkilling power of morphine without some of the dangerous side effects that can lead to overdose deaths. The compound is so new it doesn't have a name, just a number. It's only been tested in mice, and it needs years of additional animal studies before researchers can even start trials to see if it works safely in humans.
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Medscape (free login required)
An advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) wants to know whether she should be expected to function both as APRN and registered nurse (RN) at the clinic where she works:
"I am an APRN, but my employer views me and my colleague APRNs as staff members who can perform a nurse's job as well as our APRN jobs. That means that most days we may not have a nurse helping us, and we essentially are running the clinic area alone. Is this good practice to have one professional doing both jobs? I worry about being liable and negligent trying to do both jobs at once."
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Phys.org
A fall down the stairs, a car crash, a sports injury or an explosive blast can all cause traumatic brain injury. Patients often recover. But in the days or weeks following the hit, they can develop other serious, chronic conditions, such as depression and thinking and memory problems. Now scientists report in the journal ACS Nano a potential way to reduce these effects with a neuron-targeting nanoparticle, using an animal model of TBI.
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MedPage Today
Acetaminophen did not increase the rates of asthma attacks among young children with mild asthma who were given the drug to reduce fever or pain when compared with ibuprofen, a small randomized trial found. Among participants, ages 12 months to 59 months, who received a median of 5.5 doses (interquartile range, 1.0 to 15.0) of trial medication, there were no differences in the rates of asthma attacks between groups of children with mild, persistent asthma who were given either acetaminophen or ibuprofen on an as-needed basis for fever or discomfort.
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Nurse.com
Gayle Greer has worked at an inner-city hospital for 20 years — mostly in the ED. She’s been the ED charge nurse for five years. Recently, she’s been finding herself less able to cope with daily work stressors. The ED has been particularly short staffed for the last two years and it isn’t easy to ensure coverage. The hospital is cracking down on the use of travel nurses.
On a cold, wet, busy evening, a homeless man well known to the staff arrives smelling of alcohol and demanding something for his stomach pain, which is a nine on a scale of 10.
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Herald & Review
When a sexual assault occurs, the victim is likely suffering the most traumatic experience of her life.
Soon after the crime, her mind might be reeling as to whether to report it to the police, especially if the offender is a relative or close acquaintance.
With that in mind, sexual assault nurse examiners (SANE) try to comfort the victims, while not adding any undue stress.
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HealthDay News
A healthy diet and regular exercise might be the keys to keeping your brain free of changes that lead to Alzheimer's disease, a small study suggests. Researchers studied 44 patients between the ages of 40 and 85 who had mild memory problems. The investigators found that the brains of those who followed a Mediterranean diet and were physically active had fewer plaques and tangles, a hallmark of Alzheimer's, than those whose diet was less healthy and who were less active.
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Healio
In this video exclusive, Endocrine Today Diabetes in Real Life columnist Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDE, CDN, speaks with Sarah Butler, MSN, RN, CDE, NCSN, director of diabetes and nursing education for the National Association of School Nurses about what school nurses should know when they have a child with type 1 diabetes in their classes and steps parents must take to ensure the safety of their children with diabetes when sending them off to school.
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EurekAlert!
A University of Colorado School of Medicine researcher and colleagues have conducted the first-ever survey of physicians on the validity of "abusive head trauma" as a medical diagnosis.
While shaking a baby has been recognized as a dangerous form of child abuse since the early 1970s, the validity of "shaken baby syndrome" and "abusive head trauma" has been questioned recently in some major media reports, court decisions and medical literature.
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Medscape (free login required)
Hospitalists are struggling amidst a growing national clamor to tighten controls on prescribing opioid analgesics, particularly for patients who have chronic nonterminal or nonmalignant pain, hospital medicine leaders told Medscape.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other groups have documented a national epidemic of prescription opioid overdoses, which have quadrupled in number since 1999.
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