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By Joan Spitrey
 With the busy holiday season is upon us, many will be enjoying time off from work so they can visit with family. However, while holiday cheer is spreading, nurses and healthcare providers will continue to march along caring for those who are sick and in need of care. Many nurses will work through breaks to provide care to those vulnerable patients in need. Although the idea of skipping a meal break is unheard of in most professions, it sadly is more the norm than not in nursing.
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Last week, ANA\C participated in the inaugural ANA Leadership Summit & Leadership Council in Washington, D.C., where representatives from all states met and discussed the future direction of ANA and possible threats to the ACA.
Some highlights include:
- Representatives worked in 2 distinct groups — Presidents/VPs and executive/state directors — where they discussed specific issues on their agenda including unifying threads of increased membership, value price pilot and most effective use of resources.
- Attendees voted for Council's leadership with Carol Stevens, AzNA President, who was elected as President and Cindi Zolnierek, Executive Director of Texas ANA who was elected as Vice-President.
ANA\C would like to say congratulations to the elected officials and say thank you to ANA for hosting such a great Leadership Summit.
Beth Haney, member of ANA\C and CANP’s Orange County Chapter and the former President of CANP, landed one of three available seats on the Yorba Linda City Council, defeating an incumbent councilmember in the process.
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To practice nursing in California, all registered nurses are required be fingerprinted.
This is not a new
requirement
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and while most practicing RNs
are in compliance,there are many who
are
not
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and
may not
be aware.
This
important
message applies to individuals
who
do not have both Department of Justice
(DOJ)
and
FBI fingerprint results on file with the BRN.
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“The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.” — Ethel Andrus
The new American Nurses Association (ANA) Capitol Beat Blog is a place for nurses, nurse advocates, nurse champions, politicos, policy wonks and all those in-between to keep up-to-date on and connected to the latest information about key issues and ANA advocacy efforts. Brought to you by ANA’s Government Affairs (GOVA) team, Capitol Beat will provide an insider view on the latest political and policy developments impacting the nation’s 3.6 million registered nurses and those they serve. As the most trusted profession 14 years running, nurses continue to be the largest single group of health care professionals and a powerful voice for change, after all, when “Nurses Talk, Washington Listens.” There will be a lot at stake in 2017. Subscribe today and stay tuned for policy and advocacy content that you can use to stay informed and be empowered.
On Dec. 7, the Senate passed a package of important health policy advancements aimed at encouraging health care innovation, improving mental health service coverage, expanding opioid treatment programs, and investing in medical research. The package of bills now moves to the President’s desk for his signature. Throughout the year, ANA advocated strongly for many of the key policy victories contained in last night’s vote, including:
- The ‘21st Century Cures Act’ seeks to make the Food and Drug Administration’s approval process for new drugs more efficient and invests $4.8 billion in new medical research at the National Institutes of Health
- Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act,” H.R. 2646, and the Mental Health Reform Act, S. 2680, – represents comprehensive reforms to mental-health programs at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration within Department of Health and Human Services.
- Funding for Cancer Research: provides funding for $1.8b for Vice President Joe Biden’s “cancer moonshot” program.
- Fighting the Opioid Epidemic: Provides $1 billion over two years to fight the opioid epidemic. ANA worked closely with Congress and the White House throughout the year to pass legislation and secure enough funding to ensure greater access to treatment services.
Please click on this link for detailed information, related resources, important dates, and contact information. Nominations for the initial slate must be submitted via the online nomination form by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. A second Call for Nominations will be conducted for those elective positions with insufficient nominations. Nominations will also be accepted from the floor of the Membership Assembly.
ANA has long been aware of the difficulties addiction and substance use disorder (SUD) brings to the nursing profession. ANA’s Nursing Practice & Work Environment is asking our C/SNAs if you, a member of your staff or one of your members is interested in acting as a topical expert on SUD in the nursing profession for an ANA work group. Responsibilities would include participation in once a month 90 minute calls beginning in January and ending May 31, 2017 to assist with one or more of the following:
- Develop or update an ANA or joint position statement on SUD in nursing
- Create new and/or gather existing resources to educate students, nurses, and employers about preventing, identifying, and reporting suspected SUD across care settings
- Develop new and/or identify existing resources to support employers and nurses before, during, and after treatment for SUD
Please send nominations to your state nurses association at anac@anacalifornia.org. Include their name, email address and brief outline of their expertise. Nominations will close Jan. 1, 2017. Thank you!
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Advance Healthcare Network
A nurse takes a report from the Emergency Department regarding Joe, a 748-pound patient with a Stage III right buttock pressure ulcer from months of bed rest and respiratory failure related to bronchitis and probable obesity hypoventilation syndrome. The patient arrives to the respiratory step-down unit on a bed that is too small to accommodate his size comfortably. His legs are extending beyond the sides of the bed, his hospital gown is too small and he is visibly uncomfortable. He is too embarrassed and fearful to ask for help.
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Advance Healthcare Network
Nurses and pharmacists collaborate closely for the benefit of their patients. When pharmacy staffing issues, such as medication order volume spikes due to increased census or when a pharmacist calls out of work, arise they can have a significant impact on nursing workflow. Without appropriate pharmacy staffing, backlogs, miscommunication and potential medication variances can occur.
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Medscape (free login required)
A nurse practitioner asks, "May my office manager change the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code I selected for the evaluation and management visit I conducted?" The answer is straightforward: The rendering provider is the only individual authorized to select and responsible for selecting a CPT code. CPT codes are physician procedure codes, found in Current Procedural Terminology, published by the American Medical Association. The codes dictate the work done for payment purposes.
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By Scott E. Rupp
 "Show me the money" is a statement made famous by the somewhat-long-in-the-tooth '90s movie classic, "Jerry Maguire." Today, the statement is known for its directness in proving whether a business or industry is success. Typically, anyone who is able to utter such a phrase is "worthy" of the proverbial funds, as we were taught in the film. Healthcare is one of those sectors, and it can certainly scream "show me the money" from within any corner of its locker room.
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Forbes
The nation’s nurses say Donald Trump and the Republican Congress need to expand Medicaid health insurance to more Americans and maintain several key aspects of the Affordable Care Act, including access to a “standard package of essential healthcare services.”
In a letter to President-elect Trump, the American Nurses Association said several aspects of the ACA should be maintained, like allowing children 26 and under to stay on their parents’ health plans and preventing people with pre-existing conditions from being denied coverage.
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Executive Insight
A quality improvement project from UPMC coupled patient surveys with observations, nurses’ self-reports and EHR data to better understand how nurses spend their time during their shifts. The findings, recently published online in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality, showed nurses spent an average of 33 percent of their shift interacting with technology.
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Nurse.com
As nurses, most of us can recall the hospital tours during our first clinical days and the excitement we felt walking from floor to floor, unit to unit, seeing who worked where and what they were doing.
Few stops along the way, however, held more interest or intrigue than the OR. What was happening behind those big double doors? And what was it like to work there?
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Hospitals & Health Networks
Amid growing demands for high-quality nursing care, the recently opened Union Square Campus in Greensboro, North Carolina, is using the latest technologies and an emphasis on teamwork to train student and practicing nurses.
The $34 million campus, completed in August, offers state-of-the-art training tools such as high-fidelity simulation mannequins.
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Phys.org
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are predicted to be part of the next industrial revolution and could help business and industry save billions of dollars by the next decade. The tech giants Google, Facebook, Apple, IBM and others are applying artificial intelligence to all sorts of data.
Machine learning methods are being used in areas such as translating language almost in real time, and even to identify images of cats on the internet.
So why haven't we seen artificial intelligence used to the same extent in healthcare?
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The Clinical Advisor
Life expectancy in the United States was 78.8 years in 2015, a decrease of 0.1 year from 2014, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. The decrease is primarily due to an increase in mortality from heart disease, chronic lower respiratory diseases, unintentional injuries, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, kidney disease and suicide. For men, life expectancy declined from 76.5 years in 2014 to 76.3 years in 2015. For women, life expectancy decreased from 81.3 years in 2014 to 81.2 years in 2015.
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Medical News Today
A new study shows that psychosocial risk factors that impact a person's ability to cope with chronic stress are associated with significantly higher readmission rates and longer hospital stays among blood cancer patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. This is a critical clinical concern and area of unmet need for patients who require intensive treatment to eradicate their cancer that should be addressed in a systematic way by the oncology community, the researchers say.
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