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.NURSING FLASH
.ARTICLES, ADVICE & ADVOCACY
Health Workers in L.A. Become First People to Get COVID-19 Vaccine in California
KTLA
Health workers in Southern California recently became the first people in the state to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Helen Cordova, an ICU nurse at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center (and ANA\California member), received the first shot, followed by four other health professionals, Gov. Gavin Newsom said.
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Develop Your Nursing Advocacy Skills With Our Guided Programs at the Advocacy Institute
ANA\California
We're super excited about the content we're creating for the Advocacy Institute. We've piloted the concepts behind the Institute with some terrific nurses during 2020 and we're ready to expand it into a three-part series. ANA\California members will be able to access all three series at no cost. Be the first to learn more by signing up for our beta list!
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Country Singers Brown & Gray Making Music Video About Nurses
ANA\California via LinkedIn
NursesEverywhere, is making a music video with the fabulous country singers Brown & Gray to recognize the extraordinary work that nurses have been involved with this year. With 2020 being the year of the nurse and midwife, the world has been inspired and in awe of you. Let’s make history with their tribute to nurses and the patients you serve, “Didn’t Have To.”
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Pulse On The Nation's Nurses — Mental Health and Wellness Survey
ANA
We know you are facing unparalleled challenges as we move through the pandemic. We want to make sure America hears your voices and understands your experiences. Earlier this year, over 10,000 #nurses responded to our first survey on Mental Health and Wellness. Since then you have endured a lot, especially now as the nation experiences new surges of COVID-19 cases and deaths. This makes sharing your experience even more important. Please take five minutes to fill out this brief survey on nurse stress and resilience. We will use responses to inform decisions about how to best support the U.S. nursing workforce. The survey results also will help us educate the public on the unseen mental health challenges nurses confront daily. Take the survey now.
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Be Recognized!
ANA
Submit your photo for a chance to be part of our official Year of the Nurse commemoration with the American Nurses Association! Year of the Nurse commemoration! Our recognition initiatives will feature YOU and your fellow nurses at work, at home with family and friends, or advocating for the community. Now’s your chance to be a part of it. Click here to submit your photo.
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The Fight Against Healthcare Turnover — A 5-Chapter Guide to Improve Retention and Staff Hard-to-Fill Positions
Becker's Hospital Review
Since 2015, the average hospital has turned over 89% of its workforce, according to an analysis of industry data conducted by DailyPay. Market analysts say that healthcare's turnover is second worst, only to hospitality. This guide offers an overview of retention patterns in healthcare and how hospitals can staff the hardest positions to fill in healthcare and fight turnover.
Read the guide to learn:
• How you can improve attrition in the healthcare industry
• The true cost of turnover and staffing gaps
• An overview of a payment tool designed to fight turnover
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.NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY
Healthcare professionals can decline COVID-19 vaccine — for now
USA Today
Millions of healthcare workers are slated to receive the first batch of potentially lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines by the end of this month. But not all of them want to be first in line.
Only one-third of a panel of 13,000 nurses said they would voluntarily take a vaccine; another third said they wouldn’t and the rest said they were unsure, according to a late October survey by the American Nurses Association.
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Nurses at increased risk for insomnia and burnout while working during the global pandemic
Psychiatry Advisor
Nurses working on the frontline during the COVID-19 pandemic were at risk for insomnia and burnout, according to results from a cross-sectional study, published in Perspectives in Psychiatric Care.
The study authors recommended that institutions should make an effort to improve working conditions for nurses, such as ensuring adequate time for rest between work shifts.
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What we know about COVID-19 vaccines and side effects
Medical Xpress
The distribution of the first vaccines for the coronavirus has raised hopes that the end of the pandemic may be in sight, but it has also sparked some concern about side effects. Here's what we know so far.
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 What follows the chaos of a code blue event, the acquisition, and handling of the code blue records, is crucial to managing the overall event and follow-up. Many nurses are still charting on slips of paper, the back gloves, or on their scrubs. An article from the Journal of Emergency Medicine found that electronic code blue documentation solutions reduce omission errors by 28% and redundant entries by 36% compared to paper recorders. But, how to do this with traditional desktop-based systems? A mobile, tablet-based system is essential to eliminate lost records and avoid transcription errors. Click below to learn more.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
The meaning of the healthcare podcast revolution
By Keith Carlson
 When podcasts began appearing around 2004, capitalizing on the presence of MP3 players like the iPod, little did we know that they would eventually become a driving force in the wider culture, let alone in healthcare, nursing, medicine, and related fields. Podcasts have emerged as a leading technology for disseminating opinion, entertainment, and information. Through the expanding podcast sphere, laypeople and professionals are leveraging the power of digital audio to create content covering most every aspect of human endeavor.
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Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic
Medical Xpress
Night began to fall in Rio de Janeiro's Pedra Branca state park as four Brazilian scientists switched on their flashlights to traipse along a narrow trail of mud through dense rainforest. The researchers were on a mission: capture bats and help prevent the next global pandemic. A few meters ahead, nearly invisible in the darkness, a bat made high-pitched squeaks as it strained its wings against the thin nylon net that had ensnared it. One of the researchers removed the bat, which used its pointed teeth to bite her gloved fingers.
The November nighttime outing was part of a project at Brazil's state-run Fiocruz Institute to collect and study viruses present in wild animals — including bats, which many scientists believe were linked to the outbreak of COVID-19.
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Vape flavorings can harm the heart
News-Medical
The appealing array of fruit and candy flavors that entice millions of young people to take up vaping can harm their hearts, a preclinical study by University of South Florida Health researchers found. In their study, published recently in the American Journal of Physiology- Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Dr. Noujaim and colleagues report on a series of experiments assessing the toxicity of vape flavorings in cardiac cells and in young mice.
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New AI tool could make breast cancer treatment less expensive and more readily available
News-Medical
Breast cancer affects more than two million women worldwide each year, with around one in eight women in the United States developing breast cancer over the course of their lifetime. There were also 2,550 new cases of breast cancer in men in the U.S. in 2018. Alarmingly, rates of breast cancer are increasing in nearly every region globally.
Salesforce Research collaborated with the Ellison Institute to develop ReceptorNet, a deep-learning algorithm that can determine hormone-receptor status — a crucial biomarker for clinicians when deciding on the appropriate treatment path for breast cancer patients — with excellent sensitivity and specificity numbers.
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Rewiring stroke survivors' brains could alleviate depression
University of South Australia via ScienceDaily
University of South Australia researchers have made a major breakthrough in the treatment of depression after stroke, using a high frequency brain stimulation device to improve low moods.
A trial led by UniSA stroke researcher Dr. Brenton Hordacre has found that large doses of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation significantly improve post-stroke depression by increasing brain activity.
Previous studies have experimented with the use of rTMS but this is the first time that a large treatment dose — 30,000 electromagnetic pulses delivered over two weeks — have been trialled, showing positive changes in brain function.
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Molecule holds promise to reprogram white blood cells for better cancer treatment
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University via EurekAlert!
CAR T cell-based immunotherapies have seen remarkable outcomes in some patients with certain types of cancer, but more work is needed to improve the persistence and function of CAR T cells so that more patients can benefit from this type of therapy. A group of scientists at the Georgia Cancer Center of Augusta University recently reported that CAR T cells can stay active longer and mediate tumor killing more effectively when STAT5, a key signaling molecule, is kept in an active form within CAR T cells.
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Nurses’ stories are especially powerful because they are informative, inspirational, and healing. The reality nurses face today, makes storytelling even more important to the profession and the future of nursing. 
A massive, long-term study published in The Lancet by Imperial College London reveals concerning truths about the impact of diet on height, weight, and health. The study followed 65 million children between ages five and 19 in 193 countries from 1985 to 2019. Here’s what we learned.
