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.NURSING FLASH
.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
COVID-19 Vaccine Development — Share Your Voice
ANA
You are an important, influential, and trusted resource of vaccination information for patients. This means you need to be well-informed of the COVID-19 vaccine, which is developing at a rapid pace. The American Nurses Foundation wants to learn more about your knowledge of and attitude toward a COVID-19 vaccine. Your participation in this brief Vaccine Survey (five minutes) will inform decisions about how to best support the U.S. nursing workforce as you prepare to take on the critical role of protecting the nation’s health.
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ANA-PAC Contribution
ANA-PAC
The non-partisan American Nurses Association Political Action Committee (ANA-PAC) supports federal candidates who demonstrate a commitment to nurses and patients.
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2020 Virtual Conference & Business Meeting — 'The CNS Transforming Healthcare for the Future!'
CACNS
The opening speaker will be Dr. Sean M. Reed, PhD, APN, ACNS-BC, ACHPN, a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in Adult Health, Hospice and Palliative Care. He has over 15 years of experience in acute, post-acute, ambulatory, systems, and academic settings. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, College of Nursing, where he teaches and researches delivery and access to palliative care and also is the current NACNS President!
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She Shares Event — Upcoming Election
She Shares
This special election conversation will focus on what the election means for our country and comes just days before the third and final Presidential debate. The panelists include Congressmember Karen Bass, Former Governor of Michigan Jennifer Granholm, and Former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers. The conversation will be moderated by POLITICO’s Carla Marinucci. The event is free but advanced registration is required.
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NSO Webinar: Using Malpractice Claims Data to Identify Risks in Nursing Practice [CEU]
NSO
NSO and CNA’s new liability claim report, Nurse Professional Liability Exposure Claim Report: 4th Edition: Minimizing Risk, Achieving Excellence, addresses some of nurses’ most common professional liability concerns, including emerging risks and ways that nurses can protect themselves from liability exposures. Using case studies and claim data, nurses can examine top areas of liability through the experiences of your peers. Most importantly, this report provides you with immediately implementable practices that you can use to help prevent or defend against malpractice allegations, while also enhancing patient safety.
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Take your career to the next level when you complete the RN to BSN degree program at Mount Saint Mary's University. Designed for working nurse professionals, our 100% online program lets you learn on your own schedule. To attend an information session or learn more, click here.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
Now taking the stage in the pandemic: The school nurse
The New York Times
With New York City and other districts across the United States starting to bring children back to school in person, at a moment of heightened medical complexity, school nurses are being asked to do their regular jobs, but also to take on new responsibilities.
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Sepsis rates fall when nurses have fewer patients, study finds
Becker's Hospital Review
Increased nurse staffing levels and intensivist hours were linked to significantly lower sepsis rates at a sample of Massachusetts hospitals, a study published in Critical Care Nurse found. In contrast, greater hospitalist and physician hours were linked to significantly higher sepsis rates.
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Promoted by PulseCheck
 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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Blocking immune system pathway may stop COVID-19 infection, prevent severe organ damage
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine via Medical Xpress
While the world waits eagerly for a safe and effective vaccine to prevent infections from SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers also are focusing on better understanding how SARS-CoV-2 attacks the body in the search for other means of stopping its devastating impact. The key to one possibility — blocking a protein that enables the virus to turn the immune system against healthy cells — has been identified in a recent study by a team of Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
For public health, a momentous collision and missed opportunities
By Keith Carlson
 The COVID-19 pandemic took a new and surprising turn as October began when the President of the United States tested positive for the virus, as did many of his associates and direct contacts. At a volatile time during a highly charged election cycle, the collision of this novel coronavirus with the leader of what some dub "the only superpower on earth" is one that cannot be brushed aside. Can this direct meeting of the virus and such an influential leader deliver an outcome other than more missed opportunities and misinformation?
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FlowSight - Flow Cytometry with Vision
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The FlowSight offers high performance in a small package. Its design increases signal and minimizes noise to provide unmatched fluorescence sensitivity. Twelve detection channels simultaneously produce brightfield, darkfield and up to ten channels of fluorescence imagery of every cell. With these capabilities, the FlowSight enables a broad range of applications.
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At NorthBay Healthcare, we are devoted to creating an environment that nurtures and nourishes a commitment to compassionate care, and just as importantly, allows you to flourish. So join us, and be part of an incredible community of dedicated professionals who share the same passion to provide exceptional patient care.
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UCLA Health scientists pioneer faster, cheaper COVID-19 testing technology
University of California, Los Angeles via Medical Xpress
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization for scientists at UCLA Health to begin using a new method of COVID-19 detection using sequencing technology called SwabSeq. The method is capable of testing thousands of samples for coronavirus at the same time, producing accurate, individual results in 12 to 24 hours.
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Pediatricians' group tackles racism in healthcare
HealthDay News
As the struggle against racism continues to simmer across the United States, the American Academy of Pediatrics took a hard look at racial gaps in healthcare for children during its recent annual meeting.
"We know racism is a social determinant of health, and it's a public health issue, so we spent a great deal of time focusing on that," Dr. Elizabeth Murray, a pediatrician with the University of Rochester Medical Center, said during a recent HD Live! interview.
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NYUAD researchers discover immune evasion strategy used by malaria-causing parasite
New York University via EurekAlert!
The Plasmodium parasite, which transmits malaria to humans through infected mosquitos, triggers changes in human genes that alter the body's adaptive immune response to malarial infections, according to a team of researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi. The findings could bring hope for novel therapeutic strategies and a vaccine to the hundreds of thousands of people who die annually from malaria, a preventable and curable disease, and another three billion people who are at risk of infection.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Drug use rises among U.S. workers amidst the pandemic
By Grace Ferguson
 Lockdowns, social distancing, layoffs, and uncertainty about the future are well-documented effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Research also shows higher rates of substance use and misuse. A May 2020 report by Well Being Trust and The Robert Graham Center says, "The growing epidemic of ‘deaths of despair’ is increasing due to the pandemic — as many as 75,000 more people will die from drug or alcohol misuse and suicide."
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Promising breath-test for cancer
Flinders University via ScienceDaily
In a new paper in the British Journal of Cancer, Flinders University researchers have reported significant progress in developing a method to test exhaled breath profiles which accurately differentiate head and neck cancer from non-cancer patients.
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