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.NURSING FLASH
.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
The Biden-Harris Plan to Beat COVID-19 — 7 Point Plan
President-Elect Joe Biden
The American people deserve an urgent, robust, and professional response to the growing public health and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. President-elect Biden believes that the federal government must act swiftly and aggressively to help protect and support our families, small businesses, first responders, and caregivers essential to help us face this challenge, those who are most vulnerable to health and economic impacts, and our broader communities — not to blame others or bail out corporations.
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Don't Use N95 Masks for More Than 2 Days, Research Suggests
Medscape
In the study, investigators evaluated masks that had been reused by healthcare workers in a single-center trauma unit. They recruited individuals who had been assigned masks that were of the correct size and that had been fit tested. Persons whose mask had not been fit tested were excluded from the study. Fit testing continued periodically throughout the workers' shift. At those times, the masks were checked for fit and for the quality of the seal. For 5 days, the researchers evaluated masks using Occupational Safety and Health Administration qualitative fit-test guidelines.
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RECAP: ANA\California Virtual Business Meeting
ANA\C
Over 40 nurses joined us last Wednesday for our annual Business Meeting. ICYMI (in case you missed it) we recapped the Board of Directors and Officers reports, including:
• What We Advocated For In 2020
• Membership Growth Report
• 2021 Legislative Predictions
• And New Member Benefits Coming Soon!
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Pfizer Vaccine's Funding Came From Berlin, Not Washington
Bloomberg
It’s said that success has many authors, and the encouraging data from Pfizer Inc.’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine had plenty of people in Washington lining up to take credit. The truth is that Pfizer didn’t receive any funding from Operation Warp Speed for the development, clinical trial and manufacturing of the vaccine. Rather, its partner, BioNTech SE, has received money — from the German government.
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Meet the 16 Doctors, Nurses, and Other Clinicians Just Elected to Congress
Advisory Board Daily Briefing
More than a dozen doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals were among those who were elected to Congress recently. History suggests that clinicians may bring a distinctive perspective to health policy debates. Former Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.), for instance, was a longtime nurse who founded the Congressional Nursing Caucus in 2003 and went on to advocate for legislation to address the national nursing shortage.
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Virus Spreads in Much of the U.S., Setting Records and Straining Healthcare
The Washington Post
On Nov. 5, 116,707 new cases were reported, the second straight record for a single day and a figure that dwarfed the total for any day in the previous worst two periods of the outbreak, in April and July. From Washington state to West Virginia and from Texas to Pennsylvania, the country was awash in record or near-record case counts recently.
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Congress Must Act: Nurses Need More Relief Against COVID-19
ANA\C
Whether it is now or anytime in the future, our country needs COVID-19 relief legislation which will put nurses and essential workers top-of-mind. Nurses continue to put themselves between the virus and the population — as Americans, we need to protect them and take care of them the way they always do for us. Whether you’re a nurse, patient, family member or simply an advocate supporting our nation’s heroes, please take a minute to share your own story by customizing your letter however you like.
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Congratulations to the following Hospitals:
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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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How to Protect Yourself: Safe Use and Re-Use of PPE
ANA
There is no issue that has caused greater concern for nurses related to the pandemic than the availability and use of PPE. This important on-demand webinar focuses on the current PPE guidelines and how to protect yourself. 150,000 nurses have registered for ANA's important PPE webinar we provided free to all nurses in March, 2020. This new webinar represents a critical and necessary update to this earlier webinar. Since that time, our knowledge of COVID-19 and the importance of strong PPE protection has continued to grow, so ANA is providing all nurses access to this free PPE webinar that emphasizes the most current information.
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A Culture of Health Program Listening Workshop: Community Perspectives (Stakeholder Webinar Series)
National Academy of Medicine
On Dec. 8-10, 2020, the National Academy of Medicine Culture of Health Program will host a public meeting to discuss barriers, models, and opportunities to using community knowledge and strength to drive health equity policy and research.
The objectives of this meeting are to:
• Examine and understand the current landscape for community-driven efforts to advance health equity, especially in communities most affected by inequity (Black/African American, Latinx, and Indigenous populations), and center the voices of the young people in those communities.
• Identify and discuss the barriers and gaps experienced by communities and organizations supporting communities working to advance health equity.
• Examine promising models of community-driven efforts to change or enact policy that advances health equity, and identify strategies to address root causes of inequity that can inform the work of other communities.
• Identify the priorities for community-driven efforts to advance health equity, and opportunities to use community knowledge, strengths, and resiliency to inform the way forward, especially in a world affected by COVID-19 and increased calls for racial equity.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
Viewpoint: Self-care a must for nurses to provide compassionate care to patients
Becker's Hospital Review
Providing compassionate patient care can come at a personal cost for nurses — compassion fatigue — but it can be prevented, according to an op-ed by Sharon Willey, DNP, RN, published in Ohio and Indiana's KPC News. To combat this, nurses need to prioritize and protect their own mental and physical well-being by practicing self-care, according to Dr. Willey. A healthy work/life balance and self-care tactics are vital resources that serve as a barrier to compassion fatigue. Nurses should prioritize time for "activities that bring peace, calm and rest," and recognize the behavioral, emotional and physical warning signs of compassion fatigue.
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Bridge the divide between nurses and IT teams
HealthTech Magazine
Despite being the largest group of frontline caregivers — outnumbering doctors by three to one — nurses are often left out of the process when it comes to testing, purchasing and deploying technologies they’ll ultimately use to deliver critical services.
That’s a big missed opportunity. A disconnect between nurses and IT teams is considered the number one barrier to success, according to results published in the HIMSS 2020 Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey, and there is plenty of value in building a partnership to support digital transformation together.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Study: Tracking the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 virus mutations
By Dorothy L. Tengler
 COVID-19 can go in two different directions once it has infected someone. The immune response can remain stable and regain control over the virus, eventually clearing it through T cell and antibody activity. Or the immune system can freak out and start to overrespond, churning out more and more inflammatory cytokines, in a frantic attempt to wipe out the virus. The second path causes substantial cell death in the lungs, resulting in the most severe infections, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and even death. However, in a new study, University of Illinois researchers and students found that the virus is honing the tactics that may make it more successful and more stable.
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Could a nasal spray prevent coronavirus transmission?
Columbia University via Medical Xpress
A nasal antiviral created by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons blocked transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in ferrets, suggesting the nasal spray also may prevent infection in people exposed to the new coronavirus.
The compound in the spray — a lipopeptide developed by Anne Moscona, MD, and Matteo Porotto, Ph.D., professors in the Department of Pediatrics and directors of the Center for Host-Pathogen Interaction — is designed to prevent the new coronavirus from entering host cells.
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Acknowledging racism, focusing on anti-racist efforts helps Black Americans' health
Healio
Systematic racism has had a significant impact on the mental and physical health of Black Americans, according to a presenter at the NEI Max virtual conference. Napoleon B. Higgins Jr., MD, president and CEO of Bay Point Behavioral Health Services Inc. and South East Houston Research Group in Texas, emphasized the importance of anti-racism as a means of improving the mental and physical outcomes of Black Americans.
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New cancer drugs saved over 1.2 million people in the U.S. over 16 years, new study shows
Taylor & Francis Group via EurekAlert!
More than 1.2 million people in the U.S. prevented facing death following a cancer diagnosis between the year 2000 and 2016 thanks to ever improving treatment options, a large new national study shows.
Published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Medical Economics, the new findings highlight how new drugs commissioned during this period to target the 15 most common cancer types helped to reduce mortality by 24% per 100,000 people in the States.
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Search for a snakebite drug might lead to a COVID treatment, too
News-Medical
Dr. Matthew Lewin, founder of the Center for Exploration and Travel Health at the California Academy of Sciences, was researching snakebite treatments in rural locations in preparation for an expedition to the Philippines in 2011.
The story of a renowned herpetologist from the academy, Joseph Slowinski, who was bitten by a highly venomous krait in Myanmar and couldn’t get to a hospital in time to save his life a decade earlier, weighed on the emergency room doctor.
"I concluded that I needed something small and compact and that doesn't care what kind of snake," Lewin said.
It didn't exist. That set Lewin in pursuit of a modern snakebite drug, a journey that finds his Corte Madera, CA, company, Ophirex, nearing a promising oral treatment that fits in a pocket; is stable, easy to use and affordable; and treats the venom from many species. "That's the holy grail of snakebite treatment," he said. Along the way, Lewin and his team have come across another potential use for the drug. Varespladib has a positive effect on acute respiratory distress syndrome, associated with COVID-19.
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Shot to prevent HIV works better than daily pill in women
The New York Times
A single shot given every two months has proved to be more effective than a daily pill at preventing HIV in women, researchers reported recently, an advance that medical experts hailed as groundbreaking in the fight against the deadly virus that causes AIDS.
The finding, that the long-acting drug would prevent HIV in six doses taken over a year instead of the 365 required for the prevention pill currently on the market, was so convincing the researchers decided to end their clinical trial of the drug early.
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Speaker: Implement clinical considerations in treatment of common eating disorders
Healio
Clinicians should implement specific evidence-based treatments for various eating disorders, according to a presenter at the NEI Max Virtual Conference.
Leslie Citrome, MD, MPH, clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at New York Medical College in New York, provided an overview of treatment for three eating disorders that occur mainly in adults: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder.
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Machine learning helps predict survival rates of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
American Heart Association via EurekAlert!
Using neighborhood and local data in combination with existing information sources creates a more accurate prediction on a patient's recovery prospects after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association's Resuscitation Science Symposium 2020.
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