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.NURSING FLASH
Nurse innovators shine — ANA\C Member Jodi Traver in the media!
American Nurse
Innovators Jodi Traver, PhD, RN, NE-BC, an ANA\California member, and Ayelet Ruppin, MN, RN, PHNA-BC, wanted to increase staff members’ access to social justice activism at one academic medical center, so they developed an online social justice program. This program — subsequently expanded to include the health system — consists of an ongoing virtual forum supported by a digital platform.
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Ways to use journaling to unwind and de-stress
Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, nurses are finding fresh, socially-safe ways to take care of their mental health. Burnout is a prevalent issue for more of us than ever before, so it’s important to find helpful practices to avoid it. One way to do this is through journaling. Did you keep a journal as a child or young adult? After you wrote your thoughts on paper, how did it make you feel? Think of journaling as having a relationship with your mind. For many people, journaling brings a sense of relief, like a weight has been lifted from their shoulders. That makes it a perfect stress-reliever for busy, over-extended nurses.
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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
Fall recipe and meal planning ideas for busy nurses
Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™
The COVID-19 pandemic creates upheaval for many nurses. Those who aren’t in patient care settings probably worked from home most of the past year. Children were also home doing virtual school. Now school is back in session for the fall. What better time to get organized with a meal planning strategy and new home cooked recipes? Your life is already busy — don’t let cooking nutritious meals for your family add to your stress. As we enter a time of transition this fall, with shorter days and new routines, let’s compile some fresh recipes for your cookbook and explore organized meal prep habits you can lean on.
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2021 edition — Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity in California
CHCF
All Californians should have access to the high-quality health care they need to lead long and healthy lives. Achieving this requires reducing disparities in health care and the social determinants of health that affect historically excluded or marginalized groups. Disparities occur across many demographic categories, including race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, place of residence, gender, disability status, language, and sexual orientation. As one of the most racially diverse states in the nation, California has a critical responsibility to address health disparities experienced by people of color. Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity in California: Pattern of Inequity shows that people of color face barriers in accessing health care, often receive suboptimal treatment, and are most likely to experience poor outcomes in the health care system.
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The 12-month Online RN-BSN program provides students, who are current RNs, the opportunity for educational and professional advancement. This program is designed to meet the needs of working registered nurses in providing them new perspectives by learning from other nurses. Students will be able to apply real-world solutions in their current positions immediately.
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Reinstate universal health coverage
The Lancet
Who remembers universal health coverage (UHC)? The World Health Organization defines UHC as all individuals and communities receiving the health services they need without suffering financial hardship. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, achieving this target was a top priority in global health, as it underpins Sustainable Development Goal 3: to ensure health and well-being for all. But as countries focused on the pandemic, the world's health community has neglected to sustain the momentum needed to achieve UHC. UHC Day, on Dec. 12, has the theme of “Leave No-One's Health Behind: Invest in Health Systems for All,” and is a crucial opportunity for all world leaders to reinstate UHC on the political agenda.
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Apply to Sacramento’s #1 hospital! Joining the UC Davis Health team connects you to a world-class university medical center that fosters collaboration and provides ongoing learning for all health care professionals. UC Davis Health offers excellent compensation and benefits, including competitive insurance plans, holidays, paid vacation/sick leave, retirement benefits and more.
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CMS suspends enforcement of vaccine mandate for healthcare workers
HealthLeaders Media
In a recent memo to state survey agencies, QSO-22-04-ALL, CMS told surveyors not to survey to the vaccination rule until further notice.
According to the memo, CMS “will not enforce the new rule regarding vaccination of healthcare workers or requirements for policies and procedures in certified Medicare/Medicaid providers and suppliers (including nursing facilities, hospitals, dialysis facilities and all other provider types covered by the rule) while there are court-ordered injunctions in place prohibiting enforcement of this provision.”
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Public health in crisis: Addressing the treatment of the public health workforce
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Healt
Throughout the pandemic, public health workers have been threatened, harassed, fired, or forced to resign. Addressing these issues and providing protections to the workforce is paramount to ensure we’re prepared for the next public health crisis.
In this Q&A, adapted from the Nov. 17 episode of Public Health On Call, Lindsay Smith Rogers talks with Beth Resnick, DrPH, MPH ’95, a senior scientist at the Bloomberg School and cofounder of the STOP! Partner Group, and Nilesh Kalyanaraman, MD, Health Officer of Anne Arundel County in Maryland, about how some states have passed laws restricting public health authority, and why it’s critical to address these issues before the next public health crisis.
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Health Affairs explores mental health link to birth outcomes
CHCF
Improving maternal mental health has far-reaching benefits for mothers and birthing people, babies, and society at large. All mothers and birthing people* deserve to have a healthy birth, to have their mental health care needs met, and to have providers who recognize and respect their cultural and racial differences. There are effective interventions to manage perinatal mental health conditions, which include the most common complications from pregnancy and childbirth up to one year postpartum. But too few mothers and birthing people are screened and treated for these conditions, and as the October issue of the journal Health Affairs shows, birthing people with poor mental health are more likely to have poor health outcomes.
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Need CEs? Nurse-Led Care Webinars and Trainings
National Nurse-Led Care Consortium
Join them every week for free webinars, learning collaboratives, and ECHOs on a range of important topics. Learn from experts, expand your skills, and earn continuing education credits.
Find all these opportunities and more below and on NurseLedCare.org.
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Transition to practice for California's nurse practitioners: Lessons from other states
CHCF
The signing of AB 890 (Wood) in September 2020 opened the pathway for nurse practitioners (NPs) in California to treat patients without physician supervision. This change has the potential to improve access to health care for millions of state residents, particularly those most impacted by health care provider shortages. NPs will be authorized to practice to the fullest extent of their education and training following a transition-to-practice (TTP) period of no less than three full-time equivalent years or 4,600 hours in specified settings. Additionally, NPs will be authorized to practice to the fullest extent of their education and training following an additional three years of practice beyond the TTP in all other settings.
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The Future of Nursing Podcast Series
NAM
A new NAM podcast series from the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 explores the stories of nurses and other experts who are confronting health disparities, led by Dr. Scharmaine Lawson.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
Why we need more male nurses
Daily Nurse
Throughout history and even now, nursing has been viewed as a female profession. With roots anchored deep in the Catholic Church, history shows it was nuns from religious nursing orders who rushed to care for injured soldiers during the Civil War.
Today, in a post-pandemic COVID-19 society, many gender roles have been tossed up and thrown out. Once-steady paychecks have vanished as people scramble to stay afloat. Men are no longer necessarily seen as the “breadwinners” of the home, just as women are no longer seen as the sole “caretakers” of the family.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of male RNs has increased to 12%, up slightly from an average of 11% from 2011 to 2015. As national health pandemics continue to create a dire need for nurses around the globe, perhaps this demand will eventually outweigh the bias against male nurses. Here we explore why it is crucial to actively bring more men into the profession of nursing and how we, as a society, can get there.
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5 strategies to keep temporary nurses engaged
Becker's Hospital Review
Amid an existing nursing workforce shortage exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, many hospitals and health systems have turned to travel nurse agencies to supplement the loss of full-time RNs.
The influx of travel nurses at many hospitals raises questions about whether there are patient safety implications associated with higher proportions of travel nurses, who, given their temporary status, may be difficult to keep motivated and engaged.
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Native American deaths from COVID-19 highest among racial groups
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs via EurekAlert!
Native Americans experience substantially greater rates of COVID-19 mortality compared with other racial and ethnic groups, according to a new study led by Princeton University researchers. Those living on reservations seem especially vulnerable to the virus, due to high rates of poverty, crowded living conditions and limited access to high-quality medical facilities.
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Study shows the maximum risks of COVID infection with and without masks
Max Planck Society via Medical Xpress
Three meters are not enough to ensure protection. Even at that distance, it takes less than five minutes for an unvaccinated person standing in the breath of a person with COVID-19 to become infected with almost 100% certainty. That's the bad news. The good news is that if both are wearing well-fitting medical or, even better, FFP2 masks, the risk drops dramatically. In a comprehensive study, a team from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen has investigated to what extent masks protect under which wearing conditions. In the process, the researchers determined the maximum risk of infection for numerous situations and considered several factors that have not been included in similar studies to date.
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AHA: Strategies to address loss of physical activity during major life events, transitions
Healio
Life events and major transitions may negatively affect routine physical activity, across the spectrum of age in the U.S., according to a scientific statement published in Circulation. “A group of American Heart Association physical activity committee members met to discuss gaps in the physical activity literature. We agreed that evidence suggested life events and transitions influenced physical activity and maybe sedentary behavior. The existing studies and our own personal experiences were discussed,” writing group chair Abbi D. Lane-Cordova, PhD, FAHA, assistant professor in exercise science at the Arnold School of Public Health at University of South Carolina, told Healio. “We wanted people, especially health care providers, to be aware that they should talk to people experiencing life events about activity behavior. We wanted to provide some guidance regarding how to start those conversations and provide resources. Then the pandemic hit, and the topic of supporting healthy levels of activity behaviors during major life events seemed even more important.”
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COVID-19 took toll on AIDS fight, UNAIDS chief says
Medscape
New infections and deaths from HIV/AIDS may increase as the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted prevention measures, said UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima in an interview aired at the Reuters Next conference.
Byanyima, who is also United Nations under-secretary-general, said that during the first pandemic phase in particular, fewer people opted to be tested and some dropped out of treatment because of long lines at clinics or other public safety measures that impeded access to prevention measures.
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Medicaid expansion is linked with reductions in mortality, according to new USC research
Keck School of Medicine of USC via EurekAlert!
In 2010, the newly passed Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare — mandated that states expand Medicaid eligibility to cover millions of uninsured Americans. But when the Supreme Court made Medicaid expansion optional for states, close to half opted out. Today, close to a quarter of states still have not increased access to Medicaid, and Medicaid expansion is now at the center of a national debate about President Biden’s Build Back Better legislation.
Just published research from the Keck School of Medicine of USC sheds new light on that debate. According to a study in The Lancet Public Health, making Medicaid available to more people reduces fatalities. The study shows that expanding Medicaid may result in an overall drop of approximately 3.8% in adult deaths each year.
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Data reveals higher autism prevalence in CDC's ADDM Network
News-Medical
One in 44 8-year-old children have been identified as having autism spectrum disorder, according to an analysis of 2018 data published in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Surveillance Summaries. This is higher than the previous estimate published in March 2020, which found a prevalence of one in 54 8-year-old children. The 2018 data come from 11 communities in the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring network.
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Study finds new pollutants associated with an altered ratio of baby boys to girls
Public Library of Science
Changes in the human sex ratio at birth — defined as the percentage of newborns that are boys — are associated with the presence of air and water pollutants, but are not predictably associated with seasonality or weather, according to a new study of more than six million births in the U.S. and Sweden. The study, led by Andrey Rzhetsky of the University of Chicago, is published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology.
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FDA approves trivalent hepatitis B vaccine for adults
Healio
VBI Vaccines announced that the FDA has approved the company’s recombinant trivalent hepatitis B vaccine, PreHevbrio, for adults aged 18 years or older.
According to VBI Vaccines, PreHevbrio contains the S, pre-S2 and pre-S1 HBV surface antigens and is the only approved three-antigen HBV vaccine for adults.
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