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.NURSING FLASH
.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
Battleground Tracker
CBS News
The CBS News Battleground Tracker is back, explaining what's on voters' minds and regularly providing detailed snapshots of the U.S. presidential election in each state throughout the 2020 campaign. In addition to the specific polls we conduct in key states in a given week, the Battleground Tracker map includes our best estimates and presidential race ratings in every state. This includes states we've polled extensively and states where we've surveyed few voters but have lots of other data.
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Ransomware Activity Targeting the Healthcare and Public Health Sector
CISA
The Board of Registered Nursing would like to notify you that the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Health and Human Services have credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers. The Board is sharing this information to provide warning to healthcare providers to ensure that they take timely and reasonable precautions to protect their networks from these threats.
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ANA's Presidential Engagement Policy and What YOU Can DO!
ANA
The 2020 U.S. Presidential election cycle is one that is generating strong opinions and even stronger feelings from every corner of the United States. The American Nurses Association (ANA) has not been exempted from the fervor as, notably, for the first election cycle since 1984, ANA chose not to endorse (based on a 2019 Membership Assembly (MA) decision) a presidential candidate. For those members who may not have been following ANA’s internal policy processes closely...
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California Voters to Decide on Dialysis Clinics Care
tulsaworld.com
California voters are deciding whether to require a doctor or highly trained nurse at each of the state’s 600 dialysis clinics whenever patients are being treated to improve patient care. Proposition 23 was placed on the ballot by unions that represent healthcare workers and has attracted more than $110 million in political spending to persuade voters. Opponents, financed by dialysis clinic companies, say that under that mandate, between two and three doctors would be required at every facility because most are open at least 16 hours a day, creating a financial burden that could lead some clinics to close.
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Be a Better Online Teacher
HealthImpact
Improve your knowledge and skills and engage your students. The second Benner Institute webinar on online teaching and learning in nursing education is now available to purchase.
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The State of COVID-19 Vaccine Development: What You Need to Know
ANA
Vaccines play a significant role in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and in saving millions of lives worldwide every year. Now, faced with the global spread of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, an unprecedented effort is underway to quickly develop an effective and safe vaccine against COVID-19.
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ANA\California Virtual Business Meeting – Nov. 4 @ 6:00 p.m. PST
ANA\C
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.
RSVP below through our website.
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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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Expanding Scope of Practice After COVID-19
Penn LDI
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for and importance of health professional practice in the United States. To expand access to healthcare during the pandemic, many states relaxed or waived scope of practice requirements, calling into question whether these reforms should be made permanent. In this half-day virtual conference, leading experts in law, economics, nursing, medicine, and dentistry will discuss the current gaps in health professional scope of practice, the future of scope of practice reform after COVID-19, and how to rethink scope of practice to better meet community needs and reduce barriers to care. Click here to register.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
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 Top-performing code blue teams share a few traits in common: they monitor for interruptions in chest compressions, invest in high-quality training, and consistently debrief cardiac arrest events, according to an article by Marshfield Clinic. A clean, systematic approach and accurate documentation are essential to creating the best resuscitation chance. Restructuring, training, and software changes are all viable options for improving code blue response. Each effort to improve code blue performance can assure better data collection, reduce liability risk, and improve overall patient care quality. Click below for more information on common practices and a new solution.
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End of life care in a pandemic: The emotional cost to nurses
Nursing Standard
Findings of Nursing Standard's annual end of life care survey, now in its fourth year and conducted in partnership with charity Marie Curie, always make for sobering reading.
In "normal times," accounts from nurses offer real-life insights into how staffing and time pressures hamper the care of dying patients.
These issues haven’t gone away, of course, but in this extraordinarily challenging year so many more have been added into the mix, causing emotional distress for many nurses.
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Remdesivir for COVID-19: FDA approved but still unproven
Florida Atlantic University via Medical Xpress
The United States has become the epicenter of the world in the ever increasing pandemic of COVID-19. While public health prevention strategies of social distancing, crowd avoidance, masking and frequent hand washing are of proven benefit, effective drug therapies for treatment are sparse. Not surprisingly, remdesivir has attracted worldwide attention, first receiving an Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and especially with U.S. President Donald Trump taking the drug for COVID-19 earlier this month. Recently, the World Health Organization published the largest randomized trial showing no benefit on reducing hospital stays or mortality. Nonetheless, remdesivir has received approval from the FDA for standard of care use for patients who are hospitalized.
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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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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Fiction and fact: The undermining of science and society
By Keith Carlson
 In these days of a tumultuous and politically divided country and a raging pandemic taking scores of lives each day, research is a cornerstone of the bedrock of public health, evidence-based science, and healthcare delivery. However, when determined efforts are made to undermine the importance of the truth of scientific inquiry and discovery, our society itself is lamentably and powerfully undermined. The very notion of how we as humans accept or reject the concept of facts has changed remarkably in the course of the first two decades of the 21st century.
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Hospital floors are hotspot for bacteria, creating route of transfer to patients
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America via Medical Xpress
The floors of hospital rooms are quickly and frequently contaminated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria within hours of patient admission, creating a route of transfer of potentially dangerous organisms to patients, according to a study published as part of the proceedings from Decennial 2020: The Sixth International Conference on Healthcare-Associated Infections. All abstracts accepted for the meeting have been published as a supplement issue in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
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Adult vaccination coverage, compliance varies widely by state
Healio
Adult vaccination coverage and compliance varies substantially by state, even with adjustments for individual state-characteristics, according to study results presented at IDWeek.
The study examined vaccination information for influenza, pneumococcus, Tdap and herpes zoster and found that the “coverage rates for recommended vaccines were generally low,” Elizabeth M. La, PhD, associate director of health economics at RTI Health Solutions, explained.
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Stronger treatments could cure Chagas disease
University of Georgia via EurekAlert!
Researchers in the University of Georgia's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases have found that a more intensive, less frequent drug regimen with currently available therapeutics could cure the infection that causes Chagas disease, a potentially life-threatening illness affecting up to 300,000 people in the United States.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Study: A substantial number of patients have deferred care during the COVID-19 pandemic
By Scott E. Rupp
 Routine patient care received a devastating blow earlier this year as the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged healthcare facilities and countless communities across the country and shut down elective procedures. According to a new study on the impact to patient care during the pandemic, almost half of all U.S. employees deferred care because of the pandemic, Willis Towers Watson said. The global advisory firm surveyed a statistically valid 4,898 workers reporting that as many as 44% deferred medical care at some point during the pandemic.
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World's first agreed guidance for people with diabetes to exercise safely
Swansea University via EurekAlert!
A Swansea University academic has helped draw up a landmark agreement amongst international experts, setting out the world's first standard guidance on how people with diabetes can use modern glucose monitoring devices to help them exercise safely.
The guidance will be a crucial resource for healthcare professionals around the world in helping people with type 1 diabetes.
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Medicinal plant stops the growth of breast cancer cells, shows research
News-Medical
A plant which had previously been dismissed as not being medically useful could prove to be a hero in disguise after scientists discovered it not only stops the growth of breast cancer cells, but does not affect normal cells — a potential first for future cancer chemotherapy treatment.
The team, led by Professor Alessandra Devoto at Royal Holloway, University of London, in collaboration with Dr. Amanda Harvey at Brunel University London and Professor Nicholas Smirnoff at University of Exeter, incubated Arabidopsis thaliana leaves, treated with the plant hormone Jasmonate (a substance discovered in jasmine that boosts plant responses to stress), with breast cancer cells.
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Vitamin A, E, D intake linked to lower prevalence of respiratory complaints
Healio
Consuming more of vitamins A, E and D may help lower respiratory complaints, according to research published in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health.
“Nutrition is known to play a critical role in the prevention of a number of infectious diseases, while malnutrition is known to contribute to increased morbidity and mortality from such diseases,” Suzana Almoosawi, PhD, a public health nutritionist and a nutritional epidemiologist at the Imperial College London’s School of Public Health, and colleagues wrote. “Although the mechanisms by which nutrition affects immunity are complex, optimal nutritional status is known to contribute to the maintenance of the immune system.”
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