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Missouri hospital giving nurses panic buttons after number of assaults by patients triple
People
Nurses and hospital staff at a Missouri hospital will now wear panic buttons on their badges due to a stark increase in assaults by patients. Cox Medical Center in Branson said that hospital staff reported 123 assaults by patients in 2020, a three-fold increase from the year before, when there were 40. The number of injuries from the attacks also increased, from 17 to 78.
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The use of social media to influence policy
George Washington University
Join GW Nursing's Dr. Melissa Batchelor as she discusses how to utilize #socialmedia to impact policy. This webinar will be focused on how healthcare professionals can harness the power of social media to influence policy making and policymakers. A multimodal strategy will be described that individuals and organizations can use to maximize impact through concise messaging on health-related issues that matter.
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(ANHE Podcast) Climate Justice 5 Iira Tita, RN and Doctoral Student in Finland Caring for the Elderly in a Warming Climate
Alliance of Nurses for Health Environments
Iira was born in Kuopio, Finland, and has been working as a nurse since 2013. She received her Bachelors of Health Sciences in 2018 University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio and completed her Masters in Health Sciences degree there in 2019; her thesis was entitled "Finnish registered nurses' observations of health effects related to climate change." She has presented on this and related topics at international conferences and is currently a PhD student at UEF where she continues to develop scholarship on nursing education and climate change. She currently practices as a home health nurse.
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Student Nurses Who Refuse Vaccination Struggle to Complete Degrees
Kaiser Health News
In early September, the Biden administration announced that workers at health care facilities, including hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers, would be required to receive covid vaccines. Although details of the federal rule won't be released until October, some experts predict that student nurses doing clinical training at such sites will have to be vaccinated, too.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
7 hacks for nurses as the temperatures drop
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nurses face a barrage of stressors during colder months, including weather and coming into contact with germs from patients and family members.
Try these hacks to stay healthy and comfortable through fall and winter.
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CDC pushes hard on vaccination for pregnant women in new advisory
HealthDay News via Medical Xpress
The country's leading health agency on Sept. 29 implored all Americans who are pregnant, breastfeeding or planning to become pregnant to get a coronavirus vaccine.
COVID-19 poses a serious risk to women who are expecting, since they are vulnerable because of pregnancy's dampening effect on their immune system, experts say.
But less than one-third of pregnant women have received coronavirus vaccines before or during their pregnancies, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It's even lower for Black women, of whom only 15 percent are vaccinated.
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Gene found in monkeys and mice could work as a new type of antiviral to block HIV, Ebola, and other deadly viruses in humans
University of Utah Health via EurekAlert!
A nationwide team of researchers, led by scientists at University of Utah Health and The Rockefeller University, has determined how a genetic mutation found in mice and monkeys interferes with viruses such as HIV and Ebola. They say the finding could eventually lead to the development of medical interventions in humans.
The gene, called retroCHMP3, encodes an altered protein that disrupts the ability of certain viruses to exit an infected cell and prevents it from going on to infect other cells.
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Blood lead levels detected in half of children tested
HealthDay News
The proportion of children with detectable and elevated blood lead levels is significantly higher among children with public insurance and for communities with greater pre-1950s housing and poverty rates, according to a study published online Sept. 27 in JAMA Pediatrics.
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Stewardship program reduces ambulatory antibiotic prescriptions
Healio
A national antibiotic stewardship program was associated with declines in antibiotic prescribing among nearly 300 ambulatory care settings, mostly primary and urgent care practices, according to data presented at IDWeek.
The project is part of an effort by HHS’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to combat antibiotic resistance in the United States.
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YouTube cracks down on anti-vaccine misinformation
TechXplore
YouTube announced Sept. 29 it would remove videos and some high-profile users that falsely claim approved vaccines are dangerous, as social networks seek to crack down on health misinformation around COVID-19 and other diseases.
Video-sharing giant YouTube has already banned posts that spread false myths around coronavirus treatments, including ones that share inaccurate claims about COVID-19 vaccines shown to be safe.
But the Google-owned site said its concerns about the spread of medical conspiracy theories went beyond the pandemic.
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When a free cancer check finds something, could cost keep patients from following up?
Michigan Medicine via EurekAlert!
Eleven years ago this month, the scans and exams that hold the most power to spot the early signs of cancer became available for free to many American adults.
Now, two new studies show that when those screening tests reveal potentially troubling signs, patients could face hundreds of dollars in costs for follow-up tests.
The studies, by teams from the University of Michigan and Duke University, could inform efforts to ensure that patients follow up on abnormal test results and don’t delay care due to cost. Such delays could lead to cancer going undiagnosed and progressing, potentially leading to worse patient outcomes and high medical costs.
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Nurse recognition programs refuel and help build resilience
Nurse.com
Every day on the news, we see nurses caring for COVID-19 patients, nurses giving life-changing vaccinations, and nurses dealing with this latest onslaught of the Delta variant. It’s a recipe for burnout by anyone’s standards.
The media also is addressing the unfortunate exhaustion and burnout that nurses (and other caregivers) are enduring. Nurses need to be emotionally, psychologically, and morally refueled regularly to enable them to resist burnout and its many negative impacts such as moral distress. One way research reveals nurses can be refueled emotionally is through the expression of gratitude by their patients, families, and co-workers.
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Neutralizing canceled meds by connecting the EHR dots
Medscape
Enhanced communication between the clinician and pharmacy about discontinued or canceled medications potentially averted almost 200 safety events over 60 days, new data suggest.
"As providers, we take advantage of 'When I send a new prescription in, it routes and the patient fills it because if it didn't, I would know about it,' but when a canceled prescription doesn't cancel off the pharmacy side of things, I think we're unaware," study author Jeffrey A. Goss, FNP-c, MSN, a family nurse practitioner at Intermountain Heart Institute, Murray, Utah, told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology.
As to how often healthcare systems and their providers may be unaware this essential step isn't taken, he replied: "I don't know, but my fear is this is a bigger problem than people realize."
The results were presented virtually at the 2021 American College of Cardiology Quality Summit.
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Health workers once saluted as heroes now get threats
ABC News
More than a year after U.S. health care workers on the front lines against COVID-19 were saluted as heroes with nightly clapping from windows and balconies, some are being issued panic buttons in case of assault and ditching their scrubs before going out in public for fear of harassment.
Across the country, doctors and nurses are dealing with hostility, threats and violence from patients angry over safety rules designed to keep the scourge from spreading.
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Alternative to using race in kidney function test found
Kaiser Permanente via EurekAlert!
Researchers have identified an approach to remove race from equations used to estimate a person’s kidney function. These equations have been criticized for potentially perpetuating racial health disparities. The findings, reported September 23 in the New England Journal of Medicine, are expected to inform National Kidney Foundation–American Society of Nephrology Task Force guidelines on evaluating kidney function.
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