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.NURSING FLASH
ANA\California Virtual Business Meeting – Nov. 4 @ 6:00 p.m. PST
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Want an inside look into ANA\California’s business? Join us for our annual (and this year, virtual) Business Meeting. Hear updates and reports from all Officers, Directors, Executive Director, and ANA\California's Lobbyist legislative overview.
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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
They Work in Several Nursing Homes to Eke Out a Living, and That May Spread the Virus
NPR
Using location data from 30 million smartphones when the visitor ban was in place helped the scientists "see" the movements of people going into and out of nursing homes. The data showed a lot of nursing home workers are working at more than one facility. Chen says the findings suggest that one source of the spread of infections is staff who work in multiple nursing homes.
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The State of COVID-19 Vaccine Development: What You Need to Know
ANA
Healthcare professionals will be early recipients of any approved vaccines. Now is the time to begin to learn what you need to know about these vaccines — information that is critical to your well-being and to the well-being of your patients.
Topics to be covered in this important webinar include:
• How SARS CoV-2 is different from other coronaviruses found in humans and the implications for vaccine development
• The pharmacology of the top current COVID-19 vaccine candidates and what you need to know about how each works
• Important considerations in the development of a vaccine that will protect individuals from the coronavirus
• The current thinking regarding vaccine storage, administration, and other logistical challenges
• Important strategies for improving vaccination rates for the COVID-19 vaccine
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Prop. 23 Plays Politics With Patients' Lives
OC Register
But even for a cynic like me, who has covered California politics for about 20 years, Proposition 23 is among the worst examples I have seen of putting politics over people’s very lives. In an attempt to financially hurt an industry it has tried unsuccessfully to unionize for years, Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West has put forward yet another measure that would unnecessarily raise dialysis centers’ costs so much that a number of clinics would be forced to cut back services or close, disrupting the treatment of thousands of vulnerable patients suffering from kidney failure.
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ANA President Grant Participates in COVID-19 Clinical Trial: 'Participating in this trial is my way of giving back'
ANA
ANA President Grant volunteered to participate in a COVID-19 vaccine phase III clinical trial at the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) in part because the virus is disproportionately affecting communities of color. “There’s a need for more minority participation in clinical studies like this because COVID-19 is mostly affecting Black and Brown populations,” Grant said in an interview with UNC Health News. “We need to gather enough evidence of whether this vaccine will help in these
populations. And if the vaccine is approved, people of color will be more inclined to try it if they know people who look like them participated safely in the trial.”
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ANA Quick Videos on COVID-19 Disease Progression and Nursing Interventions
ANA

Free for all nurses. Access immediately. No registration required.
ANA heard you! You need shorter, more quickly viewed videos of COVID-19 education. The popular and highly informative 60-minute ANA COVID-19 webinar, “Caring for COVID-19 Patients: Disease Progressions and Nursing Interventions You Need to Know,” is now also available as easy to access and view 5 to 15 minute Quick Videos. These quick videos cover multiple topics including COVID-19 critical presentation, care goals, innovative nursing interventions, as well as assessment, monitoring and diagnostics.
Click below to access all ANA COVID-19 Disease Progression video education content.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
What are nursing clinicals like during COVID-19?
Nurse.org
While most people have been wanting to avoid hospitals, nursing students this fall were looking forward to returning to them to continue their education. Clinical placements have become a hallmark of nursing education that students have come to expect and faculty have relied on to help prepare new graduate nurses.
To find out how clinicals are changing for nursing students this fall, Nurse.org spoke with some nursing faculty to learn what clinical nursing education looks like during the pandemic.
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Viewpoint: Why nurses make great lawmakers
Becker's Hospital Review
Nurses bring unique perspectives to the legislative process and have a role outside of the hospital, according to an op-ed written by Janice Phillips, PhD, RN, and published in The Hill.
Nurses are increasingly showing up in the race for public office across local, state and federal levels, and more should hold office, wrote Dr. Phillips, director of nursing research and health equity at Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center and an associate professor at Rush University College of Nursing.
Dr. Phillips outlines several reasons that highlight why nurses are well-suited to hold office.
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Coronavirus mutations show early safety measures and restrictions limited viral spread
Children's Hospital Los Angeles via Medical Xpress
The coronavirus, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, has one official name — SARS-CoV-2. But according to virologists, mutations lead to hundreds of genetically-distinct versions of the virus. Scientists at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have used these viral signatures to reveal transmission patterns, which show the effectiveness of early safety measure policies.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Algorithm could help keep consumers safe from illegal online pharmacies
By Gail Short
The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy reported this year that it identified dozens of illicit online pharmacies selling drugs marketed as treatments for COVID-19, drugs that would normally require a prescription. "Rogue internet pharmacy networks are run by criminal opportunists, and the COVID-19 pandemic has provided the perfect opportunity for illegal online drug sellers to prey on fearful consumers," the NABP says in its "Rogue Rx Activity Report." But now, researchers at Penn State University have developed an algorithm that may be able to identify which online pharmacies are legitimate and which ones are not. They wrote about their findings in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
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Details about broadly neutralizing antibodies provide insights for universal flu vaccine
University of Chicago Medical Center via Medical Xpress
New research from an immunology team at the University of Chicago may shed light on the challenges of developing a universal flu vaccine that would provide long-lasting and broad protection against influenza viruses.
The study, published recently in Immunity, explores the behavior of polyreactive antibodies — antibodies that are capable of binding to more than one distinct antigen — in an effort to understand their role against influenza viruses. The researchers identified that broadly neutralizing antibodies are commonly polyreactive and are preferentially induced by novel and pandemic-level influenza viruses.
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Nigeria safely relaunches accelerated yellow fever vaccination campaigns
News-Medical
While combatting multiple public health challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Nigeria, with support of the World Health Organization and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, will safely relaunch an accelerated series of mass preventive vaccination campaigns to protect Nigerians against yellow fever.
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Tel Aviv University researchers discover molecular link between diet and risk of cancer
American Friends of Tel Aviv University via EurekAlert!
An international team of researchers has identified a direct molecular link between meat and dairy diets and the development of antibodies in the blood that increase the chances of developing cancer. This connection may explain the high incidence of cancer among those who consume large amounts of dairy products and red meat, similar to the link between high cholesterol and an increased risk of heart disease.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Everybody's getting their temperature taken, but why is nobody's actually 98.6 degrees?
By Amanda Kowalski
You get your temperature taken at the doctor’s office, at your hairdresser, nail salon and even before you can watch a high school football game. In the months since the outbreak of COVID-19, you’ve probably had your temperature taken more than all the years of your life before this — combined. And you might have noticed something — you’re not normal. When it comes to body temperature, normal temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 degrees Celsius. Chances are you aren’t, though, are you? Well, don’t worry: nobody else is either.
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Braunwald: 'Striking' advances made in cardiometabolic care
Healio
In recent years, cardiologists, endocrinologists and primary care physicians have observed marked advances in the use of genetics, artificial intelligence and SGLT2 inhibitors in cardiometabolic care, according to a keynote speech.
During a keynote discussion, Cardiology Today Editorial Board Member Eugene Braunwald, MD, Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and founding chairman of the TIMI Study Group at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, discussed these recent advances and how they may apply to clinical practice in the future.
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Stroke incidence remains higher in men, despite strong risk factors for stroke in women
Healio
An analysis of more than 470,000 patients from the UK Biobank cohort study demonstrated that, while several risk factors strongly correlated with stroke risk in women compared with men, the rate of stroke remained higher among men.
Specifically, the findings linked hypertension, smoking and low socioeconomic status with a greater risk for any type of stroke in women compared with men.
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Coffee, green tea might extend life for folks with type 2 diabetes
HealthDay News
If you've got type 2 diabetes and love drinking green tea or coffee, new research suggests you may be reducing your odds of a premature death.
But you need to really love these drinks. The study found that having four or more cups of green tea along with two cups of coffee daily was linked to a 63% lower risk of death during the average five-year follow-up.
On their own, a single cup of coffee or green tea daily might lower your risk of early death by 12 to 15%, respectively.
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