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ANA\C Executive Director Marketa Houskova was recently a guest on The Handoff, the podcast about nursing from Trusted Health. On the political power of nurses podcast, Marketa shared her thoughts on why nurses need to have a voice in politics with Dr. Dan Weberg.
Click here to listen to the podcast.
- After years of failed attempts and vociferous opposition, California lawmakers recently adopted a measure to grant nurse practitioners the ability to practice without doctor supervision — but only after making big concessions to the powerful doctors’ lobby, which nonetheless remains opposed.
- The bill now heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom for consideration, fenced in by amendments that would stringently limit how much independence nurse practitioners — nurses with advanced training and degrees — can have to practice medicine.
- California is behind most other states in empowering nurse practitioners. If the bill becomes law, the state would join nearly 40 others to grant some level of independence to nurse practitioners.
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- Lawmakers introduced a bill, titled the Anti-Racism in Public Health Act, recently that would label racism as a nationwide public health crisis.
- If passed, the bicameral proposal would establish two new wings within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): the National Center for Anti-Racism and the Law Enforcement Violence Prevention Program within the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the federal agency.
- The CDC acknowledges this fact on its website, saying "long-standing systemic health and social inequities have put many people from racial and ethnic minority groups at increased risk of getting sick and dying from COVID-19."
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- "There is prior evidence from multiple sources that vitamin D can enhance both innate and adaptive immunity," Dr. David O. Meltzer, a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, told UPI.
- Based on existing research, many physicians recommend that patients take vitamin D supplements if their diet is lacking in the nutrient because it has been shown to play a role in immune health.
- For this study, Meltzer and his colleagues analyzed data on 489 University of Chicago Medicine patients for whom vitamin D status was included in their electronic health records before the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States.
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An American Heart Association Resuscitation Journal study showed that every 10% increase in AHA guideline adherence results in a 30% increase in the likelihood of ROSC. Code blue teams often rely on memory, paper, and wall clocks to comply with critical timed interventions and dosage calculations. Care teams in Code Blue events can benefit from tools that allow them to adhere more closely to AHA guidelines. Hand-held software tools can guide compliant code blue care via metronomes, dosage calculators, timers, and prompts while capturing events in real-time. For more information, and to view the study.
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The University of San Francisco's School of Nursing & Health Professions was recently awarded a $3.25 million grant from HRSA for scholarships for disadvantaged students.
The grant will award 25 students with scholarship funds for the next five years, beginning with the 2020-2021 academic year, providing support for disadvantaged students as well as building capacity in the primary care workforce in service of people and communities that are underserved. The impact of the grant will dramatically decrease the financial burden for undergraduate students and increase the ethnic and racial diversity of nurses working in medically underserved communities and primary care settings after graduation.
The full press release can be found here.
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Thousands of nurses have participated in our advocacy campaigns and we thank you for your support! For those of you who want to advocate on critical campaigns, we've made digital advocacy as easy as 1-2-3.
1. Text "ANACNURSES" to 52886
2. Click the link in text message
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ANA\California uses Phone 2 Action to do the heavy lifting for you. Send pre-written messages directly to your state representatives — all in one click!
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Finances can be tough to focus on, with many competing priorities and uncertainties weighing on top of everyday responsibilities. The American Nursing Association is committed to helping nurses get through life challenges during the pandemic and beyond, so we encourage each member of the nursing community to pursue good financial health.
We’re excited to share one of the many helpful Financial Wellness resources from our partners at Prudential. We hope it makes it easier for you to set money goals and reach them.
Start Planning Today!
A FREE, On-Demand Series for ALL Nurses
Part of the ANA COVID-19 Webinar Series
You know the physical threat that COVID-19 presents to your patients and to you. The less recognized and acknowledged challenges are the ethical dilemmas that this crisis poses and the moral distress that follows.
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ANA\C, as a prior event sponsor for She Shares, is welcome to share this FREE workshops to ANA\C members, colleagues & network so they can join us!
Sept. 10 at 5:15 p.m. | Workshop is focused on resume writing
RSVP to Tamara Torlakson at tt@tamaratorlakson.com.
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“StrongHer” is the theme of California Women Lead’s annual conference, something that every one of us can relate to as we navigate this challenging year. The 2020 conference is a two-day program featuring some of the most influential names in California policy, politics and business, brought to you virtually this year! This is an opportunity to get the professional recharge you’ve been wanting and needing, along with a healthy dose of encouragement and empowerment from other women leaders from across the state.
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
The American Nurses Association has asked the White House to invoke the Defense Production Act for N95 masks after a nationwide survey found that one in three nurses remain short on supplies and more than half are being asked to reuse devices meant for single use.
“Re-use and decontamination of single-use personal protective equipment as the ‘new normal’ is unacceptable, given the lack of standards and evidence of safety,” ANA President Ernest Grant, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, said in a statement announcing the survey findings.
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STAT
Nurses need our support now more than ever as they manage the frontlines in the fight against COVID-19, working long hours and risking their own well-being to care for those who are sick. With nurses’ crucial work in the national spotlight, it is time for policymakers to address the long-anticipated nursing shortage that could leave the U.S. unable to combat the next health crisis.
Predictions of a shortage of nearly half a million nurses due to retirements are highlighted even more by the realities of this pandemic. An arcane tangle of state regulations is deepening the existing nursing shortage and making it harder to fight the pandemic. It is time to sweep away these unneeded regulations and turn instead to a national standard.
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The Conversation via Medical Xpress
Readily available drugs, which dampen the runaway inflammatory response in patients severely ill with COVID-19, save lives, according to evidence released recently.
An analysis by the World Health Organization, which drew together results from several studies, confirms the benefit of this group of anti-inflammatory steroid drugs, known as corticosteroids.
While earlier studies showed the apparent benefit of one of these drugs, dexamethasone, this latest evidence goes further.
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By Scott E. Rupp
 For many individuals — real people with real health conditions — the pandemic has had a profound impact on their lives. People continue to report that the pandemic has led to a reduction in access to medical care. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Research and Development Survey published recently, as many as 40% of people said they had reduced access to medical care because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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World Economic Forum
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to exert pressure on global healthcare systems, frontline healthcare workers remain vulnerable to developing significant psychiatric symptoms. These effects have the potential to further cripple the healthcare workforce at a time when a second wave of the coronavirus is considered likely in the fall, and workforce shortages already pose a serious challenge. A new AI-powered tool, developed in New York, can screen for symptoms and connect users with counselling and treatment referrals.
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Healio
States and tribes will receive nearly $3 billion over the next two years for prevention, treatment and recovery support services for people with opioid use disorders, according to a press release from HHS.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is now distributing the first-year funds — $1.5 billion.
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The New York Post
The family of an Oklahoma teen who died attempting the “Benadryl Challenge” on TikTok is warning others that the dangerous stunt “needs to stop.”
Chloe Phillips, 15, a sophomore at Blanchard High School, overdosed on the allergy drug recently while taking part in the TikTok challenge to film oneself hallucinating from the medication, the Sun reported.
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University of Montreal via Medical Xpress
What's the risk of different human populations to develop a disease? To find out, a team led by Université de Montréal professor Guillaume Lettre created an international consortium to study the blood of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
In one of the largest studies of its kind, published in Cell, close to 750,000 participants from five major populations — European, African, Hispanic, East Asian and South Asian — were tested to see the effect of genetic mutations on characteristics in their blood.
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Pennington Biomedical Research Center via EurekAlert!
Low-income Louisiana patients enrolled in a tailored obesity intervention program lost much more weight than counterparts receiving usual care. Study results were published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine. This population, who traditionally face the most barriers to weight loss and the highest levels of obesity, found success in a coaching program delivered directly through their primary care clinics.
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News-Medical
University of Calgary scientists have discovered how to capture "live" images of immune cells inside the lungs.
The group at the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases at the Cumming School of Medicine is the first in the world to find a way to record, in real time, how the immune system battles bacteria impacting the alveoli, or air sacs, in the lungs of mice.
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Healio
A novel blood-based assay demonstrated the ability to detect five cancer types up to four years earlier than current screening methods, according to study results published in Nature Communications.
The noninvasive PanSeer test, which is based on DNA methylation, detected stomach, esophageal, colorectal, lung and liver cancer in 91% of asymptomatic individuals who were diagnosed with cancer one to four years later using standard detection methods.
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