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Congresswoman Lois Capps to accept Award from ANA\C for her life-long dedication to nurses & nursing at the upcoming ANAC GA 2016 in Redondo Beach on Oct. 14, 2016!
“We are advocates, navigating a complex system to ensure that our patients receive the best care possible, while gaining valuable insight to our healthcare system’s strengths and weaknesses as a whole. Simply put: nurses have a critical voice that must be heard."
- Click here to register for ANA\C's 20th Anniversary Celebration and General Assembly
- Click here to download the informational flyer
- Click here to download the full agenda
You, also, don't want to miss our opening keynote: From Bedside to Boardroom, which will be given by Pam Cipriano, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
President, American Nurses Association.
Join HealthImpact and the CA Action Coalition in an important discussion about the critical role nurses play in improving health of all, about the needs of your community, about the NEW nursing education plan for CA, and about academic progression, diversity and access to care, population health and social determinants ... Don’t miss this opportunity to voice your ideas and concerns! For the Tour calendar, visit www.healthimpact.org.
If you have recently interacted with the Board of Registered Nursing or utilized any of their services, they want your feedback! Please take a moment to complete BRN’s brief online consumer satisfaction survey by Oct. 15, 2016. Let the BRN know what they are doing well and where they can improve. Voice your views, share your concerns. Survey can be found here.
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Join bleeding expert Amy D. Shapiro, MD, medical director at the Indiana Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center, in a free CME activity, “Issues and Challenges in Your Hemophilia Treatment Center”. This CENow™ activity features insights on scientific posters and published reports from national and international congresses. Click Here to Start.
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As we better understand the role food plays in our overall health and wellbeing, the closer the connection becomes between nutrition and health. Malnutrition is a critical public health problem that puts nurses in the middle of this important debate. Malnutrition affects many people across the United States and around the world. In an effort to explore this evolving public health landscape, the May issue of the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics offers insights from leading registered dietitian nutritionists and other health professionals, providing a comprehensive look at malnutrition.
For more information, click here.
Angie Au (Goleta) Denelle Ballenger (Newport Beach) Sara Beiswanger (Oakley) Jennifer Beltran (LA Habra) George Bratton (Shafter) Nicholas Briones (Whittier) Brenda Damasco (Lompoc) Michelle Davis (Bakersfield) Johanna De Jesus (Fontana) Kathryn Devoe (Sacramento) Amber Evans (Hanford) Rhonda Fendt (Orange) Danielle Fonville-Harris (Compton) Maria Gilmer (Bellflower) Melissa Gory (Santa Rosa) Karen Guardado (Alhambra) Joanne Halvorson (Atascadero) Chantha Heng (Long Beach) Derek Hoppe (Los Angeles) Rajdeep Kaur (Oxnard) Dennis Kim (Oakland) Michele Lee (Anaheim) Liliana Lopez-Talamantes (Los Angeles) Michelle Makinson (Huntington Beach) Jacqueline Moreira (San Jose) Cristina Nae (San Jose) Katherine Nguyen (Piedmont) Sarah Noble (Moorpark) Wendy Nuval Bacerra (Santa Ana) Jennifer Peterson (Orange) Jie Qiu (Montclair) Samantha Ramirez (Gardena) Briana Ramirez (West Covina) Anna Ramirez (Lemoore) Roberta Ransome (Livermore) Rebecca Sauder (Suisun City) Corinne Spohrer (San Francisco) Christine Stelten (San Diego) Rebecca Su (Alhambra) Jacquelynn Tamate (Canoga Park) Lisa Thompson (San Francisco) Stephanie Tran (Riverside) Eileen Velasco (Berkeley) Breanna Walker (Aliso Viejo) Lauren West (Ventura) James West (Redding) Olivia Zema (Vista)
“The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.” — Florence Nightingale
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The Palliative and Hospice Care Professional Issues Panel Steering Committee convened by ANA and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association seeks input on the draft Call for Action: Nurses Lead and Transform Palliative Care. Comments will be accepted until 5 p.m. EST on Oct. 14, 2016.
The ANA Center for Ethics and Human Rights Advisory Board has undertaken a review and revision of the ANA position statement, Non-punitive Treatment of Pregnant and Breast-feeding Women with Substance Use Disorder. ANA is soliciting public comment on the revised position statement. The deadline for comments is 5 p.m. EST on Oct. 17.
Recently, the ANA joined other 25 healthcare organizations taking leadership in combating the raging national opioid crises. For more compiled appropriate data from CHCF, click here.
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By Keith Carlson
 Emotional intelligence, or EI, can seem like just another buzzword to nurses who have not yet encountered the plethora of literature supporting the crucial aspects of EI in nursing, medicine, career and personal life. First mentioned in the 1960s, EI was brought into the mainstream by author Daniel Goleman with his 2005 book, "Emotional Intelligence." In the hospital, nurses are faced with ill, distressed and confused patients whose emotions are often running high.
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The Ohio State University
A short talk with a knowledgeable nurse could be the difference between a smoker stopping for cigarettes or stopping for nicotine gum on her way home from the hospital.
New research shows that self-reported quit rates among hospital patients more than doubled when nurses and other staff were trained to coach patients on how to stop smoking and to make sure they got the help they needed to make it happen, whether that meant counseling, patches, gum or prescription medication.
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FierceHealthcare
Workplace diversity improves patient outcomes and community relations yet it has been difficult to achieve without the backing of health care leaders. But a new report provides 10 lessons to help hospital leaders foster a diverse workforce.
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Advance Healthcare Network
It seems not a day goes by without hearing or reading about the dangers associated with opioids. As nurse practitioners, you know that these medications can be vital to pain treatment. You also know that managing an opioid regimen is complex.
Everyone from the surgeon general to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the Food and Drug Administration has issued national calls to reduce opioid prescribing. One hospital decided to halt it altogether.
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HealthDay News
Codeine is unsafe for children and should no longer be given to them, a new report from a leading pediatricians' group warns. Codeine has been used to treat kids' pain and coughs for decades because it was thought to be safer than other narcotics. But healthcare providers have learned that the way codeine is processed in the body is very dangerous for children and can result in death. Codeine is converted by the liver into morphine, but genetic differences between people can prompt the liver to create too much morphine in some and too little in others.
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Becker's Hospital Review
Adding a nurse navigator or a care coordinator to a center's staff is an expense that could reap massive benefits when done correctly.
Theresa Stern, nurse patient navigator and program director for the Orange Coast Memorial Center for Spine Health at Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center, in Fountain Valley, California, made the decision to become a navigator after she suffered a neck injury resulting in herniated cervical discs.
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Medscape (free login required)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone aged 6 months or older receive an influenza vaccine every year, by the end of October, if possible. However, CDC continues to recommend that influenza vaccination efforts continue as long as influenza viruses are circulating in the community. Significant seasonal influenza virus activity can continue into May, so vaccination later in the season can still provide benefit during most seasons.
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By Scott E. Rupp
 Well, this is rich, isn't it? Jonathon Bush of athenahealth says EHRs "slow doctors down and distract them from meaningful face time caring for patients." One of the nation's most-well known CEOs of an electronic health record company, Bush wrote this in an op-ed for STAT, citing the results of a new study published in Annals of Internal Medicine. While the research findings are not surprising, Bush's response is. First, let's dig into the results of the study a bit.
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The New York Times
"Between 1 million and 3 million Americans are given diagnoses of sepsis each year, and 15 to 30 percent of them will die," said Thomas R. Frieden, MD, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sepsis most commonly affects people over 65, but children also are susceptible. According to one estimate, more than 42,000 children develop sepsis in the United States every year, and 4,400 die. Sepsis appears to be on the rise.
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JAMA
Timing of introduction of allergenic foods to the infant diet may influence the risk of allergic or autoimmune disease, but the evidence for this has not been comprehensively synthesized. The objective of this study was to systematically review and meta-analyze evidence that timing of allergenic food introduction during infancy influences risk of allergic or autoimmune disease.
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Medscape (free login required)
Millions of Americans have undiagnosed or untreated vision impairment, yet eye and vision health remains "notably" absent from many population health agendas and community programs, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The 450-page report — Public Health Approaches to Reduce Vision Impairment and Promote Eye Health — calls for transforming vision impairments from an "exceedingly common to a rare condition" and eliminating correctable and avoidable vision impairments in the United States by 2030.
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The Washington Post
U.S. health officials have identified a cluster of gonorrhea infections that show sharply increased resistance to the last effective treatment available for the country's second most commonly reported infectious disease.
The findings from a cluster of Hawaii cases, presented Sept. 21 at a conference on prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, represent the first cluster of cases in the United States that have shown such decreased susceptibility to the double-antibiotic combination used when other drugs have failed.
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