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May your days be filled with peace, hope and joy this holiday season!
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ANA\California Hires Chelsea Gianna
ANA\C
Please give a warm welcome to our new Member Engagement and Communication Associate! Chelsea will be assisting our growing communications team with new programs, social media, newsletters, and so much more.
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.NURSING FLASH
Beyond the pandemic: Be your own nurse
American Nurse
Relieve stress with a self-care plan. Nursing practice in the United States is predominantly patient- and family-centered, no matter the care setting, and we’re accustomed to having the resources we need, even when faced with rapid practice changes. COVID-19 has changed that. Hundreds of thousands of people have gotten sick, including our colleagues, our own families, and ourselves. Because the virus doesn’t have a clear trajectory, we shifted quickly from a patient-centric to a public health focus (the most good for the most people), but resources have been compromised, including supply lines and logistics, jobs, schools, the economy, and leadership at all levels.
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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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.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
The Future Is Now: Nurses Advancing Health Equity Conference
ANA\C
April 24, 2022 | Sheraton Grand Sacramento |1230 J St. Sacramento, CA 95814
About the Event
54.
Fifty-four.
That's the number of recommendations the Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030 published. But how will nurses take on these recommendations to advance health equity in California? This year, our annual conference focuses on actions nurses can take to improve health equity in their institution, their communities, and within their profession.
Event Schedule and Presenter Announcement to follow.
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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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Trial begins of needle-free COVID vaccine targeting new variants
BBC News
A trial has begun of a new needle-free COVID-19 vaccine to protect against future variants of the virus.
The vaccine, administered through a jet of air, has been developed by Prof Jonathan Heeney of Cambridge University and chief executive of DIOSynVax.
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At NorthBay Healthcare, we are devoted to creating an environment that nurtures and nourishes a commitment to compassionate care, and just as importantly, allows you to flourish. So join us, and be part of an incredible community of dedicated professionals who share the same passion to provide exceptional patient care.
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The race to make vaccines for a dangerous respiratory virus
Nature
RSV causes a respiratory tract infection that affects 64 million people per year worldwide. It hospitalizes three million children under 5 years old and approximately 336,000 older adults annually (see "Common scourge"). The global health care costs of RSV-associated infections in young children in 2017 were estimated to be $5.45 billion. Millions of people a year are hospitalized by respiratory syncytial virus and tens of thousands die. After decades of failure, four vaccines are now in late-stage trials.
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Opinion: It's time to rethink the 12-hour nursing shift
Undark
Marathon work sessions pose serious risks to nurses and patients alike. But there’s a better way. The pandemic has only accelerated the exodus, as many nurses have come to realize that certain aspects of the profession are unsustainable, unhealthy, and unsafe for patients and staff alike. Among those troublesome job attributes: the once-venerated 12-hour work shift.
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Markets or monopolies? Considerations for addressing health care consolidation in California
CHCF
Over the past three decades, markets for health insurers and providers have gone through waves of consolidation. As of 2018, 95% of metropolitan areas in the United States had highly concentrated hospital markets. Markets for health insurers are also highly concentrated. Between 2006 and 2014, the combined market share of the top four insurers climbed from 74% to 83%. The coronavirus pandemic appears to be fueling another round of consolidation — especially acquisition of providers by private equity firms.
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Moving the needle on Black Birth Equity — A call to action
Grantmakers in Health
Families are the foundation of our society, and every family deserves the opportunity for a healthy start. But the reality is that stark birth inequities prevent many from a chance at that. Black birthing people in the United states are at least 3.5 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than their white counterparts, and twice as likely to suffer serious pregnancy complications such as hemorrhage, preeclampsia, and heart problems. Native Americans and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders also experience disproportionately high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity.
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Trends in and characteristics of drug overdose deaths involving illicitly manufactured fentanyls — United States, 2019–2020
CDC
Synthetic opioids, including illicitly manufactured fentanyls (IMFs), were involved in 64% of >100,000 estimated U.S. drug overdose deaths during May 2020-April 2021. During 2019-2020, IMF-involved overdose deaths increased sharply in midwestern, southern, and western jurisdictions. During 2020, approximately 40% of IMF-involved deaths also involved stimulants, and 56% of decedents had no pulse when first responders arrived. Injection drug use was reported in 25% of deaths, and non injection routes of drug use in 27% of deaths. Adapting overdose prevention and response efforts to address risk factors associated with IMFs and using innovative approaches to address the endemic nature of IMFs, various routes of IMF use, and frequent polysubstance use could slow increases in IMF-involved deaths.
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
Amid Omicron, nurses don't just need assistance. They need assistants.
MSNBC
When nurses have more patients than they can safely care for, it costs patients their lives and drives nurses away from the bedside. Two-thirds of nurses are so exhausted they are considering leaving the profession. This disproportionately affects women, as 89 percent of registered nurses identify as female. Making sure patients don’t die from insufficient nursing care going forward means hospitals should rethink the demands they make of nurses today.
Sandy Summers, an ICU nurse, suggests that "we could ease the shortage, improve patient care, and save money by providing support staff for nurses. That would enable nurses to focus on caring for patients, rather than burdensome tasks that do not require advanced health skills."
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Get a grip on nurse burnout: 3 ways
HealthLeaders Media
During the second half of 2021, hospitals and health systems battled a tsunami of patients whose respiratory systems were attacked by the highly contagious and deadly delta variant. There's no telling where the burnout rate currently stands.
But nurse leaders are looking out for their nurses and providing ways to ease the overwhelming hardship wrought by the pandemic. Zen rooms, mindfulness activities, and pet therapy have found their way into many hospitals since the pandemic began. HealthLeaders spoke with nurse leaders about three ways they've chosen to combat nurse burnout and how they've been successful.
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HIV testing dips during pandemic, raising transmission concerns
Medscape
HIV testing centers across the U.S. showed reductions in testing of nearly 50% during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, raising concerns of a subsequent increase in transmission by people unaware of their HIV-positive status.
"Testing strategies need to be ramped up to cover this decrease in testing while adapting to the continuing COVID-19 environment," reported Deesha Patel, MPH, and colleagues with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of HIV Prevention, in Atlanta, Georgia, in research presented at the United States Conference on HIV/AIDS 2021 Annual Meeting.
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New resistance-busting antibiotic combination could extend the use of 'last-resort' antibiotics
University of Oxford via EurekAlert!
Scientists have discovered a new potential treatment that has the ability to reverse antibiotic resistance in bacteria that cause conditions such as sepsis, pneumonia, and urinary tract infections.
Carbapenems, such as meropenem, are a group of vital, often "last-resort" antibiotics used to treat serious, multi-drug resistant infections when other antibiotics, such as penicillin, have failed. But some bacteria have found a way to survive treatment with carbapenems, by producing enzymes called metallo-beta-lactamases that break down the carbapenem antibiotics, stopping them from working. Highly collaborative research, conducted by scientists from the Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research at the University of Oxford and several institutions across Europe, found that the new class of enzyme blockers, called indole carboxylates, can stop MBL resistance enzymes working, leaving the antibiotic free to attack and kill bacteria such as E. coli in the lab and in infections in mice.
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Cannabis use could cause harmful drug interactions
Washington State University via Medical Xpress
Using cannabis alongside other drugs may come with a significant risk of harmful drug-drug interactions, new research by scientists at Washington State University suggests.
The researchers looked at cannabinoids — a group of substances found in the cannabis plant — and their major metabolites found in cannabis users' blood and found that they interfere with two families of enzymes that help metabolize a wide range of drugs prescribed for a variety of conditions. As a result, either the drugs' positive effects might decrease or their negative effects might increase, with too much building up in the body, causing unintended side effects such as toxicity or accidental overdose.
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Q&A: CDC disease detective answers questions about monkeypox
Healio
After 40 years without a reported case, monkeypox reemerged in Nigeria in 2017. Since then, 218 cases have been confirmed in Nigeria, and eight cases have been reported in travelers from the country.
Of those eight cases, two occurred in travelers to the U.S. this year, initiating an effort to trace airline passengers and anyone else who may have come in contact with the patients. The second case was confirmed on Nov. 16 in a patient who was being isolated in Maryland. Healio spoke with Faisal Minhaj, PharmD, a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Officer in the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, to answer some lingering questions about monkeypox.
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New health economic framework to assess what might be required to eliminate African sleeping sickness by 2030
University of Warwick via Medical Xpress
Several diseases have been earmarked for elimination or eradication based on factors such as feasibility, lives saved and the possibility of long-run cost-savings. The cost of elimination strategies, however, can become very high as we approach zero transmission. An international group of researchers have created a new health economic framework that supports decision makers and funders in understanding the resources required to achieve the World Health Organization's goal of eliminating sleeping sickness by 2030.
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Open family conversations and reciprocal information sharing can improve emerging adult's health
News-Medical
For many emerging adults, the period between 18 and 25 years of age marks a stage of life to explore what matters to them and assume new legal rights and responsibilities, including their own private health information and medical decision-making. But this transition to independence can create sticky family dynamics, especially when emerging adults remain on their parents' health insurance plans. A new study from Iowa State University finds open dialogue and reciprocal information sharing between parents and emerging adults reduces barriers for talking about health, which can lead to better overall health outcomes for an emerging adult.
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Decline in heart disease death rate slowed from 2011 to 2019
HealthDay News
From 2000 to 2011, the age-adjusted heart disease death rate in the United States decreased 3.7% per year; however, the decline slowed to 0.7% per year during 2011 to 2019, according to a December data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics.
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7 strategies that may significantly improve quality of CVD care
Healio
Primary care clinics that implemented seven evidence-based strategies saw significant improvements in cardiovascular-related clinical quality measures, new study data showed. “This study makes a unique contribution to the literature by demonstrating that seven high-leverage changes may provide a reasonable set of activities for small practices to undertake over a relatively short time period to build their quality improvement capacity for the purpose of improving clinical outcomes,” the researchers wrote.
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