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Meeting challenges: Nurse teaching students about life and work

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Sandra Gallardo, an RN/LVN instructor at Valley Baptist Medical Center, teaches students from the Harlingen School of Health Professions who are taking the dual LVN program at Valley Baptist. (Courtesy picture)

HARLINGEN – She didn’t go looking for a nurse, but it found her.

Sandra Gallardo was living a life of health and happiness with her husband and three children when the cause of medicine tapped her on the shoulder.

“As a child, my grandparents and my parents used to say that I was always very curious because someone was getting cut and I was there,” Gallardo, 48, said. “Over the years, I didn’t think about breastfeeding. But in 1993, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.

It was then that Gallardo, now an RN/LVN instructor at Valley Baptist Medical Center, found a new calling. She first took small steps by taking a few courses and becoming an accountant. But within three years, she had started to pass her requirements for nursing school.

She encountered a few bumps along the way. Her attempt to become a nurse didn’t work out at first, but she kept persevering. In 2013, she received her Licensed Vocational Nurse certification from South Texas College, followed the following year by her RN designation.

“Everything was my mother,” she said. “She had breast cancer and she pushed me. She recovered. She was in remission for twelve years.

But life had more challenges for Gallardo. In March 2015, she was studying hard to pass her NCLEX – National Council Licensure Examination – when she herself felt a lump in her right breast.

“I remember saying to my husband, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to do it, I have to pass my NCLEX,'” she recalls.

But she succeeded, the very first time. She underwent chemotherapy and surgery to treat her cancer and now she only has regular follow-ups.

Sandra Gallardo, an RN/LVN instructor at Valley Baptist Medical Center, teaches students from the Harlingen School of Health Professions who are taking the dual LVN program at Valley Baptist. (Courtesy picture)

“It’s already been six years and I’m happy to be here,” she said.

Since October, she has been teaching students at the Harlingen School of Health Professions taking Valley Baptist’s dual LVN program.

“I’m enjoying it,” she said. “I never thought in a million years that I was going to be teaching high school kids. It takes me back to when my kids were teenagers.

Now she takes on yet another new challenge. On February 13, she ran the 5 km of the Harlingen Marathon.

“It went well,” she said. “I had never raced before. After I finished, I felt happy. I was even like, ‘OK, I can do it again.’

She plans to lead another in a few months.

Law will decide doctor’s fate, not academic records: ELCAC

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Dr. Maria Natividad Castro (File photo)

MANILA – Instead of condemning the arrest of a doctor, who has been identified as a Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) official, the more important question is how even innocent civilians fall victim to Communist terrorist groups, according to the Western Visayas Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF6-ELCAC) on Sunday.

Flosemer prosecutor Chris Gonzales, spokesperson for RTF 6-ELCAC, said Dr. Maria Natividad Castro was arrested in San Juan on Friday morning based on a legitimate, court-issued warrant.

“It doesn’t matter whether she graduated at the top of her class from St. Scholastica’s College or UP-PGH (University of the Philippines – Philippine General Hospital). It also doesn’t matter what awards she won. A bachelor’s degree medical records and an exemplary academic record do not grant anyone immunity from the law,” Gonzales said in a statement.

RTF6-ELCAC also assured the Ministry of Health and all healthcare workers, especially doctors, that their contributions are greatly appreciated, but law enforcement must also do their job.

“Let law enforcement do their job and remember never to think that doctors are safe from criminal prosecution. Trust the legal and judicial processes,” the statement read. “Like you in the medical profession, we must also recognize the contributions of other sectors of government, especially those who have chosen to work with the poorest of the poor and those who work to make our communities safe and secure from crime. and terrorists.”

Undersecretary Lorraine Marie Badoy, spokesperson for the National Task Force to End Communist Armed Conflict local to sectoral concerns, said Castro (aka Ka Yammy/Ka Ami/Dok) is not just a member of a terrorist organization.

“She is a member of the Central Committee of the CPP-NPA-NDF (New People’s Army-National Democratic Front). She is also the general secretary of a terrorist front, Karapatan-Caraga, which advocates the NPA (rebels),” Badoy said in another statement.

Badoy said Castro “is in the inner sanctum of this terrorist organization and is a key architect of some of the most heinous crimes committed against the most deprived among us: human trafficking, recruitment, radicalization, kidnapping , murder, homicide, financing of terrorism. , sexual abuse, pedophilia, slavery, etc. She is among the most culpable”.

Gonzales called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to be impartial and fair in its press releases, which claimed Castro was red-flagged.

“While the CHR demonstrates extreme enthusiasm, zeal, passion and diligence in responding to the alleged indication of possible violations committed by police officers in the issuance of warrants arrest to Dr. Castro, we draw the attention of the CHR to your less enthusiastic response to the series of killings and ambushes perpetrated by the CPP-NPA on Negros Island over the past few days where CPP-NPA-terrorists NDF claimed responsibility for the brutal killing of at least four civilians and the wounding of five police officers,” the statement read.

The statement from the HRC left “the Filipino people with the impression that you are somewhat selective in your issuance of press releases on incidents of concern to your office,” the statement added.

The CHR should also refrain from using the term “Lumad” to refer to tribes of indigenous peoples (IPs) in Mindanao where Castro allegedly served, according to RTF6-ELCAC.

“Lumad is a term that was not coined by the indigenous peoples themselves but by the CPP-NPA-NDF to collectively refer to the members of the tribe,” the statement said.

Badoy said that within the IP community, Castro “wore the mask of championing indigenous peoples while committing the worst offenses against them. And she paraded them before the UN (United Nations) and the international community to repeat the CPP-NPA-NDF lies about government atrocities they themselves committed in order to destroy our country’s image and raise millions/billions from the international community which they then use to finance poverty and terrorism in our country”.

Finally, RTF6-ELCAC said it would pray for clarification from the nuns who issued a statement of concern over Castro’s arrest.

With no evidence to back up their rants, Gonzales said their statements were “fundamentally irresponsible”.

“Do not judge the merits of the complaints made against Dr. Castro in your statement. You are not the court. You are actually doing an injustice to the plaintiffs who filed the complaints. Let the legal processes continue and take their rightful course,” the statement read.

RTF6-ELCAC said Filipinos should rally behind the government and learn about the enemies of the state and the damage they have caused for more than five decades.

“Instead of defending terrorists who wear masks of nobility, those we must defend are our children and our indigenous peoples, the main targets of these communist terrorists,” he said. “If we are to end this 53-year parody perpetrated by the communist terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF on our people, we must stand united, impregnable in our shared love for the country.”

The CPP-NPA is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the Philippines.

The Counter-Terrorism Council also officially designated the NDF as a terrorist organization on June 23, 2021, citing it as “an integral and inseparable part” of the CPP-NPA which was established in April 1973. (NAP)

IIHS Strengthens Sri Lanka’s Healthcare Industry With Over 2,000 Graduates | Print edition

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Renowned for transforming the Sri Lankan educational sphere into a regional educational hub for health professionals, the International Institute of Health Sciences (IIHS), Sri Lanka’s premier health education institute, has broken through successfully a new milestone when more than 2,000 healthcare professionals, including 500 nurses, recently graduated.

Health care graduates had completed programs in nursing, physiotherapy, biomedical sciences, health administration, etc., including more than 1300 international nurses, 160 royal nurses, more than 200 international students and more than 500 nursing graduates nurses, the highest number recorded in Sri Lanka.

The event showcased a significant achievement where 384 students graduated with Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Open University of Malaysia (OUM) and 161 students graduated with Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Nursing from Coventry University in the UK United. Comprised of Maldivian and Sri Lankan students, other graduates included students who had completed Masters of Science in Nursing (OUM), Masters of Advanced Practice in Physiotherapy, Masters of Science in Health Care Administration (AeU ), Master of Business Administration, Bachelor of Education (Honours) (OUM), Bachelor (Hons) of Nursing Sciences (OUM), Diploma in General Nursing and Foundation programs.

Commenting on the graduation, Dr. Kithsiri Edirisinghe (MBBS, MSc, MD (Medical Administration), IIHS Funder and CEO, said, “We are delighted to have been able to bring in much-needed qualified nursing professionals to strengthen At the IIHS, we strongly believe in turning dreams into realistic goals and propelled by this mission, we are committed to further developing the skills of Sri Lankan public sector nursing professionals through through internationally recognized bachelor programs.Our primary intention is to provide programs that are affordable, work-related, research-based and technology-based so that the IIHS can support the growth of Sri Lanka as a as a South Asian educational center for nursing qualifications.

The program has so far successfully supported and strengthened the health sector in Sri Lanka, with over 1350 nursing graduates passing out and entering the health sector both locally and abroad. the stranger. Courses at the IIHS have provided local nursing professionals with internationally recognized qualifications, increasing opportunities for overseas employment and exposure.

The event was held in two sessions with Prof. Ajantha Dharmasiri as the main guest of the first session and Dr. Amal Harsha de Silva as the main guest of the second session. The Venerable Muruththettuwe Ananda Thero, President of the United Public Service Nurses Union and Chancellor of the University of Colombo was the guest of honor for the 2nd session. The event was also attended by a host of dignitaries, industry professionals and family members and friends of the graduates.

Passionately committed to helping nursing professionals build their career paths, the IIHS also supports them through English proficiency programs that will help them hone and improve their language skills, giving them greater access to international careers. Thereafter, the IIHS will work with institutes such as NHS-UK that are located overseas to secure and coordinate employment opportunities for students. This will help boost the initiative of the national government to bring in more foreign exchange to support the national economy. In addition, the IIHS will facilitate bank loans and payment programs to provide financial support for students to obtain these international nursing education and qualifications with the assurance of local and international employment opportunities, thus encouraging to overcome economic challenges by increasing accessibility and affordability.

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Child tax credit helped some parents start businesses last year

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Russell Toll and his wife, Heidi, on his return from duty in Iraq in 2009.

Russell Toll

When child tax credit checks began to be issued in July last year, Russell Toll saw it as an investment in his family.

With help from the credit, the Dallas-area resident was able to accelerate the launch of Compassion Neuroscience, a nonprofit organization that will make transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy more accessible to those in need.

“It just sped up the process dramatically,” said Toll, 40, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and a veteran who served in Iraq.

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It helped keep the family afloat when his wife, Heidi, 37, was laid off from her job as a nurse at Disneyland and took on replacement jobs. The family used part of the loan to send the youngest of their three children to school. Then, Toll was able to hire a lawyer to set up the nonprofit.

“If you need to drive a tank, I’ve got you, but I didn’t go to business school,” Toll said.

The association should see its first patients in the spring. It also aims to one day provide free treatment to Gold Star families – the immediate family of members of the armed forces killed in action.

The children of Russell and Heidi Toll. Ben, left, is now 7, Abby, center, is now 5 and Nick, right, is now 9.

Russell Toll

“There’s such a devastating need, and I’m excited to step out and start making a difference,” Toll said.

How credit has helped

In the last six months of 2021, enhanced Child Tax Credit payments were sent to millions of US households with eligible children. Families on the full benefit received $250 per month for children ages 6 to 17 and $300 for children under 6.

The allowance supported work and entrepreneurship among parents rather than discouraging it, a study data from the Census Bureau of the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis was found. As families received the monthly checks, there were small increases in parents’ self-employment and work in the nonprofit sector, the analysis showed.

The self-employment rate rose the most — nearly 3% — in families earning less than $50,000, and was greatest in Black, Hispanic and Asian families earning less than $50,000. This likely contributed to record business creation in 2021.

The researchers found that many parents were able to work more by using Child Tax Credit payments for childcare, as well as other essentials like food and rent. The child tax credit has also given parents an extra cushion to be more flexible in their jobs.

“One of the main advantages of [child tax credit] it’s that it gives parents budgetary leeway that allows them to pursue better outcomes and better options for their families,” said Stephen Roll, assistant research professor at the Social Policy Institute.

Additionally, the researchers say that the lack of job requirements — a sticking point in credit expansion negotiations — helped parents find better jobs.

“Without these work demands, people had the ability to find the employment situation that worked best for them and their families in the long term without feeling pressured to take what came first,” said Leah Hamilton, associate professor of social work at Appalachian. State University in Boone, North Carolina, and co-author of the study.

A safety net

Certainly, the study does not suggest that parents have always used child tax credit money directly to start new businesses. Instead, the fact that the benefit was paid monthly helped give families with children the security they needed to start their own projects.

“It was knowing that their kids would be taken care of even if they failed,” Roll said.

For Johnny Walls, 50, the $250 check he received each month for his 8-year-old son, Hunter, meant the land rent for their mobile home outside Charleston, West Virginia, was covered as he launched his freelance website and graphic design. business.

“We always had a roof over our heads, which allowed me to start this business and get into it,” Walls said.

Johnny Walls and his son, Hunter.

During the pandemic, Walls became a single father and struggled to balance work and caring for Hunter, especially when school was closed, he said.

“I had to find a way to stay home,” said Walls, who previously worked in IT outside the home. The money also helped relieve him of the stress of paying rent, utilities and food each month, which meant he had more time and energy to devote to the business.

“Knowing that I was going to be here and that we had a place to live was huge for me to be creative enough to do my thing,” Walls said.

And after

The enhanced child tax credit expired at the end of 2021, and it’s unclear whether it will continue. Democrats had included a one-year extension of the benefit in their Build Back Better program, but the legislation stalled in the Senate.

There are also bipartisan proposals that would separately revive credit, but none currently have momentum.

This means that for the moment families cannot count on credit and must fight alone against record inflation.

For those who started businesses, it has slowed some progress. In Dallas, Toll was on track to buy his own transcranial magnetic stimulation machine with the help of the credit, which would have helped Compassion Neuroscience see more patients. Now, however, the family budget is tighter, and so saving for equipment has been put on hold.

Things are tighter without the credit for the Walls family as well. Although he was still working on his home business, Walls noticed that his budget was getting thinner due to inflation and the loss of the tax benefit.

Even simple things like snacks for Hunter cost more, and the family is more concerned with turning off the lights, not setting the thermostat too high, and making sure they don’t miss the school bus to save money. petrol.

“I’m looking forward to the time when I don’t have to run the air conditioning or the heating,” Walls said, adding that the extra money could be used to buy new school clothes for Hunter.

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Audrey Pearson Obituary (1932 – 2022) – Kenai, AK

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Audrey Pearson, 89, moved into her paradise home at 5:40 p.m. on February 13, 2022, surrounded by her family at her Riverside Assisted Living apartment in Soldotna, Alaska. She was born on February 22, 1932 in Alexandria, MN to Samuel and Inez Stenson.

Audrey grew up in Alexandria, active in the Lutheran Church, and played the autoharp while visiting people with her mother who were locked up or in the hospital.

She graduated from Fairview Hospital Nursing School in Minneapolis, MN with a registered nurse degree. She also attended the Lutheran Bible Institute in Minneapolis and received a certificate in biblical studies. One of the greatest joys of her life was meeting and marrying James K. Pearson of Askov, MN on June 17, 1956. At the hospital where they worked, Audrey had found the misplaced Confirmation Bible of Jim with his picture inside, which she took as assurance that they would be life partners.

His Timothy arrived in St. Paul, distracting Jim from the Hebrew exam.

After Jim completed Luther Seminary and ordination in 1960, they moved to serve four rural congregations in northern North Dakota, including Our Saviors in Glennburn, Deering Lutheran, Nideros Lutheran, and Saint Olaf Lutheran.

North Dakota produced wheat, weeds and sons Mark and Peter.

In 1968, Audrey and the family moved to Teller, Alaska on the Seward Peninsula to live among the people of Kawerak, where Pastor Jim served as a Lutheran Teller for six years. Visitors were frequent and Audrey enjoyed sharing the gospel with fresh bread and coffee.

While at Teller, Audrey transcribed Grandmother Eyuk’s Inupiat Morning Song and composed and set other translated songs of faith.

During this period she also established the Christmon Cooperative, a group of artisans from the villages of the Seward Peninsula. Members made Christmas ornaments that featured symbols of Christ using sealskin, calfskin, other furs, and intricate beadwork. The decorations recalled the significance of Christ at Christmas and were a source of income for people all over the peninsula.

In 1974 the family moved to Nome where Pastor Jim served the Lutheran Church of Our Savior for five years, and Audrey worked at Maynard McDougall Memorial Hospital as a flight nurse for two years. She sued the Christon Co-op.

In 1979 the family moved to Soldotna, Alaska where Audrey supported Pastor Jim as he served the Lutheran Christ and planted the Sterling Lutheran Mission Church. Audrey enjoyed singing and playing the autoharp, sharing songs she wrote and encouraging people she met.

She was delighted to share her Norwegian heritage by baking copious amounts of Norwegian Christmas pastries: rosettes, sandbakkelse, krumkake and lefse.

Reflecting her training as a registered nurse, Audrey was serious about both her spiritual and physical health. She started Healthful Living Products in 1968 and worked as an independent Shaklee distributor before retiring in 2010.

Although Audrey lost her memory in her final days, she remained fast with a smile.

One of Audrey’s favorite verses is Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord, “plans for good and not for evil to give you a future and hope”. Another favorite passage describes the Christian armor of Ephesians 6:10-18, which she faithfully taught her family to put on each morning.

She let everyone know that “the joy of the Lord is our strength”. (Nehemiah 8:10)

This joy was reflected in his warm smile, his welcoming embrace, and his quickness to lighten the burden of heavy hearts with the living reality of Christ’s resurrection.

Christ is risen!
Indeed, He is risen!
And because he was resurrected, Audrey was resurrected to eternal life.

She is survived by her husband of 64 years, Pastor James Pearson of Soldotna, Alaska; son Timothy Pearson, wife Julia and granddaughter Elizabeth of Anchorage, Alaska; son Mark Pearson, wife Ida, son Stephen and daughter Ruth of Soldotna, Alaska; son Peter Pearson, wife Angela, their son Max and daughter Margaux of Lakeland, Florida; as well as grandson Jonathan Pozonsky, granddaughter Jamie Hunt and great-grandchildren.

Memorial donations may be made to the American Bible Society (www.AmericanBible.org) or the charity of one’s choice.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, February 26 at 4 p.m. at the Soldotna Bible Chapel in Soldotna.

Published by Peninsula Clarion on February 20, 2022.

Why would Florida protect doctors who give false COVID advice?

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This article represents the opinion of the editorial board of the Tampa Bay Times.

Conservative lawmakers aren’t just fighting with schools, local governments and private employers over sensible measures to fight COVID-19. Today, Republicans in a growing number of states, including Florida, are working to prevent their medical boards from disciplining doctors who peddle quack advice. This is another reckless slide in the politicization of the pandemic, and it threatens both public health and the state’s ability to control the medical profession.

A statement the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners unanimously adopted in September said doctors spreading misinformation about COVID could jeopardize their licensure. But before the doctors could be reprimanded, as Nashville Public Radio and Kaiser Health News reported, Republican lawmakers threatened to disband the medical board. The board voted to remove the statement from its website in response to political pressure, but in late January opted to stick with the policy. “We should be a source of truth,” said board chair Dr. Melanie Blake, who was reviewing dozens of misinformation complaints when the controversy erupted.

This reaction to truth and responsible medicine is not limited to Tennessee. The Federation of State Medical Boards, which created the language adopted by at least 15 state boards, is tracking Republican-initiated legislation in at least 14 states that the national nonprofit organization says undermines the patient safety and public confidence in the medical profession. The federation reported in December that its 2021 survey of members found that two-thirds had experienced an increase in complaints that healthcare professionals were spreading false or misleading information. And 12 state boards had taken action against a licensed physician.

“The staggering number of state medical boards that have seen an increase in COVID-19 misinformation complaints is a sign of the magnitude of the problem,” said Dr. Humayun J. Chaudhry, President and CEO. of the federation.

Predictably, some Republican sponsors defend this professional quackery by hiding behind the First Amendment. In Florida, for example, the Senate bill that would block state medical boards from acting, SB 1184, is called the Free Speech of Health Care Practitioners Act. The legislation would prohibit Florida boards from reprimanding or sanctioning a doctor or even threatening to revoke a license unless a doctor’s advice “resulted in direct physical harm” to a patient under his care over the previous three years. And if a case couldn’t be proven “beyond a reasonable doubt,” the board could be held liable for up to $1.5 million in damages.

This legislation aims to cool legitimate complaints as much as to protect careless medical advice. To assert that physicians have the right to speak freely to dispense dangerous nonsense obliterates the very interest of patient safety and the purpose of regulating healthcare professionals. Do lawyers have the right to lie to their clients, judges and juries? Does the First Amendment allow accountants to cook the books or architects to falsify engineering reports? This question has nothing to do with freedom of expression, but with the obligation of licensed professionals to respect the standards of their industry.

Doctors who tell COVID patients to drink bleach or fluffy worm pills should be called out, not protected from practicing reckless medicine. The damage they cause undermines the profession as a whole and the strength of any public health system.

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Arjun Srivastava: a medical student on a mental health mission

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What is the problem you hope to solve and how did you come to recognize it?

I lost my friend and classmate to suicide during my freshman year of college. This tragedy was devastating to our community, and I recognized how little I knew about suicide and mental illness. I wondered how my friends and I hadn’t acknowledged his pain or noticed a potentially serious mental health issue; was there anything I could have done to help her? I spent my final undergraduate years immersed in suicide prevention work, working with students and affected families. I have worked closely with our Counseling and Mental Health Center (CMHC) in a number of leadership positions to promote mental health awareness, reduce barriers to care and raise funds for our prevention program of suicide.

As a medical student, I had the opportunity to participate in the care of patients living with mental illness. The time I spent with these patients deepened my passion for understanding mental health and provided me with additional insight into the barriers that persist in society.

What are you doing about it?

Currently, I am an officer with the Dell Medical School Psychiatry Interest Group, where we aim to provide medical students with meaningful educational experiences, community service and research opportunities, and connections with psychiatry mentors.

Now, early in my research career, I contributed to published work in psychiatry related to the management of ADHD and gender dysphoria. Under the mentorship of Drs. Charles Nemeroff and Jefferey Newport, I work to participate in the Childhood Trauma Research Network, a research initiative of the Texas Children’s Mental Health Care Consortium. The goal is to develop a participant registry to characterize risk profiles in children and the effectiveness of systems and interventions, which will facilitate the analysis of health outcomes for Texas children exposed to traumatic events. of life.

And with four Dell Med classmates, I helped found an initiative called Vax Advocates – a program to equip high school students with health communication, advocacy and project management skills that empower them to address the significant disparities in COVID-19 vaccination that persist in marginalized regions and underserved populations. Throughout this experience, I have gained insight into the impact of COVID-19 on adolescent mental health and how tangible efforts can be made to begin addressing this national health emergency.

What positions you to address this issue?

My undergraduate experiences in mental health promotion and suicide prevention sparked my desire to help ease the pain of patients and families impacted by mental illness. I’ve also learned a lot from founding a men’s mental health discussion group on campus and leading educational talks and group discussions on suicide prevention and resilience through our CMHC. As an undergraduate research assistant in a clinical neuroscience laboratory, I developed a fascination with the human brain and topics such as cognition and neurotransmission. These experiences helped lay the groundwork that got me to this point and continue to drive my passion in this engaging field.

I am now fortunate to be part of an amazing medical school and have the opportunity to interact with and learn from our world-class psychiatric community. I started to participate in research in the field, which gave me insight into the future of psychiatry and the areas I would like to focus on to advance in my career. In addition to my medical studies, my double master’s degree in educational psychology allowed me to acquire unique knowledge about the human mind and behavior and sparked an interest in the world of academic medicine and research. .

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We were severely premature twins when my grandmother left India to take care of us. She raised us until we were 14 and I have hundreds of treasured memories; one of them holds her holding my small arm, comforting me as we cross a road with stray dogs that scare me. After graduating from high school, I remember a photo of my sister and me towering over my grandmother’s petite stature. I remember holding her arm and supporting her as she walked slowly back to her seat. The previous memory crossed my mind. I smiled as I recognized the true meaning of giving back.

Vaccination rates for nursing home staff vary widely by state as vaccination mandates go into effect

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Nearly one in four COVID-19-related deaths have occurred in a long-term care facility since the pandemic began. Due to the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on this population, nursing home residents and staff were prioritized to receive the vaccine when the vaccine rollout began in winter 2020-2021. Since then, CMS has implemented a health care worker vaccination mandate for providers who participate in Medicare and/or Medicaid. Although some states have filed a lawsuit challenging the rule, it was recently allowed to go into effect by the Supreme Court.

Partly because of the litigation, facilities in different states have different deadlines for complying with the new rule. CMS advice requires staff to have received their first dose of vaccine or have an exemption pending or approved by January 27and in 26 states (25 states plus DC), including 25 that have not sued to challenge the rule, and in Florida, where courts have refused to block the rule. Additional content management system advice set a February 14and deadline for staff to have received their first dose of vaccine or have an exemption request pending or approved after the Supreme Court allowed the rule to take effect in 24 other states that challenged the rule. Finally, the CMS advice sets a Feb. 21 deadline for Texas, where a lawsuit was dismissed after the Supreme Court ruling. All guidelines state that if, by the first dose deadline, a facility is above 80% and has a plan to achieve 100% single-dose staff immunization coverage within 60 days of the deadline, it will not be subject to further enforcement measures.

This data note presents vaccination and booster rates among nursing home staff, by state. This analysis does not rank states or facilities based on their compliance, as the timelines for all states are not exceeded and facility-level data is lag. This analysis presents data on completed immunizations at the state level rather than at the facility level, although this policy is enforced at the facility level. Future analyzes will assess the share of facilities in each state in compliance with the rule after the compliance deadlines for both doses pass.

Completed vaccination refers to those who have completed a 2-dose Pfizer, a 2-dose Moderna, or a single dose of J&J. Booster data reflects any additional dose of vaccination. This analysis uses federal nursing home data as of January 30and2022 to calculate staff vaccination and booster rates among the 26 states with January 27and first dose deadline and as a baseline to assess the remaining 25 states with first dose deadlines following in February. The analysis is based on 10,627 nursing homes reporting complete data (approximately 70% of all nursing homes). The data in this article was reported after the January 27 deadline for the first dose in 26 states; the dose one deadline has not yet passed in the remaining 25 states, as noted above. Table 1 provides detailed state level data.

As the deadline for the first doses for healthcare workers passed in 25+ DC states and approached in the remaining states, nursing home staff completed vaccination rates varied widely by state, ranging from 70 % in Ohio to 99% in Maine, Rhode Island, New York and Massachusetts for the week ending January 30and2022 (Figure 1 and Table 1). Nationally, the immunization rate for nursing home staff is around 84%. Twenty-three states reported staff vaccination rates above the national average. Of these 23 states, 14 plus DC states reported staff vaccination rates above 90%. Four states reported a near-universal staff vaccination rate of 99%. Twenty-six states reported staff vaccination rates below the national average, with 16 of those states reporting staff vaccination rates still below 80% (Figure 2). These 16 states are located in the Southern, Midwestern, and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States (Figure 2). CMS cited variation in staff vaccination rates by state and region as a factor leading to the adoption of the rule.

The 26 States subject to January 27and The deadline for the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine reported higher vaccination completion rates (89%) than the 25 states subject to the February deadlines (77%) (Table 1). In the 26 states where staff were due to receive their first dose by January 27andthe staff vaccination rate achieved was 89% as of January 30and. Nursing homes in the remaining 25 states subject to February deadlines – February 14and (24 States) and February 21st (1 state) – reported a lower staff vaccination rate of 77%, likely reflecting a mix of federal mandate deadlines not yet passed, a lack of state and/or local mandates, and varying degrees of vaccination hesitancy among staff.

Although the new CMS rule does not require staff to receive callbacks, callback rates for nursing home staff also vary by state, ranging from 17% in three states (Louisiana, Missouri and Mississippi) to 56% in California (Figure 1 and Table 1). Nationally, recall rates among nursing home staff are around 28%. These values ​​represent the share of all staff who received their booster, although some who were vaccinated more recently may not have been eligible for their booster as of January 30.and (the latest published data). People who have received the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines become eligible for boosters five months after completing their primary vaccination series. People who have received the Janssen vaccine from Johnson & Johnson are eligible for booster shots two months after receiving their vaccine. States with earlier dose 1 vaccination deadlines also report higher booster rates than states with later dose 1 vaccination deadlines. State-level variation in recall rates may reflect differences in attitudes or hesitancy toward recalls.

Following the Supreme Court’s decision allowing the rule to take effect, litigation challenging the rule continues in Louisiana, where 14 states challenging the rule are seeking to add new claims to their lawsuits, and Tennessee and Virginia are looking to join the challengers. complaint against the federal government. The rule, which was posted as a draft final, may also be revised when CMS considers public comments before issuing a final rule. As the various deadlines pass, retirement homes could be subject to the enforcement of this rule through a number of mechanisms, including civil monetary penalties, denial of payment and termination of participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs. CMS advice points out that their “primary goal is to bring health care facilities into compliance” and that termination would likely only occur “after giving a facility the opportunity to make corrections and bring itself into compliance”. When issuing the rule, CMS acknowledged that some staff may leave their jobs because they do not want to receive the vaccine but cited examples of vaccination mandates adopted by the health systems of Texas and Detroit and a parent long-term care company with 250 facilities as well as the mandate of health care workers in New York State, all of which resulted high compliance rates and few employee resignations. As with other federal Medicare and Medicaid provider requirements, state investigators will have primary responsibility for enforcing the rule as part of routine inspections. However, CMS has notified states that it may reduce the amount of federal funds states receive to support facility oversight and redirect those funds to support federal oversight activities if states do not include facility compliance with all federal requirements in their monitoring.

TNT Letters, 02/17/2022 | Tacoma Newsstand

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Editorials and other opinion content provide insights into issues important to our community and are independent of the work of our newsroom reporters.

COVID Mandates

Over the past few days, it has become apparent that the country’s Democratic governors are making a rapid 180-degree turn on the topic of mandatory vaccines and masks. Has the science really changed, or do they realize that the perpetual promotion of fear and name-calling by those who question their authority will not win the next election?

Perhaps they see the canary in the coal mine with current events in Canada, the most polite and law-abiding nation on earth. Of course, legacy media on both sides of the border obediently label the past two weeks of protest as “supremacist, racist and fringe.”

I think we are witnessing an inflection point where a critical mass of people are not only tired of mandates, but are tired of being criticized by leftist politicians who don’t have to follow their own rules and can overcome the perpetual pandemic in pajamas.

Rick Tanis, University Square

Shortage of nurses

As a nurse and former director, I would like to express my thanks to Ruth Flint, chief nurse of St. Joseph’s Medical Center, for writing an editorial regarding the nursing shortage and the bill of 1868. I am d I agree with her on the problems with overflowing hospitals, but I don’t necessarily agree with her position on HB 1868.

Nurses are asked to take on dangerous patient care tasks. Hospitals are asking nurses to do more with fewer staff, creating a dangerous patient-nurse ratio. This is what the bill intends to correct.

We have not been recognized as part of the health care team. We are constantly fighting over pay, benefits and vacations. Although not perfect, unions have been a mechanism for nurses to fight unsafe staffing, low pay and benefits.

This internal bill is being introduced because hospitals have refused to recognize the staffing shortage and have refused to pay nurses what they are worth. Just because hospitals are in crisis doesn’t mean the bill isn’t necessary.

We are asking for a safe staffing model. Our patients and our nurses deserve better.

Brian Halpern, Tacoma

Homeless camps

Referring to The News Tribune’s Feb. 5 front-page article titled “State Lawmakers Advance Bill to Solve Homeless Camps”, I don’t understand why we don’t use not the solution we already have: Section 8 of the Federal Housing Act of 1937, often simply referred to as Section 8.

Amended several times, the law authorizes the payment of rental housing assistance to private owners on behalf of low-income households. Unfortunately, it is woefully underfunded, waiting lists for Section 8 vouchers are very long – up to 10 to 20 years – and many city or county programs are permanently closed to new applicants. Additionally, the law allows owners to refuse to comply.

If we can’t get the federal government to properly update and fund this law, how about our state supplementing the costs and improving the implementation of this law. Problem solved! It was nothing!

John Selby, Edgewood

USA and Canada face off for women’s hockey gold

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The U.S. and Canadian women’s hockey teams are spending Thursday in Beijing exactly where they’ve expected to be since the start of these Olympics: playing the gold medal game.

The suspense was almost never going to be in the game. The two countries have fought for the gold medal at all but one Games since women’s hockey became an Olympic sport in 1998. The only thing left to settle is the score after 60 minutes (or extra time, as in 2014, or, as in 2018). , a shooting).

Canada appeared to strike first about seven minutes into the game, when USA goaltender Alex Cavallini deflected a puck and saw Natalie Spooner sweep with a hard shot that crossed the goal line. The United States, however, maintained that Canada had been offside – an assessment officials confirmed after a challenge by the Americans.

It was a respite that kept the game scoreless for just 35 more seconds, when, after Canada won a face-off, Sarah Nurse received a pass from Claire Thompson, spun and scored, the puck s smashing into the right side of the net.

Canada added its second goal later in the period, when Marie-Philip Poulin, playing in her fourth Games and virtually unchallenged at the time by the Americans, mounted a deep shot that screamed into the net.

Canada tied the United States on shots in the first period, with 11, a marked change from their last meeting, when the Americans had 16 tries in the first period and the Canadians had five attempts.

The Canadians, who scored an Olympic record 54 goals during their time in Beijing, are looking to dethrone the Americans as Olympic champions. They arrived for their last match at the Wukesong Sports Center with three of the top five scorers of these Games: Brianne Jenner (9 goals), Sarah Fillier (8) and Jamie Lee Rattray (5).

The Americans scored fewer goals overall, but Hilary Knight, playing in her fourth Games for the United States, is also among the tournament’s leading scorers with 5.

Both teams also have experienced on-ice goaltenders: Cavallini for the United States and Ann-Renée Desbiens for Canada.

Expect plenty of speed in this game, especially from Kendall Coyne Schofield, the USA captain and one of the fastest skaters in the world.

“It’s the biggest attribute of my game,” she said in an interview last month. The sport, she added, was getting faster overall.

“It’s accelerating because of training, innovation behind training mechanisms, innovation behind recovery mechanisms, and just the evolution of training and skating,” he said. she declared. “I think the players work hard, but they also work smarter.”

The Canadians, terribly fast themselves, prepared for the assault.

“Obviously when we play the Americans it’s a fast game,” Nurse said before the final. “And so, it’s really about spreading them out, not being too tight, getting into the corners, but really extending their defense so we can create offense.”

Alivia Analytics Adds Distinguished Healthcare Payments Integrity Leader to Leadership Team

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BOSTON, February 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Alivia Analyticsthe industry leader providing solutions that revolutionize the integrity of healthcare payments, today announced the addition of Michel Boutte to their management team.

Respected healthcare payments integrity professional Michael Boutte joins Alivia Analytics’ leadership team.

Michel Boutte is a respected healthcare payments integrity executive, expert and data analytics professional. Michael brings decades of experience working with state governments to Alivia Analytics. In his most recent role, Michael served as Medicaid Deputy Director for Program Operations, Quality, and Innovations at the Louisiana Department of Health. In this role, Michael was the steward of the $14 billion Medicaid program, as well as leading health care payment integrity initiatives that have ensured health plan compliance, quality, and innovation. Michael brings a wealth of knowledge to Alivia Analytics, including a master’s degree in predictive analytics from Northwestern Universitya master’s degree in sociology and a bachelor’s degree in criminology from Louisiana State Universityas well as a number of industry audit and compliance certifications.

In his new position as Director of Payment Integrity, Michael will bring his thought leadership and hands-on healthcare payment integrity expertise to Alivia Analytics’ growing public and private customer base and to the ever-changing marketplace. . Michael’s knowledge and experience will further power Alivia Analytics’ world-class healthcare payment integrity platform and provide actionable insights and support to Alivia Analytics customers as they work together. to achieve health care payment integrity.

Alivia Analytics enables everyone in the healthcare payment integrity ecosystem to quickly generate more reliable results and achieve a better return on investment. Their purpose-built platform offers commercial and government payers unprecedented speed, accuracy, and ease of use. As an expert in providing big data, artificial intelligence and analytics solutions for healthcare payment integrity, Alivia Analytics consistently delivers the lowest false positive rates in the industry.

Customers appreciate the robust and user-friendly platform, including flexible workflows that adapt to existing business processes and seamlessly integrated case management. Alivia Analytics sets a new industry standard for finally achieving healthcare payment integrity.

“We are delighted to add Michael’s experience and credentials to the Alivia Analytics team,” said Alex KormushoffPresident and Chief Operating Officer, Alivia Analytics. “We are revolutionizing payment integrity in healthcare and have earned the respect of our customers, who have become enthusiastic fans. By bringing Michael’s talent and experience in predictive analytics to our advanced healthcare payment integrity platform, our customers will experience even more powerful results and another level of customer support.”

“I’m thrilled to be part of this amazing team,” said Michel Boutte, Director, Payment Integrity, Alivia Analytics. “I’m blown away by their ability to get valid results fast, streamline business processes and increase productivity for their clients. Their adaptable workflows and integrated case management get organizations up and running in no time. time and get accurate results immediately. For the first time, healthcare payers can quickly generate more reliable results, leading to a better return on investment.”

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As Oregon’s nursing shortage continues, lawmakers plan a remedy – Oregon Capital Chronicle

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A proposal in the Legislature aims to address the shortage of nurses in Oregon, which has jeopardized the quality of care, advocates say.

No less than 350,000 people are hospitalized each year in Oregon, 1.3 million are treated in the emergency room and 13 million are treated on an outpatient basis.

Nurses are also essential for providing care in medical clinics and long-term care facilities.

Advocates say the lack of nurses can lead to errors and lower quality care.

House Bill 4003 aims to alleviate the shortage of nurses by allowing students to treat patients under the supervision of a registered nurse and perform other duties, giving enrollees more time to do their jobs. The proposal would create a trainee nurse license for students who have had at least one semester of nursing education and passed a skills test. Proponents say their presence would free up experienced nurses, giving them more time to ensure patients receive proper care.

“I think this could be a huge help for nurses, both in terms of education and practice,” said Jana Bitton, executive director of the Oregon Center for Nursing, which conducts research and advocates nurses’ interests, in an e-mail. “This opens up opportunities for workplaces to integrate trainee nurses into their staff, which could alleviate staffing shortages in some situations.”

The influential Oregon Nurses Association, which represents 13,000 of Oregon’s 72,000 registered nurses, also supports the bill.

“It’s not a panacea, but it will provide an on-ramp to the nursing profession and add qualified students to the health care team,” said association spokesman Kevin Mealy. “Registered Trainee Nurses can gain invaluable hands-on experience while supporting patients and nurses at the bedside and behind the scenes.

The proposal was unanimously approved by the House Health Care Committee last week and has gone to the Joint Ways and Means Committee, which decides budget matters.

It is not a panacea, but it will provide an on-ramp to the nursing profession and add qualified students to the health care team.

– Kevin Mealy, spokesperson for the Oregon Nurses Association

In addition to creating a new license, the bill would add nurses to a program that offers therapy sessions. The Oregon Wellness Program now offers free, confidential counseling sessions for physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, podiatrists, and dentists. The House bill would be extend the program to registered nurses.

The program, which would cost an additional $700,000 to include nurses, offers eight free one-hour therapy sessions a year with professionals. The program is confidential, unlike employee assistance programs, and appointments are guaranteed within 72 hours.

Although employer insurance plans cover mental health treatment, there is usually a co-pay and it usually takes time to get an appointment.

Nursing educators like Bitton also support the bill because it would also expand the nursing pipeline. In 2018, the Oregon Department of Employment said the state would need to add 2,600 nurses a year to replace those leaving and fill new positions created by health care expansion. But in 2019, less than 1,600 new graduates entered the job market.

“Right now we are seeing a delay in graduation due to a lack of clinical support,” Rep. Rachel Prusak, D-Tualatin, said in a forum before the session began. Prusak was a nurse for 20 years and a nurse practitioner for 14 years.

As chair of the House Health Care Committee, she proposed the bill after meetings with nurses, hospital and long-term care administrators and nursing educators.

“I watched this very closely,” Prusak said. “It’s really personal to me.”

Idaho and Washington already have nurse trainee licenses. Prusak said establishing such a license in Oregon is an easy first step.

“It will be one of the many things we need to do moving forward,” Prusak said.

The proposal would allow schools to award students credit for clinical experience. It would also expand the types of facilities that can temporarily use out-of-state nurses and extend the length of time they are allowed to practice in Oregon from one month to three months.

The Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Care Systems supports the bill, as does the Oregon Primary Care Association, which represents 34 clinics serving low-income Oregonians.

“HB 4003 is a bill that reflects Oregon’s ability to be a leader in health care, and we appreciate that it has clear and predictable steps to begin addressing the issue,” said Andi Easton, vice president of government affairs for the hospital association. written testimony. “We particularly appreciate the effort to provide a gateway to quickly employ non-resident RNs in good standing in other states to work temporarily in Oregon hospitals.”

The Age of Anti-Ambition – The New York Times

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Plague, death, the supply chain, long queues at the post office, the collapse of many aspects of civil society could all play a part in this statistic. But in his classic 1951 study of middle-class office workers, sociologist C. Wright Mills observed that “although the modern white-collar worker has no articulated work philosophy, his feelings about it and his experiences influence their satisfactions and experiences. frustrations, the whole tone of his life. I remember a friend who once told me that even though her husband was not depressed, he hated his job and it was like living with a depressed person.

After the latest jobs report, economist and Times columnist Paul Krugman estimated that people’s confidence in the economy was about 12 points lower than it should have been, given that wages were on the rise. As the pandemic drags on, either numbers are unable to quantify how bad things have gotten Where people seem to have convinced themselves that things are worse than they really are.

It’s not in just the data where the words “job satisfaction” seem to have become a paradox. It is also present in the cultural atmosphere of the work. Not so long ago, a young writer I follow on Instagram posted an answer to a question someone asked her: What’s your dream job? Her response, a quick comeback on the internet, was that she “didn’t dream of a job.” I suspect she is ambitious. I know she is excellent at understanding the spirit of the times.

It’s in the air, this anti-ambition. It’s easy to go viral these days by appealing to a commonly assumed lethargy, especially if you can come up with the kind of languid, tongue-in-cheek aphorisms that have become this generation’s response to the “Office Space” computing scene. (The film was released in 1999, amid another booming job market, when unemployment was at a 30-year low.) “Sex is good, but have you ever quit a job that ruined your sanity?” went a tweet, which has over 300,000 likes. Or: “I hope this email doesn’t find you. Hope you got away, you’re free. (168,000 likes.) If the tight labor market gives low-wage workers a a taste of upward mobility, many office workers (or “desks”, these days) seem to think of our jobs more like a lot of work-class people have forever. Like just a job, a paycheck. to pay the bills Not the sum total of us, not an identity.

Even elite lawyers seem to be losing their taste for guns in the workplace. Last year, Reuters reported an unusual wave of attrition at big New York firms – noting that many lawyers had decided to take pay cuts to work fewer hours or move to a cheaper area or work in the city. technology. It’s also happening in finance: at Citi, according to New York magazine, an analyst typed “I hate this job, I hate this bank, I want to jump out the window” in a chat, prompting human resources to check his mental state. health. “It’s a consensus opinion,” he told HR. “That’s how everyone feels.”

Things get weird when employers try to address this discontent. Amazon warehouse workers have for a year been asked to participate in a wellness program aimed at reducing workplace injuries. The company recently came under fire for reporting that some of its drivers were so pressured to work that they started urinating into bottles, and warehouse workers, for whom every move is tracked, live in the afraid of being fired for having worked so slowly. But now, for those warehouse workers, Amazon has introduced a program called AmaZen: “Employees can visit AmaZen stations and watch short videos featuring easy-to-follow wellness activities, including guided meditations. [and] positive affirmations. It’s about self-care with a dystopian bent, in which the solution to blue-collar burnout is… screen time.

The cultural vibe toward the office even shows up in the television shows that knowledge workers obsess over. Consider “Mad Men,” a show set during the economic peak of the late 1960s. It was a show that found work romantically. I’m not talking about office stuff. I mean the characters were in love with their work (or angrily sometimes out of love, but that’s a passion in itself). More than that, their careers and the petty dramas of their day-to-day jobs — client presentations, office politics — have given their lives meaning. (At the end of the show, Don Draper traveled to a resort town that looks a lot like Esalen to find out the meaning of life, and whacked his way into a transformative Coke ad campaign.)

Health service delivery is vital – EMTV Online

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By Jim John

Students attending Rumginae Community Health Worker (CHW) Training School in North Fly, Western Province are encouraged to contribute meaningfully to the health sector after completing their 2 years at RCHW school.

Despite the challenges posed by COVID-19, students were urged to prioritize education that will enable them to become certified health workers in the future.

These were the key messages delivered by school committee member and board of trustees William Beng during the orientation program held at the school last week.

He said the Western Province needs more health human resources which will ease the burden on rural people who struggle to access better health services.

“We need more health workers to work in a relief post and established health centers in rural communities in the province,” Beng said.

40 new students who were offered admission to study ASCs at Rumginae were officially welcomed by staff members when the 2022 academic year began last week.

The school run by the Evangelical Church Education Agency of Papua New Guinea (ECPNG) works with Rumginae Rural Hospital in North Fly District, trains and equips students with basic skills in the medical profession.


How a Birmingham cop found a new career in cannabis

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Kristy McKinney’s career change from law enforcement to cannabis grower involved more than just trading in her badge for a grow license.

The former Birmingham police officer had to learn all about growing plants and producing CBD while considering her old job and making marijuana arrests. At times, she struggles with guilt for her role in a war on drugs that she now believes has unfairly targeted both marijuana and black men.

“It’s very unethical for us to take advantage of this plant when we haven’t even tried to find a system to bring these people home,” McKinney said.

Although McKinney began her career in law enforcement believing that marijuana was a gateway to more dangerous drugs, it was police work that indirectly led her to change her mind. . It all started in 2017 when McKinney responded to a call about motor vehicle burglaries.

One victim said thieves rammed two of his vehicles. McKinney had just returned to patrol after six years in the burglary detective office. She knew the investigators, and the victim, needed her to nail this report.

Disaster struck when she got out of the Ford Explorer and collapsed.

“It was like my body had exploded inside, the pain was so bad,” McKinney said. “When I came to, I was on the street.”

McKinney had recently taken sick leave for a hysterectomy and believed the pain was related to surgical complications. However, medical examinations ruled this out and instead pointed to another culprit: a spinal injury caused by an on-duty car accident several years earlier.

McKinney found herself stuck in medical limbo, unable to have surgery without first receiving city approval, a process that became lengthy and controversial. Her neurologist referred her to pain management.

It started McKinney on her way from Birmingham to the hemp farm in St. Clair County where she lives today.

At the farm

McKinney and her husband cleared several acres of land near Pell City, about 35 miles east of Birmingham, and built a tunnel house under a cost-sharing program with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. To become certified organic, they must let the land rest for several years before planting hemp and other crops.

It gave him time to learn more about farming and work through the ethical dilemmas his career change brought up.

“Our space is going to be like this until I can put a system in place to help people who I feel like I’ve been victimized by making the arrests I’ve made,” McKinney said. “I know I was doing my job and I know I did nothing wrong, but I don’t agree with the laws that were in place.”

Her bad experiences with prescription opioids forced her to consider cannabis, which she once considered addictive and dangerous. Now she wants to grow hemp and create CBD products for first responders with chronic pain.

She spent many years patrolling Birmingham’s council housing complexes and often encountered people using illegal substances.

“I knew there was a lot of struggle and pain and addiction,” McKinney said. “I couldn’t understand how an entire community could suffer in the same way.”

In the city

McKinney grew up in Birmingham and knew several people caught up in crime. Yet, from an early age, she wanted to join the police department. As a child, she spotted her cousin’s stolen car speeding down the street. His mother rallied the rest of the family to find the thief outside a nearby pharmacy.

“I don’t know what she said, but I know she had her gun,” McKinney said. “She was known for carrying her .38.”

The whole family was thrilled his cousin got his car back, McKinney said.

“When his sister kissed me, I felt something I had never felt before,” she said. “It was just like, well, how can I do this again?”

McKinney applied to the police academy as soon as she turned 21 and headed for the unit that patrolled public housing. Although she knows the neighborhoods well, she says she finds it difficult to understand the despair and suffering she encounters.

“I needed answers,” McKinney said. “I used to think it was in the water system. I thought it was fast food. I spent hours on calls trying to guide people. It’s like a revolving door. Putting words on a report did not help.

McKinney was transferred to former Mayor Larry Langford’s retail protector for a year. When that ended, she became a detective in the burglary division. She enjoyed helping victims and recovering stolen property.

But she missed the patrol and asked to leave. In 2016, she began to suffer from contractions in her lower abdomen. Her gynecologist diagnosed fibroids – a type of benign tumor – and recommended a hysterectomy. In 2017, she took time off for surgery with plans to return as a patroller.

McKinney collapsed on the first day of her comeback in 2017.

Refuse painkillers

His injury caused him constant pain and made it difficult to walk. Doctors offered him opioids and injections designed to block the source of the pain. As an officer, McKinney feared becoming addicted to prescription opioids. After three or four months of treatment, she felt nervous and different.

“I explained to my pain management doctor that I had become something I recognized,” McKinney said. “And what I had recognized was what I had experienced patrolling the most underserved communities. I had started to feel this lack of attention and concern for others, and it was not acceptable to me.

McKinney stopped taking the pills. This caused her to lose access to the painkiller injections offered at the clinic. Pain management agreements often require patients to prove they are taking opioid medications instead of selling them. Thus, a patient like McKinney who tests negative for opioids during his appointments risks being interrupted.

It seemed doctors could only offer opioids for pain. Then a friend told me about a colleague who had left a nursing to grow cannabis in Colorado. By then, McKinney was finally ready to consider it.

She opened her computer and started to do some research.

“That night saved my life,” McKinney said. “I don’t know how long I could have stayed there. I don’t know how long I would have stayed there suffering. I had maybe 180, 200 Lortabs on the bedside table. Doctors continued to prescribe them. They said there was nothing else. We don’t know how to treat you. I went through five doctors specializing in pain management.

After researching and traveling out of state, McKinney found that CBD and medical marijuana treated his pain more effectively than opioids. By 2018, she had retired as a police officer and changed her mind about cannabis, the plant family that produces both marijuana and its non-intoxicating cousin, hemp.

She has applied to grow hemp and plans to extract and sell CBD oil.

CBD packages

She wants to create a product for first responders, including police officers, but that’s complicated by the legal status of marijuana. Some CBD oils contain small amounts of THC that can cause people to test positive for marijuana, according to Dr. Peter Grinspoon, an internist and cannabis expert at Harvard Medical School.

Pure or broad-spectrum CBD oils generally don’t contain THC, but Grinspoon said the industry is unregulated, making it difficult to determine which products contain compounds that trigger positive drug tests.

“If it’s really pure CBD without THC, it’s almost impossible to test positive for drugs,” Grinspoon said. “It all depends on the quality of the CBD.”

Grinspoon said CBD has proven benefits for children with epilepsy. Many users also take it for anxiety, insomnia and chronic pain, he said. Some users report drowsiness after taking it, Grinspoon said.

Departments may have different policies regarding the use of CBD, McKinney said. Those who discourage or ban it may leave injured workers with fewer pain relief options, limiting them to over-the-counter drugs or opioids, McKinney said.

allowed to grow

McKinney said she was trying to track down all the marijuana arrests she made during her career with the department. Last year, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin granted a blanket pardon for all marijuana arrests between 1990 and 2020, which affected up to 15,000 people, according to the city.

McKinney said her journey answered some questions she had early in her career. She believes chronic pain – both physical and mental – caused much of the despair and substance use she encountered on patrol. She believes widespread opioid prescriptions fueled desperation and addiction as users turned to harder drugs such as heroin and fentanyl. Overdose deaths hit record highs in 2020 and 2021, driven primarily by large increases in illicit fentanyl.

Now she thinks CBD and even medical marijuana may offer an alternative for some patients. Lawmakers legalized the plant last year for patients with eligible medical conditions, but members of Alabama’s Medical Cannabis Commission are still working out the details of how the substance will be produced and sold.

McKinney has a license to grow hemp. She said she might also be interested in exploring medical marijuana certification. Although she no longer wears a badge, she said she still wanted to help the communities she once served.

“When I asked God to show me how to fix it, I didn’t know what I was asking for,” McKinney said. “He really had to take me through what I’ve seen people suffer from so that I better understand how I could really help.”

Nursing Planning Software Market 2022 by Top Key Players, Types, Applications and Future Forecast to 2030 – Instant Interview

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School of Nursing adapts to pandemic challenges, as published in annual report – The Cavalier Daily

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The COVID-19 health crisis has brought about profound changes in healthcare, and the School of Nursing is no exception. Not only did nurses have to learn quickly how to deal with a new and dangerous virus, but the School of Nursing also had to change the methods of care. These changes were made public in a Annual Reportillustrating the School’s concerted commitment to educating future nurses for the front lines of healthcare, even in the face of a pandemic.

A large part of the nursing curriculum consists of clinical practice – real-world experience in a hospital unit. Nursing students begin with five-hour hospital rotations in their second year, continue with more intensive clinics in their third year, and essentially work as full-time nurses in their fourth year.

In 2021, the school transitioned to a focus on teaching nursing students to care for patients with COVID-19. According to Dr. Pam Cipriano, Dean of the School of Nursing and Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing, the department was initially hesitant due to the unknown nature of the virus and concerns about shortages of personal protective equipment. The pandemic has added goggles and masks to standard PPE – just a small example of the new normal in which nursing students and faculty are learning to work.

Flannery Enneking-Norton, a third-year nursing student, considered the transition to learning and working in the hospital during a pandemic difficult but smooth.

“It’s really just a matter of trusting the PPE and trusting the science,” Enneking-Norton said. “But I feel very lucky that we were able to keep a lot of our components in person, because obviously those are essential to doing real-world nursing.”

COVID-19 has also affected the School of Nursing’s involvement in treating other illnesses, as Assoc explains. Professor of Nursing Virginia LeBaron.

“From a funding perspective, many agencies and organizations are now prioritizing funding for COVID-related research,” LeBaron said.

This change, however, changes the landscape of funding available for other important nursing research. Cipriano clarified that most nursing research “has not incorporated the more recent effects of COVID” because research proposals take several months to review.

Overall, throughout 2021, the number of nursing research proposals increased by 39%while research funding increased by 36%.

In February 2021, LeBaron received a $3.4 million grant for his non-COVID-19 related research – investigating how technology can be leveraged to improve cancer pain management – from National Institute of Nursing Research..

The pandemic has brought major changes to the nursing research process. LeBaron’s research, for example, involves implementing a smart health technology system to help monitor and manage pain from the home of cancer patients and their caregivers. Before March 2020, a team would have visited participants’ homes to set up the system and learn how to use it face-to-face.

“COVID has made that impossible,” LeBaron said. “We completely pivoted and redesigned our entire system.”

The technology is now shipped to attendees, where they configure it themselves with remote assistance.

COVID-19 restrictions limited the number of family members who could enter the clinic, making it much more difficult to talk to patients and their caregivers about their participation in the study. Recruitment has also been tested simply by the added stress of living in a pandemic.

“When you’re doing research with cancer patients, it’s already a sensitive and difficult time for people,” LeBaron said. “When you add the layer of a pandemic, it just adds a whole other layer of stress and anxiety to an already difficult situation. And so, naturally, I think people’s bandwidth to participate in research might be more limited.

Concerns about face-to-face interaction during COVID-19 not only impacted how nurses administered care, but also how nursing students were taught. In 2021, 15 percent more nursing student clinical hours came from simulations. Some are computer-based, while others take place in a simulation lab involving very realistic mannequins. Simulations include scenarios such as emergency situations, making decisions based on vital signs, and difficult patient encounters.

Enneking-Norton said her favorite was a childbirth simulation.

“It made me appreciate the confidence and skill that we had within our group so that we could all play our different roles and work together to deliver this big, healthy baby,” Enneking-Norton said.

Enneking-Norton described simulations as a way to develop muscle memory for critical situations before encountering them in real life.

The School of Nursing strongly emphasizes in-person clinical hours to prepare students for the real-life nursing environment, but these high-quality simulations are “a very important supplement to learning,” Cipriano said.

This is especially true in the midst of a pandemic, when physical interactions in the hospital must be minimized For the safety.

On an optimistic note, LeBaron observed that remote situations forced by COVID-19 have shown that much nursing care can be delivered remotely and still be effective.

“I think we’re going to see a trend towards more remote monitoring [and] more health care that reaches people where they are at home,” LeBaron said. “I think this trend was already starting, but it really accelerated with COVID because we had to do it very, very quickly. I think it broke down a lot of barriers in a pretty deep way.

Looking to the future, the School of Nursing remains flexible and attentive to the public health situation.

“Our goal for 2022 is to…adapt as easily as possible to whatever the pandemic may throw at us,” LeBaron said.

Can I have a word on… the British Pun Championships | Jonathan Bouquet

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I Read recently that in the early age of computing, doctors treated office workers for a condition called “turtleneck,” caused by long hours of squinting at a screen. I used to just get RSI, but we’ll pass that up. Now, in the early days of the Metaverse, there’s an altogether more obnoxious sonic hazard – “gorilla arms”. Rather than sitting, users of augmented reality and virtual reality devices typically stand unsupported.

Jay Kim of Oregon State University explains, “By placing your arms forward away from your body, it creates shoulder tension called gorilla arm syndrome. So now you know. There have also been incidents of users hitting walls, lampshades, and ceiling fans. Alas, the medical profession has yet to come up with names for these conditions, but I look forward to them. In the meantime, if you get hurt wandering around the metaverse, blame that Mark Zuckerberg and add him to the growing indictment against this wretch and his supposedly brave new world.

In the list of odd happenings such as the World Worm Charming Championships, World Wife Carrying Championships and Chess Boxing, one should never forget the UK Pun Championships, won last week by Richard Pulsford. A good pun should be truly moan-worthy and Mr. Pulsford delivers it honourably: ‘I used to work in a lighthouse – I always have flashbacks’; “The doorbells. You can’t hit them”; “Rocket countdowns? Don’t get me started. Yes, I admit it – I’m a sucker for puns. And a special mention must go to another competitor, Chris Norton-Walker: “If you’re going to walk 10,000 miles, wear proper shoes and see a doctor. Disclaimers.

My all-time favorite appeared in a local Essex newspaper decrying a crisis in county libraries: ‘Lack of books in Ongar’. John Osborne must be rolling in his grave.

Jonathan Bouquet is an Observer columnist

High school students have the opportunity to explore the medical field

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Starkville, Miss. (WCBI) – The University of Mississippi Medical Center and Mississippi State hosted an event at the Colvard Student Union to educate high school students about careers in the medical field.

This weekend, the University of Mississippi Medical Center and Mississippi State teamed up to educate young minds about the medical field and what it has to offer.

Loretta Jackson-Williams, associate dean of medical education at UMMC, says the goal is to allow these students to dive deeper into each course.

“We understand that our students go to college for the most part before going to medical center and we want to encourage our students to investigate the wonderful colleges we have available,” Williams said.

Each student was assigned to a group and learned what each program has to offer, from the work lifestyle to the salary they could receive.

“Schools will let them know the kinds of programs they have and let them know the kind of work they do and the kind of interactions they have so that students get full realization of health careers,” said Williams. .

Williams also says that while students can be determined by what they want to do, it’s always beneficial to keep their options open.

“Students change their minds even when choosing a health program, we recognize that there may be something that interests them a little more, so we encourage students to come with an open mind and really consider all the possibilities,” Williams said.

Kristen Nalls, a student at UMMC, believes that this program gives students a better understanding of what the medical field has to offer.

“I feel like high school students don’t have direction as to what’s next and I think it gives them a chance to start the journey and prepare early to get that experience now. It’s not just the doctor you see in a family practice or the dentist you see every 6 months, there are so many other pathways to health care and other ways to serve in the healthcare field,” Nalls said.

Students also received a goody bag and a free meal voucher after the event for a job well done.

VCU Nursing Expands Co-Enrollment Program at Reynolds Community College

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RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT)—VCU School of Nursing offers the opportunity for nursing students at Reynolds Community College to co-enroll at the institution while earning an associate degree.

VCU first offered this co-enrollment option in 2019 for students studying at Southside Virginia Community College and Rappahannock Community College, the program was later expanded to John Tyler Community College in 2020 and now Reynolds joins the roster.

“Now more than ever, the role of nurses is vital to our society,” said Jean Giddens, dean of the VCU School of Nursing. “Offering students a chance to earn a bachelor’s degree faster increases their earning potential, opens up new career opportunities and makes this level of education more affordable. Meeting the need for more qualified healthcare professionals in our healthcare workforce in a timely manner is crucial to the health of Virginians. Programs like our co-registration option will help us and Virginia collectively meet this need.

Students can take up to four courses, or one academic year, in the online RN to BS program at VCU while completing their final year of their nursing degree at Reynolds.

Those in their first year of the co-enrollment program receive a scholarship that will cover three semesters at the VCU School of Nursing as well as a guaranteed admission program for graduates of the Virginia Community College System.

These offerings are in addition to the VCU School of Nursing Guaranteed Admissions Program for Virginia Community College System graduates, including those from Reynolds, who meet certain requirements.

“VCU and Reynolds’ co-enrollment pathway expedites the bachelor’s degree process for students, supporting Reynolds’ goal of meeting the critical labor market needs of the communities we serve,” said Lori Dwyer, acting vice president of academic affairs at Reynolds. “This new partnership offers our students more choice in their academic path and an opportunity to continue their studies.”

Applications for Reynolds students are open May 1st for fall 2022.

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Training Explores Role of Historical Trauma in Health Outcomes | Local News

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MANKATO — A community is only as good as the information it gives, said Sam Simmons, a licensed drug and alcohol counselor, after leading a training Friday at Minnesota State University.

So if health care providers don’t understand the connection between historical trauma and health disparities in African American, Indigenous, and other communities of color, they may struggle to help patients from these communities. groups as efficiently as possible.



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Simmons said he hopes his historical trauma training, which has more than 700 registered in-person or online, opens participants’ eyes to further research the concept and its role in health care.

“It gives them insight into some of the things they might have encountered with clients and think, ‘Oh, that’s why this happened,'” he said.

Historical trauma is the term given to the collective emotional and psychological wounds felt across generations in communities of people and their descendants. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, has produced a tip sheet on the subject citing the Native American experience as one of the most familiar examples of historical trauma.

Years of violent colonization, assimilation policies and general losses have accumulated over generations. Its effects on the Native American population include high rates of depression, alcohol and other addictions, and a breakdown of traditional Native family values, according to SAMHSA.

Simmons has over 31 years of alcohol and drug counseling experience, specializing in culturally sensitive strategies to address historical trauma and improve outcomes for African American men and their families. . On his website, he writes about how historians link the destruction of family relationships through slavery with the weakening of African Americans’ abilities to form healthy relationships and families to this day.

He goes on to write that Black men must first acknowledge their individual and intergenerational trauma in order to begin to heal from it, rather than feeling like they recognize it is not “manly.”

Healthcare providers, meanwhile, should understand that different clients will display conditions like depression in culturally different ways.

“Culturally, some people don’t know they’re depressed,” he said. “They say ‘I’m depressed’ or ‘I’m just having trouble sleeping.'”

Not understanding these differences between clients can cause providers to overlook issues. That’s important in the field of mental health, where client-provider relationships make a big difference, said Thad Shunkwiler, assistant professor at MSU’s College of Allied Health and Nursing, which sponsored the training.

“Trainings like this really drive home that in this relationship you really have to seek to understand someone’s experience and seek to understand the trauma that they’ve been through,” he said.

Jeremiah Lemon, a junior social studies student at MSU, attended the event and described Simmons as a “powerful” speaker.

Historical trauma was a new concept for Lemon, who said he came away with a better understanding of how culture is a response to trauma.

“Culture is transmitted,” he says. “And trauma is the reason and the raison d’être of the culture.”

To learn more about Simmons, who has a podcast called “Healing Brothers,” and his work, visit www.brothershealing.com and www.samuelsimmonsconsulting.com.

Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD, MPH, Improving Health Literacy in Black Communities — Health Changemaker

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HE: Grapevine Health also has a podcast. Can you explain a bit about how you use the podcast to share health information?

LF: I started the podcast because I feel like we make a lot of decisions in healthcare and don’t really incorporate the voice of the patient or the community. So I made it my mission to speak directly to people, rather than experts, about our [the Black community’s] experiences. I wanted patients and community members to talk about their experiences. That’s what it’s about. Overall, Grapevine Health is truly about raising the voice of humanity and the community and educating people in the process.

HE: Are your podcast and Ask the Doctor chats intended only for the local DC community?

LF: Absolutely not. We want Grapevine Health to be a brand of trusted health information in black and brown communities. Because people like you and me, we have a lot of resources, we can find people we know who work in the health field. Many people who go to the emergency room have no one to call. We need to make sure they have resources available to them so they know where they can go if they are confused about something or need help. I’m going to give you an example. I was on the street last year, and this lady came up to me and asked for help. She asked me to read her discharge papers because she had just been released from the hospital, but still felt sick and didn’t know what to do.

I was on the streets last year, and a lady had just been discharged from the hospital, but she still felt sick and [said] to me, ‘Help me. I just got out of the hospital and I don’t know what to do now. It is shameful.

She passed me in the street, and here I am, a stranger, and she asks me: “Help me. I just got out of the hospital and I don’t know what to do now. It is shameful. So how do we create resources for people like this across the country and particularly in the South, where there is a huge deficit in access to health care? Many of these states have growing Medicaid populations and people are getting by, or they’re just not getting care.

HE: Through your virtual efforts, do you have a way to gauge your reach in terms of audience and what kind of impact or footprint you have in other parts of the country?

LF: We have a Google number [where people can] SMS or leave a voicemail [for free]. People from all over call us from time to time. We have reached people even outside of the United States, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. In fact, many of our YouTube subscribers are from the UK. But most of the time, we get this information from social media: Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. Part of Grapevine’s goal is to have credible, experienced messengers who deliver trusted health information to underrepresented communities.

HE: Can you tell us a bit about how you find the right messengers and who they are?

LF: Well, what I found out is that a lot of the black doctors who work with us grew up in humble circumstances. So I think a lot of it comes down to lived experiences that result in effective communication. Dr Fabian [Sandoval] is our doctor who speaks Spanish. He is very effective because he does research and keeps his finger on the pulse of health education and health issues that impact black and brown communities. He has a TV show called Tu Salud Tu Familia (Your Health Your Family) on Telemundo, and he is very close to the Hispanic community.

I pick these doctors myself if I’ve heard them communicate complex information to the public, or if I’ve taken them down the street with me or maybe watched them at a conference or something. They all have a passion for speaking up and helping the community understand health information. But they’ve also typically either spent most of their career working with underserved communities, or come from those communities themselves.

HE: What have been your greatest challenges and successes since founding Grapevine Health?

LF: Some of the challenges have included marketing and constantly communicating with the right audience via social media. It has also been difficult to identify trust-based funders who want to partner but let us drive the implementation of solutions based on our experiences and what the community has taught us. But some of my successes have demonstrated how and why the messenger is important. We’ve delivered personalized messaging and video content to Black and Brown audiences and know that our interventions have increased uptake among hesitant people by up to 35%. We now want to focus on chronic health conditions that will help improve long-term health outcomes.

Some of my successes have demonstrated how and why the messenger is important. We’ve delivered personalized messaging and video content to Black and Brown audiences and know that our interventions have increased uptake among hesitant people by up to 35%.

HE: Speaking of the messenger, with the pandemic it seems that trusting the messenger is more important than ever for underserved communities. I know you recently wrote an article for Forbes about the need for healthcare providers to provide patients with nuanced medical information tailored specifically to their background and needs to help them better understand the how and why of medicine. Essentially, the importance of what you just called “plain language”. Can you expand on this a bit more and give an example of what this means and how you were able to do this personally?

LF: I give a lot of lectures on how we [medical providers] can better communicate health information to patients. I think the main thing is that we have to be creative about how we demonstrate that we’re listening. In the clinic, a patient will be very sensitive to whether you are paying attention or listening to them or not. A study has shown that doctors spend a lot more time talking than patients, which needs to be reversed. So being aware of that and having an open mind when approaching people is really important because they can sense it. If you ask them questions, do you let them talk?

I asked people to help us understand how they decide if they can trust a health care provider. Many of them say, “Well, this doctor is listening.” A lady said, “Well, my doctor, she’s always in a hurry. I feel like I can’t ask because I don’t want to bother her, and she’s in such a rush, and I can tell she’s in a rush because she’s gonna walk to the door and ask his hand on the door. “So subtle things like this signal to patients that what we [doctors] having to do is more important than listening to them. The other thing is that we have to listen to the signals and the different things that we take for granted.

For example, I asked a gentleman why he used the emergency room. I talked to him for over an hour, and I realized he couldn’t read. So think about how illiterate people get lost in the healthcare system. How would you know how many portals you need to visit, how many platforms you need to complete to be seen, or if you will get a follow-up appointment? And it all starts again. How frustrating is it if you can’t read and no one even acknowledges that you can’t because you’ve become so adept at hiding your illiteracy? You get lost in the system. But we can understand this stuff when we listen and ask the right questions.

I asked a gentleman why he used the emergency room. I talked to him for over an hour, and I realized he couldn’t read. If we ask them, they will tell us, but they will not always provide this information.

I was also doing an outreach event, and I asked this guy to sign up for our newsletter, and he asked me to do it for him. So I looked at his hands and asked him if he was okay. And then I asked if he had trouble reading, and he said yes. If we [medical providers] ask, they will tell us, but they will not always give this information. These are just a few examples. But there are many others. We just need to slow down, listen and get information from people and make them feel like we’re there because of them, not the other way around.

HE: Based on your interactions and some of the feedback you’ve received from your patients and community members, what should white healthcare providers keep in mind to know how to be most effective when working with members of the black community?

LF: Pay attention to body language and the subtle, non-verbal signals we can send to people. Often people feel rushed when we [doctors] talk to them, and we may not listen to them carefully. They will feel it and it will impact confidence. We all have prejudices about the poor and underserved, and some have been misplaced. Take the time to understand their challenges and why it might be difficult for them to comply with instructions. Recognize when it is necessary to improvise and be creative in developing a treatment or follow-up plan. When it comes to community engagement, just show up consistently and listen rather than steal and go or believe you have the answers or understand based on what you’ve heard or seen in the media.

HE: What are your hopes and dreams for the future?

LF: I hope Grapevine Health will become the go-to source for trusted, relevant, and science-based health information for underserved Black and Hispanic communities.

Traveling nurses struggle to match the salaries they got on the road: Blows

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Nurse Sara Dean of Mount Juliet, Tennessee attends her daughter Harper’s gymnastics practice. Dean spent nearly two years traveling the country as a nurse, earning a much higher salary than she could at home.

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Nurse Sara Dean of Mount Juliet, Tennessee attends her daughter Harper’s gymnastics practice. Dean spent nearly two years traveling the country as a nurse, earning a much higher salary than she could at home.

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Nursing is a second career and a calling for Sara Dean of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. Dean loved his job at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital. But then the pandemic hit and she saw how much nurses were being paid to travel – up to $10,000 a week.

“It’s a life-changing number. It’s a number that helps you pay off debt, get out of your grandma’s basement or whatever,” says Dean, 38. “I’m not saying we were in trouble. We were a two-income household. But we made ends meet.”

So she took time off from her job at the hospital and signed her first three-month contract to go to New Mexico. Her immediate family came with her; her boyfriend could work remotely and her daughter was in a virtual school. And when they weren’t working, they liked to explore the desert on dirt bikes.

Nurse Sara Dean of Mount Juliet, Tennessee cheers on her daughter, Harper, as she perfects her back flip. Dean says she stopped traveling when 12-year-old Harper was ready for her to go home.

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Nurse Sara Dean of Mount Juliet, Tennessee cheers on her daughter, Harper, as she perfects her back flip. Dean says she stopped traveling when 12-year-old Harper was ready for her to go home.

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Dean finally quit his job at home as the money got better and better after COVID hotspots from New Mexico to Maryland to rural Alabama. At one point, Dean’s overtime rate was over $200 an hour, and she was working 60 hours a week, saving the lives of COVID patients.

But after almost two years, it was really cheerleading that brought them home.

On a recent weekday afternoon, Dean shouted down the stairs to his 12-year-old son, Harper, while mixing up a protein shake. They were about to go out for off-season tumbling practices. Harper was working hard to perfect her backhand rollover before next season.

“I didn’t really have a lot of friends,” Harper said of her longing to come home. “I miss it so much that I can be around different people all the time.”

Money was previously unimaginable. But there came a time when being uprooted was no longer worth the sacrifice. Dean says Harper is the ultimate boss.

“She’s the one saying, ‘No more traveling…I want to go home,'” Dean says. “But it also puts me in a bind.”

The pandemic has proven how valuable highly trained nurses are.

Hospitals are still paying traveling nurses many times their normal salary to fill staffing gaps. And turnover continues to rise, with the highest rates in the Southeast with about one in four RNs leaving each year.

But many hospitals are not hiring local travelers, even though they are short of nurses. They want these RNs to accept full-time positions. And the full-time salary, while slightly higher, doesn’t come close to the more than $120 an hour travelers earn.

“It makes me feel like I’m in it for the money, but basically I’m in it for what’s best for my family,” Dean said.

Sara Dean makes an energy smoothie for her daughter to practice tumbling. Supporting her daughter’s love of cheerleading and her need for social connection got them off the road after nearly two years of traveling nursing during the pandemic.

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Sara Dean makes an energy smoothie for her daughter to practice tumbling. Supporting her daughter’s love of cheerleading and her need for social connection got them off the road after nearly two years of traveling nursing during the pandemic.

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She applied to Nashville-area hospitals that still employ hundreds of travelers and are waiting for a more palatable offer.

Hospitals have explored ways not to rely so heavily on staffing agencies, which the American Hospital Association has officially accused of raising prices during the pandemic. The AHA asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate, although an FTC spokesperson said there was no investigation.

Vivian Health is an online marketplace for travel nursing jobs and tracks pay rates across the country. The San Francisco-based tech company is also helping hospitals trying to move away from their reliance on temporary staff. And that will require paying full-time employees more, CEO Parth Bhakta said.

“You’re kind of caught between a rock and a hard place,” he says. “I think ultimately healthcare systems need to find a way to retain their workers more, and ultimately, probably, need to pay and incentivize their existing staff more.”

Full-time incentives are getting stronger. Some hospitals are experimenting with temporary positions that essentially allow a nurse to work as a traveler without having to leave town. Bonuses have also become the norm for new hires in some parts of the country.

“We’re actually seeing a very, very good labor market for nurses with hiring premiums ranging from $15,000 to $20,000 for nurses almost everywhere you look in this area of ​​Nashville,” says Julie Hamm, president of the Tennessee Nurses Association.

Yet the average salary increase last year for full-time nurses was only slightly higher than the national average, at around 4%. And when a nurse has gotten used to earning between $8,000 and $10,000 a week, a one-time bonus of $20,000 doesn’t seem so generous, Sara Dean says.

That’s why she and other pandemic travelers face such a difficult transition.

With money in the bank after months on the road, Dean may be a bit more discerning about his next job. And she makes the most of her free time, whether it’s spending Christmas with her daughter in New York or cheering on her tween at a cheer practice.

During that time, she’s tried something completely different — working part-time at a wellness spa near her home that offers rejuvenating IVs. Beyond how to prevent their nurses from travelling, hospitals are dealing with burnout like they’ve never seen. It is estimated that half a million nurses are expected to leave the bedside entirely this year.

“It’s refreshing to do preventative health,” Dean said. “I just died and died for two years.”

Medical Coatings Market Overview Industry, Size, Share, Trends and Future Scope Forecast 2022-2028 | Freudenberg Medical Europe GmbH, Surmodics, Hydromer

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Medical devices are impervious to different types of microbial diseases, for example, bacterial, viral and contagious contamination that occurs in medical service related contaminations in patients. Medical coating is considered as a coating applied on medical devices including implants or any type of material to prevent biofilm formation or to modify the actual properties like oil. The increase in cases of contamination through medical devices is changing the demand for medical coating for devices in the market. According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, in 2015 around 8.3% of patients staying in the emergency room for two days were identified with something like healthcare-related contamination, suggesting the importance of a coating suitable for medical use. The medical coating has many applications in the areas of muscle health, cardiology, nervous system science, ophthalmology, corrective medical procedures, medication transport frame, etc. Expanding global population, medical issues and development in the number of medical care centers are instrumental in driving the development of the medical coatings market over the gauge period.

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Growing demands for implantable devices and change from regular functional practice to negligible medical strategy are key drivers for the development of the medical coatings market. Expanding global population with medical care issues and expanding mindfulness regarding advancements in medical therapies are driving the demand for implantable devices such as dental implants, muscle implants, neurostimulation devices and breast implants. According to the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons report, 2014, in the United States approximately 4.5 million people have artificial hips and 6.7 million people have artificial knees in 2010. As reported by the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, approximately 370,000 Americans get heart pacemakers each year. This information only shows a small part of the implantable device and similarly, expanded use will also increase the risks of microbial disease, which can be avoided by using a medical coating. This is relied upon to boost the development of the medical coatings market over the stated period of time.

The main property of the medical coating that is taken advantage of for a minimally intrusive medical practice is its surface properties, for example, the oil for the device, which penetrates the body tissues. The growing tendency of the population to adopt negligible medical strategies is a focal point for the development of the medical coatings market. As the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) reports, restorative strategies continue to develop over the past year and there is a shift in the type of strategy that patients routinely use in medical practice to make best use of the minimally intrusive medical system. In the United States, the marginally inconvenient restoration methodology applied in 2015 increased by 2% compared to 2014 according to the ASPS.

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Advances in innovation, for example, target the explicit drug transport framework and play an important role in the development of the medical coatings market. In 2017, Precision Coatings Co. Inc., the leading player in fluoropolymer utensils, worked with DCHN LLC, a considerable authority in anodic coating and print master, to consolidate their skills to offer administration of high level medical coating. Additionally, essential players are adopting consolidating and obtaining systems to flourish in the medical coatings market. For example, in 2011, Kensey Nash Corporation, a medical device organization, bought Nerites Corporation, a medical glue engineer and hostile to fouling coatings. The supply is intended to investigate nerites against fouling of innovation to prevent the arrangement of bacterial biofilm.

Market constraints:

The global medical coatings market is constrained by cumbersome administrative endorsements and low period of use. Advancements in medical devices, hardware, or implantable devices are driving the demand for medical coating, which is verified by administrative associations like the FDA.

Market competitors:

The main members working in the medical coatings market incorporate Specialty Coating Systems Inc., Harland Medical Systems Inc., Covalon Technologies Ltd., Biocoat Inc., Abbott Laboratories, AST Products Inc., Precision Coatings Co. Inc., Hydromer Inc., Surmodics Inc. and Freudenberg Medical Europe GmbH.

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Contents

Chapter 1: Global Medical Coatings Market Overview (2022-2028)

  • Definition
  • Characteristics
  • Classification
  • Apps
  • Regions

Chapter 2: Market Competition by Players/Suppliers 2022 & 2028

  • Manufacturing cost structure
  • Manufacturing process
  • Industry Chain Structure

Chapter 3: Sales (Volume) and Revenue (Value) by Region (2022-2028)

  • Sales
  • Turnover and market share

Chapter 4, 5 and 6: Global Medical Coatings Market by Type, Application and Player/Supplier Profiles (2022-2028)

  • Market share by type and application
  • Growth rate by type and application
  • Drivers and Opportunities
  • Company basic information

Chapter 7, 8 and 9: Global Medical Coatings Manufacturing Cost, Sourcing and Marketing Strategy Analysis

  • Analysis of key raw materials
  • Upstream raw material supply
  • Marketing channel

Chapter 10 and 11: Medical Coatings Market Effect Factor Analysis and Market Size (Value & Volume) Forecast (2022-2028)

  • Technological progress/risk
  • Sales Volume, Revenue Forecast (by Type, Application and Region)

Chapter 12, 13, 14 and 15: Global Medical Coatings Market Research Findings and Conclusion, Appendix and Data Source

  • Methodology/Research Approach
  • Source of data (secondary sources and primary sources)
  • Market size estimation

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Atlanta nurse successfully delivers baby in parking lot

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Nurse delivers baby in Atlanta parking lot

Public health nurse Evelyn Davis successfully delivered a baby in the back seat of a car after the mother’s contractions became too strong to make it to hospital.

ATLANTE – Evelyn Davis is a public health nurse at Adamsville Regional Health Center in southwest Atlanta, but she started her career in labor and delivery.

When a woman rushed into the Fulton County Health Unit on Feb. 9 screaming that her granddaughter was in labor, Nurse Evelyn ran into the parking lot and sprang into action.

“I checked her and the baby was right there and I knew it only took one or two or three pushes and everything would happen,” said Davis, who has been a nurse for more than 20 years.

The Southwest Atlanta facility was not built for labor and deliveries and the parking lot was nothing like a delivery room Wednesday afternoon.

“Choatic. There were people screaming, ‘She’s having the baby! Help her! Oh God! What are we going to do? This isn’t a hospital. She shouldn’t be here !’ So I just asked everyone to calm down and then I asked the mother to calm down she was screaming trying to stop the baby from coming and I told her not to because you are going to have a really strong contraction and the baby is going to fly away,” Davis said Thursday.

Nurse Evelyn talked mum through a few pushes until the head came out. One more push and the little girl arrived. Unfortunately, she was gray and not breathing.

“We had her wrapped up and I started rubbing her chest and I was like, ‘Come on baby, breathe, breathe, breathe, come on. Breathe, baby. I just rubbed the baby’s chest and she cried out I was so happy, said Davis, who delivered hundreds of babies on Navaho and Hopi reservations in Arizona early in her career.

“I’m just glad we’re all here to help. I don’t feel like a hero. I became a nurse to help people and I’m just glad I was there to help. Ten minutes later, this place would have been closed and no one would have been there to help.” said Davis, who works in the Adamsville clinic’s HIV/AIDS division.

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Mum whose baby girl died after hospital delays is training to become a nurse to help other families

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Her newborn baby girl died after delaying transferring her to another hospital.

And now brave Becky Curwen is training as a nurse with the goal of helping other families.

Doctors at Burnley General Hospital failed to detect a rare heart defect after baby Dottie Adamson was born on November 30, 2018.

And despite his parents’ desperate pleas, they didn’t fast-track his transfer to a specialist hospital in Manchester either.

By the time their daughter was finally transferred to St Mary’s Hospital in Manchester, it was tragically too late.

She died just two weeks later.

Parents Becky Curwen and Chris Adamson, from Haslingden, had to endure the heartbreak of reliving their baby girl’s short life during an inquest last month in which bosses at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust apologized for issues with Dottie’s care and admitted there had been ‘oversights’.

Becky and Chris, who have four other daughters, have spent the years since Dottie’s tragic death raising money for Manchester’s Ronald McDonald House, which houses families of hospitalized children.

The couple are now halfway to their £5,000 goal, which will allow them to dedicate a coin to Dottie’s memory.

“After completing the survey, I promised myself I would do something to raise funds that would take me out of my comfort zone, so I have now signed up to go skydiving with four other people,” said mom Becky at LancsLive.

“I’m going to get on that plane, get as close to Dottie as possible, let go of all trauma, anger and pain and start trying to rebuild my life in a positive way.

“I don’t want what happened to me to define me but mold me into the person I am today and I hope something positive will come out of the tragedy.”

Teachers at St John’s Stonefold Primary School in Rising Bridge, which one of Becky’s daughters attends, have also kindly agreed to raise awareness of the plight of the family and raise funds this week during Mother’s Day children’s mental health.

On Friday, students will bring home-baked cakes to sell and dress in their own clothes to help raise funds for Ronald McDonald House.

Along with raising money to help other families whose children are in hospital, Becky also made an important life decision in light of Dottie’s passing.

She is currently in her first year as a trainee nurse at the University of Salford so she can ‘give the best possible service to others that Dottie hasn’t gotten’.

“After everything that happened, I couldn’t go back to the work that I did before,” Becky said.

“I worked in a beauty salon for 11 years but decided I needed a career change. Every time I went to the hospital to see Dottie I thought ‘I’ would love to do that’ and then what happened with Dottie just ended me on this trip.

“It all helps me; there is no better feeling than helping others and I found it helped me a lot. We didn’t get the best service but I want to give it to other parents.”

Youtube silences more Pekau ‘medical’ comments on COVID

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Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau is using the village’s taxpayer-funded board meeting to deliver a political speech against COVID mandates and is using that speech in his campaign for Congress to solicit funds

By Ray Hanania

Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau, who has been the laughing stock of Illinois elected officials and the medical profession, again used the village board meeting as a forum this week to promote his misinformation on COVID and as a platform to promote his candidacy for Congress in the Republican primary election for the 6th District.

At a village board meeting, Pekau repeated five-day-old news that a Sangamon County Court judge issued a temporary restraining order on Friday blocking the governor’s much-criticized mask mandate. JB Pritzker for schools. The TRO allows school boards to set their own policies for wearing face masks, a proven way to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus that has claimed the lives of more than 900,000 Americans over the past two years.

Pekau posted the video on Youtube but it was deleted with a disclaimer from the social media giant which read, “Our team has reviewed your content and, unfortunately, we believe it violates our medical misinformation policy.”

Despite Youtube’s decision, Pekau made the comments in his capacity as a taxpayer-paid city official at a taxpayer-funded village board meeting, then used the video of his lecture during the board meeting to promote himself to Congress and ask recipients of his e-newsletter emails to donate to his federal political campaign.




Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau lectures the state on how his administration has
Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau tells the state how his administration ‘led the way’ by refusing to comply with state guidelines to deal with the COVID threat that has claimed the lives of more than 900,000 Americans at a board meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022 and then used the speech as the basis for soliciting funds for his congressional bid

Pekau correctly noted what everyone already knew, that Secondary School District 230 and Elementary School District 134 had ordered that wearing face masks be optional. Pekau then called on school districts 140 and 146 and private schools “to do the same.”

On the contrary, the School District 230 Board of Trustees demonstrated sound, common-sense medical practices to prevent the spread of the deadly COVID virus and its many deadly strains. District 230 deserves far more praise than a right-wing extremist who used the COVID virus to brutally intimidate his critics and columnists like me who challenged Pekau to be held accountable by the people who pay his salary, the taxpayers of Orland Park . (Although not as much as he might have liked.)

Pekau falsely implied that a village resolution calling for face masks not to be mandatory, which was passed by his administration last August, impacted the TRO. He does not have. And, Pekau arrogantly mocked Governor Pritzker for issuing 100 executive orders on COVID, orders that Pekau did not note in many cases helped prevent the spread of the virus in Illinois and especially the the state’s most vulnerable residents, the elderly.

Pekau boasted that “we were right” when the council refused to go along with the governor’s action and claimed the village was the leader in handling COVID, allowing businesses to make their own decisions on the how to handle COVID.

A lot of people were “right”. But exploiting the problem rather than developing smart policies to minimize the spread of COVID is so inappropriate. Fortunately, most residents of Orland Park are educated and intelligent and have done a good job of protecting themselves from the spread of the virus.

Many people questioned the wisdom of the mandates, but Pekau went further by repeatedly implying through his actions and words that face masks were not important in preventing the spread of the virus.

Here is the campaign solicitation from his campaign email sent Wednesday night:

Email text Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau uses an impromptu speech at Tuesday's village board meeting as a campaign platform for his 6th Ward congressional bid
Email text Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau uses an impromptu speech at Tuesday’s village board meeting as a campaign platform for his 6th Ward congressional bid

“It is time for the governor to follow the data, the facts and the constitution. Stop issuing emergency orders and allow residents, businesses and communities to make the decisions that are best for them, as it should have been the case all along. I want to thank you for all the administrators for having the courage to follow the Constitution. This has not been easy. We have all been personally attacked and received despicable emails and comments. »

Everyone gets despicable emails and personal attacks and Pekau is the leader when it comes to attacking people personally. But Pekau reads these e-mails to develop his sympathy.

Although Pekau’s comments play into the COVID confusion he has helped foment over the past two years by consistently dismissing state efforts to enforce CDC guidelines and medical experts, Pekau did not no chance of winning the congressional seat.

The leading Republican primary candidate is Scott Kaspar who has also openly and publicly BUT intelligently challenged the issue of COVID mandates, which many people legitimately oppose. The only difference is that Pekau did his best to push the issue to the extreme for his own political benefit.

COVID mandates are extreme and most reasoned people oppose them. Wearing face masks, which his administration allies have often ridiculed, is one that should be encouraged as a personal choice for each individual.

(Ray Hanania is an award-winning former Chicago City Hall reporter. A political analyst and CEO of Urban Strategies Group, Hanania’s opinion columns on current issues are published in the Southwest News Newspaper Group in Des Plaines Valley News, Southwest News-Herald, The Regional News, The Reporter Newspapers. His Middle East columns are published in Arab News. For more information on Ray Hanania, visit www.Hanania.com or email him. -email to [email protected])

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Lang’s bill relieves emergency medical services industry and workers, ensures citizens experience no disruption to medical services requiring an ambulance

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Senator Andrew Lang (R-Olivia) presented today legislation which allows the Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board (EMSRB) to temporarily suspend certain requirements to provide relief to an industry suffering from severe staffing shortages. The bill provides CEMSR with the ability to suspend requirements related to the following:

  • Ambulance Service Permit
  • Ambulance Service Staffing Requirements
  • Ambulance Specific Equipment Requirements
  • Air Ambulance Services License
  • Service requirements for air ambulances with respect to personnel and equipment
  • Data on prehospital care
  • Inter-hospital and inter-establishment transfers
  • Moving the base of operations during extreme emergencies

“This bill is the culmination of many years of problems that began before the pandemic, and as someone who has worked on the civilian side to support the council, I have witnessed these problems first hand,” said Senator Lang. “We want to ease the strain on the industry by giving these agencies the time and flexibility to address issues arising from staff shortages that have placed undue pressure on various ambulance services.”

The wording of this bill allows for temporary exemptions from the policies to allow CEMSR to weather the difficult times facing the EMS workforce statewide. Allowing these exemptions ensures that when citizens need help requiring the use of an ambulance, services will not be disrupted due to staff shortages.

SF-2853 adopted by the Health and Social Services Committee.

St. Augustine woman sells goods to meet her grandson’s medical needs

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Susan Eddins is a very proud grandmother. She beams when she mentions her 7.5-year-old grandson, Ryder Faivus. Like most grandparents, she would do anything for her grandkids – and for Ryder, she does just that.

Ryder, who lives with her parents Danielle and Scott Faivus in West Palm Beach, suffered a brain injury at birth and was diagnosed with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, or HIE. He also suffers from cerebral palsy and epilepsy. His injury left him severely disabled, both cognitively and physically.

Eddins, who lives in St. Augustine and Boynton Beach, knew her daughter and son-in-law were struggling to pay Ryder’s medical bills not covered by insurance and she wanted to help.

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“Three years ago I was literally walking past First Look (The Artisan’s Market) and had an idea. I approached the owner Diana (Suissa) and told her the story of Ryder and asked her if I could get a spot in his store to raise funds,” Eddins said. “And that’s how it all started.”

Susan Eddins hugs her grandson Ryder Faivus.

Grandma recruits family, friends to help

Eddins, a retired nurse, recruited her family and friends and got to work.

Sitting on tables near the front of the store – which rents space to local artists to sell their artwork, crafts and photography – are dozens of brightly colored crafts for sale, all the profits helping Ryder.

“We sell St. Augustine bookmarks, COVID masks, painted bottles; I collect shells and cut them up; I also make nightlights out of seashells,” Eddins said. “One of our most popular items are the cozy bowls. You take your hot food out of the microwave and put it in the bowl, or you put your ice cream in the bowl and put it in the cozy bowl. Who knew? “

Over 20 different women from across the country are designing crafts for the tables, which First Look donates free to Eddins.

“We have people from all over,” Eddins said. “They all have a connection to us. They’re not strangers. We’ve crossed paths in one way or another, or some have been friends for years, so we have a girl from Texas, a girl from Carolina from the South, another person from North Carolina, and of course, many from here in St. Augustine. They’ve heard of Ryder one way or another and want to help. It’s a labor of love.

Patte Kinsel, a close friend of Eddins for over 40 years, hand-paints St. Augustine-themed bookmarks and trays at her home in Dripping Springs, Texas, to help Ryder.

“I never called myself an artist; I just do it for fun,” said Kinsel, a retired speech therapist. “It’s an outlet for me and it generates income for the things Ryder needs. If I lived closer, I’d help out more.”

Kinsel sends 12 bookmarks once or twice a month to the store.

“We kind of formed this bond and each of them doing things for Ryder in their own way, this group of old ladies has kept me going for the last three years,” Eddins said.

Ryder’s mother, Danielle Faivus, also considers herself lucky to have the support of her mother and friends. Danielle, who spoke on the phone from Panama City, Panama, on Thursday, where she took Ryder for stem cell treatment.

Family travels to Panama for stem cell treatments

“We probably wouldn’t be in Panama right now if I didn’t have the support of her helping us with all the fundraising and everything she does with her friends,” Faivus said.

Faivus and his daughter Ava took Ryder three times to the Stem Cell Institute in Panama to receive treatment that is not FDA-approved in the United States and costs $14,000. The costs are paid for by the work of Eddins and his friends.

“There’s a couple here from California that we met. There’s a family from India. There’s several from Canada, Oklahoma, Utah and Michigan. It’s world famous.” , she said. “We use traditional therapies as well as non-traditional therapies – anything to make her life better.”

“We’ve seen significant changes in Ryder’s eyesight. He can actually sit up and watch a bit of TV. He makes much better eye contact. He follows objects,” she said.

“I have a lot of hope for his future. At the beginning of his life it was very dark. I mean, they didn’t give us a lot of hope when we left the NICU (intensive care unit neonates). They basically said you need to take Ryder home and love him. They just told us not to expect much. But this kid is amazing,” Faivus said, ” I just want him to be happy and know he’s loved. He’s kicking and smiling right now.”

Eddins is grateful for the relationships she has made along the way and the outpouring of love for Ryder.

“We just have some fabulous people in our lives. We’re very lucky. That’s what keeps you going.”

Ryder’s Journey crafts are available at First Look, The Artisan’s Market, 162 San Marco Ave. in St. Augustine. For more information, call 904-217-7250.

Teenager buys his first house at 19 as he works in take-out and trains as a nurse

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A teenager earning £12,000 a year has revealed she bought her first home while training as a nurse and working in a weekend takeaway restaurant.

Isabella Hunter, 19, single-handedly bought and decorated a £107,000 two-bedroom semi-detached house in Dearham, Cumbria, which was complete with a garden and garage.

This week TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp sparked controversy when she suggested that more young people could afford to buy homes if they made more sacrifices.

the Location, location, location presenter, who bought her first house at the age of 21 with the help of her family, said The Sunday Times: “When I bought my first property, going abroad [and] the easyJet lifestyle, cafe, gym, Netflix didn’t exist.

Presenter Kirstie Allsopp has faced backlash following comments she made this week.

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She also said that “it’s about where you can buy, not if you can buy. There is a problem around the desire to make these sacrifices.

But the sacrifice is no stranger to Miss Hunter, who said she’s been spending fewer evenings in a bid to save money and ‘always grabs a packed lunch at work rather than buying food everyday”.

The trainee nurse said: “I stayed motivated because I knew what I wanted and the small sacrifices were worth it once I had a place of my own.”

Miss Hunter started working aged 15 and opened a Help to Buy savings account aged 16. While in college, she took a job at a doctor’s office on her free days and worked weekends.

“I’m a saver at heart,” she said. “When I get paid before I spend anything, I transfer a fixed amount to a separate savings account.”

The trainee nurse saved for three years before buying her house.

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Her determination to save has helped her put down over £17,000 for her deposit on a 40-year mortgage plan. She said: “I wanted to get on the property ladder because it gives me independence and makes financial sense. It’s an asset and my mortgage is much cheaper than a rental.

With no intention of slowing down, she is saving up to buy a second rental property “to invest in [her] future”.

The teenager’s mother, Kerri Hunter, said her daughter “has always been very driven”. She said: “When Izzie got pocket money from us and her grandparents, she was saving up to buy something she wanted, so she realized you have to save up if you want something from the start. younger age.”

Over the weekend, Allsopp’s remarks about saving to buy property were criticized by young people as well as struggling families who found his comments unsympathetic.

They also highlighted the benefit of the presenter being the daughter of Charles Henry Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip.

The presenter responded to the criticism on Twitter, writing: “Who thinks I’ve spent the last 22 years pretending to understand the needs of UK shoppers must really consider me a very good actress. If you don’t like shows , don’t look at them.

“But I don’t care what the press or social media think of me, life is too short.”

3 tips to help medical residents achieve financial wellness

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A new year often comes with new goals. One of them, for many medical residents, may be to get their finances in order, and the February slump is the best time to reconsider this vital issue.

Alyssa Schaefer is the Managing Director and Chief Experience Officer at Laurel Road, a preferred financial services provider for AMA members. She looked at some of the financial goals and barriers that medical residents face during an episode of the “Making the Rounds” podcast.

Below, you’ll find some of the key takeaways for achieving financial wellness. Listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever podcasts are available.

Residency is just the beginning

Residency is just the beginning

What you earn as a resident will likely only be a fraction of your salary. Yet your loans are due. Laurel Road takes this into account and offers products that can ease the burden, Schaefer said.

Laurel Road offers a “student loan [refinancing] for residents where you can actually pay $100 a month in residence, while setting a very low rate so that when you move out of residence you already have that rate locked in – which of course is a great time to do it, since the rates are so good right now,” Schaefer said.

“The biggest needs we hear from our physician members are, ‘Help me with my loans. I have $150,000, $200,000, $300,000 in debt now. I didn’t have to worry about paying it back, but now I do. Help me.’ And then we have a number of things that are really meant to guide and help physicians along this journey. And of course doctors don’t have the same background, but often they have similar debt levels.

“So we know what they want. You are savvy people at the end of the day and smart people. …I talked about it being personalized for doctors, but also helping to meet needs along the way. Not just when you are a participant, but through all stages of residency, fellowship, and ultimately being a participant.

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During the pandemic, federal student loan repayments were suspended for more than two years. Repayment of federal student loans is expected to resume on May 1. During the loan repayment holiday period, about two-thirds of borrowers who were able to take advantage of the break used the money to save and meet their financial goals, according to Laurel Road research.

“A lot of people have been able to build up their savings. It’s definitely something I would encourage more,” Schaefer said.

She advocated an approach in which residents build toward financial goals, such as buying a home, and chart a clear path and plan to achieve them.

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When the loan repayment suspension ends, rates will likely be lower on private loans than on public loans. Does that mean you have to refinance? How should this influence your repayment strategy? The answers to both questions are very personal.

“From a financial perspective, if you’re just looking for what makes the most sense to do with my money and you have all the job security in the world…what makes the most sense is is to get the lowest possible rate on your student loans, so in many cases that will involve refinancing and then paying off that student loan as quickly as possible,” Schaefer said.

Saving money that you could use to pay off loans probably isn’t a prudent strategy, she noted. But investing wisely can pay off more than immediate debt repayment. You can subscribe to “Making the Rounds” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other service where you listen to podcasts.

Global Wireless Medical Devices Market Industry Analysis by Estimated Size, Share, Growth, Emerging Trends, Regional Opportunities and Challenges, End Users and Forecast 2022-2027

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The “wireless medical device market” Research report 2022-2027 offering a comprehensive overview of market size, share and growth opportunities, industry segmentation by product type, applications, and geographical representation. The report highlights product development as well as technological upgrades that can drive the growth of the market. The Wireless Medical Device market report includes analysis of crucial regions in the market, current market situation, trends, and potential developments within the segments. It presents the global Wireless Medical Devices market perspective by analyzing historical and future growth trends analysis.

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This market research report administrates an overview of the Wireless Medical Device globally, presenting forecast and statistics in terms of revenue during the forecast period. It covers an illustrative study with detailed segmentation, complete research and development history, latest news. Moreover, it demonstrates the future aspects and presents an overview of key players involved in the Wireless Medical Devices market growth in terms of revenue.

List Of TOP KEY PLAYERS in Wireless Medical Devices Market Report are:-

  • GE Healthcare
  • Maxim integrated
  • Texas Instruments
  • Philips Health
  • Omron Health
  • Medtronic
  • Dredge
  • Flint Technology
  • Siemens
  • comics
  • Scientific Boston
  • Abbott

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The global wireless medical devices market is segmented by company, region (country), type and application. Players, stakeholders, and other participants in the global Wireless Medical Device market will be able to gain the upper hand as they use the report as a powerful resource. The segmental analysis focuses on the sales, revenue and forecast by region (country), by Type and by Application for the period 2016-2027.

Based on the product, This report displays the production, revenue, price, market share and growth rate of each type, primarily split into:

Based on end users/applications, This report focuses on the status and outlook for major applications/end users, consumption (sales), market share and growth rate for each application, including:

  • Hospitals
  • Nursing centers
  • Ambulatory surgery centers
  • Others

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  • By product type
  • Per end user/applications
  • By technology
  • By region

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  • What will be the size of the Wireless Medical Devices market and its growth rate in the coming year?
  • What are the major key factors driving the Global Wireless Medical Devices Market?
  • What are the key market trends impacting the growth of the Global Wireless Medical Device Market?
  • What are the trending factors influencing the market shares of major regions around the world?
  • Who are the major market players and what are their strategies in the global Wireless Medical Device market?
  • What are the market opportunities and threats faced by the vendors in the global Wireless Medical Device Market?
  • What are the industry trends, drivers and challenges that are manipulating its growth?
  • What are the key findings of the five forces analysis of the Global Wireless Medical Device Market?
  • What is the impact of Covid19 on the current industry?

Years considered for this report:

  • Historical years: 2016-2020
  • Reference year: 2020
  • Estimated year: 2021
  • Wireless Medical Devices Market Forecast Period: 2021-2027

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  • Key Trends Observed in the Global Wireless Medical Devices Market
  • Market and pricing issues
  • Geographical limits
  • Distribution, planning, performance and supplier requirements
  • Growth opportunities that may emerge in the industry in the coming years

With tables and figures helping analyze worldwide Global Wireless Medical Devices market trends, this research provides key statistics on the state of the industry and is a valuable source of guidance and direction for businesses and individuals interested in the market.

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Table of Contents Key Points:

1 Wireless Medical Devices Market Overview
2 Market Competition by Manufacturers
3 Production and Capacity by Region
4 Global Wireless Medical Devices Consumption by Regions
5 Production, Revenue, Price Trend by Type
6 Consumption Analysis by Application
7 Key Companies Profiled
8 Medical Device Manufacturing Cost Analysis
9 Marketing channel, distributors and customers
10 Market Dynamics
11 Production and Supply Forecast
12 Consumption and Demand Forecast
13 Forecast by Type and Application (2022-2027)
14 Research finding and conclusion

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College of Nursing Program Helps Give Equipment, Books, and This Freshman a Second Life | MUSK

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It was the worst month of Blake Marsh’s life.

But it was perhaps also the most important.

In the space of 30 days last year, COVID claimed the lives of her aunt, grandmother and great-grandmother.

“It was really difficult for me and my family,” he said. “But something changed in me after that.”

The 24-year-old Pawleys Island native, who had just graduated with a degree in healthcare administration, decided to pursue a different path. Instead of working behind a desk in a hospital, he wanted to work on the front line, to give a “more practical level of care”, as he put it, to fight this horrible virus. So he went back to school, this time to become a nurse.

“I was like, ‘I want to help,'” freshman year MUSC College of Nursing said the student. “Also, I thought my personal qualities could shine better as a nurse. It requires critical thinking and it’s fast. In nursing, you never know what to expect every day.

It probably didn’t hurt that he grew up in the shadow of a big sister who is an oncology nurse. Over the years he had heard all of her stories – uplifting and heartbreaking. And now he wanted to make some himself. In his mid-twenties, living alone and enrolling in a postgraduate program, Marsh knew things would be tough financially for much of his youth. So when he got an email from the instructor Amy Smith, RN, talking about a new resource that provided free supplies to nursing students in need, he didn’t hesitate to contact her.

Marsh leaves the Harper Student Center after a practice session stuck between study sessions.

The very next day, Smith met Marsh, and they gave him two pairs of scrubs, all the textbooks he would need for his freshman year, and a scientific calculator — all for free — thanks to a new College of Nursing program called the “Giving Closet”, a play from Shel Silverstein’s classic book, “The Giving Tree”.

“It’s actually just a cabinet in the student lounge,” Smith said with a laugh.

But for students like Marsh, it’s so much more.

“I’m coming out of nursing school in debt, so I’d like to minimize that as much as possible,” he said. “I feel really lucky that something like this exists.”

The idea came from Smith’s previous work, teaching in Peoria, Illinois. There, students and teachers donated old supplies to anyone who needed them. And it was a huge success. So when Smith pitched the idea here, it didn’t take long for the College of Nursing Student Government Association to take the idea and implement it.

For nearly three semesters, the SGA collected supplies — everything a nursing student might need: scrubs, books, stationery — and stored them until they had enough stock. Finally, this semester, they did.

“We have students who struggle with just getting their own textbooks,” Smith said. “So to be able to offer these things to people who need them is very rewarding.”

The cabinet is located in a place where any student walking around the living room can see it. So they know what’s available, and now that the ball is spinning, they know it’s OK to ask for things.

Smith said if someone asks for an item, they get it — no questions asked. Currently, the Giving Closet is limited to books, uniforms and lab supplies, but she said there are plans to open it up to other things, like diapers, groceries and gas cards – the kind of things young families might need at some point in life. when money is scarce.

She hopes this will inspire some of the other colleges to do the same.

“If you boil it down to its most basic form, it’s just students helping students,” she said.

Which means a lot to someone like Marsh, who says anything free is hard to come by these days.

“Old textbooks might not be worth much to other people, but they’re worth hundreds of dollars to me — and that’s huge,” he said. “Not to mention that I really like the idea of ​​a second life for things.”

Marsh might as well describe himself.

Government targets drug companies’ culture of free

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A new explanation proposed to be added to Section 37(1) of the Income Tax Act has sought to target common practice among pharmaceutical companies to get physicians and clinicians to promote their drugs and brand name products instead of various considerations ranging from free rides abroad and expensive gifts.

The Finance Bill 2022 proposed a series of amendments to existing rules and laws regarding taxes, public spending, financial policy, etc. In the memorandum explaining the provisions of the bill, a new explanation proposed to be added to Section 37.(1) of the IT Act states that gifts/expenses from pharmaceutical companies that breach the ethics of the Medical Council Indian will not be eligible for the deduction incurred when calculating their business income.

“…any expenditure incurred in providing various benefits in contravention of the provisions of the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations 2002 shall be inadmissible under Section 37(1) to be prohibited by law” , the government says the memorandum.

‘Good move’

Dr. Samiran Nundy, former head of department of gastrointestinal surgery at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and co-author of the book “Healers or Predators: Healthcare Corruption in India”, said it was a not in the right direction. to control endemic corruption in the medical profession.

“It’s a good decision. However, it is a very small step in cleaning up bad practice in the healthcare system because there is a bigger elephant in the room – corruption among doctors,” Nundy said. He added that there is a system of bribes in medicine. The physician who refers the patient to another physician receives a portion of the other physician’s fee.

According to Nundy, there are very few regulations or checks on bad practices in India. “Over the past 10 years, only a few doctors have been barred from their medical practice unlike a country like England which bans many doctors each year on the grounds of poor practice. Interestingly, 60% of them are Indians, which may be due to racism or a habit of being corrupt before moving there,” he said.

An industry insider said that in a bid to promote their drugs, pharmaceutical companies would send doctors on overseas tours, give them expensive gifts including cars and free drug samples, among other things. In exchange for these favors, doctors prescribe unnecessary drugs, supplements, multivitamins, a long list of tests to patients.

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Dr JA Jayalal, outgoing President of the Indian Medical Association, said the Medical Council of India’s code of ethics states that it is unethical for doctors to curry favors with pharmaceutical companies for promoting their drugs. “It is not possible to put a complete end to these practices by laws or acts. The government should use the generic drug description model to abolish these practices. This supply model will also significantly lower drug prices and make drugs more affordable. All brand names of drugs should be abolished,” Jayalal said.

Industry leaders said the proposed law change would impact the operations of branded pharmaceutical companies. “This is a good move by the government that will help the industry take the right steps to eliminate the current malfeasance. It will also help build trust between doctors and customers,” said Hitesh Windlass, Managing Director of Windlas Biotech .

Helping Patients

Furthermore, Dr. Alexander Thomas, President of Association of Healthcare Providers India- AHPI (India) said, “The patient is at the heart of the medical profession. It is hoped that this new provision will help reduce unethical practices and ultimately help the patient to access affordable and quality health care.

However, tax experts are against this decision as they say tax should always be levied on actual income and it does not make sense to deny such expenses. Businesses will spend on marketing and branding and these expenses should be allowed. Experts believe that computer law should not be used to prohibit unethical practices.

“IT Act should not be used for any other purpose. According to the law, income tax is levied on actual income. By prohibiting such expenditure, we are running away from the principle of real income theory. They can still incur those expenses and pay taxes,” said Chartered Accountant Ved Jain, who is also the former President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Activity area.

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Global Medical Grade Honey Market Size 2022 Growing Rapidly With Recent Developments, Industry Share, Trends, Demand, Revenue, Key Findings & Latest Technologies, Forecast Research Report 2027 – Instant Interview

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The “Medical Grade Honey Market” Research report 2021-2027 offering a comprehensive overview of market size, share and growth opportunities, industry segmentation by product type, applications, and geographical representation. The report highlights product development as well as technological upgrades that can drive the growth of the market. The Medical Grade Honey market report includes analysis of crucial regions in the market, current market situation, trends and potential developments in the segments. It presents the global Medical Grade Honey market perspective by analyzing historical and future growth trends analysis.

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This market research report provides an overview of medical grade honey globally, presenting forecast and statistics in terms of revenue during the forecast period. It covers an illustrative study with detailed segmentation, complete research and development history, latest news. Moreover, it demonstrates the future aspects and presents an overview of key players involved in the Medical Grade Honey market growth in terms of revenue.

Medical grade honey refers to honey used to treat wounds. This is medical grade honey. It is specially sterilized and prepared as a dressing.

According to the report, Global Medical Grade Honey market was valued at million USD in 2020 and is projected to reach million USD by the end of 2027, growing at a CAGR of % during 2021-2027.

List Of TOP KEY PLAYERS in Medical Grade Honey Market Report are:-

  • Comvita
  • Watson and sons
  • Australia Manuka
  • medicinal honey company
  • Arataki honey
  • Capilano Honey
  • nature’s path

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Based on the product, This report displays the production, revenue, price, market share and growth rate of each type, primarily split into:

  • UMF 5+
  • UMF 10+
  • UMF 15+
  • UMF 20+
  • Others

Based on end users/applications, This report focuses on the status and outlook for major applications/end users, consumption (sales), market share and growth rate for each application, including:

  • Ulcers
  • Surgical wounds
  • Traumatic wounds

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  • By product type
  • Per end user/applications
  • By technology
  • By region

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  • What are the major key factors driving the global medical grade honey market?
  • What are the key market trends impacting the growth of the Global Medical Grade Honey Market?
  • What are the trending factors influencing the market shares of major regions around the world?
  • Who are the major market players and what are their strategies in the global Medical Grade Honey market?
  • What are the market opportunities and threats faced by the vendors in the global Medical Grade Honey Market?
  • What are the industry trends, drivers and challenges that are manipulating its growth?
  • What are the key findings of the five forces analysis of the global medical grade honey market?
  • What is the impact of Covid19 on the current industry?

Years considered for this report:

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  • Reference year: 2020
  • Estimated year: 2021
  • Medical Grade Honey Market Forecast Period: 2021-2027

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  • Growth opportunities that may emerge in the industry in the coming years

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2 Market Competition by Manufacturers
3 Production and Capacity by Region
4 Global Medical Grade Honey Consumption by Regions
5 Production, Revenue, Price Trend by Type
6 Consumption Analysis by Application
7 Key Companies Profiled
8 Medical Grade Honey Manufacturing Cost Analysis
9 Marketing channel, distributors and customers
10 Market Dynamics
11 Production and Supply Forecast
12 Consumption and Demand Forecast
13 Forecast by Type and Application (2022-2027)
14 Research finding and conclusion

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Mercury re-signs All-Star Wing Kia Nurse – WNBA.com

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Three-time WNBA champion Phoenix Mercury has re-signed wing Kia Nurse, the team announced today.

General Manager of Mercury Jim Pitman: “In 2021, Kia Nurse brought the exact toughness, shooting and high basketball IQ that we hoped for when she was acquired by trade. Losing her to injury last October certainly hampered our efforts in the finals, and we know that it hurts Kia not to be able to help her team, but the way she has worked and rehabilitated this offseason confirms for us that she is the kind of person and player that we want to continue to be part of the Mercury family. , and we are delighted to welcome him back for 2022.”

Nurse is coming off a 2021 campaign with the Mercury in which she averaged 9.5 points and a career-high 3.5 rebounds, while shooting 35.3% from three-point range, matching her peak in career for one season (2019). Acquired in a preseason trade with the New York Liberty for his shooting ability, Nurse had a team-high 59 threes last season, 10th most in the WNBA. Starting in all 32 regular-season games for the Mercury, Nurse scored a season-high 28 points in the team’s final game before the Olympic break in Seattle, knocking down a career-high seven triples and adding six rebounds and five assists. His season was highlighted by a 40-foot buzzer beater in Chicago on June 1 to give the Mercury an 84-83 victory.

The UCONN product suffered a season-ending knee injury, which turned out to be a torn right ACL, less than a minute into Game 4 of the WNBA Semi-Finals against Las Vegas on Oct. 6 . a Toronto native and is expected to return to action in the upcoming season.

A WNBA performer for four years, Nurse averaged 11.0 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.0 assists while playing in 121 of a possible 122 career regular-season games. Selected 10th overall in the 2018 WNBA Draft, her career scoring average is fifth in her category behind only the top three picks, All-Star and WNBA MVP. A’ja Wilson, Kelsey Mitchellnew Mercury teammate, All-Star DeShields Diamondand seventh pick overall Ariel Atkins. Nurse, named the 2019 All-Star starter, is one of only three players in her draft class to have made an All-Star appearance in her young career (Wilson, DeShields, Atkins). Nurse earned that spot on the back of a phenomenal second season in which she hit a career-high 13.7 points and had a career-high 65 three-pointers (6th WNBA) on a career-best 35 shot. .3% at long distance.

One of the league’s top shooters at any distance, the 6-foot nurse is one of seven WNBA players to hit 30 or more threes in each of the past four seasons. (Quigley, Vandersloot, Loyd, R. Williams, Atkins, K. Mitchell). Nurse and WNBA legend Cynthia Cooper are the only players in league history to hit at least 30 threes in each of her first three seasons while shooting 85% or better from the three-throw line.

Nurse has had tremendous success at the college and international levels, winning two NCAA championships (2015, 2016) at UCONN and two WNBL championships (2019, 2020) with the UC Capitals in Australia during his WNBA offseason. The sniper was named the 2020 WNBL MVP after leading the league in scoring (20.9), finishing just ahead of teammate Mercury Brianna Turner, and become the first WNBL import player to win the award. A member of the Canadian National Team, Nurse also helped guide the Canadians to an Olympic berth at the FIBA ​​Olympic Qualifiers in Belgium last year and represented Canada at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo (played in 2021).

Led by the 2021 Olympic Gold Medalist Quartet Diana Taurasi, Brittney Griner, Skylar Diggins-Smith and Tina Charles and after the club’s fifth WNBA Finals appearance in franchise history, three-time WNBA champion Phoenix Mercury returns to the Footprint Center this summer, announcing the season with Fry’s Food Stores Opening Night on Friday, May 6 against the Las Vegas Aces.

A “severe” shortage: Indiana grapples with a shortage of nurses | News

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Brooke Hanger-Yates worries most about new nurses — those fresh out of school who jumped out of the classroom straight into a pandemic.

Now the nurse in charge of the intensive care unit at Baptist Health Floyd, Hanger-Yates set foot in the door of the New Albany hospital 17 years ago as a teenager who wanted to see what the profession entailed. .

From unit secretary to head of the USI, Hanger-Yates’ career followed an upward trajectory. As steady as his progress has been his “reason why.”

“I love seeing people improve. I love building that relationship with patients,” she said. “It’s great to see someone more vulnerable, and then the next week we let’s send him home.”

Hanger-Yates has witnessed many of these successes, but COVID-19 has robbed these new nurses of the same experiences. A nurse working in an intensive care unit during a pandemic faces death and serious illness daily.

“It’s heartbreaking. It’s sad. It’s scary. It’s frustrating,” Hanger-Yates said. “Nurses fresh out of nursing school, they are the only patients they know. They don’t know what it’s like to heal, to go out and bring these people back to see us.

The intensive care patients she cares for are the sickest she has seen in her 12 years as a nurse.

“And it’s hard. It’s hard to keep remembering your ‘why’, and it’s just a whole different kind of nursing,” Hanger-Yates said.

As nurses grapple with the brutality of COVID-19, lawmakers, hospital administrators and personnel managers grapple with a shortfall that existed before the pandemic.

Legislation being considered at the Statehouse cites Indiana will need 5,000 more nurses by 2031 as lawmakers plan to allow institutions to relax some rules and increase promotions to meet demand.

But hospitals are already facing significant shortages, as registered nurses are among the most sought-after employees in the state.

MAJOR COMPONENT OF WORKFORCE

The Indiana Department of Workforce Development reported that registered nurses were either first or second in open job openings in each of the state’s 11 economic growth regions during of the fourth quarter of 2021.

Baptist Health Floyd President Mike Schroyer called the nursing shortage a multifaceted dilemma.

“Right now there are so many opportunities for nurses inside and outside the hospital, different jobs that have taken a lot of nurses away from the bedside,” said Schroyer, who pointed out that administrators want to see employees progress.

“At the same time, the availability of more nurses just hasn’t been there.”

Some have chosen to become traveling nurses or have been drawn to state and federal agencies. Other nurses rose to administrative positions, such as Schroyer, who is also a registered nurse.

Baptist Health, like many hospitals, offered incentives to attract new nurses and to retain current staff. From a legislative standpoint, Schroyer supports a measure that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have hailed as a way to address the nursing shortage.

BILL 1003

House Bill 1003 advanced to the Indiana House of Representatives last month. Drafted by Rep. Ethan Manning, R-Denver, the legislation aims to expand the pool of nurses by allowing eligible associate or license programs to increase enrollment. The bill also relaxes some statewide licensing restrictions and allows graduates of foreign nursing schools to be registered or practical nurses in Indiana.

The bill received bipartisan support and included a Democratic co-sponsor in Rep. Rita Fleming, D-Jeffersonville.

“This bipartisan legislation ensures nurses in the workplace can better serve the needs of our state, while also ensuring that we enable nursing facilities to better educate and serve their student body,” said Fleming, who also been a registered nurse and nurse. practitioner.

Rep. Karen Engleman, R-Georgetown, voted in favor of the bill and said the state’s nursing shortage was severe.

“The effects of this shortage are being felt not only in hospitals, but also in local medical practices, schools and long-term care facilities. We must act and ensure that there are nurses ready and able to keep Hoosiers healthy.

EXPANDED EDUCATION AND FACILITIES

While nurses are in high demand, many hospital and health care systems across the state continue to expand.

In Jeffersonville, Baptist Health is building a stand-alone emergency room and urgent care facility in partnership with Intuitive Health. Across the street, Clark Memorial Health is also building a free-standing emergency room in partnership with Norton Healthcare and LifePoint Health.

As new medical care facilities are built, some health care systems are partnering with institutions to train more nurses.

In December, Ivy Tech Community College Sellersburg announced a $2.5 million commitment from Baptist Health to renovate the school’s health sciences department and lab.

“As Indiana’s largest public post-secondary institution and the largest nursing program in the nation, we are uniquely positioned to meet the needs of healthcare workers,” said Ivy Tech President Sue Ellspermann. “It is imperative that we do this alongside employer partners such as Baptist Health.”

From supporting educational institutions to incentivizing those already in the profession, Schroyer said addressing the nursing shortage will require efforts on multiple fronts.

“We need to look at how we can create a better supply pipeline and also promote the retention of not only nurses but also other healthcare professionals working in hospitals, working at the bedside to care for patients,” said he declared.

IS IT STILL WORTH THE VALUE?

Hanger-Yates acknowledged that nursing is hard and emotional work. But when asked if she would still have chosen the profession as a young student knowing what she knows now, Hanger-Yates replied “yes”.

For those considering a career in nursing, she advises following professionals before making a decision.

“Find a job in a hospital. Work as a caregiver. Work as a secretary. Work as an ECG technician. If those things aren’t for you, there are other things within the medical profession that are just as rewarding,” she said.

Dad doesn’t look at his son despite his girlfriend’s wishes

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Thousands of commenters were left stunned after a father shared how he thought he was standing up for his girlfriend on a popular internet forum.

In a viral post on Reddit’s r/AmITheA** hole, Redditor u/SeattleWA5647 recounted a recent phone call between his ex-wife and current girlfriend about childcare that ended in the fact that he hung up on his ex. Titled “AITA for refusing to let my girlfriend take my son after his mother begged me to?”, the post received over 8,000 votes and 2,600 comments in 11 hours.

Explaining that he and his ex-wife have equal custody of their 4-year-old son, u/SeattleWA5647 said his girlfriend adores his son and plans to propose to her before the end of the year. But recently, the Redditor said his ex-wife, a nurse, called his girlfriend and asked her to watch the 4-year-old while she was at work.

“It happened several times and even though my girlfriend never complained, I just couldn’t help it. [feeling] that my ex was taking advantage of my girlfriend’s good nature and messing up our custody deal,” he wrote.

A few days ago, u/SeattleWA5647 said his ex-wife was asking his girlfriend if she could drop off their son for a few hours when he decided to step in.

Taking his girlfriend’s phone, the Redditor said he told his ex-wife to stop taking advantage of his partner and find a babysitter. Adding that his ex-wife had “begged” him to take their son, the irate father was firm in saying “no” and hung up, much to his girlfriend’s dismay.

A Redditor said he tried to draw boundaries between his girlfriend and his ex-wife to take care of his 4-year-old son, but angered the two in the process.
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“My girlfriend looked mad at me and said nothing I did was justified, that I should have let my ex-wife bring my son,” wrote u/SeattleWA5467 . “I asked if she was okay with being used as a babysitter and she said spending time with my son was not like babysitting.”

For nearly two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the time nursing parents spend with their children.

From the initial surge in cases in early 2020 to more recent surges in the Delta and Omicron variants, nurses facing long hours and the severe mental and physical consequences of those long hours reported feeling drained and unable to commit. in high-energy activities with their children, according to Parents.

Predicting the retirement of 500,000 seasoned RNs by the end of the year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that by 2022, many more registered nursing jobs will be available than any other profession. However, amid a mass exodus that has seen 18% of healthcare workers quit their jobs, according to Morning Consult, those remaining in hospitals and healthcare facilities are facing greater challenges moving forward.

In addition to fears that the line of work could endanger the health of families, rising child care costs and the highest inflation rates since the Great Recession have created an even greater burden for parents to across the country.

Yet u/SeattleWA5467 argued that his refusal to take his son out for a few hours was an attempt to set boundaries between his girlfriend and his ex-wife – despite his girlfriend’s claims that he blew the whole house situation.

In response to the viral Reddit post, a majority of commenters sided with the original poster’s ex-wife and girlfriend, and added that the original poster’s actions ultimately affected his child more than anyone.

In the top comment of the post, which received nearly 30,000 votes, Redditor u/_iamtinks expressed dismay at the father’s refusal to watch over his son.

“I think there is something wrong,” they commented. “You don’t seem to have thought about your child’s welfare – won’t he be happier with you and [your girlfriend] instead of a babysitter?

“Your ex is a medical professional, and we’re in the middle of a pandemic,” they added. “You seem more interested in exercising control… than building relationships.”

Echoing those sentiments, Redditor u/Primary_Criticism929 disagreed with the original poster’s claims regarding his ex-wife’s relationship with his job, and said he was speaking for his girlfriend regardless. account of its ability to speak for itself.

“I’m not sure your ex is married to his job,” they wrote. “She is a nurse during a pandemic.”

“You made decisions for your girlfriend and just assumed she didn’t know how to defend herself,” they added. “You were rude to your ex and your girlfriend in one conversation.”

Rising Use in Hospitals and Medical Centers Driving Industry Growth Across the Globe – Cleveland Sports Zone

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[100 Pages Report] Cancer Immunomodulators Market Overview 2022 According to the report, Global Cancer Immunomodulators market was valued at million USD in 2020 and is projected to reach million USD by the end of 2027, growing at a CAGR of % during 2021-2027.

This report focuses on Cancer Immunomodulator volume and value at global level, regional level and company level. From a global perspective, this report represents overall Cancer Immunomodulators Market Size by analyzing historical data and future prospect. Regionally, this report focuses on several key regions: North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East & Africa.

Global Cancer Immunomodulators Market: Segment Analysis

The research report includes specific segments by region (country), by company, by type and by application. This study provides information on the sales and revenue over the historical and forecasted period from 2016 to 2027. Understanding the segments helps to identify the importance of the various factors that are driving the growth of the market.

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    • Nursing home, jail cases show return to low numbers | News, Sports, Jobs

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    The number of COVID-19 cases has fallen to low numbers in nursing homes and prisons across the region after peaking three weeks ago.

    COVID-19 infections in local and Ohio jails also fell this week.

    As of Jan. 13, 15 Mahoning County nursing homes and assisted living facilities had at least four active cases of the virus. This week there are seven, with the highest number being eight cases at the Crandall Nursing Home in Sebring with one patient case and six staff cases.

    By comparison, on Jan. 13, a Mahoning County nursing home had 39 cases — 20 among patients and 19 among staff. This week, there are only two personnel cases.

    The number of cases this week is comparable to that reported in early December, when the omicron variant of the virus was beginning to grow.

    Among other facilities with cases this week, the Antonine Village assisted living facility in North Jackson has five patient cases and two staff cases. The only other facility with more than four cases is Hampton Woods Nursing Center in Poland with three patient cases and three staff cases.

    The Ohio Department of Health website listed several other Mahoning County facilities with four or more cases this week, but the numbers had not been updated from the previous week and are therefore considered as inaccurate.

    Trumbull County facilities have had just four cases this week — one each in four facilities. Columbiana County facilities continue to be listed with the same four cases as in previous weeks.

    Cases among nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Ohio rose from 2,899 patient cases last week to 2,294 this week. Personnel cases in Ohio rose from 3,476 to 2,552.

    Deaths at local nursing homes increased by one in Columbiana County to 89, none in Mahoning County (303) and three in Trumbull County to 183.

    The private prison at Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown saw its virus cases drop from six to two and inmate cases drop from one to none.

    The Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown saw its staff cases drop from eight to three this week and its inmate cases drop from five to three.

    Trumbull Correctional Facility in Leavittsburg saw its staff cases drop from four to zero and its inmate cases drop from one to none.

    Among all prisons in Ohio, the number of staff cases last week was 256, but fell to 91 this week. The number of inmate cases fell from 246 to 102.



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    “My preceptorship experience was very different from what I expected”

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    I scoured the NHS jobs website for a newly registered position in a field where I had really enjoyed a placement as a student nurse.

    I found a position that promised a structured preceptorship program for newly registered nurses, and this was confirmed in the interview, as I had asked about preceptorship, development opportunities, and progression.

    I accepted the position based on this information, because it was an area I really wanted to work in and I also had opportunities to look forward to.

    “I was also the only newly registered nurse in my department. I was feeling alone”

    I was promised a supernumerary period of six weeks which was honoured. It was great for my development.

    I had to learn quickly because I didn’t have many indoor internships as a student. It gave me time to understand my daily routine and how best to care for my patients.

    I gleaned information from the most experienced nurses I worked with. I felt like I got off to a good start. I had also been booked to do my IV medicine pack, as well as my blood pack, so when I was on strength I could work a bit more independently.

    I was given dates for Zoom meetings for inductions and a session called “Welcome to Trust”. It looked promising and I had been invited to the “initiation to professional practice”.

    I was emailed everything, and they explained that there would be no face-to-face sessions due to Covid-19 restrictions, so everything would be done via Zoom. I was looking forward to my first session.

    Once the sessions started, I could see that I was in communication with maybe 50 other people. They came from all corners of the trust and were also of different professions. Not necessarily new to their profession either; they were new to the trust.

    Some of the nurses I was on the phone with had been registered for several years; only a handful of new registrants. But I didn’t get a chance to talk to anyone else because it was delivered online.

    The sessions themselves were very general, and mostly about trust and how it works. They were certainly helpful, although it applied to nursing, so of course I took everything into account.

    “I didn’t get a chance to speak to anyone else as it was delivered online”

    There were two sessions for “registered staff” and these lasted a few hours: one for medication management and the other for feeding and nasogastric management, and they were very general.

    What I was looking for was help for newly registered nurses, in particular: on resiliency, on managing workload, where to go if I really needed help, managing ‘a work-life balance and sessions where I could catch up and be asked how I was doing if I needed to and, of course, network supportive contacts with my other newly registered nursing colleagues.

    But there was nothing available. I was also the only newly registered nurse in my department. I was feeling alone.

    I contacted the clinical educator and they emailed me brochures to review. They were preceptorship documents, and they pertained to the area to which my department belonged. But it was explained that these are usually given to newly registered nurses starting in September and for other services.

    I finished university in March and enrolled straight away. I wasn’t expected to fill out any preceptorship paperwork, just to see what I was missing from the other cohort.

    I have since left that trust and been working in a brand new trust in a different area, and it has been a much more positive and structured experience.

    Elisha Woolf is alsotaff nurse – intensive care

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    Nursing Times, in partnership with Unison and the Florence Nightingale Foundation, has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the need for better support for newly registered nurses across the UK

    Newly registered nurses and key stakeholders share their experiences and perspectives on preceptorships and the need to support those making the transition from education to their first nursing role.

    You can also read more about the campaign in the February print issue of Nursing Times (see PDFs below)

    New Mexico’s top water official should be a licensed engineer

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    Legislation was introduced to eliminate the requirement that the highest state water official be a licensed professional engineer to allow appointment of non-engineers to this position. We are concerned that eliminating this requirement will lead to the appointment of unqualified people and politicize a position that should transcend politics.

    There have been many attempts over the years to open the position of senior state water manager to anyone, regardless of qualifications, but these attempts have failed in the recognition that the qualifications and l he ethics of a professional engineer are essential to the fairness, efficiency and effective stewardship of our most precious resource.

    We consider three reasons why the New Mexico water code requires that the position be filled by a licensed engineer; there are many others.

    First, the State Engineer’s responsibilities include many technical components in areas such as hydrology and hydraulics, database management and mapping, and dam safety monitoring and stormwater management. For example, the Texas-New Mexico/Colorado lawsuit currently before the US Supreme Court is based on disagreement over technical and accounting issues regarding the hydrology of the lower Rio Grande. While there are many accomplished water professionals practicing in New Mexico, requiring the office to be staffed by an engineer ensures competence in these technical areas.

    Second, opinion polls have shown that engineering is one of the most trusted and respected professions, second only to medical professions. The administration of water in the Southwest is increasingly controversial. Structured negotiation and decision-making is a much better strategy for resolving water-related disputes than through costly, time-consuming and uncertain court proceedings. However, negotiations require that trust and respect be accorded to all participants. The public respect earned by engineers is important for the collaborative resolution of water-related disputes.

    Finally, and perhaps most importantly, engineers have earned their status through centuries of commitment to public service. The first canon of the National Society of Professional Engineers’ code of ethics is that engineers should “put the safety, health, and welfare of the public first.” We know of no other profession that requires this commitment. Codes of ethics for professions such as lawyers, doctors, or teachers state that their primary responsibility is to the client, patient, or student and make no mention of responsibility to the public.

    Using a code of ethics to argue that a professional engineer is the best water steward seems like academic justification. But throughout their careers, licensed engineers must engage in ongoing professional development that includes training in ethical practice. The consequences of a violation of the code of ethics can lead to penalties that can go as far as the loss of the license. Public confidence in the engineering profession reflects its commitment to public service rather than to special interests.

    There have been only 17 state engineers since 1907, three of whom were interim and served for a year or less. This stability is essential to maintaining equitable and consistent water management in times of drought and times of plenty. We believe that the analytical nature of the engineering profession combined with its strong commitment to public service makes it one of the professions least influenced by pressure from political and vested interests. Therefore, the position of senior water manager in the state should continue to be held by a licensed professional engineer.

    Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana: NPR

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    A Mississippi senator holds a bag of hemp product used by Sen. Kevin Blackwell, R-Southaven to illustrate to lawmakers what specific parts of Mississippi’s medical cannabis equivalency units would look like in January.

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    JACKSON, Mississippi — Mississippi is legalizing medical marijuana for people with debilitating diseases such as cancer, AIDS and sickle cell disease.

    Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed the legislation Wednesday and it became law immediately. It could be months before the first marijuana dispensaries open.

    “There is no doubt that there are individuals in our state who could do much better if they had access to medically prescribed doses of cannabis,” Reeves wrote in a statement posted to Twitter. “There are also those who really want a recreational marijuana program that could get more people to smoke and fewer people to work, with all the societal and family ills that entails.”

    The National Conference of State Legislatures reports that 36 states and four territories have already authorized the medical use of cannabis. Mississippi becomes the 37th state.

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    “For anyone who is touched in some way by a loved one or someone they know who benefits from medical cannabis, it gives them back a quality of life,” said Ken Newburger, Director executive of the Mississippi Medical Marijuana Association, a group that pushed for legalization.

    A majority of Mississippi voters approved a medical marijuana initiative in November 2020, and it would have allowed people to buy up to 5 ounces per month. The state Supreme Court struck down it six months later, ruling that the state initiative process was outdated and that the measure had not been properly entered on the ballot.

    The Republican-controlled State House and Senate passed the final version of Senate Bill 2095 last week.

    The new law will allow patients to purchase up to 3.5 grams of cannabis per day, up to six days a week. That’s about 3 ounces per month. It sets taxes on the production and sale of cannabis and specifies that plants must be grown indoors under controlled conditions.

    Reeves said that due to the reduction from 5 ounces per month in the initiative to 3 ounces per month in the new law, “there will be hundreds of millions fewer joints on the streets because of this improvement.” .

    The new law prohibits the state from providing economic development incentives for the cannabis industry. The state often grants tax breaks and financial assistance for roads or access to water for industrial sites.

    The law gives cities and counties 90 days to refuse to license medical marijuana facilities, for cultivation or sale. But residents of those communities could call for an election to overrule the decisions of local officials and authorize them.

    Clint Patterson is managing director of Mockingbird Cannabis, which plans to operate in the state. He said cannabis products can relieve pain and suffering.

    “We look forward to serving the citizens of Mississippi as they seek to improve their health and quality of life through responsible cannabis use,” Patterson said in a statement.

    Nursing boss, National slams jobs campaign timing as Omicron outbreak grows

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    And that could be a double whammy, she says, not just with more people hospitalized and in intensive care, but a large number of the workforce having to self-isolate.

    “So that will create additional pressure, and possibly unprecedented levels of pressure from the illness of staff and also people who have to self-isolate to be contacts,” she says.

    “We really need to have increased the number of nurses to account for this so that we still have enough nurses to provide the care required.”

    Speaking to colleagues across the country, Mitchell says they are “struggling to run business as usual…to have enough nurses to care for our current patients.”

    This raises concern that other patients will have their care delayed: “Planned care, scheduled care like elective surgery for heart surgery or cancer, or people after a heart attack requiring surgery.”

    National’s Shane Reti says a recruitment drive to lure these much-needed nurses to New Zealand is just getting started.

    “It’s not fast enough…we’re so behind now that we’re now competing with other countries in exactly the same situation.”

    Mitchell says New Zealand has had two years to see what has happened overseas and plan for shortages.

    “You can’t just create skilled critical care nurses that quickly, unfortunately, but it would have been helpful to be able to say, see efforts being made to recruit and retain nurses earlier in the pandemic.”

    The Minister of Health points the finger at the National

    Minister Little laid some of the blame on the previous national government, saying work was now catching up.

    Shane Reti concedes he’s right.

    “I will raise my hand for every action we have taken in the nine years we have been in government and I will own it.

    “Some of the things we could have done better, and yes, we could have improved the health workforce and why we didn’t escape me a bit, actually.”

    But Little “must own the last five years,” he says.

    Last year, a decision was made to allocate 300 MIQ places each month for ‘critical’ health and disability workers.

    But figures from the Department of Health show that there are not enough people willing to come to New Zealand or able to meet the criteria to approach this allowance.

    In fact, as of January 20, only 324 vouchers in total had been issued for the period between November 22 and mid-March this year – among them 69 doctors and 90 nurses.

    Reti says New Zealand needs to become more attractive, “a welcoming border, a welcoming environment, we actually have to pay people who are suitable for the skills and we are now competing in all these areas with the international environment and we manage wrong”.

    Little says the industry has long had a large number of vacancies and denies it has been sitting on its hands.

    “When the nursing crisis dawned on me, around the middle of last year, I set up three work streams: one is to launch decent recruitment campaigns, get a review of the safe staffing…and then going through collective bargaining and pay equity bargaining.

    “So significant progress on all of that and recruitment drives that we’re about to start.”

    And he defends the time it took to launch the recruitment drive, saying it was no simple task “just to set it up, coordinate 20 DHBs and their particular needs and pull it together”.

    A staggered timeline for reopening the border was set late last year but was pushed back due to the Omicron risk.

    Cabinet discussed updated plans on Tuesday and details will be revealed by Jacinda Ardern later today.

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    Kano government uncovers illegal clinic and nurse training center

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    The Kano state government discovered an unregistered private clinic that also served as a health training center in the state’s metropolis.

    The Alwasa’u Clinic, located at Kurna Asabe in the Fagge local government area of ​​the state, was closed after state government officials raided the site.

    The unregistered health facility was found to be working illegally as a carer and training center for auxiliary nurses, which was allegedly abandoned by the Nurses Council 20 years ago.

    Dr Tijjani Usman Aliyu, executive secretary of the Kano State Private Health Facilities Management Agency (PHIMA), who made the announcement, said the agency had raided the facility after receiving information about his illegal activities.

    “When we raided the clinic, we discovered the owner was a quack and was training auxiliary nurses, a program canceled over 20 years ago by the Nigerian Nurses Council.

    “During our investigation, the Nigerian Nursing Council and Nursing Professionals said there is no longer a training called practical nursing as it was suspended over 20 years ago.

    “Currently, we are trying to find out how many students have graduated from the illegal training center and where they are working so that we can immediately stop the imminent danger they pose,” he added.

    Childhood obesity has increased during the pandemic. How schools can help turn the tide

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    Anxiety, depression and stalled social development are just some of the troubling developments that research has linked to the pandemic. Add obesity to that list.

    Recent research has revealed a significant increase in childhood and adolescent obesity rates during the pandemic, accelerating an already troubling upward trend.

    Schools, an essential source of adequate nutrition and physical education, are well placed to help counter this trend. But efforts to address the problem face fierce competition for the attention of educators alongside the ongoing pandemic, staffing shortages and the need to make up lost academic ground.

    “This worries me and all school nurses because the disease of obesity has big impacts on children’s health and learning,” said Kate King, president-elect of the National Association of School Nurses. and school nurse at the World Language Middle. School in Columbus, Ohio.

    While school closures, excessive screen time and far less exercise likely fueled the rise in childhood obesity in the first year or so of the pandemic, the simple return of children to in-person learning won’t solve the problem, King said. .

    “It’s not that easy to get that weight back,” she said. “I think it’s going to be longer – I don’t think we’ll just equalize again in a year.”

    King understands that the pandemic continues to drain resources from schools. Time that school nurses would normally have spent conducting health screenings or creating programs to promote healthy eating and exercise among students has been swallowed up by pandemic-related tasks such as contact tracing and COVID-19 testing.

    But educators must be resolute in tackling the rise in obesity among school-aged children, she said.

    Studies and surveys have found that children spent more time in front of screens, ate more processed and fast foods, and spent less time exercising when school buildings were closed. All of this likely contributed to weight gain in children, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests. in a study published last fall. The study analyzed body mass index, or BMI, data on more than 432,000 children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 between August 2019 and August 2020.

    The percentage of obese children and adolescents rose from 19% to 22% in just one year, an increase described by one of the study’s authors as “substantial and alarming”. according to the Associated Press. Children in preschool and elementary school, and children who already suffered from moderate or severe obesity before the pandemic, saw the greatest weight gains.

    Obesity affects children’s learning and mental health

    Pandemic-related weight gain is not limited to the United States or just children and adolescents. Childhood obesity rates have also increased dramatically in the UK during the pandemic, and 42% of American adults told the American Psychological Associationn and The Harris Poll in a February 2021 survey, they had gained more weight than expected since the pandemic began. The median weight gain in these adults was 15 pounds.

    Obesity can lead to several other negative health problems in children— both physical and mental, according to the CDC — including high blood pressure and cholesterol, respiratory problems, type 2 diabetes, anxiety and depression.

    When you have a child who has less than 10 minutes for lunch, it’s heartbreaking to watch them try to put a salad in their mouth as they head for the trash.

    Jessica Shelly, Director of Student Food Services, Cincinnati Public Schools

    King pointed out that physical movement, even small breaks during school hours to move around, is linked to learning and good mental health.

    “We know exercise releases endorphins, brain chemicals that make us think and feel better,” she said. “We know that taking these mental breaks, which can also be physical, helps our brain process what we’re learning.”

    Obesity is also a matter of equity, King said, citing research that shows black and brown children are more likely to be obese.

    Additionally, low-income families may find it particularly difficult to get a good diet and enough exercise, King said. Children whose parents work multiple jobs might eat more cheap processed foods, she said.

    To make matters worse, King pointed out that children and teens who live in high-crime areas or near busy roads likely spend less time exercising; many extracurricular activities such as sports take up time and money that low-income families simply don’t have; and supply chain disruptions and rising food prices will only exacerbate these disparities.

    What schools can do to fight obesity

    Childhood obesity may seem like too big a problem for schools to tackle. Or maybe it’s just secondary to other more pressing crises caused by the pandemic. Still, school health experts say educators can take small steps to help students get more physical activity and eat better during the school day.

    School leaders should get rid of vending machines full of candy, chips and soft drinks, and avoid using food as a reward, King said. They should also never deprive students of recess to punish them for misbehavior.

    Lunch should also follow recess in school hours, not the other way around, said Jessica Shelly, director of food services at Cincinnati Public Schools. Children are more likely to eat their food if they have had a chance to run around and play before the meal.

    While the types of food served by schools are largely dictated by federal rules about providing nutritious meals to students (and whatever else they can afford with all the supply chain disruptions), there are other adjustments to the meal schedule that schools can make to ensure that children eat their food. A relatively easy adjustment is to extend meal times, Shelly said.

    To cope with social distancing measures during the pandemic, the city’s largest high school added an extra lunch bell and increased all other lunch periods to 40 minutes. As a result, participation in the school meals program increased dramatically. “Participation has doubled. Doubled! Because they had time to get down, cross the line, have a meal, eat the meal,” Shelly said.

    Healthier foods also take longer to eat, Shelly added, comparing chewing an apple to sipping applesauce.

    “When you have a kid who has less than 10 minutes for lunch, it’s heartbreaking to watch them try to put a salad in their mouth as they walk to the trash can,” she said.

    For teachers, there are many ways to incorporate more physical activity into their classrooms, said Terri Drain, longtime physical education teacher and president of SHAPE America, a national organization of fitness instructors. physical education.

    “Children learn best after getting up and moving,” Drain said. “Insert physical activity and power breaks, but also offer children the opportunity to learn with movement.”

    It could mean using basketball to teach inertia, strength and momentum; or a game of bowling to teach fractions by having students convert the number of pins knocked down into a fraction.

    Drain also recommends assigning discussion questions to students when they walk around the schoolyard in pairs instead of sitting at their desks, and assigning assignments that require students to walk out instead of through. more screen time.

    Those little breaks in movement add up and can have a big impact, said King, the school nurse. She thinks schools should make it a policy to set aside five minutes at the start of each class period for moving around and stretching.

    “It all makes a difference,” King said. “Just as teachers and staff and all of us model healthy behaviors, creating this culture of health in schools will stay with children for the rest of their lives.”

    AOP AFFILIATE BEACH CITIES ORTHOPEDICS & SPORTS MEDICINE WELCOMES CHRIS MELLANO, MD

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    MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif., February 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Beach Cities Orthopedics & Sports Medicine (BCO), a subsidiary of American Orthopedic Partners (AOP), is pleased to announce that Dr. Chris Mellano joined the practice.

    Chris Mellanocertified orthopedic surgeon, obtained his medical degree from University of Southern California medical school and completed her orthopedic surgery residency at Harbor-UCLA. During his surgical internship with top university Medical center in Chicago, Dr. Mellano has received additional specialty training in shoulder, elbow, and sports medicine. He was also trained under Joel MattaMD, a leading innovator in hip surgery processes.

    Dr. Mellano has spent his career improving orthopedic surgical techniques. Physicians and patients around the world have benefited from his extensive peer-reviewed research. His discovery of innovative ways to perform more orthopedic surgeries on an outpatient basis allows patients to recover in the comfort of their own homes. He discovered that outpatient procedures reduced health care costs and helped his patients feel better sooner, leading to better outcomes.

    Through a partnership with the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls, Dr. Mellano has helped professional athletes maintain their bodies at the elite level needed to stay healthy and prolong their careers. During this time, he realized that recovery time is one of the biggest challenges to healing in the high-stakes arena of professional sports. Reducing recovery time has become a priority because it is as emotionally valuable to professional athletes as it is to parents of young athletes.

    “While working with athletes whose livelihood depended on high physical fitness and training with innovative surgeons, I became fascinated by the idea of ​​innovative procedures to reduce downtime,” explains Dr. Mellano. “Reducing downtime is valuable to all patients – orthopedic surgery is about more than muscle and bone. It provides freedom, joy and restoration. That’s why I tell my patients and staff that we’re not in the business of surgery – we’re in the business of changing lives.”

    A subsidiary of American Orthopedic Partners, Beach Cities Orthopedics & Sports Medicine has two sites in manhattan beach and Torrance, California. Founded in 2008 by two renowned orthopedic surgeons, Dr. Brad Thomas and dr. Guillaume Mealer, BCO provides affordable orthopedic care in state-of-the-art facilities. Their practice has grown to reflect the needs of their patients and become a leader in orthopedic care by California.

    “We are delighted to have Chris join our team – his extensive experience in the orthopedic profession will help us as we focus on quality of care and clinical value,” said Dr. Brad Thomas. “We are passionate about a strong future for our practice, and we know that building the best medical team possible will help us get there,” added Dr. Guillaume Mealer.

    BCO joined national orthopedic practice AOP in 2020. The physician-centric culture at AOP enables partners, like BCO, to lead the strategic, business and clinical aspects of their practices with a collaborative approach to problem solving, a shared vision of clinical excellence, peer engagement to propel evidence-based practice, an active voice in decision-making, and resources that support growth and access to care.

    “Your partnership with AOP means you’re partnering with orthopedic surgeons across the country who are dedicated to delivering the best in clinical practice and growing together,” said Dr. Jay Bronner, CEO of AOP. “We are thrilled to have Dr. Mellano on board as we continue to build an innovative national orthopedic practice that delivers better outcomes while lowering costs.”

    AOP leadership believes physicians are best equipped to improve outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. Physicians who join AOP help create clinical value, lead the orthopedic specialty, define meaningful clinical parameters, and set national standards for best practice with an emphasis on patient-centered care. To date, AOP has partnered with orthopedic practices in California, Illinoisand New Jersey and continues its rapid growth and expansion of its national footprint.

    For more information visit: www.aorthopartners.com

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    USA without Tyler Adams and Chris Richards for key Honduras qualifier

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    The United States men’s team will be without midfielder Tyler Adams and defender Chris Richards for Wednesday’s World Cup qualifier against Honduras in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

    Adams has a hamstring injury, while Richards is nursing an ankle injury, with both players being removed from the USMNT roster. No replacement has been named.

    This will be a critical game for Team USA following their 2-0 road loss to Canada on Sunday. Adams, whose club team is Germany’s RB Leipzig, played 69 minutes in Sunday’s match, while Richards, who plays for Germany’s Hoffenheim, was on the pitch for more than 90 minutes.

    – Carlisle: Canada beat USA at their own game in qualifying
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    Canada leads the CONCACAF standings with 22 points, while the USMNT and Mexico each have 18 points. Honduras are last with three points. The United States picked up a 4-1 victory in Honduras on September 8.

    With a win over Honduras and three points against Panama on March 27, the United States could clinch a World Cup berth pending the results of other matches. A loss or draw in either home game would put the United States in danger of missing their second consecutive World Cup.

    “Our goal right now is to end the window with a win,” USA coach Gregg Berhalter said. “If we can do that we will be in a good position and then it will be about going until the last window and getting results, and we are confident that we have a team that can do that.”

    This cycle was slightly better, but every game was tense until late: the Americans were tied at halftime eight times and trailing twice, taking the lead only once in the first half .

    They were outscored 4-2 in the first half, without scoring eight times, but have an 11-3 advantage in the second.

    “We created enough goals in the first half to score more goals,” said Berhalter. “I think we did a good job of wearing down the teams in the first half with possession and transition, so we’re doing a decent job. I think the last thing is to finish those attacks.

    “I’m happy the team showed enough poise and composure to come out in the second half and keep playing strong.”

    The top three teams from CONCACAF’s eight-team group will qualify for the World Cup later this year in Qatar. The fourth-place team enters an Intercontinental Playoff with one last chance to advance.

    Information from The Associated Press was used in this story.

    Fight for hospital staff safety standard continues in Legislative Assembly

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    Laurel Demkovich and Arielle Dreher / The Spokesman – Review

    OLYMPIA – A safe staffing standard for hospitals is about to become a reality in Washington State.

    A bill that would require hospitals to implement staff safety standards, including strict ratios, was passed by a House of Representatives panel on Friday. It still has to go through the entire House before going to the Senate.

    The bill highlighted the divide between hospitals and their workers. Hospitals have spoken out against the bill despite the support of many of their nurses and staff who say they need safe staffing standards to ensure better patient care.

    Although it came out of the House committee, lawmakers acknowledged there was still work to be done on the bill.

    “I think it has the potential to really get to a place where we can really have some teeth in showing our nurses that we protect them and care about them and at the same time ensuring that hospitals have what they need to keep going,” Rep. Lillian Ortis-Self, D-Mukilteo, said at the meeting.

    In addition to restricting overtime and extending meal and rest breaks, the bill outlines by department what the staff-to-patient ratio should be, and hospitals would be required to follow them. It follows a similar plan which is on the books in California.

    For example, the bill states that there should be one registered nurse for every three non-trauma or non-critical care patients, and one nurse for one trauma or intensive care patient. In intensive care units, a registered nurse should have one to two patients, depending on their stability.

    It also shows the number of patients assigned to direct care certified practical nurses. This ranges from one nurse to eight patients in intensive care units to one nurse to 50 patients in cardiac monitoring units.

    The Washington State Hospital Association pushed back on staffing ratios, saying it would force many hospitals that are already understaffed to turn away patients. Hospital chiefs also say they would not be able to flex their staff, as they are currently doing to cope with rising patient numbers, under the staffing ratios proposed in the legislation.

    The ratios would force hospitals to hire more staff, but leaders argue that ratios alone cannot bring more nurses to hospitals.

    “Ratios won’t create more nurses,” Taya Briley, vice president of the Washington State Hospital Association, told reporters this week.

    The nursing shortage in Washington predates the pandemic, and a recent survey of association member hospitals found a need for 6,000 more nurses in the state.

    Some of the current workforce is considering leaving the industry.

    Unions, representing nurses, nursing assistants and other health care workers working in hospitals across the state, polled their own members and found that nearly half plan to leave the field altogether in the next few months. years.

    The survey, which was carried out in December, found that understaffing, lack of pay and job safety are among the top reasons healthcare workers are considering leaving. More than 70% said the main reason for wanting to leave was a lack of staff.

    Nurses and healthcare workers say having safe staffing standards in place would help them provide better patient care. Currently, hospital staff work long hours without many breaks. Of those surveyed by unions, 84% said they felt very or somewhat exhausted.

    That leaves fewer nurses caring for more patients, Clint Wallace, a registered nurse at Sacred Heart Medical Center, told The Spokesman-Review earlier this month.

    “I think it’s easy for everyone to understand,” Wallace said. “Caring for fewer patients is easier than caring for more patients.”

    The bill requires a hospital’s staffing committee to create a staffing plan that meets the standards set out in the bill. It also creates additional accountability measures by giving the Department of Labor and Industries the power to regulate committees and its staffing plans.

    If a hospital does not create a staffing plan that meets the bill’s requirements or violates its staffing plan, it would be subject to a fine of $10,000 per day for a hospital or $100 per day for rural hospitals, small hospitals and certified community hospitals. hospitals.

    During unforeseeable emergency circumstances, hospitals may modify their staffing plan, but must have staffing committees to develop contingency plans for such cases. Under the bill, “unforeseeable emergency circumstances” are defined as “any unforeseen national, state or municipal emergency” or “when a hospital emergency plan is activated.”

    The bill that passed the committee on Friday moves the effective date to January 1, 2023. Hospitals have until September 1, 2023 to establish their staffing committees.

    Rep. Eileen Cody, D-Seattle, said the bill gives hospitals time to not implement these new rules during a pandemic. Cody, a former nurse, said healthcare workers needed a sign that things would be better after the pandemic.

    “Nurses look for assurances that life will change,” Cody said. “They can’t go on like this.”

    Next Steps The bill passed the House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee 4-3 on Friday. It still needs to be passed by the full House and Senate before it becomes law, and lawmakers said negotiations are still underway on the bill.

    Although the bill signed Spokane Republican Rep. Mike Volz, Republican leaders said they did not support the proposed ratio.

    House Minority Leader JT Wilcox told reporters on Tuesday that more funding was needed for education and to get nurses into the field to begin with. Senate Minority Leader John Braun agreed that more needs to be done to get healthcare workers on the ground and retain them.

    Braun called the proposed staffing standards “a very problematic piece of legislation.”

    “Nothing in this bill solves the problem we face,” he said.

    Volz said he signed the bill because he heard from a number of constituents who worked in hospitals.

    He said he was worried about how rural hospitals might be affected by this bill, but he and the Spokane Democrat’s main sponsor, Marcus Riccelli, said they would look into how to deal with smaller hospitals. under this proposal.

    “I’m in a position where I can help with the solution rather than just sitting back, rather than being passive,” Volz told The Spokesman-Review earlier this month.

    Leaders of both parties have said that finding a way to solve the staffing crisis in the health care sector is a priority. Other ideas discussed in this session relate to long-term and short-term retention.

    The state hospital association is supporting an investment in nursing education to increase the pipeline of new nurses into the state system.

    Governor Jay Inslee’s proposed budget would invest $6 million to fund grants for nurses to train students and $8 million to support grants for low-income students to become nurses. Additionally, it would spend more than $3 million to create a pilot program that would improve the work environment in long-term care facilities.

    “We need more nurses,” Inslee told reporters Thursday. “It’s quite simple.”

    Democratic leaders pointed to possible changes in credentialing and licensing requirements to allow more nurses to enter the field in the future. Rep. Pat Sullivan, D-Covington, said the budget team is looking to address the short-term and long-term issue.

    Cody, chair of the House Health Care and Wellness committee, said she was working this session on a number of bills that would focus on education, particularly getting more teachers on the job. One of these ideas is to extend loan relief to nurses who choose to teach, to encourage hospitals to commit to increasing the number of students they can take and to improve clinical training, to said Cody.

    “We need more teachers so we can give more slots,” she said.

    Virginia girl, 10, died of COVID-19 after teacher named her ‘class nurse’

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    A 10-year-old girl from Virginia died of complications from COVID-19 just days after being named by a substitute teacher as a ‘class nurse’, although the school says she was never in contact with children who had symptoms of COVID.

    Teresa Sperry was appointed class nurse at Hillpoint Elementary School in Suffolk on September 21. She died Sept. 27, according to the Virginian-Pilot.

    Teresa was not vaccinated because children under 12 were not eligible for a vaccine until a month later.

    Suffolk Public Schools conducted an investigation into Sperry’s death, resulting in a three-page report obtained by Nicole and Jeff Sperry through a Freedom of Information Act request.

    The report found no instances in which Teresa came into contact with anyone at school who may have had the virus, but her parents say the school’s investigation was incomplete and they did not. not been informed of her role as a school nurse.

    “They made him do this job without his parents’ consent,” Jeff Sperry told the newspaper.

    Teresa is one of 18 children under the age of 19 who have died of COVID-19 in Virginia, according to the Virginia Department of Health.

    More than 250,000 children have been diagnosed with the disease and nearly 1,500 have been hospitalized with serious illnesses.

    Teresa Sperry, 10, was appointed class nurse at Hillpoint Elementary School in Suffolk on September 21. She complained of a headache the following day and died on September 27.

    Nicole and Jeff Sperry (centre), parents of Teresa Sperry, say the school failed to do a thorough job of investigating their 10-year-old daughter's death

    Nicole and Jeff Sperry (centre), parents of Teresa Sperry, say the school failed to do a thorough job of investigating their 10-year-old daughter’s death

    Teresa (centre) was unvaccinated, as children under 12 were not eligible for a vaccine until a month later

    Teresa (centre) was unvaccinated, as children under 12 were not eligible for a vaccine until a month later

    “Asking a child to accompany students to the nurse during the pandemic? It is nonsense. It’s crazy. If someone had asked me or informed me, I would have said no.

    According to the school district’s report, the school nurse and teacher, a long-term substitute, said Teresa accompanied a student with an arm injury to the nurse’s clinic on September 21.

    Teresa took the student back to the clinic the same day for an inhaler.

    The next day, she went to the nurse herself complaining of a headache, according to WAVY.

    The nurse recorded her temperature as 97.4 degrees, according to the Virginian-Pilot. Teresa rested at the clinic before returning to class, according to a clinic recommendation.

    As part of her job as a class nurse, Teresa had also accompanied a student with an ankle injury to the clinic.

    On September 29, Teresa’s teacher wrote to the Hillpoint principal: ‘She walked a student who sprained his ankle on the playground to the office on Wednesday. I had to stay outside with the other 24 students. I got his hand on band aids [sic]. I never sent her with a sick child.

    “If you print it out, it’s three pages,” her mother Nicole Sperry said. “If they really wanted to do contact tracing, they would have done more”

    The nurse said Teresa did not go to the clinic, according to the report. Clinic references indicate that no students with symptoms of COVID were referred to the clinic between September 7 and September 23.

    Superintendent of Suffolk Public Schools, Dr John B. Gordon III, told WAVY: ‘It is true that the pupil had the post of nurse, but it was for dressings or ice packs for the children who have fallen on the playground, etc.

    Jeff and Nicole Sperry believe the investigation was not thorough enough.

    “I think the investigation report is incredibly incomplete,” the father told the Virginian-Pilot.

    “How do they know who she was around while she was sitting outside the nurse’s clinic? They didn’t look at the cameras. There’s nothing in there about the interview with the security guard, who allegedly saw my daughter go to the clinic. They didn’t interview anyone else who saw her.

    Teresa is one of 18 children under the age of 19 who have died of COVID-19 in Virginia, according to the Virginia Department of Health

    Teresa is one of 18 children under the age of 19 who have died of COVID-19 in Virginia, according to the Virginia Department of Health

    “If you print it out, it’s three pages,” Nicole said. “If they really wanted to do contact tracing, they would have done more.”

    The school did not provide the document to the parents, who had to file a FOIA request to obtain it.

    “They could call us to ask if they had permission to go to his funeral, but they can’t call us and tell us that? It’s more important than calling to see who can come to the funeral,’ Jeff Sperry told WAVY.

    “I want to be able to just ask her,” he added. ‘But I can not. She left.’

    The district maintains that Teresa did not come into contact with COVID at school before her death.

    “Students attending Hillpoint Elementary School who are suspected of having symptoms of COVID are reported to the nurse or office with a phone call to indicate a suspicious C code,” the school district told the Virginian- Pilot in a press release.

    Suffolk Public Schools says there have been no instances in which Teresa has come into contact with COVID-19 in her role as a class nurse. Above, Hillpoint Elementary in Suffolk

    Suffolk Public Schools says there have been no instances in which Teresa has come into contact with COVID-19 in her role as a class nurse. Above, Hillpoint Elementary in Suffolk

    International aid to Afghanistan must go hand in hand with push to safeguard women’s education – The Friday Times

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    Education is seen as a basic human right in the 21st century, but in war-torn countries like Afghanistan, it’s nothing short of a luxury, sadly. The reminiscence of the ravages inflicted on civil liberties and in particular on the education sector in the 1990s by the last Taliban regime is still present. And yet, Afghan youth are already dreading witnessing his return again. After taking power in the mid-1990s, the Taliban made sure to strictly enforce a moratorium on all kinds of formal education for women. The entire female population of the country was subjected to domestic confinement and their future was defined by orders carried out through the barrel of a gun. It was only after 2001 that the Taliban regime was overthrown and Afghan girls were given the long-awaited respite to return to school and resume their basic education. According to UNESCO statistics, 40% of school enrollment in 2018 was made up of girls, which certainly indicated hope for the future of the country.

    With the Taliban’s victory over the Afghan Defense Forces in 2021, followed by the formation of their government, their spokespersons have suggested that this time around there will be no ban on school education for the girls. This hinted at a softening in their radical approach to civil liberties and human rights, as they had an understanding of the international liberal order and the preconditions for engaging with the West. However, what is materializing is not as promising as claimed. According to New York Times, many girls’ schools have yet to reopen, which speaks to their plight.

    Examining the theocracy’s treatment of women before they can return to school is a major concern. First, most Afghan girls have never seen armed Taliban guarding the streets in their entire lives, so they are petrified to leave their homes every morning to go to school in such an environment of garrison. Theocracy ignores the fact that education can only be provided in an environment conducive to freedom and free inquiry. It cannot be effectively pursued under fear, for the education of children is certainly more than literary inculcation in a classroom.

    Strict dress codes are another obstacle. The Taliban earlier proclaimed that girls would only be allowed to go to school in accordance with the laws of Islam. But the clarification that this assertion required never came out. Dupattas are replaced by niqabs and female students have this challenge of adaptability under the new regime apart from the academic challenges they still face in their careers. Parents are also not very motivated to encourage children to go to school in an environment as crowded as those before the Taliban rule.

    Under theocracy, sexual segregation is being integrated into all social spaces. Since women are told not to leave their homes without a male guardian, how can educational institutions be spared? Perhaps the most destabilizing policy regarding the education sector emanating from the Taliban regime is its enforcement of rules prohibiting male teachers from teaching Afghan girls. They stipulated that only female teachers are allowed to teach in girls’ schools, disregarding the fact that the country is already light years ahead of developed countries in terms of the educational gender gap and that there are a disastrous shortage of female teachers in the country. after the recent violent turn of events. This segregationist policy makes the future bleak. Moreover, in young minds, it leaves the impression that no healthy interaction is ever possible with the opposite sex for literary and official purposes.

    Moreover, the theocratic regime has clearly stated that women will not be allowed to work unless it is for the medical profession. Under such circumstances, Afghan girls lose all sense of education, as it would never lead them to financial independence or work experience. The current Taliban version of an education factory model will prove counterproductive, as its objective is not to create a skilled and literate population, but to produce a disciplined and hyper-moralistic, separate. The Taliban regime barely differentiates between religious education and modern education. There is no particular difference between the two for the scheme, which is why parochialism is adopted in all educational institutions for now.

    But then what are the possible solutions to this serious problem?

    One thing is clear: this deterioration in education access and standards in Afghanistan cannot be repaired from within. While the Taliban regime yearns to be bailed out by international organizations and powerful countries, its survival and that of the Afghan people against famine, bankruptcy, communal violence and other disasters depends on the global community. It may seem ironic, but after their victory against the United States (as they claim), their subsistence without American aid seems difficult. The global community must persuade them to facilitate the full functionality of education in general and women’s education in particular. With almost no funds left to run the affairs of state, managing teacher salaries is already a challenge for the Taliban.

    Pakistan will also have a role to play. There was recently an OIC conference in Islamabad to stress the importance of helping the Afghan people. The Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs also seems very active in raising funds by influencing the international community for the Afghan cause. Think tanks in Pakistan should come forward to influence Pakistan’s foreign policy engagement with Afghanistan, so that it can also hold talks with the Taliban regime to facilitate women’s education on their soil. Statements like the one Prime Minister Imran Khan made last month when he claimed that women’s education is looked down upon in Afghanistan because “it’s their culture” and so on. are not the answer to the question. Stigmatizing a basic human right in the guise of culture is the last thing Afghan girls need right now. Many of them wish to flee the country but for those who cannot afford it, their interests must be taken care of by the international community.

    Hamilton Medical, Getinge, Draeger, Philips Healthcare, Medtronic – Construction News Portal

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    Study published by Courant Market Research based on the Global Acute Care Ventilators Market Report 2021 aims to provide an explicit assessment of the market. The report offers in-depth insights extracted by in-depth analysis of historical and current market developments. It also provides par excellence futuristic estimations for various vital factors including market size, share, net profit, sales, revenue, and growth rate.

    Market competition by major manufacturers/players, with sales volume, price (USD/unit), revenue (USD Million) and market share for each manufacturer/player; top players included as follows

    • Hamilton Medical
    • Geting
    • Draeger
    • Philips Health
    • Medtronic
    • Remedy
    • Vyaire Medical
    • WEINMANN
    • Lowenstein medical technology
    • Siare
    • Heyer Medical
    • Aeonmed
    • Medical Event

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    The report has segmented the global acute care ventilators market on the basis of types, applications, technologies, regions and major competitors. The proposed market segmentation analysis aims to focus on the segments and sub-segments with sufficient energy and strength to gain competitive advantage. It also enables market competitors to form effective strategies for dedicated segments.

    Major Regions/Countries Covered in this report include:
    • North America (United States, Canada and Mexico)
    • Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Russia and Spain etc.)
    • Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia and Southeast Asia, etc.)
    • South America Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Chile etc.)
    • Middle East and Africa (South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, etc.)
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    • Electronic
    • Pneumatic
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    Discover booming jobs and training

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    We have seen the headlines of people quitting their jobs. Early retirement, change in activity due to the effects of COVID-19, childcare challenges, living off savings and benefits, desire for a different career, or other reasons. Employers try to entice employees with signing bonuses, pay raises, benefits, and workplace improvements.

    According to the US Department of Labor, “the number of quits increased in November to a high of 4.5 million (+370,000). The quit rate rose to 3%, matching the series high in September. »

    Information from the NM Department of Workforce Solutions shows New Mexico’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.2% in November 2021. In November, New Mexico’s labor force continued its downward trend over the month to 951,526 due to worker abandonment. .

    This means that there are job opportunities. Thinking about a new career but don’t know where to start? NM Workforce Solutions has a website that identifies in-demand industries with resources to help job seekers and businesses. The information provided here comes from Ready.nm.gov website. Go to the website to find more information on available jobs, training and education needed/available to enter the field and succeed, and financial resources for training and education.

    Industries in demand

    Health care

    No surprise here; we read daily about the need for healthcare workers. This industry is expected to include the most new jobs in New Mexico over the next 10 years. Health care workplaces include hospitals, doctors’ offices, home care organizations, and nursing homes. If you are considering a career in healthcare, many jobs require good math and science skills. Jobs in this industry include a wide variety of educational backgrounds, ranging from medical degrees to jobs that require less than four years of college education. Apprenticeships are available for the Medical Coder and Registered Nurse Resident.

    Hospitality and leisure

    As the second-largest industry in New Mexico, the opportunities are plentiful – from front-to-back-of-the-house jobs to entry-level and management openings for any type of training. Career paths are available in restaurants, attractions, accommodations, venues, and travel-related services.

    New Mexico has a program that reimburses employers for up to 16 weeks of training.

    Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

    People in STEM careers use scientific, technological, engineering and/or mathematical processes to perform research and solve problems. Employers likely to hire skilled STEM workers include engineering companies; federal, state and local government; scientific research societies; colleges and universities; and medical device manufacturers. Many STEM careers require at least an associate degree or higher. Apprenticeship programs include Instrument Control Electrician, Machinist, Mechanical Measurements, MPS Active Ceramics, and Neutron Generator Electromechanical Component.

    Computer science

    Information technology industry workers develop the software and hardware and help us use the tools. As organizations and individuals grapple with the threats and consequences of data theft, they need information security analysts. The types of organizations most likely to employ computer scientists include custom computer programming companies, computer systems design companies, corporate and regional management offices, software publishers, and processing and distribution companies. data hosting. Apprenticeship programs include Application Developer, IT Support Specialist, Cybersecurity Support Technician, and Network Support Technician.

    Construction

    Look around to see commercial and residential buildings under construction or restoration and renovation work. Construction covers a range of jobs, including architects, civil engineers and qualified or licensed personnel. Employment includes private business as well as government. This field offers one of the largest apprenticeship programs: Bricklayer or Block Mason, Cement Mason, Electrician, Floor Slater, Heavy Equipment Operator, Laborer, Plasterer, Roofer, Sprinkler Installer, Carpenter, Applicator drywall, elevator builder, glazier, ironworker, painter, plumbers and pipe fitters, sheet metal workers.

    Education

    Most occupations in education and training require at least a bachelor’s degree, and many professionals in post-secondary education hold a doctorate or professional degree. Occupations with the most new jobs over the next 10 years are likely to include elementary, preschool and middle school teachers. Teachers of health specialties at the college level rank first for the highest estimated percentage increase in jobs.

    (In the December 19, 2021 issue of the Albuquerque Journal, I wrote about the opportunities available in education and the resources for entering the education field.)

    Training and education

    New Mexicans are fortunate to have programs available throughout the state. Ready.nm.gov has information on training and education offered at colleges and universities for these in-demand professions.

    Financial aid

    Ready.nm.gov also provides information on resources to help pay for necessary training and education. Federal and state funding opportunities, including grants; Scholarships; GI Bill for service members, veterans and their dependents; service loan programs; and loan repayment programs for high-demand career fields. Availability and specifics vary by career field. If you are thinking about financial obstacles, this is a good start to finding help. Employers may also have funds available to support career advancement.

    Jobs are available. Employers are looking for the right person to hire. If a new career is a goal for 2022, now is the time.

    Source: https://ready.nm.gov/

    Inside the University of Suffolk nursing course

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    Seeing television images of healthcare workers trying to save Covid patients and being on the frontlines of the pandemic has spurred many into nursing.

    Jamie Steele, a second-year nursing student at the University of Suffolk, never considered a career in healthcare until caring for a loved one dying of cancer.

    Two days after his grandfather died, Mr Steele was accommodated by the jobcentre for care work in Hadleigh.

    He was promoted to team leader and later responsible for recruiting people into care during his 11 years working in healthcare.

    When he saw nurses needing help battling the pandemic, he began to feel “stuck” behind his desk.

    “The pandemic had a huge effect on me,” he said. “I wanted to help.”

    Mr Steele is not alone, a record 28,815 students in England of all ages chose a nursing course in 2021 as their first choice when applying to university.

    The number of 18-year-olds choosing to study nursing has increased by 38% to 7,105 since 2019, resulting in a 43% increase in the number of people with a confirmed place.

    Sam Chenery-Morris, head of nursing and midwifery at the University of Suffolk. Photo: UNIVERSITY OF SUFFOLK
    – Credit: Archant

    Sam Chenery-Morris, head of nursing and midwifery at the University of Suffolk, said: “Part of this increase can be attributed to greater public awareness of the importance of the professional role that nurses play.”

    These students have often been better prepared as the pandemic has brought home the realities of nursing, she claimed, which keeps them from dropping out.

    The rest of UOS had the highest dropout rate in the country before the pandemic, which has since improved, the university said.

    Mr Steele said nursing is not without its challenges and dyslexia and home learning have been difficult.

    “It was really tough and a struggle,” he said. “I didn’t know if I was going to make it.

    “The University of Suffolk was absolutely behind me and really, really great.”

    “Now here I am, and I wouldn’t change that for the world.”

    He now hopes to enter community nursing when he graduates in 2023.


    Jamie Steele, a second year nursing student at the University of Suffolk,

    Jamie Steele, second year nursing student at the University of Suffolk
    – Credit: Jamie Steele

    He said nursing students considering the high-stress profession should be aware that it’s like a “roller coaster”.

    There are “ups and downs,” Steel said, but you get used to it and start “expecting” the challenges.

    “It’s going to be tough and it’s going to completely challenge you,” he added.

    Arthur Allison Obituary (1933 – 2022) – San Antonio, TX

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    Arthur P. Allison, Jr. was born in Kerrville, Texas on January 8, 1933 to parents, Irene McClellan Allison and Arthur Polk (“Pete”) Allison, Sr. Arthur attended Mrs. Colley’s kindergarten and then entered Kerrville ISD in 1939, graduated in 1951 from Tivy High School. There, his love of football began as a member of Tivy Antler’s football team and grew to include lifetime tickets to all University of Texas football games. He loved music, had considerable talent as a pianist, and throughout his life enjoyed singing, ranging from being an active member of the church choir to spontaneous outbursts of many battle songs from college football. His unusual nickname “Speedy” was acquired in his early years due to his very deliberate approach to catering and dressing.
    His undergraduate college education at the University of Texas included courses in physics and government beginning in the 1952 summer session. He was, however, admitted early to the University of Texas medical branch in 1953, from which he graduated in 1957, and began a lifelong career in the medical profession.
    After graduating from medical school, Arthur interned at Robert B. Green Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, and served as a surgical resident at St. Joseph’s Hospital and VA Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her professional career began in the field of family medicine in Stephenville, Texas. Then his medical focus shifted to emergency medicine in 1974 and continued in that area of ​​practice for most of his remaining practice years. He had the honor of serving as president of the Texas College of Emergency Medicine in 1980 and was certified by the American Board of Family Practice and the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
    Arthur’s medical knowledge and talents were not limited to private practice. For many years as a member of the First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio, he participated in annual medical mission trips to the Yucatan where he saw and treated large numbers of people who otherwise would not have received healing. .
    Throughout his life, Arthur enjoyed being with his friends and family in many places, including many trips abroad and wonderful weekends at the family ranch, Bar Nothin’, in County Kerr, Texas, as well as visits to other ranches of friends and relatives. He enjoyed regular lunch meetings at the Canopus Club and was an enthusiastic member of the San Antonio foundation known as the Texas Cavaliers, which included his participation in their famous annual River Parade.
    After a two-year siege of a debilitating illness, Arthur was finally freed from the bondage of his terminal illness on January 24, 2022.
    Arthur was predeceased by his parents, Arthur Polk (“Pete”) Allison and Irene McClellan Allison; his first wife, Jeannine Allison; aunt, Elizabeth James Stewart, and her husband, Buford Stewart; and his uncle, Bill James, and his wife, Sue James.
    He is survived by his ex-wife, Carolyn Allison, and his children: his son, Mike Allison (Kerry); daughter, Marian Ruiz (George); daughter, Laura Kanter; son, Fred Allison (April); sisters, Irene Thomas and Nancy Wallace (Edgar); his grandchildren: Melanie and Dana Allison; Erin Montie (Travis) and Jonathan Kanter (Kate); and Emma, ​​Charles and Josephine Allison; and many nieces and nephews.
    MEMORIAL SERVICE
    TUESDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2022
    2:30 p.m.
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    404 N. ALAMO STREET
    Reverend Dr. Bob Fuller, officiating. Burial will be private for the family. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation or charity of one’s choice. Those unable to attend the service can watch the live stream by clicking here.

    Published by Legacy on January 28, 2022.

    Legacy.com reports daily on death announcements in local communities nationwide. Visit our funeral home directory for more local information, or see our FAQ page for help finding obituaries and sending sympathy.

    High hopes for the medical device industry, Health News, ET HealthWorld

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    through Sanjay Bhutan

    The MedTech industry through its perseverance and sustained determination throughout the roller coaster in 2021. During much of the pandemic in the absence of a proven vaccine, it was the MedTech industry that assumed the fight against the pandemic. Even when things got complicated due to the COVID-induced global shutdowns/curfews and the plethora of challenges they brought, the MedTech industry ensured that the supply of vital medical devices and equipment continues uninterrupted. He overcame labor shortages, logistical nightmares and financial difficulties such as escalating freight and raw material costs; many segments have been suffocated by restrictions on elective procedures that have crippled their results.

    The MedTech sector has seen a steady recovery over the past few months after being heavily impacted for most of 2021. The sector hopes it can sustain the recovery and expects the government to ease some of the burdens on the MedTech industry , which are remarkably long. There are a few key areas that will be of particular interest to the medical device industry when the budget is presented on February 1.

    The government has already sought to improve healthcare affordability in India and extend healthcare benefits to as many people as possible through the AB-PMJAY or Ayushman Bharat scheme. However, a number of current policies such as high tariffs, extra healthcare charges, un-streamlined tax regime, high GST and possibly exempt categorization of hospitals are significantly increasing the healthcare costs in India, this which is contrary to the objectives set by the government. . These obstacles must be addressed as a priority.

    India has one of the highest tariff rates for medical devices in Asia and even the world, which has a huge impact on affordability, especially when we are dependent on 85-90% of importing a critical mass of medical devices. The industry is demanding that tariffs on medical devices and equipment be reduced to 0-2.5%, as in many other countries. Moreover, since the tariff regime on most medical devices in the neighboring countries of Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan is significantly lower than in India, the tariff differential could lead to smuggling of low-volume, high-value devices. The result will not only be a loss of revenue for the government, but also the patient who will be beset by products that are not backed by adequate legal and service guarantees.

    The country also needs accelerated development of health infrastructure as the current ratio of hospital beds is 1.3 per 1,000 patients, which is very low compared to the WHO recommendation to have 3.5 beds per 1,000 patients. The healthcare ecosystem is also calling for measures to expand insurance coverage due to the fact that out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure constitutes a very high share of total healthcare expenditure in India at around 65%.

    The emerging regulatory pathway for medical devices and equipment also needs to be further reassured by best practices in materiovigilance.

    Below is MTaI’s agenda for the Union Budget 2022-23:

    Reduction of customs duties on medical devices.     Also reduced duties on critical components that are essential for manufacturing reliable medical cold chain units.

    Modification of the ad valorem taxation of Cess Santé     if not removed all together, as this has been made applicable only to the healthcare industry and is an additional burden. The modification can be done by deleting the word ‘Ad-valorem’ so that the tax is only applied at the basic customs duty (BCD) rate.

    Reduction of GST on medical devices and the medical cold chain     from 12% to 5% – This will support the expansion of the healthcare sector through cost reduction and improved patient accessibility.

    Rationalization of customs duties and GST on spare parts    : Customs duties and GST on spare parts for medical equipment are currently charged at a higher rate than the equipment itself, these need to be streamlined.

    Abatement of the calculation of the tax on CSR expenses: Expenditure on CSR is currently excluded from tax calculations. CSR expenses have been mandated by law and should therefore be claimed as tax-deductible expenses.

    Tax holiday for medical device research and development centers    : A tax exemption under the transfer pricing law should be provided to stimulate investment in the establishment of in-house R&D capabilities.

    Improving the Indian medical device market     (which currently represents only 1.6% of the global market) by meeting the targets set in the National Infrastructure Pipeline 2020, to build 73 new medical schools to increase domestic consumption and improve health infrastructure. The government needs to increase overall spending from the current 2.5% of GDP to around 5-6% as a first step to compare with emerging markets spending around 6-9% of GDP and the developed world spending above 10% of GDP. GDP on health care.

    Creation of budget provisions for training and development    – the skills of health workers (HCW) at all levels – primary, secondary and tertiary. This will help create a pool of qualified human resources ready to be deployed in an emergency and develop a strong and effective referral system. It will also bolster the efforts of the private sector that is already pushing this agenda (MtaI companies alone train more than 2.5 Lakh HCW per year and prepare them for patients.

    Creation of budgetary provisions strengthen the materiovigilance program in terms of increasing the number of centers and manpower to ensure public health safety by being vigilant on the market of available medical devices and by supporting MSMEs in the MedTech sector to manufacture quality devices.

    Health services should be zero-rated– Currently, health care services are exempt from the GST, which prevents it from deducting the integrated tax from the outgoing tax. Instead of being classified under exempt, health services should be classified under entry

    Sanjay Bhutani, Managing Director, India and SAARC of Bausch & Lomb

    (DISCLAIMER: The views expressed are solely those of the author and ETHealthworld does not necessarily endorse them. ETHealthworld.com shall not be liable for any damage caused to any person/organization directly or indirectly.)

    Patrick Bertagnoli | Office of the Governor of North Dakota

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    Executive Director

    North Dakota Employment Service

    Prior to being named executive director of Job Service North Dakota in February 2022 by Gov. Doug Burgum, Bertagnolli served as director of the Rough Rider Center and Community Improvement in Watford City since December 2019.

    He previously served as Vice President of Human Resources for MBI Energy Services and has held human resources management roles in several other energy-related businesses in the Watford City and Williston areas since 2011. Previously he had a 22-year career with UPS serving in multiple capacities, including as Manager of Multistate Operations and Head of Workforce Planning and Employee Relations.

    Bertagnolli earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1990 from Carroll College in Helena, Mont., and a senior certified professional designation from the Society for Human Resource Management in 2015. He currently serves on the advisory board of TrainND Northwest and the Williston State College. Advisory Board. He served on the state’s Workforce Development Council for eight years, after being first appointed by the then governor. Jack Dalrymple in 2014 and reappointed by Burgum in 2016, and is a former Chairman of the Watford Area Chamber of Commerce.

    Agency phone: (701) 328-4995
    Agency contact details: www.jobsnd.com/contact

    UPenn’s deal with Lea dominates first Philly board meeting of 2022

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    Board approves Penn’s $4.1 million investment in Lea Elementary

    Also Thursday night, the board approved a measure that will allow the University of Pennsylvania to inject more than $4 million into Henry C. Lea Elementary School over the next five years.

    The district will enter into a memorandum of understanding with Penn, which will contribute approximately $800,000 annually to the West Philadelphia K-8 school.

    Penn already partners with Penn Alexander, another elementary school near its University City campus, offering the school about $1,300 per student.

    With this added support, Penn Alexander is a high-performing neighborhood school that has twice been named a Blue Ribbon National School of Excellence by the U.S. Department of Education.

    Penn, the Philadelphia School District and the Philadelphia Teachers’ Federation want to “imitate the success of Penn Alexander School” by investing in Lea, according to board documents.

    The goal is to “bring more innovation and flexibility to school operations,” improve teaching and school culture, and become a “vigorous clinical setting” for teacher development.

    News of the proposed partnership has sparked concern that longtime residents of the Lea catchment area – which includes the historically black neighborhoods of Walnut Hill and Cedar Park – could be evicted from their homes, as the school becomes more desirable and wealthier families move into the catchment area, driving up real estate values.

    “This investment will encourage more gentrification of the neighborhood and will most certainly displace low-income families who attend this school,” Kristin Luebbert, a teacher in the district, said at the council meeting.

    The median home price in the Penn Alexander catchment area has skyrocketed in the years since the elementary school’s inception, from $171,000 in September 2000 – a year before the school opened – to over $720,000 by the end of 2021, WHYY reported.

    By comparison, the median home price in the Lea watershed is currently under $170,000.

    The more expensive Penn Alexander catchment area is also whiter and has a higher income than the Lea area. 45% of students are white, 26% Asian, 14% black, and 4% Hispanic. Less than half of the students come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

    In the Lea watershed, 65% of students identify as black, 13% as white, 12% Asian, and 5% Hispanic. Three-quarters of students come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

    At the board meeting, several of Lea’s relatives expressed concern about the partnership.

    Phil Gentry, Lea’s father of two students, said the deal was “negotiated behind the backs of those of us who live in the neighborhood and send our children to school in our neighborhood”.

    “Like all schools in the district, we need more resources and we cannot afford to withhold all support,” he said. “But what kind of relationship is that where a community can’t afford to say no?”

    Gentry worries about how the investment will transform Lea’s catchment area.

    “Letting wealthy private institutions choose Philadelphia students who get a quality education undermines us all,” he said.

    Some education advocates have pushed Penn to make payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTS), to support the district as a whole rather than handpicking schools for heavy investments — something other schools in the city are already doing. the Ivy League like Harvard and Yale.

    Abby Reisman, whose child will start school at Lea this fall, has submitted a written testimonial in support of the partnership.

    “As a parent, I am excited about what this agreement will mean in terms of increased teacher support, additional staff and educational services for students,” wrote Reisman, who is also a faculty member at Penn’s Graduate. School of Education.

    “As a teacher trainer and former teacher, I am excited about what this partnership could mean for the preparation of future teachers, who are hungry for models of community schools that engage in project-based learning,” she continued.

    Reisman wrote that the past few years have laid bare both the underfunding crises in schools and the burdens borne by teachers and school leaders.

    “Especially in this context, I find it hard to understand how anyone could oppose this proposal for this school, while continuing to fight for fair funding for schools more broadly,” she said. .

    State Disciplines Health Care Providers-R22-3 > Washington State Department of Health

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    State Disciplines Health Care Providers-R22-3 > Washington State Department of Health

    For immediate release: January 27, 2022 (22-017)

    Contact: Sharon Moysiuk, Communications 360-549-6471
    Public Inquiries: Health Systems Customer Service 360-236-4700

    The state disciplines health care providers

    OLYMPIA — The Washington State Department of Health has taken disciplinary action or withdrawn charges against the following healthcare providers in our state.

    The Department’s Health Systems Quality Assurance Division works with boards, commissions, and advisory committees to establish accreditation standards for more than 80 health professions (eg, dentists, nurses, counsellors). Information about disciplinary action taken against physicians and physician assistants is available on the Washington Medical Commission (WMC) website. Questions regarding WMC disciplinary action can be directed to [email protected].

    Information about health care providers can be found on the agency’s website. Click “Find a Healthcare Provider License” in the “How Do I?” section of the Department of Health website (doh.wa.gov). The site includes information about a health care provider’s license status, title expiration and renewal date, disciplinary actions, and copies of legal documents issued after July 1998. This information is also available by calling 360-236-4700. Consumers who believe a health care provider has acted unprofessionally are encouraged to call and report their complaint.

    Clark County

    In December 2021, the Board of Pharmacy denied the Pharmacy Assistant license application of Randy Shaquille Gipson (VB61146786). Gipson was convicted in 2016 of attempted child abuse in a Florida court in Seminole County.

    King’s County

    In December 2021, the Health Secretary rejected the Registered Medical Assistant application of Zackery Wayne Iko Ruler (MR61201762). Rule was charged with driving under the influence in Renton City Court and did not obtain a substance use evaluation that the Department of Health had requested as part of the credential application.

    In January 2022, the Chiropractic Commission withdrew the charges against the chiropractor Jean Babich (CH00002224).

    In January 2022, the home help program billed the home help John Guillaume Grieve (HM60644591) with unprofessional conduct. Grieve allegedly administered medication to a client without being referred to by a nurse and appeared undressed in front of a client.

    Pacific County

    In December 2021, the Board of Nursing conditionally reinstated the licensed practical nurse license of Kim M. O’Connor (LP00055499), who agreed to continue participating in a substance use monitoring program. O’Connor’s title was suspended in 2019 after he tested positive for methamphetamine and did not have a prescription for the drug.

    Pierce County

    In January 2022, the Agency-Affiliated Counselor Program and the Nursing Assistant Program billed the Registered Nurse Assistant and Agency-Affiliated Counselor Paul Thomas Boros (NA00133095, CG60249751) with unprofessional conduct. Boros allegedly had physical contact with a patient at Western State Hospital after the patient blocked his way, attempted to steal his lunch box and tore up his medical papers.

    Thurston County

    In January 2022, the Unlicensed Practice Program issued a Notice of Intention to Issue a Cease and Desist Order Samantha Kaczmarek for unauthorized practice as a massage therapist. Kaczmarek reportedly advertised his massage service on social media, but never held a massage therapist degree.

    Out of state

    Ohio: In December 2021, the Board of Nursing charged a registered nurse Rhonda Joy Philips (RN60105348) with unprofessional conduct after the Ohio Board of Nursing suspended Phillips’ license for pleading guilty to two counts of deception to obtain a dangerous drug, fifth-degree felonies.

    Oregon: In January 2022, the Board of Nursing terminated the terms of the RN license of Angela Genevieve Harman (RN00172828) after complying with a substance use monitoring program and completing a refresher course.

    Note to Editors: Health care providers accused of unprofessional conduct have 20 days to respond in writing to the Department of Health. The case then enters the settlement process. If no disciplinary agreement can be reached, the matter will proceed to a hearing.

    The DOH website is your source for a good dose of information. Find us on Facebook and Follow us on twitter. Sign up for the DOH blog, Public Health Connection.

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    GOP pushes to make it easier to get Shady COVID care

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    State Republicans across the country are proposing bills that would bar medical boards from disciplining doctors who promote, prescribe and dispense unsubstantiated COVID treatments that the Federal Drug Administration has declared ineffective and, in some cases, dangerous.

    At least 11 state legislatures have introduced bills that prevent medical licensing commissions from taking action against professionals who prescribe hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. In North Dakota and Tennessee, it’s already the law.

    Aside from abortion care, state legislatures have generally left the medical profession to govern itself, leaving licensing to medical boards and professional organizations. But the promotion of unapproved COVID treatments and skepticism from scientific authority, fueled in part by former President Donald Trump, have created an environment where Republican-led legislatures have made an astonishing effort to allow doctors to prescribe. treatments that have become popular on the right. circles.

    Self-identified Republicans make up a significant portion of the total population of unvaccinated Americans after months of vaccine resistance and baseless skepticism amplified by right-wing politicians and media. Demand for drugs like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin (which are approved to treat malaria and parasites in horses, respectively) also skyrocketed after Trump promoted hydroxychloroquine as a potential cure for COVID and some Republican congressmen have continually pushed ivermectin as a treatment for COVID.

    So far, Republican lawmakers in Colorado, Florida, Idaho, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Indiana, Virginia and West Virginia have introduced draft bills. legislation to limit the authority of medical boards with respect to COVID treatments. It became the law in North Dakota and Tennessee last November.

    Republicans lead each of these state legislatures except Virginia and Colorado. Virginia is divided: Republicans control the Senate, where the bill was introduced, and Democrats control the House. Virginia’s Senate Health Committee rejected the proposal earlier this week in what ended with rowdy protesters confronting members and threatening one.

    Bills vary from state to state. Lawmakers in Florida and Mississippi have introduced bills to limit medical boards’ power to reprimand a doctor, dentist or pharmacist publicly discussing COVID treatments. Other states go further by allowing doctors to prescribe drugs that are not FDA-approved to treat COVID.

    The push is the latest in a string of state and local agency grabs by Republicans, who seek to dominate the generally quieter races from school boards to electoral commissions ahead of the 2022 election.

    State medical boards have existed for more than a century, essentially serving as the self-regulatory arm of the medical profession. But they have been criticized for failing to sanction doctors who prescribe too many painkillers to drug-addicted patients, for example, or doctors who commit malpractice. Critics say they are meant to avoid tougher government regulation while keeping quiet about medical scandals. The fact that conservative lawmakers, who were once the natural allies of establishment doctors, are undermining corporate boards illustrates the upheaval in Republican politics in the time of the pandemic and Trump.

    Medical boards have been slow to take action against doctors offering bogus COVID cures – a BuzzFeed News investigation last fall found boards had resisted discipline. The FDA approves drugs to treat certain conditions, and it’s normal for doctors to prescribe these drugs for other conditions, which is called “off-label” treatment. But it is also common for medical boards to sanction doctors who wrongly prescribe these off-label drugs and harm patients.

    Some boards have taken action against doctors during the pandemic: A Maine medical board suspended physician Meryl Nass’ medical license for spreading misinformation about COVID, then ordered her to undergo a neuropsychological evaluation.

    In North Dakota, where Republican lawmakers hold an 84% majority of votes between the House and Senate, the original bill restricting medical commissions has met with some resistance. Rep. Bill Tveit, who sponsored the bill last November, told BuzzFeed News that its original intent was to give patients who have contracted COVID broad authority to try other drugs that have been approved by the FDA for other uses.

    But rejection by the North Dakota Hospital Association, the North Dakota Board of Pharmacy, doctors and other lawmakers against his original bill resulted in the truncated version that eventually passed. As of last November, doctors, nurse practitioners and pharmacists in North Dakota can no longer be penalized by state medical boards for prescribing hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin for COVID. A Buzzfeed News report showed inconsistencies in an ivermectin study purportedly conducted in Argentina, and independent experts said the study was unreliable at best.

    “Why not give doctors the right to practice medicine when they know and are convinced by other things they have read and studied that these drugs will cure?” Tveit told BuzzFeed News in a phone conversation. “Why are you burying? Why are you killing people and for the sake of the guidelines that exist when there are alternatives?

    Asked about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s findings that vaccines protect against hospitalization and death, Tveit was dubious.

    “What’s the evidence that I’m less likely to die?” says Tveit. He responded to data showing that unvaccinated people are dying at a higher rate with his own data: screenshots from a self-reported paper by Dr Stella Immanuel, who in October 2021 claimed she and her team had treated more than 7,000 patients, including “only eight of the precious souls,” who she wrote had advanced stages of COVID, have died. Immanuel, who was briefly boosted by Donald Trump when he was president, also claimed that the US government is at least partially run by reptiles.

    Two days after the interview, the CDC released a report that vaccinated people had 6 times more protection against infection than an unvaccinated person. Immanuel did not respond to a request for comment for this article.

    Some medical professionals find the legislative attempts alarming and fear they could lead to future laws restricting the power of state boards to discipline doctors.

    Lisa Robin, chief advocacy officer for the Federation of State Medical Boards, told BuzzFeed News that the efforts of state lawmakers were “something unheard of” during her 25 years in office. within the council.

    “It’s definitely not in the best interest of the patient. They would have no recourse,” Robin said. “It may be related to the coronavirus today, but it could be anything.”

    Other state lawmakers are also moving to constrain medical advice on COVID. In North Carolina, Republican lawmakers introduced legislation prohibiting medical boards from basing licensing decisions on a person’s vaccination status. And in South Carolina, Republican lawmakers have proposed circumventing any board oversight by allowing patients to give written consent to use experimental drugs.

    This month, Indiana became one of the last state legislatures to introduce legislation that would allow doctors to prescribe ivermectin without penalty. The bill goes further by prohibiting pharmacists from disseminating information that discourages the use of ivermectin, even though the FDA has urged people not to use the drug to treat COVID, which has not been approved or cleared for use against disease.

    Ivermectin is used to treat parasites in horses and other animals; it is also approved to treat infections in humans caused by certain parasitic worms, head lice, and certain skin conditions. The worming version of the drug used to treat animals is much more potent and can cause nausea, vomiting, neurological pain, seizures, coma and even death, according to the FDA. Last year, cases of ivermectin poison rose 212% from Jan. 1 to Sept. 21, with 1,440 cases reported, according to data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers. Last August, the CDC issued an advisory on the increased distribution of veterinary formulations of ivermectin not intended for human use.

    Hydroxychloroquine is approved to treat malaria and certain autoimmune diseases. While the FDA issued an emergency use authorization in 2020 for hydroxychloroquine. The first use of the drug in 2020 caused shortages for lupus and arthritis patients, for whom the drug works to treat their conditions.

    Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist and professor at New York University, called the restrictions of medical advice “pure ideology disguised as medicine”.

    “Doctors, not lawmakers, decide what constitutes medical misconduct,” Caplan added. “Prescribing or promoting unnecessary or dangerous drugs is clear misconduct. Hopefully the courts will recognize these restrictions as being fueled by nothing more than pandering to the anti-vax misinformation that some politicians want to promote for political reasons. »

    Colorado State Representative Stephanie Luck, a Republican who has sponsored similar legislation in her state, said doctors are leaving Colorado to practice in places “more respectful of their ability to actually treat their patients in accordance with their conscience and in accordance with their professional judgment. However, she was unable to provide data on physicians leaving the state.

    “We don’t encourage physicians to access or act outside of normal medical standards,” Luck said. “We’re just saying, ‘Hey, give them the right to look at each case and treat their patients the way they think is best.’ Doesn’t seem weird to me.

    The National Institutes of Health is still recruiting the 15,000 participants needed for a clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of ivermectin and two other drugs. The trial began last June and has a primary end date of December 2022, with final results expected in March 2023. ●

    Dan Vergano contributed reporting for this story.

    Former South Florida Pharmacy Manager Pleads Guilty to $88 Million Healthcare Fraud Conspiracy Targeting Military Healthcare Programs | USAO-SDFL

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    Miami, Florida – A Palm Beach County, Florida man has pleaded guilty to his role in a multi-million dollar conspiracy to defraud Tricare and CHAMPVA through a South Florida compound drug fraud scheme. Florida.

    As part of his guilty plea, Matthew Smith, 58, admitted his role in fraudulently billing Tricare and CHAMPVA for expensive and medically unnecessary compound drugs from a Broward pharmacy. Tricare and CHAMPVA are the health care programs of the United States Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs. As part of the scheme, Smith – then executive vice president of pharmacy – and his co-conspirators paid around $40 million in bribes to patients, patient recruiters and doctors in exchange for their order. pain creams, scar creams and expensive vitamins without regard. to the actual medical needs of the beneficiaries. Drugs have been formulated to maximize profit without legitimate therapeutic value. Reimbursement rates sometimes reached $15,000 for a month’s supply. Additionally, the pharmacy failed to charge beneficiaries for mandatory co-payments, which the co-conspirators hid. The fraudulent billings caused a loss to the programs of approximately $88 million.

    Smith pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Sentencing is scheduled for April 5 at 3:00 p.m. in Miami before U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman. Smith faces up to 10 years in federal prison.

    US Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez of the Southern District of Florida; Special Agent in Charge Cynthia A. Bruce, Department of Defense Inspector General’s Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), Southeast Field Office; Special Agent in Charge David Spilker, Veterans Affairs, Office of the Inspector General (VA-OIG), Southeast Field Office; Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI Miami; and Special Agent in Charge Justin C. Fielder of the Miami Field Office of the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations made the announcement.

    “Fraudsters steal exorbitant amounts of money from our government health programs through prescription drug fraud schemes,” said U.S. Attorney Gonzalez. “Those who use kickbacks and fraudulent billing activity to defraud vital public programs will be held accountable.”

    “The escalation of pharmaceutical fraud has defrauded the Defense Health Agency of more than a billion dollars and exploited not only the military, but all citizens,” said DCIS Special Agent in Charge Bruce. “I thank the U.S. Attorney’s Office and our team of investigators for their tireless efforts to unravel this network of crimes, trace the assets, and hold these individuals accountable.”

    “The defendant has pleaded guilty to his heinous conduct in the fraud of several federal health care programs intended to benefit deserving veterans and their families,” said Special Agent in Charge David Spilker of the Southern Field Office. -is the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs. “The VA OIG is committed to continuing to work with our law enforcement partners to ensure the integrity of VA health care and benefits programs.”

    “Illegal kickbacks have undermined the integrity of the Tricare health benefits program by placing profits ahead of patient well-being,” said George L. Piro, FBI Miami Special Agent in Charge. “The investigators who unraveled this scam are to be commended for their diligence and commitment. The FBI and our partners will continue to pursue those who pay bribes and fraudulently charge for unnecessary medical services.

    “Criminals whose schemes result in medically unnecessary prescription drugs being sent to consumers could put public health at risk,” said Special Agent in Charge Justin C. Fielder, of the Miami Field Office of the Bureau of Criminal Investigations. the FDA. “We will continue to prosecute and bring to justice those who put profits above public health.”

    The DCIS, VA-OIG, FBI and FDA investigated the matter.

    Assistant U.S. Attorney Jon Juenger prosecuted the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Daren Grove is handling the asset forfeiture component of the case.

    Court documents and related information can be found on the District Court for the Southern District of Florida website at www.flsd.uscourts.gov or at http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov.

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    One door closes, another opens: Nurse gets a better job 15 days after being fired, her story goes viral

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    • A Twitter user with the handle @magosibassy has shared the exciting news that she has been offered a permanent position
    • The qualified professional nurse shared that she had received a call from the human resources department 15 days before telling her not to report to work because the contracts will not be renewed
    • Although she suffered over two weeks of stress, it apparently paid off as she now has a permanent job.

    @magosibassy landed her permanent job as a professional nurse after a stressful few days. She shared on Twitter that on January 3, she received a call from HR stating that the contracts were not going to be renewed for 2022 and that she should not report to work.

    15 stressful days passed and she received a second call. This time, the human resources department said she had to come and sign her permanent job offer. She shared an image of the form she needs to fill out to accept the job on Twitter.

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    This South African lady thought all was lost in terms of work until she was offered a permanent position. Image: @magosibassy
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    Its exciting Publish filled locals with pride as she gained over 3400 likes.

    Social media users shower her with congratulatory messages

    @NontoK_B said:

    “Congratulations partner. I’m happy for you.”

    @luuvrr shared:

    “Absolutely crazy how we always have to fight for the job. Congratulations, baby, you really deserve it.”

    @Lesego_Moth wrote:

    “It’s wonderful!!! I’m so happy for you.”

    @SuQEA_FH replied:

    “Congratulations sis, I love it for you.”

    @Maraahraa tweeted:

    “Congratulations Bassy. Love to see it.”

    @Bongani20994708 added:

    “God is faithful. Congratulations.”

    A man who almost missed his flight arrives in Canada

    Legit.ng previously reported that a young Nigerian man who left Nigeria in search of greener pasture later arrived in Canada.

    But the man, identified as Emeka Nwarulor almost missed his flight the day he was supposed to leave Nigeria. He said he arrived at the airport a few minutes before departure time.

    Emeka also said he resigned from his post in Nigeria to allow him to move to Canada. Not only that, but he also dropped out of a masters program he was pursuing and decided to move. Her success story went viral and drew praise from people who hailed her bravery.

    Source: Legit.ng

    Mexican town survives entirely on money sent back by US migrants: NPR

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    Jose Gonzalez and his wife Maria wait for customers at their corner store which he renovated, stocked and expanded with the money he earned for more than a decade working in the United States, in the indigenous Purepecha community in Comachuen, Michoacan state, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

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    COMACHUEN, Mexico – In Comachuen, an indigenous Purepecha community of about 10,000 nestled in the pine-covered mountains of the western state of Michoacan, the entire town survives on remittances from migrants working in the United States .

    This money, known as remittances, helped feed families after local carpentry sales plummeted a decade ago when pine timber began to become scarce. The money allowed their families to stay in Comachuen rather than move to other parts of Mexico to work. This – and the fact that children spend much of the year with their mothers and grandparents – has helped preserve the Purepecha language among almost everyone in town.

    Traditional textiles, woodworking and construction endure, largely because these businesses are funded by migrants who send money home to build homes here. Many things here – the church, the bullring, the charitable donations – are paid for by migrants.

    The Mexican government believes that last year remittances will exceed $50 billion for the first time. But whether remittances allow families to survive or grow enough so that their children don’t have to emigrate varies, reflecting a person’s plans and prospects.

    The cold winter mornings in Comachuen are a throwback to another era. The men are back in town due to the seasonal lull in agricultural work in the United States.

    Many Comachuen workers obtain temporary U.S. H2A work visas, while others leave without documents. Hundreds of men here work on the same upstate New York vegetable farm every year, planting onions, harvesting squash, cabbage and beans. Porfirio Gabriel, an organizer who recruits workers to go north, estimates that a single farm brought in $5 million for the city over three years, by far its biggest source of income.

    Locals exchange greetings in Purepecha as they pass each other in the narrow streets. At one end of town, three herdsmen lead their teams of oxen through the streets and up the surrounding hills to haul freshly cut pine trunks on narrow carts. The tree trunks are left in the street in front of the houses of those who buy them, to be sawn in barnyard workshops.

    The roar of wood lathes mingles with the screams of men hauling bricks and wheelbarrows of sand and gravel into half-built houses. Comachuen comes alive in winter.

    Tranquilino Gabriel – that’s a common surname here – makes decorative wooden spindles on a primitive lathe. The 59-year-old only does this in his spare time after working in the United States, to keep his decades-old family business alive. The 5 pesos (25 cents) he receives for each are only additional income.

    He says wood is getting scarce and it’s unclear how much longer they’ll be able to make it. “More and more people are clearing land and planting avocado trees,” says Gabriel.

    Gabriel resigns himself to working in the United States for as long as he can. He sends home about $7,500 each year from what he earns working in the fields. This money is largely used to fund his children’s education, paying tuition at a private college so his eldest son can be a registered nurse.

    He hopes his children will get university degrees and not have to emigrate. “I pay for their education, so they don’t have to do what we have to do,” Gabriel says.

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    Besides the brooches, which are shipped to a nearby town to be assembled into bookcases and shelves, the economy here largely involves migrants selling to other migrants.

    José González, 55, works in the corner store which he renovated, stocked and expanded with money he earned over more than a decade working in the United States.

    González, who has the stern, pensive face of an indigenous drill sergeant, says he did some woodworking, “but it wasn’t enough to meet our basic needs.” After working for a time in the fields in Mexico, he had to emigrate. Today, his well-stocked store sells canned goods and food to migrant families.

    Omar Gabriel, 28, sells sand, gravel, cement and rebar to migrants who build or expand their homes in Comachuen with the money they earn in the United States Gabriel, one of the workers youngest and best-educated migrants, studied accountancy at a nearby university. He has plans that don’t include always going north to plant onions every spring.

    The money he makes from his agricultural work in the United States is used to develop the family business, Don Beto Materials, and to pay for his younger brother’s university studies as an architect. The family has just bought a second-hand bulldozer with the money he earned in the north. Previously, they bought a dump truck.

    “My goal is to work another five years (in the United States) to raise enough capital to operate the business” as a full-service construction company, from plans to excavation to construction, he said.

    But even if Gabriel won’t have to migrate one day, it seems like his business will likely still depend on a steady stream of migrating customers with dollars in their pockets.

    The next generation is key: Will the influx of remittances allow young adults in Comachuen to build a life in Mexico, instead of toiling in American fields?

    Andrés Reyes Baltazar, 20, is studying business administration at a public university in the state capital, Morelia. During the winter holidays, he helped his father, Asención Reyes Julian, 41, in the family’s furniture workshop, where they build a huge wooden cabinet about six feet wide and eight feet high. high. (Many Mexican homes don’t have closets.)

    The father has been working in the north since 2011 because, he says, in the furniture business “sometimes there are customers, and sometimes there are none”. Reyes Julian spends much of the money he earns in New York to pay for his son’s education.

    Andrés dreams of using his education to expand his business, perhaps buying a truck to reach wider markets and get better prices for his furniture. Crafting finished pieces brings better profit margins than refinishing pieces of furniture, and the Reyes family are one of the few here still doing it.

    But when asked if he will ever go north to work in the United States, Andrés remains evasive. “I could, maybe. But first I’m going to finish my studies.”

    Andrea Sánchez, 21, speaks perfect English. She immigrated undocumented to California with her family as a young child in 2002 and studied in American schools until sixth grade.

    When her family returned to Comachuen, she says, “it was a big shock…it was really different.” Over the ensuing decade, she has come to love her hometown, even though it lacks the grand houses and manicured gardens she saw as a child. “This is my home. This culture is calling me.”

    Although she is studying here to become a teacher and helping her mother in the family’s traditional embroidered textile business, she still dreams of one day returning to the United States.

    “If that possibility exists, I would,” she said, adding, “I would prefer to do things legally. That would be the goal.”

    Shi Shi the sea turtle, rescued last year from a Washington beach, euthanized

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    Shi Shi the sea turtle has been euthanized.

    The turtle care team with the nonprofit SR3 “made the difficult decision … during surgery” on Monday, said Casey McLean, executive director and veterinary nurse for SR3.

    An autopsy is underway which will provide more information on what prevented a full recovery of the turtle, rescued from near death last November from Shi Shi Beach on the Makah Indian Reservation.

    The turtle had been pushed by storms into the cold waters of Washington, where its body temperature had plummeted. Unable to swim or feed, the turtle washed up on shore where it was found by a member of the Makah tribe.

    The Seattle Aquarium took in the turtle and worked to restore it to health (its sex has not been determined). .

    The turtle appeared to be making a solid recovery during an examination in December. The turtle just needed to start eating regularly. Then the next step seemed almost a sure thing: another move to SeaWorld in San Diego, to hold out until Shi Shi could be returned to the wild once the weather warmed.

    Freeze-stunned turtles have been successfully resuscitated by the Aquarium and its partners in the past, most recently in the case of Tucker the Turtle, rescued freeze-stunned from an Oregon beach in 2015 .

    Tucker was last tracked in 2017 on a trip to Mexico with two female companions, following his release from SeaWorld.

    But for Shi Shi, that shouldn’t be the case.

    Amy Olsen, research technician at the Aquarium, sat with the turtle night after night upon arrival, carefully monitoring its temperature to raise it very slowly – opening the doors, closing the doors, turning the air conditioning on and off and stroking the animal’s head, neck and shell to encourage it to breathe.

    The night shift and caring for the turtle was a special moment, Olsen said. “With rehab, I try not to get my hopes up too much… we had a lot of turtles that didn’t last the first night. The fact that it seemed to get better, my hopes started to climb.

    She said she was grateful for the combined efforts of government and non-government workers and volunteers who got the turtle as far as it did.

    “We tried as best we could.”

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    206-464-2515 Where [email protected]; on Twitter: @LyndaVMapes. Lynda specializes in environmental, natural history and Native American tribal coverage.

    Benaf Dadachandji says working at Dadhkan Zindagi Kii has helped her better understand the medical profession

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    Benaf Dadachandji is happy to be part of Dadhkan Zindegi Kii. She plays the role of Aditi Saxena in this Invictus T Media and (Studio Next) production by Nilanjana Purkayasstha and Herumb Khot and says it is the only medical drama airing on Hindi TV at the moment.


    “Doctors and all medical staff are frontline heroes. Over the past two years we have seen how they have overcome all odds and saved so many lives. So yeah, being on a medical show is special to me. It also educates the masses about different diseases and their symptoms, so it is also educational. It may be a work of fiction, but it draws heavily from reality. The biggest difference is that there are no real patients, doctors or hospitals etc, and the atmosphere is not depressing and tense compared to a real hospital, but the team made sure that every piece of information and presentation is authentic,” she says.

    Benaf shares that we have never undervalued our doctors, but our respect for them has increased even more in times of Covid.

    “I honestly think the government needs to have more medical schools for students and should ban quota systems. Students, who deserve it, should only have the opportunity to become doctors and save lives,” she adds.

    Benaf bonds with Vidyut Xavier (Dr Abhay Sathe), Raghav Dhir (Dr Piroz Murgiwala), Rohit Purohit (Vikrant Saxena), Additi Gupta (Dr Deepika Sinha) as most of his scenes are with them.

    A doctor is constantly under pressure. Ask her if she understands their daily routine better now and the actor replies, “Yes, after working on this show, I understand the pressure that doctors are under. It’s so hard for them to have a personal life because they’re on call 24/7. They constantly save lives, help and cure patients suffering from different diseases. They are like gods on earth. No wonder they receive so many blessings and have so much good karma.

    COVID-19 puts Cincinnati healthcare workers in a ‘PTSD-like situation’

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    The doors are all closed on 3C. Every patient in the Pulmonary Unit at St. Elizabeth-Edgewood Hospital has COVID-19.

    Every day and often late into the night, Melissa Schumacher, the nurse manager of the unit, sends texts, e-mails, calls to nurses, even nurses whose usual work is education, monitoring of quality or IT, asking them to take shifts so that maybe 3C can have a full nursing staff.

    “Every day is stressful. We never know how many staff we’re going to have. Because we have a lot of staff getting sick and having to go out,” she said. “And an endless list of patients who have to come.”

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    What Schumacher faces now is routine in hospitals across the Cincinnati area and across the United States. The impact of the delta variant of COVID-19 followed by the omicron variant – a form experts predict is as “transmissible as the virus can be” – straining healthcare systems. And frontline healthcare workers are carrying the load.

    As of Thursday, 1,032 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19 across the region’s 40 hospitals; 212 were being treated in intensive care units and 140 were on ventilators. In other words, 4 out of 10 patients in the region’s 40 hospitals had COVID-19.

    Patients wait until 3 p.m.

    Michele Hodge, an emergency department nurse who serves as clinical lead at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Corryville, said caregivers were doing all they could, working outside of their normal hours, some seven days a week, others 16 hours a day. Meanwhile, patients seeking care based on the severity of their illness may have to wait in a hall for more than 15 hours to be seen due to capacity issues.

    “I’ve been in healthcare for over 13 years and I’ve never seen anything like it,” Hodge said. “You enter this field because you want to help and heal people, and it’s difficult when you’re not able to treat all patients in a timely manner due to overcrowding and waiting times.”

    “Sometimes you feel helpless,” she said.

    At war against COVID: What medical workers can learn from veterans about PTSD

    Hospital staff are tired. Abnormal working hours and days are now normal. The pandemic rush from 2020 to 2021 was tough, followed by a lull. Then, says Schumacher, it hit again. “When delta and omicron started coming in,” she said, “it was really a PTSD-type situation. I feel like my team bonded over that.”

    But as the nurses went through the toughest time of their careers, the re-emergence of the virus in a fast-spreading form had an emotional impact on their lives. They often feel overwhelmed. Defeated.

    An intensive care unit bed at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

    Comfort of a quiet ride after a whirlwind trip to the hospital

    “It’s tough. These people are really sick and uncomfortable,” said Brooklyn Fette, a unit nurse at TriHealth’s Good Samaritan Hospital in University Heights.

    Fette drives 45 minutes daily from work to her home in Dearborn County, Indiana. And after a day full of beeps, garbled voices, buzzing telemonitors and phone conversations with patients’ families about their loved one’s worsening condition, she drives in silence.

    “I don’t call anyone, I don’t have the radio,” she said. Her return home allows her to slow down and process everything. “I kind of replay my day, thinking about my patients. I definitely cried more this time around.”

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    There’s no such thing as full in the emergency departments, said Missy Miles, director of system emergency services for St. Elizabeth’s Northern Kentucky Hospitals. People with COVID-19 waiting to go to an inpatient ward are placed in negative pressure rooms, in which airflow is directed through a filter and out the window – away from other patients and the staff.

    “Every day is hectic and every day is different,” said Mary Rosenhagen, assistant nurse manager at St. Elizabeth-Edgewood’s emergency department. “We have staff who have been out with COVID. We split staff between other emergencies, depending on who is busier. We just try to work as a team all the time.”

    Mary Rosenhagen, Assistant Nurse Manager of the Emergency Department at St. Elizabeth-Edgewood Hospital, meets with nursing staff Thursday, January 20, 2022.

    “I fell in love” with nursing

    Nurse managers see the impact of the work on their staff.

    Schumacher worries about his staff. “A nurse told me, ‘I fell in love with the profession I dreamed of and worked so hard to get there. ‘The things I have seen, heard and witnessed over the last two years give me nightmares.’ “

    Dr. Steven Feagins, clinical director of Mercy Health, who spent time in the military, compares the ongoing battle against COVID-19 to war, noting that health workers simply wake up every day and fight. .

    “For the public, it’s a bit out of sight, out of mind, and we’re still fighting,” he said. “There are nurses and doctors who have physically seen more deaths in a year than they have seen in their careers.”

    Sometimes, Rosenhagen said, the drumbeat of COVID-19 infected patients is just too much.

    She recalled a day when every patient seen by one of her emergency room nurses had COVID-19. And for each patient, she had to dress. That meant smocks and gloves and mask and shield over and over again. “And she just had to shout it,” Rosenhagen said.

    Schumacher, like many nurses, makes sacrifices to cover the workload.

    “I work until my family calls me home or when I think I can leave,” she said. She has 9-year-old twins who text her to come home for dinner or when they want help with their homework. “It breaks my heart when I’m not able to do that.”

    Julie Harris, a nurse in the medical intensive care unit at Christ Hospital, said staffing can be difficult, but nurses have taken the call to action to help their communities.

    Julie Harris, critical care nurse at Christ Hospital.

    “I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for a purpose and if it wasn’t for what I love to do,” she said.

    “COVID does what COVID wants”

    But even with these sacrifices, systems are plagued by capacity issues. Hodge said UCMC was at capacity, a designation that tells emergency medical services to limit ER admissions, more in the past two months than in the years combined. From January 1 to 5, the hospital operated up to 16 hours a day. Last week, the hospital operated at full capacity for nearly a day from midday Wednesday.

    “That means we’re asking EMS to divert patients, except for trauma, stroke, burns and labor cases for (obstetrics),” she said.

    Miles is responsible for directing patient flow for St. Elizabeth Hospitals. “There’s always a patient that we have to move from place to place,” she says. Day and night.

    And nurses also go back and forth between patients.

    “I always say COVID does what COVID wants, because you never know,” Good Sam’s Fette said. “You leave a patient’s room, they’re fine, they’re settled, they’re comfortable. You go into a patient’s room next door and all of a sudden you get a phone call that says, ‘ Hey, you have to come home, their oxygen is dropping, they’re not feeling well, they’ve got chest pains. “

    And at any time, the worst can happen.

    “Today we lost someone, and it breaks your heart,” Schumacher said in tears. “Because we’re healers, and when we can’t, we feel like failures, even though we’re not.”

    “Every death means something to us”

    Healthcare workers fear people don’t understand the calamity at hand.

    “They’re not all old,” Schumacher said, referring to his lung patients. “We see young people in their 20s, 30s, 40s unable to breathe.”

    “They’re scared and they’re lonely. We see people who are in denial. We have people who are angry about it,” she said. “I’ve seen more deaths in one week of this pandemic than I’ve seen in 15 years. And every death means something to us. We bond. We invest in our patients.”

    Hospital caregivers are asking people to wear masks, social distance, get vaccinated, get booster shots. And remember this, Miles said: “If you had it and it wasn’t serious, the person (you) can give it to may be one of those people who come to the ER who don’t can’t breathe.”

    Caregivers see no end in sight, Miles said, adding: “I think we’re afraid to think that’s the case, but right now it’s not.

    “We just carry on.”

    Healthcare Jobs in Texas: Get a $5,000 Bonus to These Positions

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    The Texas Health and Human Services Commission announced Monday that it will offer up to $5,000 in hiring bonuses for certain positions at health care facilities across the state.

    DALLAS — Texas is offering new incentives for people who are hired at state-run hospitals and living centers.

    The Texas Health and Human Services Commission announced Monday that it will offer hiring bonuses of up to $5,000 for certain positions at health care facilities across the state.

    The maximum bonuses will be for registered nurses, who can qualify for up to $5,000. Meanwhile, licensed vocational nurses are eligible for bonuses of up to $3,500, and direct support professionals and psychiatric nursing assistants can receive up to $2,500.

    Candidates can see all open positions here.

    The state hopes the bonuses can help “recruit qualified and motivated medical professionals to help residents” at state-run living centers and hospitals, said Scott Schalchlin, deputy executive commissioner of the commission. of state health.

    “Many people are currently looking for a new career or taking the next step in their current career,” Schalchlin said in a press release. “We have great opportunities for people who want to work in an environment where they can make a real difference in the lives of others every day.”

    In-State Health Care Stations are currently open statewide in cities including Abilene, Austin, Denton, San Antonio, Wichita Falls, Terrell, and Lubbock.

    State-run living centers provide support for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Public hospitals provide inpatient psychiatric care to adults and children.

    While it’s unclear whether state-run facilities have been impacted by staffing shortages resulting specifically from the pandemic, the issue has been a nationwide issue since the COVID-19 outbreak began. 19.

    In September, health officials pointed to a nursing staffing crisis, pointing to pandemic-related burnout and traveling nurse positions that offer more lucrative pay as likely culprits.

    OnlyFans Account Licensed Nurse Launches Own Adult Crypto App – Bitcoin – US Dollar ($BTC)

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    A Boston ICU nurse, who was fired this summer for running her adult content blog on the subscription service only fans, is now pursuing an entrepreneurial opportunity in the amateur adult media industry – with the help of crypto.

    What happened: 37 years Allie Rae, a mother of three – started earning more than $200,000 a month from the website after news outlets reported the scandal over her dismissal, according to an article in Friday Cointelegraph Magazine.

    Shortly after securing this new source of income, Rae also found her new career in jeopardy. Just six days after her story went public, OnlyFans announced that it would ban “sexually explicit” content due to pressure from banking partners. However, plans to implement this ban were dropped soon after following widespread outcry and media coverage accusing the banks of moralistic censorship.

    This got Rae thinking, and she immediately “started looking at other platforms to switch to, and quickly realized that they too could fall into the same trap down the road”. Because of this, she “realized that crypto was the answer.”

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    And after: Rae is currently developing a crypto-powered OnlyFans alternative called WetSpace, with the beta expected to launch in February. The platform will feature an Instagram-like user interface and support a wide range of stablecoins and cryptocurrencies, with no dedicated token.

    She thinks dedicated tokens are a major problem plaguing similar platforms, something she learned from watching “other ‘adult coins’ fall and how their model was doomed. in the service of two masters – the creators and the holders”.

    According to Rae, dedicated tokens add an extra step to the process, which results in friction that lessens user appeal. She admitted that launching a coin would help fund the project, but “luckily I didn’t have to worry about the financial aspect because I had the money to invest.”

    Canadian hospitals are under strain as Omicron hits healthcare workers

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    TORONTO/MONTREAL, Jan 24 (Reuters) – After a year as a nurse in the emergency department of a busy Toronto hospital amid the coronavirus pandemic, Aimee Earhart called it quits last week. She moves to Florida for a short contract before working as a travel nurse for what she hopes will be double her salary.

    “We’re exhausted all the time,” Earhart said. She says she will miss her colleagues and that she might have stayed if the working conditions had been better.

    The COVID-19 pandemic and its highly contagious variant of Omicron have exacerbated a difficult staffing situation in Canadian hospitals.

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    Interviews with a dozen healthcare workers, including eight current and former nurses, reveal a healthcare system strained by a pandemic wave that hit at the worst possible time – with the disease sidelining staff as more COVID-19 patients 19 than ever need to be hospitalized, forcing health workers to exhaust themselves through two incessant years to undertake more work.

    Hospitals have asked staff to forego holidays or work overtime.

    Canadians are proud of their public health care system. But by not investing enough in it, critics say, governments have left it vulnerable to the ravages of a public health emergency that has been going on for years. If health workers leave and are not replaced – due to training and certification backlogs, capped salaries or the perception of a punitive profession – it could harm the capacity of the health system.

    Job vacancies in Canada’s health and social assistance sector increased by 78.8% between the third quarter of 2019 and the third quarter of 2021, according to Statistics Canada.

    The Ontario government, which has come under fire for capping wages for some public sector employees, including nurses, before the pandemic, said in a statement it had added 6,700 health care workers and employees since the start of the pandemic and planned to add another 6,000 by March. He did not say whether this was a net increase.

    “I HAVE NO MORE TO GIVE”

    Lindsay Peltsch knew she had to give up when she stopped wanting to bathe her patients.

    “I always did, but I didn’t have the same sense of satisfaction anymore,” she said. “It sounds small but it’s a big deal because people’s dignity is a big part of what we do.”

    Peltsch worked for 12 years as a pediatric nurse, 10 of which were at SickKids Hospital in Toronto. She fell in love with nursing, but the tension got too much, she said.

    Full shifts have become rare. One of his last ER shifts was 10 nurses short. She also feels that there is a lack of respect for the profession.

    “I just got to a point where I had nothing left to give.”

    A spokesperson for SickKids said the hospital “has experienced staffing issues” but was unaware that critical care teams were short of 10 nurses.

    Praveen Nakesvaran and fellow respiratory therapists at Humber River Hospital took on roles normally filled by nurses as they tilt COVID-19 patients – rolling them, tubes and all, gently on their stomachs in hopes of boosting function pulmonary.

    “Usually we’re just at the head of the bed: making sure the tube is secure,” Nakesvaran said. “Now we also do the work of the nurses.”

    Suzi Laj, head of the hospital’s intensive care unit, says she knows morale has been an issue and has sought to address it through everything from daily meetings to hiring chaplaincy staff . They’re “trying to keep them hopeful and, you know, support them…but their resilience is really exhausting,” she said.

    Public health experts say Omicron’s peak may be approaching in Canada, and Ontario last week announced plans to ease restrictions. But for now, the tightening of health workers remains.

    Some provinces have made arrangements for healthcare workers to return to work shortly after testing positive for COVID-19; Ontario allows internationally educated nurses, who often face barriers and long waits before they can practice in Canada, to gain work experience in hospitals.

    Manitoba, meanwhile, has said it will send hundreds of patients for surgery to North Dakota because its hospitals are running out of capacity.

    “WE DON’T ASK FOR EASIER WORK”

    When a Montreal ER nurse came down with a bad case of laryngitis during a shift, she felt torn between staying at work to help her colleagues and coming home to rest and wait for test results COVID-19, she told Reuters.

    The young nurse, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals at work, said she was encouraged to finish her shift because her colleagues were in dire need of help.

    “It was really more guilt than anything,” she said.

    “You feel like you are leaving those who work in a very difficult situation.”

    Doris Grinspun, CEO of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, is getting calls from nurses across the province wondering how they’ll cope. “The whole hospital is in a rush.”

    This translates, she says, to “dangerous care.”

    When Peltsch speaks to his former colleagues, “they say to themselves, ‘Don’t come back. “… A resilient group of people are starting to fall apart,” she said.

    “We’re not asking for an easier job. We’re asking to be able to do the hard work we signed up for safely.”

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    Registered Nurse (PACT) Lubbock Job in Lubbock, TX – Department of Veterans Affairs

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    The United States government is a massive employer and is always looking for qualified candidates to fill a wide variety of open positions in locations across the country. Below is a summary of qualifications for an active and open Department of Veterans Affairs job listing. The opening is for a Registered Nurse (PACT) Lubbock in Lubbock, TX Feel free to browse this job posting and any other job postings and contact us with any questions!

    Registered Nurse (PACT) Lubbock – Lubbock, TX
    Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs
    Offer ID: 559414 Start Date: 01/03/2022 End Date: 01/26/2022

    Summary of Qualifications
    Applicants awaiting completion of education or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively screened, but may not be hired until all requirements are met. *HPTs who are on track to graduate/meet the requirements should respond as if they have met the requirements. Provide details in the narrative sections of the assessment. Basic Requirements: United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA policy. English proficiency. Pursuant to 38 USC 7402(d), no one should hold direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English. Graduated from a school of vocational nursing accredited by the appropriate state accrediting body and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant: the Commission of Accreditation for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). In the case of graduates from foreign vocational nursing schools, possession of a current, complete, active and unrestricted registration will satisfy the requirement for graduation from an accredited vocational nursing school. OR Completion of courses equivalent to a nursing degree in an MSN bridging program that qualifies for registration in vocational nursing constitutes completion of an approved educational program in vocational nursing. Students must submit the Vocational Nursing Certificate to sit for the NCLEX to the VA along with a copy of the MSN transcript. (Reference VA Handbook 5005, Appendix G6) OR In the case of graduates of foreign vocational nursing schools, possession of a current, complete, active and unrestricted registration will satisfy the requirement for graduation from an accredited vocational nursing school. Current, complete, active, and unrestricted registration as a licensed professional nurse in any state, territory, or commonwealth (i.e. Puerto Rico) of the United States or the District of Columbia. Preferred Experience: Bachelor of Science in Nursing Inpatient and outpatient clinical experience Ability to multi-task and prioritize Familiarity with Microsoft Office suite, EMR and spreadsheet software. Keyboarding skills with the ability to type 45-50 words per minute. Determination of ranks: The following criteria must be met to determine the granting of ranks to candidates and, if applicable, the level within a rank: Nurse I Level I – An associate degree (ADN) or diploma in Nursing, with no additional nursing practice/experience required. Nurse I Level II – An ADN or degree in nursing and approximately 1 year of nursing practice/experience; OR an ADN or diploma in nursing and a bachelor’s degree in a related field without additional nursing practice/experience; OR a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) without additional nursing practice/experience. Nurse I Level III – An ADN or degree in nursing and approximately 2-3 years of nursing practice/experience; OR an ADN or diploma in nursing and a bachelor’s degree in a related field and approximately 1-2 years of nursing practice/experience; OR a BSN with approximately 1-2 years of nursing practice/experience; OR a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) or related field with a BSN and no additional nursing practice/experience. Nurse II – A BSN with approximately 2-3 years of nursing practice/experience; OR ADN or diploma in nursing and bachelor’s degree in a related field and approximately 2 to 3 years of nursing practice/experience; OR a master’s degree in nursing or a related field with a BSN and approximately 1-2 years of nursing practice/experience; OR a doctorate in nursing or meets the basic requirements for appointment and possesses a doctorate in a related field with no additional practice/experience required. Nurse III – Masters degree in nursing or related field with BSN and approximately 2-3 years of nursing practice/experience; OR a PhD and approximately 2-3 years of nursing practice/experience. Reference: VA Regulations, specifically VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G-6 Qualification Standard for Nurses. This can be found in the local human resources office. Physical Requirements: Moderate lifting, 15-44 lbs., Moderate carrying, 15-44 lbs., Straight pull (3 hours), Push (3 hours), Reach above shoulder, Use fingers, Hands two hands required, Walking (8 hours), Standing (3.5 hours), Kneeling (0.5 hours), Repetitive bending (0.1 hour), Depth perception, Ability to distinguish basic colors, Hearing ( authorized aid).

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    Reunion planned 40 years after classroom training for nurses began

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    Do you recognize any of these nurses who began their training at Ipswich Hospital in 1982?

    A reunion is scheduled for this class of nurses, who began their general education 40 years ago last April.

    But despite many of those pictured staying in touch, there are three or four faces nurse specialist Beverly Underwood would like to reunite with – in hopes they’ll accept the invite to the reunion event.

    Beverly, who now works at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Trust, said: “We’re trying to reach everyone in our class for a big meeting.

    “It’s been 40 years since we started training and our group was one of the last cohorts to make it through the original national finals.

    “We started on April 19, 1982 and ended in the summer of 1985, right after Band Aid.

    “Everyone has gone their separate ways – I haven’t been back from the Middle East for a long time and I know others have worked across the world.

    “We’ve had periodic meetings, on five and ten year anniversaries, but I don’t think we’ve ever been all together since we finished our training.

    “There are a few people that none of us know how to get in touch with, but it would be amazing to get everyone back in the same room.”

    If you are one of the faces pictured and would like to be contacted by Beverly about the reunion, contact us at [email protected]

    Program opens door to internationally educated nurses

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    Erna Snelgrove-Clarke, associate dean (health sciences) and director of the school of nursing at Queen’s University, believes that a new provincial government program that would see internationally educated nurses work in hospitals during the current staffing shortage could lead to discussions about overhauling the regulatory process. Photo provided

    When the Ontario government announced last week that it would be hiring internationally trained nurses to work in hospitals to ease the current staffing shortage, Nailia Hasanova was thrilled to hear it.

    With nursing and medical degrees on her resume, Kurdistan-born Hasanova has hoped to find work in the medical field since arriving in Kingston a year ago after spending the previous three years in the United States working as a medical translator.

    Trying to get approved to work in healthcare has been a challenge, she said, so she’s currently taking an online course in user experience design.

    “I have no choice but to go into another field of work right now,” she said, “until I can get into the medical field.”

    With a degree in nursing and a degree in medicine, Nailia Hasanova is trying to obtain a license again to work in the health field.
    With a degree in nursing and a degree in medicine, Nailia Hasanova is trying to obtain a license again to work in the health field. Photo provided

    She was therefore hopeful when she learned that the province’s recently announced Supervised Practice Experience Partnership program, which will allow Ontario Health to match internationally trained nurses with hospitals, would make the job easier.

    “These individuals are currently working to meet the proof of practice and language proficiency requirements for registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario,” said the Kingston Health Sciences Centre, which oversees local hospitals. and participates in the program, earlier this week.

    “At this early stage in the process, KHSC has not yet been matched with eligible applicants.”

    KHSC does not yet know how many nurses it will be able to hire through the program.

    A pilot of the program, which will see incoming nurses supervised by a preceptor, ran last year and “succeeded in moving applicants through the system in a shorter timeframe,” read a January 11 description on the College of Nurses of Ontario website, cno.org.

    Erna Snelgrove-Clarke is Associate Dean (Health Sciences) and Director of the School of Nursing at Queen’s University and has seen the staffing shortage firsthand.

    “What if (the new program) helps solve a bit of the dilemma that we’re in right now, and then when we get through this, we can sit down and really talk about it and think about how we can do that more efficient,” she said.

    She is also very familiar with the often long and costly process that internationally educated nurses must endure to obtain their certification.

    “I’ve heard a lot of complaints about the difficulty of internationally educated nurses getting their nursing license who have moved from another province to Ontario,” said Snelgrove-Clarke, who moved here from Nova Scotia. “There are a lot of things I have to do to get an Ontario licence.

    As Manager of Newcomer Services at the KEYS Job Centre, it is Madeleine Nerenberg’s job to try to connect immigrants with, ideally, jobs in their fields. For healthcare professionals, obtaining the necessary qualifications can be both time-consuming and expensive, she said.

    “They have to pay for the assessment, they have to pay for the translation of the documents, they have to pay for the English exams. So it’s hundreds or thousands of dollars depending on the profession,” she said, noting that some people take another career path.

    “So it’s not just that they have to go through a process and demonstrate their skills and qualifications, it’s that they have to pay every step of the way.”

    KEYS sees a handful of internationally trained medical personnel like Vasanova every year, Nerenberg said, and over the past two decades there have been specialists like the CARE Center for Internationally Educated Nurses in Toronto to help them make connections.

    Nerenberg has seen the difficulties immigrants face and believes the regulatory process should be revisited once the current staffing shortage subsides.

    “Maybe they need to consider options that would facilitate access to the highly skilled, knowledgeable people that we need right now, especially in healthcare,” Nerenberg said.

    Snelgrove-Clarke, meanwhile, says the new program could prove to be eye-opening and the start of positive changes in the regulatory system.

    “Hopefully we can start having conversations to say, ‘What did we learn from this?’ so that we don’t have to repeat these paths,” she suggested, “because if there are people who are able to support our system, then we shouldn’t have to be in this hopeless situation. (a) to be able to make a change.”

    As the pandemic has exhausted hospital staff, others are lining up.

    “We had the highest application rate we’ve had in Queen’s history and at a time when there is a pandemic,” Snelgrove-Clarke noted.

    “You would think people would be hesitant to apply for nursing, but they know there are jobs out there and people want to be nurses.”

    And for Hasanova, 46, she hoped the new program could make it easier to get back into her field, but now she doesn’t know if she will qualify since the gap in her practical experience is ‘much longer’ than the maximum. of five years.

    Hasanova said she was disappointed but would keep trying.

    “Of course,” she said. “I was going ahead when I found this, but it’ll be fine.”

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    Missouri hospitals can’t find enough nurses to handle record number of COVID patients | KCUR 89.3

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    University of Missouri Health Care will require nurses who don’t typically care for patients directly to work four 12-hour shifts at the hospital over the next two weeks as they struggle under a number record number of COVID-19 cases.

    A notice was posted Jan. 14 for “registered nurses and other licensed healthcare professionals in the School of Medicine currently working in research, administration, etc., who are invited to participate in the workforce pool. ‘clinical work of MU Health Care,’ MU Health Care spokesman Eric Maze wrote in an email to The Independent.

    The demand for additional staff is not limited to central Missouri. Ten St. Louis-area hospitals are requesting federal staffing support through the state Emergency Management Agency, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

    The initial notice from MU Health alerted nurses that they would have to work in the hospital. Registered nurses who currently do not have assignments involving clinical care must work two 12-hour shifts each for the next two weeks, according to a Wednesday email provided to The Independent and written by Jeanette Linebaugh, senior director of operations from the school’s surgical department. .

    Those whose duties currently involve clinical care should take a 12-hour shift at the hospital by February 4, she wrote.

    “Weekends and nights are most needed,” Linebaugh wrote.

    Along with hospitals across the state, the University of Missouri Hospital at Columbia has seen its COVID-19 inpatient load rise rapidly this month, from 80 on Jan. 1 to 122 Thursday afternoon. Of this number, 62% are not vaccinated.

    The state Department of Health and Senior Services reported 3,704 hospitalized patients Monday, with preliminary data showing that number rose to 3,784 on Tuesday, the highest number for any point in the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospital caseloads across the state are up 42% year-to-date.

    “The nationwide shortage of healthcare workers, coupled with the continued and growing patient enumeration, growing demand for COVID-19 testing and vaccinations, and growing shortages of our nursing staff have strained our nursing teams in contact with patients, and we need to provide them with additional support,” Maze wrote.

    Salaried employees will be paid $75 per hour during their shifts, while those working an hourly rate will receive an additional $25 per hour, plus available bonuses, Linebaugh’s email wrote.

    MU Health Care is also increasing its vaccination requirements, KMIZ-TV in Colombia reported Thursday afternoon. Employees who do not receive a reminder when they are eligible could be fired, the station reported.

    Statewide, only about 20% of hospital beds and 18% of intensive care beds are available, according to state health department data. The shortage is most acute in the Kansas City area, where only 15% of beds are available, and in the St. Louis area, where 18% of all beds and only 13% of critical care beds are available. .

    “Emergency rooms continue to pile up,” said Dr. Clay Dunagan, clinical director of BJC HealthCare, during a briefing on Wednesday by the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force. “We have a large number of people who have to stay in an emergency room overnight or even for several days before they can be transferred to get the care they need.”

    There is evidence in daily case reports that the wave of omicron variants has peaked in the St. Louis metro area, but these reports also show that cases are increasing rapidly in more rural areas of the state.

    Over the past seven days, the number of reported cases has decreased by 28.6% in the Missouri portion of the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area, but has increased by 61% in 22 southwestern Missouri counties.

    The decline is evident throughout the St. Louis metro area, but is most pronounced in St. Louis and St. Louis County, the only jurisdictions requiring masks in public places. On Wednesday, Circuit Judge Richard Stewart denied a request from Attorney General Eric Schmitt for a temporary restraining order from block St. Louis County mask mandate.

    Cases are down 34% in St. Louis County and 37% in St. Louis over the past week.

    The state health department on Thursday reported 16,509 additional coronavirus infections, the second-highest number in the pandemic. The seven-day average of reported cases, 12,152, is only 1.2% higher than a week ago, but it is more than four times the rate seen at the end of December.

    So far this month, 229,610 coronavirus cases have been reported by the state health department. This is 131% higher than the full month of December and 103,489 higher than the previous high month, November 2020.

    The daily increase in hospitalizations has slowed in St. Louis, said Dr. Alex Garza, community health manager for SSM Health. That doesn’t mean the wave of omicron variants is over, he said.

    “We have more people in hospital now than at any other time during the pandemic,” he said, later adding that there will be “hundreds in hospital for the weeks to come.” .

    Keeping accurate track of new infections has become more difficult with the widespread use of rapid-result home antigen tests. The Columbia-Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services implemented a system on Thursday allowing county residents to report positive results of their home test.

    Boone County has the highest infection rate in the state so far this month out of 118 local health jurisdictions and the second highest rate in the past seven days. The county health department has reported 7,255 cases since Jan. 1, or about 4% of the county’s population.

    The department has received reports from individuals regarding their positive home test but has not tracked the data, spokeswoman Sara Humm wrote in an email. The new system is expected to increase reporting but not identify all positive results, she wrote.

    “While we certainly encourage residents to report positive home tests to us, we know not everyone will,” Humm wrote. “So while we’re capturing a lot more home test results with this new system, we still won’t be able to capture all of the home test results.”

    This story was originally published on the Missouri Independent.

    El Paso Family Creates Hunt School of Nursing 10th Anniversary Scholarship

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    Jackie and Bruce Gulbas (above) have partnered with TTUHSC to create the Bruce and Jackie Gulbas Nursing Scholarship to help prospective students at the Hunt School of Nursing. The Gulbas family announced this during a special January 20 luncheon with current nursing students.

    EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – Bruce and Jackie Gulbas have partnered with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) El Paso to create a new scholarship endowment to train more nurses in the area.

    According to TTUHSC officials, 10 years ago, El Paso County faced a nursing shortage of 40 percent of the national average. Today, and following the opening of the Hunt School of Nursing, the shortage has been reduced to 20%.

    Supporting nursing students is a personal mission of the Gulbas family. Jackie Gulbas is a former school nurse and attended UTEP School of Nursing, formerly known as Hotel Dieu School of Nursing. In addition to creating the scholarship endowment, Gulbas sits on the Hunt School of Nursing’s 10th Anniversary Committee.

    Bruce Gulbas is the CEO/Owner of National Restaurant Supply Co. and a member of the President’s Development Council of TTUHSC El Paso. The council focuses on connecting donors with philanthropic opportunities to expand health care in the Paso del Norte area and prepare future nurses, doctors, dentists and researchers.

    The students at the Hunt School of Nursing are some of the most dedicated you will meet.

    They work hard to graduate and join the workforce in hospitals in our area.

    We are proud to play a part in their journey to become our community’s trusted nursing heroes of tomorrow and help address the critical nursing shortage.

    Bruce Gulbas, CEO/Owner of National Restaurant Supply Co./TTUHSC El Paso President’s Development Council Member

    El Pasoan Paloma Romero is one of the students at the Hunt School of Nursing who benefited from other scholarships available to her and her classmates.

    She grew up in a low-income household, but thanks to the hard work of her parents, both medical professionals, she and her siblings were blessed with a brighter future. Romero decided to become a nurse so he could make a difference in the lives of others.

    Often, the financial burden of school prevents many people from pursuing an education. Scholarships, like the one created by the Gulbas family, are a much-needed relief from this burden, as they enable not only myself, but also future students, to pursue a career in nursing. The pandemic has shone a light on the importance of nurses, not just to the Borderland community, but to the world. It is one of the most rewarding careers because nurses not only heal medically, but emotionally.

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    Vermont struggles to deal with nursing crisis

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    BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – Caregiving is at the heart of nursing, but money also matters and motivates. In the face of continuing labor shortages and a global pandemic, Vermont hospitals spent more than $100 million to bring in better-paid traveling nurses last year, nearly double the 2020 price. Christina Guessferd reports on the pay disparity driving many Vermont nurses out of their jobs and what the state is doing about it.

    “I work next to travelers who are great but they earn four times more than me,” said Elise Legere, a staff nurse at UVM Medical Center, who says she is quitting her job.

    “If the hourly pay was better, I’m sure more nurses could stay here longer,” said UVMMC traveling nurse Rebecca Call.

    “It really hurts not to feel like your work is valued,” said Benton Taylor, a UVMMC nurse.

    Three registered nurses working in Vermont’s largest hospital with three unique perspectives. After working at UVMMC for six years, Legere plans to quit and pursue a travel contract out of New York, with three children under the age of five and a husband in tow.

    Although she’s loved living in Vermont since last July, Call says she’s not interested in staying after her assignment ends next month.

    And Taylor, who moved to a state he loves four years ago, has since lost much of his love for the work that brought him here.

    “I can say with confidence that if I was earning a salary to match the cost of living here, we certainly wouldn’t even have considered leaving, because it’s a lot to uproot our family,” Legere said.

    She says that although the Green Mountains are beautiful and she enjoys her position, she doesn’t pay the bills either. A combination of factors contribute to her decision, including the lack of affordable and accessible childcare and housing, but she says finances are the main motivator. And being paid significantly less than their travel nurse counterparts can be demoralizing. “They make very smart financial decisions for themselves, and why wouldn’t they if they could. They are really empathetic towards us. They’re not sitting there saying ‘Haha, they make four times as much as you!’ They’re like, ‘You need to make more money,’” Legere said.

    While nurses like Legere are lured by the promise of better pay, staff nurses who stick around take on additional responsibilities. Amid the revolving door of temporary staff, Taylor says permanent staff need to educate travelers on important policies and procedures so the quality of patient care isn’t compromised. “In addition to just being a nurse and doing my job, we are constantly training these people who come for a short period. So you also train people again and again and again, and it wears you out. It’s harder to have good teamwork when you don’t know the team you’re working with,” Taylor said.

    It’s a cycle of burnout and instability that drives people out of the profession. In December, Vermont Talent Pipeline Management released a survey predicting that between now and next September, Vermont will need to hire more than 6,200 nurses in new or replacement roles, 42% of whom are expected to be licensed RNs – there where the need is greatest.

    The survey concludes that filling these positions is the only way for hospitals to significantly reduce their reliance on expensive travellers. Employers pay agencies $150 and $200 per hour per nurse. Travelers themselves bring in about $80-100 per hour. By comparison, registered nurses in Vermont earn an average of about $38 per hour.

    POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS TO THE CRISIS

    Last fall, the Vermont Agency of Human Services submitted a 26-page document to the Green Mountain Care Board. The Workforce Development Plan acknowledges that officials knew this crisis was inevitable. For at least five years, hospitals have been spending exponentially higher sums on staff who only fill critical nursing shortages for a few weeks. It says the “unsustainable trend” requires immediate and bold action that could increase costs for patients.

    “Sometimes it really takes a crisis to get everyone to pull together,” said Kevin Mullin of the Green Mountain Care Board, which regulates hospital budgets and insurance premium rates. He says the state must start by raising the salaries of nurses. “We are at a time where I think people realize the seriousness of the situation and will make these difficult choices.”

    He says those choices could include approving higher budgets and agreeing to possible price hikes, which would drive up costs for patients. Mullin says his team will need to ensure that hospital submissions allocate resources to effective retention and recruitment efforts before giving them the go-ahead. “It’s going to be painful, but it’s going to be less painful to take the necessary steps to resolve this nursing crisis than it would be if we started losing loved ones because they didn’t have access to care,” a- he declared.

    “We know healthcare is not affordable for everyone and we still need to work on it. We also need to make sure the system is available, safe, and robust, and that’s a tough balancing act,” said Jeff Tieman, president and CEO of the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Healthcare Systems. He says he is confident that providers and the state can strike the right balance. “If we can get financial support from the state to help with those retention and recruitment costs, then we can relieve some of the pressure on the taxpayer side.”

    And that’s exactly what Gov. Phil Scott’s budget proposes: investing $33 million in a program run by the Social Services Agency to fund recruitment, retention and training initiatives by employers across the country. health sector. “Provide things like, potentially, retention bonuses, signing bonuses, or other creative and innovative strategies,” said Ena Backus, director of health care reform for Vermont.

    Another strategy is to fast-track visas for international nursing hires. Backus says living in an area with Boston and New York — where a worker in any industry could make more money — creates an incredibly competitive market. “These employers need to think about how their compensation keeps pace with their peers. Whether or not it’s reasonable to keep up with traveling staffing agencies and what they offer is another question,” she said.

    Vermont’s permanent nurses say they don’t expect employers to completely close the wage gap, but simply reduce the huge disparity that drives them away when they would otherwise stay. “Even though I don’t feel well paid, I have great co-workers, I love my patients, and I really love the culture of the hospital I work in,” Legere said.

    Mullin, Tieman and Backus all want to know if recruitment agencies engage in price gouging. Congressman Peter Welch is working to get that answer. At the state level, the legislature will need to approve the most immediate plans.

    Related stories:

    Death toll in Vermont reaches 507; record hospitalizations

    UVM Medical Center Adopts Emergency Staffing Plan

    What is causing the nursing shortage in Vermont?

    State leaders are sounding the alarm over Vermont’s nursing shortage

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    Notice: Wear a mask to avoid overloading hospitals

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    Since people without a medical degree seem to enjoy recognition equal to that of the medical profession, I feel qualified to offer answers to the questions raised in a recent guest column in The Northside Sun.

    First, those identified as “unvaccinated” are people who have not had the covid vaccines. How many strokes? Ask your doctor.

    Second, no one believes that the vaccinated population will escape the covid virus. Seasonal flu is also a virus that can be contracted and transmitted, even to those who have been vaccinated against the flu. People are being told to wear masks because not only can they contract the virus, but they can spread it. Masks and distancing are as much or more for the protection of others than for the wearers.

    If I understand correctly what the Mississippi State Department of Health and the National Center for Disease Control report, vaccinated people who have contracted the virus have a significantly higher probability of surviving the virus than those who don’t. have not been vaccinated. The majority of people with Covid-19 who have been admitted to hospital intensive care units during the pandemic are unvaccinated patients.

    I read somewhere, but can’t seem to find the reference as I write this, that historically the two leading causes of ER and ICU admissions in Mississippi and the United States were road accidents and heart attacks. For several years, including the past two years, the number and percentage of admissions resulting from motor vehicle accidents and heart attacks have remained relatively unchanged. However, admissions for a disease that was unknown two years ago has now become a major part of critical admission rates.

    Although the number of hospitals, doctors and staff has not increased, over the same period the number of intensive care admissions has increased significantly, especially during the covid surges. This increase in admissions was not expected two years ago because the disease was unknown. Qualified hospital staff are limited in number. They are strained to provide the necessary care for the jump of those who present in critical condition. If there is no one available to staff the positions required for emergency and intensive care, then the care is not available or not immediately available.

    According to the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch website tonight (Jan. 6), rural Missouri hospitals unable to treat the most severe cases cannot transfer their patients to metropolitan hospitals in the state because urban hospitals are overwhelmed. Saint Louis hospitals report that some patients after being stabilized in the emergency room then “wait” hours to days to be admitted to intensive care beds. People are dying for lack of care. The overload is attributed in part to unvaccinated covid cases increasing exponentially. According to the Saint Louis newspaper, the number of admissions of confirmed covid cases to city hospitals had doubled on December 10, 2021, compared to a few weeks earlier, and on January 4, 2022, that number had doubled again. The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported a similar situation in Tennessee. In July 2021, with the push for the delta variant, local press reported that ICUs in Mississippi had only 10% beds available and none at UMMC. At the end of July, patients “were waiting in the corridors [at UMMC due to] the influx of COVID-19 cases requiring hospitalization. We can expect what is happening now in the Midwest and Mid-South to happen again here.

    With limited staff resources for emergency, intensive care and hospital floors, this means that some patients who would normally receive appropriate care for emergency admissions are unable to receive timely treatment. It’s not hard to imagine a parent seriously injured in a motor vehicle collision that happened through no fault of their own, a schoolboy injured in a freak accident in a playground or an elderly grandmother seriously injured after falling down the stairs. In highly taxed hospitals, equally innocent people may be denied the critical care they need because fellow citizens who have exercised their constitutional right not to be vaccinated have been admitted to occupy the only available intensive care beds.

    I agree with the guest columnist that the political and medical warnings and media reports have been unclear and confusing. Implied by her tone, like her, I also don’t believe politicians or trust the media for their abhorrent failures. And I agree with the columnist’s opinion that mandates to get vaccinated are unconstitutional.

    From my point of view, the problem does not lie in terms of constitutional law; I see it more as a concern for families, neighbors and fellow citizens as well as the healthcare community that is supposed to provide treatment. The sad reality is that you or a loved one can show up at a local emergency room and die on a hospital stretcher while waiting for emergency treatment that was delayed because the unvaccinated citizen taking the bed your family member should have is there in critical condition. for covid care.

    I understand the personal freedom arguments about forced mask-wearing and vaccinations. But it’s also a personal freedom not to wash your hands before handling food. It’s a personal freedom not to vote in elections or wear a seatbelt when driving. You can choose not to do what is right, even what is against civil and moral laws, and call it an exercise in freedom. But responsible citizens exercise their personal freedoms wisely.

    Masks must have medically proven benefits. Doctors and nurses wore them in surgery and other restricted hospital environments long before COVID-19 and Wuhan were ever heard of. You wear a mask to protect yourself and selflessly to protect others. I think it’s the same with vaccines. You receive a vaccine to protect yourself and others.

    Chip Williams is a Northsider.

    International Medical Corps COVID-19 Situation Report #43, January 19, 2022 – World

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    FAST FACTS

    • According to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, which consolidates data from various sources, as of January 19, 335,187,252 confirmed cases of COVID19 have been reported worldwide.

    • In the United States, we support 43 hospitals across the country, including California, Illinois, Massachusetts,
    Michigan, New York, Puerto Rico and Texas – with a range of services and equipment, including field emergency medical units, supplies and volunteer staff.

    • We screened over 7.9 million people for COVID-19 in our global missions and distributed over 32.5 million pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) and infection prevention and control items (IPC) to supported health facilities.

    • We have trained more than 29,000 frontline healthcare professionals on COVID-19 prevention and control measures.

    Today, more than two years after the discovery of SARS-COV-2 in Wuhan, China, the world has suffered over 335 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 5.5 million confirmed deaths from the virus. Over the past month, the number of cases has skyrocketed, with the past two weeks seeing more than twice as many daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 as ever before. This increase in the number of cases is attributed to the Omicron variant, a highly contagious but less virulent variant of the virus.

    Scientists are working quickly to gather information about Omicron. Although the new variant is potentially four times more contagious than the original virus, it is much less likely to cause hospitalization or death than previous variants. For example, a recent study that has not yet been peer-reviewed showed that the variant is 53% less likely to result in hospitalization due to respiratory problems, 74% less likely to result in ICU admission and 91% less likely to cause death. .

    Omicron is also more likely to evade immunity from previous vaccination or infection. However, although existing vaccines are less effective against Omicron in preventing infection, they appear to provide strong protection against serious disease. Additionally, if the need arises, Pfizer and Moderna say they can have an Omicron-specific vaccine by March.

    Although less virulent, Omicron can still overwhelm healthcare systems around the world with a flood of new cases and could lead to a massive increase in deaths due to the large number of infections. For example, in the United States, there are currently a record number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. However, these statistics can be misleading, as many hospitalized COVID-19 patients are not hospitalized due to viral symptoms, but test positive upon admission to hospital for other causes. This leads them to be included in national statistics of hospitalizations related to COVID-19.

    Yet, Omicron’s hotspot hospitals have seen a dramatic increase in the number of people seeking treatment, placing huge burdens on healthcare systems. In the United States alone, models show between 50,000 and 300,000 additional confirmed COVID-19 deaths before the Omicron wave subsides.

    Bassett Healthcare Network Valley Health Services Welcomes New Practical Nurses

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    Valley Health Services (VHS) in Herkimer has had success in its nursing assistant training program which helps its resident assistants become certified nursing assistants (CNAs).

    The 120-hour course is taught by Peggy Cool, RN, through the Center for Corporate and Community Education at Mohawk Valley Community College. It teaches basic nursing skills, prepares students to care for residents, and qualifies them to take the CNA exam. Five resident assistants completed the program in October and three in December.

    Lisa Betrus, President of VHS and Senior Vice President of Bassett Healthcare Network, Director of Strategy and Transformation, said, “We are extremely grateful for the commitment and dedication of these students to continue their education for the benefit of our residents. All of us at Valley Health are extremely proud of the accomplishments of these individuals, especially during this time of a global pandemic and national shortage of direct healthcare workers. »

    VHS will be offering more nursing assistant training programs in the near future. He is looking for people interested in starting a career in the health field. For more information, please contact the Human Resources Department at 315-866-3330 ext. 2254.

    Senators introduce four bills to address Nebraska’s nursing shortage

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    LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) — The president of the Nebraska Hospital Association sent a clear message to the state capitol building on Tuesday afternoon; Nebraska lawmakers must address the critical shortage of nurses in the state.

    “Inaction now will result in a decade or more of chronic understaffing in our healthcare system in Nebraska,” said Jeremy Nordquist, president of the Nebraska Hospital Association.

    Nordquist said the data collected by the association paints a clear picture of the shortage. Seventy-three of Nebraska’s 93 counties have fewer nurses than the national average, 66 counties were deemed medically underserved, and nine counties have no registered nurses in their population.

    Data is provided by the Nebraska Hospital Association(KOLN)

    He said if nothing is done, Nebraska will be short of nearly 5,500 nurses by 2025. The COVID-19 pandemic is only making the situation worse.

    “I’ve been a nurse for 30 years,” said Linda Stones, a registered nurse with the Nebraska Nurses Association. “These nurses who are working right now have seen more death and dying in the last three years than I have ever seen in my 30-year career.”

    Nordquist said data shows that 30% of nurses in Nebraska are considering leaving their healthcare careers. Sixty percent say the pandemic has caused stress that is impacting their mental health.

    This data explains why four state senators are asking for $62 million in American Rescue Plan Act money to help recruit and retain nurses.

    The most significant bill is proposed by Omaha Senator Mike McDonnell. He is calling for $50 million to be sent to hospitals to be distributed to nurses as cash bonuses. Hospitals would have the discretion to distribute the money, but it would have to go to the nurses. If it were divided equally, it would amount to about $2,000 per nurse in the state.

    A bill introduced by Senator Mike McDonnell would offer cash bonuses to nurses.
    A bill introduced by Senator Mike McDonnell would offer cash bonuses to nurses.(KOLN)

    “When you talk to nurses, when you look them in the eye, you know they’re exhausted,” McDonnell said. “They don’t want to give up, but they go through so much on a daily basis. I’m not saying the money is going to change that or make up for the sacrifice they’ve made because they’re so committed, but we have to do something to say please hang in there.

    Second, a $2 million bill introduced by Omaha Senator Robert Hilkemann that would provide hospitals with grants for innovative patient care, which has played a significant role in the pandemic.

    Senator Hilkemann of Omaha introduced a bill that would provide grants to hospitals.
    Senator Hilkemann of Omaha introduced a bill that would provide grants to hospitals.(KOLN)

    Hilkemann, a retired doctor, spoke directly to the nurses.

    “I hope to give hospitals another opportunity to help you with your training and move forward so that we can create the 21st century healthcare system, post-COVID,” Hilkemann said.

    Third, a $5 million bill introduced by Lincoln Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks that would add new positions to the Nebraska Department of Education to oversee career and technical programs that engage high school students in careers. from the start.

    A bill introduced by Senator Patty Pansing Brooks would improve a program aimed at encouraging high school students to...
    A bill introduced by Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks would improve a program to guide high school students early in their careers.(KOLN)

    “These dollars are intended to help young high school kids learn skills in health care, education, agriculture and business,” Pansing Brooks said. “It allows students to have impacts and connections in these professions so they can move forward and stay in Nebraska and be part of our workforce.”

    The fourth bill will be introduced in the Legislature on Wednesday by Lincoln Sen. Myron Dorn. It would take $5 million and create scholarships for nursing students.

    A fourth bill, introduced by Senator Myron Dorn, would provide scholarships for nursing students.
    A fourth bill, introduced by Senator Myron Dorn, would provide scholarships for nursing students.(KOLN)

    Stones said these bills should be a priority for senators.

    “It will get worse if we don’t support these people. We have to do something for these people, for the communities, for the staff,” Stones said. “Money isn’t everything, but it speaks volumes and as a nurse, if I can get a nurse a few extra bucks to get her house cleaned so she can spend time with her family when she leaves and goes home, it’s huge.”

    She said she hopes senators will seek input from frontline health care workers as they negotiate these laws.

    “The worst part of the pandemic is behind the walls of our intensive care units where we have very few people who can come and see,” Stones said. “They need to hear these stories.”

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    Checking in with pediatricians and nurses as COVID child hospitalizations soar

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    The number of children testing positive for COVID-19 is soaring.

    The American Academy of Pediatrics reports that 11% of all child COVID cases since the start of the pandemic have occurred in the past two weeks.

    Doctors do not believe the increase in hospitalizations is due to the increased severity of the omicron variant, but rather to the increased transmissibility that has led to more COVID-19 infections overall.

    The increased volume has put a strain on doctors and nurses working in the pediatric divisions of hospitals across the country.

    “I think this time last year, we were really hoping we weren’t here anymore,” said Dr. Tracy Butler, director of pediatric critical care at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children. “It’s sad that we are currently in this peak situation.”

    “Some days are better than others,” added pediatric nurse Steph Miller.

    According to the CDC, COVID hospitalizations for children under 5 have risen 48% in the United States since early December, the biggest jump for the age group since the start of the pandemic. And new hospitalizations of children under 18 are also reaching a record high: 797 per day.

    “Reacting to a crisis is normal, but you usually have a lot of adrenaline when you respond to a crisis. And so responding to a crisis, where it’s a long-term crisis, I think that’s the element who made it the hardest,” said Laura Anne Cleveland, Associate Chief Nursing Officer at OMRM.

    Cleveland says that to keep morale up in her unit, she gives handwritten letters of appreciation and support to her nurses. She says they are most helpful when her unit is having a bad outcome with a patient.

    “We just keep working hard and being there for each other because if we’re not there, nobody else is, then we’re going to be for our kids and our community,” Miller said.

    Dr. Reginald Washington is the RMHC’s Chief Medical Officer and has been working to compensate for the increasing number of doctors and nurses calling in due to COVID-19 infection. He says it has strained an already fragile system.

    “Some days are tougher than others, but we put on our big boy pants and get back in the saddle and back to work,” Dr. Washington said. “Patients rely on us. People were ringing bells and shouting at 8 p.m., but the stress on the medical profession has not gone away. I think people take, to a certain extent, COVID for granted, whereas in the health profession you can’t do that because we live with it every day.

    This is part of a series of stories examining the question “How are you?” where we check in with people from different walks of life to see how they are handling the pandemic.

    SIMMONS: The toughest half-season of Raptors coach Nick Nurse’s career

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    “It’s been tough, man, I have to say,” Raptors head coach Nick Nurse said as his team faced a mountain of question marks heading into the second half. Photo by GETTY IMAGES FILES /TORONTO SUN

    Halfway through a season to nowhere, the Toronto Raptors are paddling along, more entertaining than expected, less defined beyond the middle of the pack.

    They are neither young nor old. They’re not terrible and they don’t argue. They beat defending champion Milwaukee twice, but lost twice to Detroit. They have won terrific games on the road and lost gifts at home.

    And it all took its toll on head coach Nick Nurse in his fourth Raptors season. Four seasons, and none like the other. There was the championship in year 1, the bubble in year 2, home games in Tampa in year 3, and now this, the uncertainty of working life with too many injuries, too much COVID-19, not enough time to take it all in, and for a moment, breathe out.

    His life in the NBA and before has been a documentary waiting to be made. From his years bouncing from league to league and country to country, Nurse has come to understand unpredictability. But it’s a whole other level, even for him. This season, with all of its moments and so much to look forward to, beat it like few seasons in the past have.

    “It’s been tough, man, I have to say that,” Nurse said, when asked to rate the first half of the season the night the Raptors played Game 41. “In the four seasons that I was the head coach, this one seemed to be the hardest.

    “I know it sounds weird after playing in the bubble, playing last year in Tampa… I don’t know what it is, but it seems like there’s a lot more valleys. More ups and downs. There are hard bottoms, man. It’s been a battle to pick everyone up or pick yourself up.

    “I have to be honest, I don’t really have an explanation for this… We thought we were getting back to normal. And then we turn around and there’s no fans in the building and you know, we’re sitting everywhere.

    And then he caught up. It’s not Nick Nurse, usually. He’s not one to feel sorry for himself. She’s not a Debbie Downer. He’s the kind of coach that makes players better.

    “I don’t want to stay in a negative city, here there have been a lot of positives as well,” Nurse said. “You can almost go through a whole bunch of guys. Fred (VanVleet) played amazing. Pascal (Siakam) found the Pascal we remember. OG (Anunoby) continues to grow. Scottie (Barnes) was great. And I fell in love with Gary Trent Jr. We didn’t know he could keep it that way.

    And then he continued to brush up on some pet projects, with the lost Chris Boucher finding his game in recent weeks; the half-lost Precious Achiuwa, learning on the job, still half-lost. Not the words of the nurse. To exploit.

    There’s a lot to love about this Raptors team, even if they get rid of it to make the playoffs or the playoffs. If you don’t care about VanVleet, check your pulse. It’s the same with Anunoby. They are guardians. It’s incredibly encouraging to see what Barnes is and to imagine what he will become. This week, Siakam looks great. Last week he looked great. And if that’s what he will be, that’s great news for the Raptors.

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    But it seems to be week-to-week and month-to-month and who knows what that means – but there’s some encouragement to have Siakam and Anunoby and Barnes and Trent and VanVleet all together on field. It is the NBA’s first competitive unit. Not a championship formation but a team to give others a hard time.

    The second unit, however, not so much, The trade deadline arrives next month and Goran Dragic and his Instagram photos will be sent somewhere for something, and the rest of the Raptors roster is mostly fringe and daily.

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    You need an A superstar to be a truly competitive NBA team and Barnes just might be that player down the road. VanVleet is already punching above his weight. Anunoby is a guardian. Masai Ujiri and Bobby Webster have more to worry about and feel good about than they might have expected in this season where Nurse has rarely had a set roster and it’s one thing for the team to be sick , it’s another thing to be hurt. as often as they seem to be.

    Nurse probably overplayed his best players because he had to and four Raptors are in the top 10 in time on the floor every night in the NBA. This will catch up with them as the season progresses. It’s the act of a trainer who knows he has few options in his lineup and as the old radio stations would tell you, always listen to your A records.

    A coach who tries to win, who tries to stay balanced, who tries to lift himself and his team, all at the same time.

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    A group gives health care to uninsured workers

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    The dedicated members of the Coastal Volunteers in Medicine team had just received a donation of Bombas socks which were given to patients. (Photo courtesy of Coastal Volunteers)

    SOUTHERN OCEAN – The dilemma represents a real dilemma for too many residents. Despite working multiple jobs, a number of workers in Southern Ocean County no longer have enough money from their regular earnings to cover more than basic necessities.

    You would think that medical insurance would be among the essentials. Certainly, income limits serve as criteria for free or reduced health insurance.

    The sad truth is that households with incomes below the federal poverty level are not necessarily eligible for government programs. Many families forgo medical care because they simply cannot afford to cover themselves and are uninsured.

    “ALICE stands for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed,” explained Lyndsay Hall, APN, WHNP-BC, executive director of Coastal Volunteers in Medicine. “It’s a term to define and understand the hardships of households that earn above the federal poverty level, but not enough to afford a minimal family budget.

    “These people earn too little to pay insurance costs, but also are not eligible for federally subsidized health care programs,” Hall continued. “ALICE is your nursery nurse, the cashier at the supermarket, the gas station attendant, the clerk at your big-box store, your waitress, a home helper, an office worker. ALICE can’t always pay the bills, has little or no savings, and is forced to make tough choices, like choosing between quality childcare or paying the rent.

    Coastal Volunteers in Medicine seeks to meet the needs of this segment of the Southern Ocean County population. The organization began as the brainchild of Sheila Rich-Mazzeo in 2009. Although Mazzeo, a nurse practitioner, has since moved out of state, she remains an active participant in the program.

    “Hackensack Meridian Health Care was kind enough to donate office space to us,” Hall explained. “We are currently looking for other spaces and hope to find some in Barnegat.”

    A team of volunteers that includes physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses and social workers meet with eligible clients at Coastal’s office located at 730 Lacey Road, Suite G6 in Forked River. Primary care consultations take place one full day per week. Mental health counseling is available and an advanced practice nurse manages medication.

    Only two part-time paid staff and one hourly paid staff are on Coastal’s payroll.

    The 60 to 70 volunteers who support the operation of the organization extend beyond health professionals to include administrative staff.

    Two churches offered their support for the Costal mission. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and St. Francis Roman Catholic Church partner with the voluntary organization.

    “We also have a benchmark partnership with Seaview Orthopedics,” Hall said. “We are always looking for specialist partners to help our patients.”

    The program sponsors an eye clinic every two months to perform eye exams. Women’s health issues are addressed through Pap smear screenings and mammograms. Nutrition advice is available for diabetics.

    The patients being treated by the group of volunteers are all under the age of 65 and range from children to middle-aged adults. Undocumented workers receive the same care as others who need medical attention.

    “We treat a lot of people with diabetes, as well as hypertension,” Hall said. “These are the most chronic issues that we see most frequently.”

    When it comes to prescribing drugs, volunteer providers try to select the most affordable drugs. A volunteer assists patients with paperwork associated with prescription assistance programs. Hospital referrals include processing information for charitable care.

    Jay Greco, owner of Jersey Shore Pharmacy, is a board member of Coastal Volunteer. It provides patients with their drugs at cost if they cannot afford them.

    A number of patient testimonials appear on the organization’s website. Hall personally recalls how a client’s life was likely saved when volunteers were diagnosed with cancer. Another patient named Bob said that thanks to the treatment he received from Coastal Volunteers he was able to avoid a heart attack.

    Eligibility for free service is based on federal poverty guidelines multiplied by 300%. A family of four would qualify if their gross weekly earnings were below $1,529 under the 2021 guidelines.

    In order to qualify for treatment, clients must show proof of residence in one of the following postcodes: Barnegat 08005; Barnegat Fire 08006; Chatsworth 08019; Eagleswood 08092; Forked River 08731; Lanoka Port 08734; Little Egg Harbor 08087; Long Beach Island 08008; Manahawkin 08050; New Gretna 08224; Tuckerton 08087; Waretown 08758 and West Creek 08092.

    “Our funding comes entirely from individual donors, corporations and grants,” Hall said. “We do not receive any government subsidies.

    How to Care for Air Plants

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    Despite the classic excuse of not having a “green thumb,” keeping a houseplant alive has more to do with being able to do and remembering to stick to a schedule than being born without it. a fake gene that makes you feel good in gardening. (And if you literally have a green thumb, you might want a medical profession to look into it.)

    But some houseplants are certainly easier to care for than others, and people who travel a lot or have trouble remembering to water their plants may want to opt for more self-sufficient varieties. And when it comes to low maintenance, air plants are hard to beat. However, they are not completely independent and require occasional care. Here’s what you need to know.

    What is an air plant?

    Officially called Tillandsias, There are more than 600 types of air plants. And although they are native to the southern United States and Central and South America, it is possible to grow air plants indoors in any climate. And yes, they got their name because they don’t need soil to grow.

    Air plants are epiphytes“meaning they use their roots to cling to supports such as tree branches and rocks, the same way orchids grow”, According to the Farmer’s Almanac. “Instead of absorbing water and nutrients through their roots, they use trichomes, special scale-like structures on their leaves, to do the job.”

    How to care for an air plant

    First of all, never plant an air plant in the ground, or put one in a terrarium. Instead, place them in a cup, bowl, or vase and place them in a location that receives between four and six hours of filtered natural light each day. Also, make sure the temperature is between 50 and 90 (which shouldn’t be difficult indoors).

    Air plants should be soaked – not watered in the traditional sense –once every two weeks. To do this, take the plant out of its usual place and immerse it in a bowl of rainwater or bottled drinking water (softened and/or tap water contains minerals that can harm the air. plants) for Approximatly one hour.

    After his bath, shake the plant to remove as much water as possible (so that it does not rot when it returns to its usual pot or vase). If the leaves of an air plant begin to turn brown, it means it needs to be water more often. And if one of the leaves dies completely, cut them disabled with a pair of sharp scissors.

    Longtime EMU team doctor David Alvarez has died

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    YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) — Former Eastern Michigan University Athletics Department Team Physician Dr. David Alvarez died on Thursday January 13 at the age of 62. Alvarez joined EMU in 1995 and remained at the school until 2014, serving as a sports medicine fellow, doctor and team chief medical officer.

    In addition to his work at EMU, Alvarez was known to be a highly trained family physician and was highly sought after in the industry. He has cared for patients at both Domino’s Farms Family Medicine and MedSport, serving as a family physician and primary care sports medicine physician in the orthopedic department.

    Alvarez was friendly, calm in the face of adversity and always ready to help. He has mentored many students, residents, fellows, and athletic trainers over the decades. Alvarez has worked closely with Dr Wally Roeser and former EMU Head Sports Coaches Gary Strickland and Steve Nordwall to provide first-class sports injury prevention, management, and rehabilitation to all student-athletes in Eastern Michigan.

    He received his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Butler University in 1982 and added his medical degree from Michigan State University in 1989. Shortly thereafter, Alvarez completed an internship at Naval Hospital San Diego, California. While in the United States Navy, Alvarez worked in air surgery training for three years in Norfolk, Virginia.

    He completed his residency and was a Sports Medicine Fellow in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan.

    Alvarez was a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine.

    He was married to Dr. Pamela Rockwell and they have two children, Teddy and Christina.

    A visitation will be held Friday, January 21 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Muehlig Funeral Chapel (403 S. 4th Ave. Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104). A visitation will be held on Saturday, January 22 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., followed by a memorial service at Muehlig Funeral Chapel.

    For everyone’s safety, the family asks that visitors coming to the funeral home for visitation or service be limited to those who are both vaccinated AND boosted against COVID-19 and wearing a medical grade mask.

    Fond memories and expressions of sympathy can be shared at www.muehligannaarbor.com for the Alvarez family.

    Blevins retires after 35 years in technical education | Education

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    ELIZABETHTON — The president of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology (TCAT) in Elizabethton, Dean Blevins, has announced his retirement after more than a third of a century in professional technical education.

    The Bristol native, who is 60, is a graduate of Tennessee High School.

    He earned his Associate of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering Technology from Northeast State Community College, a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering Technology, and a Master of Science in Adult Technical Education from East Tennessee State University. He also did graduate studies in human resources management at the University of Tennessee.

    He is also acting director of the Tennessee Council on Career and Technical Education, which advocates for CTE and reports CTE issues and accomplishments to the General Assembly. He is retiring on June 24, 12 years and 10 months after taking office as TCAT President.

    Looking back on a career that started at TCAT Elizabethton, took him to schools in Greeneville and Kingsport City, and then back to TCAT, Blevins recently answered some questions from The Times News:

    1. What comes to mind most about your time at TCAT Elizabethton?

    “I began my career in vocational and technical education 35 years ago here at Tennessee College of Applied Technology (formerly known as State Area Vocational-Technical School, then as Tennessee Technology Center) as as an instructor in industrial electricity and electronics, to see the change in education during this time has been significant to say the least,” Blevins said.

    “The technological changes that affect daily life, but also the way we teach differently thanks to technology. Another significant accomplishment for TCAT Elizabethton is the enhancement of our main campus and programs that has made the college a state-of-the-art facility to better serve the citizens of Northeast Tennessee.

    2. What is your tenure at TCAT and before that with Kingsport City Schools, and what was your title at KCS?

    “Started here at TCAT 35 years ago as an instructor, got promoted to Student Services Coordinator. Worked for Greeneville City Schools and most recently Kingsport City Schools for approximately 10 years as Director of Vocational and Technical Education. I returned to the college as president in August 2009, serving as president for the past 13 years.

    3. The new curriculum at the old Sullivan North High School building, the future Sevier High School building, seems to kind of bring you full circle with KCS and a TCAT curriculum at the future KCS school. Have you had any idea that

    happen shortly before you announce your retirement?

    “I guess a few full-loop experiences, first here at TCAT, but also looped at Kingsport with our recent work on developing an extension campus for Kingsport on the former site of Sullivan North High School.

    “When I returned as college president, our first task was to upgrade our main campus to include three new buildings and renovate the existing building. We wanted a college campus vibe when we transitioned from a tech center to a technical college.

    “I believe we have more than achieved this goal with a state-of-the-art main campus and programs. We knew early on that we also needed to improve our reach in the other counties we serve in northeast Tennessee due to over 3,500 students on our program’s waitlists. It looks like the ‘stars aligned’ with the Sullivan North facility are becoming available and our need for expansion – so yes, it is truly rewarding to be back at Kingsport to provide professional and technical training.

    “We developed the extension campus and launched practical training programs in nursing and building construction technology in record time. The college will continue to develop new programs for Kingsport in the very near future.

    4. What will you miss most about your role as President of TCAT Elizabethton?

    “If you do what you love, you will never work a day in your life. I haven’t worked a single day in my life because of the pleasure that professional and technical education gives me. What I will miss most about the job are the relationships, both the old, long-term friendships and the new ones that are an important part of being a college president.

    5. What advice would you give to the person who will be president after you?

    “The job of delivering world-class, high-tech vocational and technical training is more important than ever as we emerge from a devastating global pandemic,” Blevins said.

    “We have put the college on the path to prosperity; however, there is still much work to be done to continue to develop the college. The focus on developing extension campuses in our region is paramount to enriching our community, ensuring that we improve the quality of life for citizens and their families in Tennessee.

    6. Do you have anything else to add?

    “It has been the honor of my life to be president of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology Elizabethton. I have been rewarded many times over my time in public education with fond memories that I will never forget.

    Utah Valley Calendar: Things To Do – January 15 | News, Sports, Jobs

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    AMERICAN FORK

    Events at the American Fork Library: January 18: Brown Bag Book Chat at Noon. Bring your lunch and come discuss what you read. January 19: Tea and quiz at 7 p.m. Try herbal teas and test your knowledge of books, movies and more. For individuals and teams. January 20: Adult Writing Class at 6:45 p.m. Learn the skills, steps, and tools to take your book from start to finish. This 16 week course requires registration. January 22: Tea and quiz at 11 a.m. Try herbal teas and test your knowledge of books, movies and more. For individuals and teams. January 27: Adult Writing Class at 6:45 p.m. Learn the skills, steps, and tools to take your book from start to finish. This 16 week course requires registration. January 27: History of the Timpanogos Cave at 7 p.m. Cami McKinney of the National Park Service will present a program detailing how many citizens of American Fork and the city were involved in protecting the cave and creating the national monument 100 years ago. January 29: Sander-Celebration at 11 a.m. Celebrate all things Brandon Sanderson with book talks, games, prizes and more.

    Story time – The American Fork Library offers story times on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Toddler Tales takes place at 10 a.m., followed by Preschool Pals at 11 a.m. Preschool Palls will also be offered as Zoom Storytime at 10 a.m. on Wednesdays. Register at https://aflibrary.eventbrite.com.

    CEDAR HILLS

    Vinyasa Yoga (mixed level) — Join Kristen Rutter at 9 a.m. every Wednesday at Cedar Hills Recreation Center for a dynamic practice that unites body, mind, and breath. Bring your own mat, strap and block (a limited number are available to borrow).

    Cheer Squad — Classes offered by Cedar Hills Community Services create a fun, multi-level workout experience for kids ages 6-12. Classes will be held from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays starting January 10. Each session lasts 10 weeks for $100.

    Robotics course — In Robopets Robotics, kids ages 4-8 will build simple Lego brick models that teach the basics of robotic design and coding. In Attackbots Robotics, students ages 7-14 will build a variety of military-inspired robotic models and learn about sensors, gears, pulleys, and programming. One-hour classes will take place on Wednesday afternoons, from March 2 to April 13. For more information and to register, visit https://secure.rec1.com/UT/city-of-cedar-hills/catalog.

    Brighton Ski Bus — Join the Cedar Hills Night Ski or Snowboard School at Brighton Ski Resort. Classes are based on skill level and number of participants. All levels are welcome. Four Saturday classes will be offered on February 12, 26 and March 5, 12. Each course includes transportation, a lesson and an overnight pass. For more information, visit https://www.cedarhills.org/ski.

    Fitness classes HIGH — This weekly class takes aerobics to the next level by combining modern fitness techniques, such as HIIT, plyometrics, and strength and cardio intervals with music. Classes are currently held at 6 a.m. on Mondays at the Cedar Hills Recreation Center. Walk-in fare is $5 and punch cards can be purchased at a discount. Social distancing will be in effect. For more information, visit http://www.cedarhills.org/highfit.

    Become HIGH with Dax — HIGH fitness classes will be offered twice a week at the Cedar Hills Recreation Center – at 6 a.m. on Thursdays and a class for children ages 6 to 16 at 4:15 p.m. on Fridays. The registration fee for the Thursday class is $3.50 while the Friday class is free. Social distancing will be in effect.

    LINDON

    Senior Bus — The Lindon Senior Center has a bus service and is able to offer journeys to and from the center on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This is available to senior citizens residing in Lindon. Pickups are between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Returns are between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Reservations must be made at least one day in advance. Contact the Senior Center front desk at (801) 769-8625.

    PAYSON

    Volunteer at the library — Friends of the Payson Library notes that residents can volunteer for an hour or less each month to help the library meet the needs of children and patrons. Volunteers are encouraged to contribute ideas and support the group’s annual book sale. Those interested in volunteering can contact Library Director Dona Gay, Brittany Johnson at (801) 609-4078, Ann Humpherys at (801) 465-0941 or Steve Southwick at (801) 822-1705.

    PROVO

    Mental Health Support Groups — NAMI Utah offers free online support groups and classes for adults living with mental health issues and for family members of loved ones living with mental health issues. For more information, contact Christene Finch, State Programs Coordinator for NAMI Utah at [email protected]

    SARATOGA SPRINGS

    Community Orchestra — The Saratoga Springs Community Orchestra holds rehearsals the first and third Thursdays of each month from 7-9 p.m. at the city offices, 1307 N. Commerce Drive. The orchestra will prepare for Saratoga Splash Days and the December holiday concerts.

    SPANISH FORK

    Leisure news — February 3: Spring Youth Soccer early registration ends (age 5 to ninth grade). February 3: End of registrations for mixed adult volleyball. February 10: End of Spring Youth Soccer registrations (age 5 to ninth grade). 3rd of March: Baseball/softball early registration ends (grades 3-8). For more information, see http://spanishfork.org or call Spanish Fork Recreation at (801) 804-4600.

    UTAH COUNTY

    Volunteers to help Kids On The Move — Every Friday and Saturday, Kids On The Move offers respite care, providing a free break for parents of children with special needs. Families drop off their children at locations in Orem, Lehi and Springville where they are paired one-on-one with a volunteer to play for the evening. A nurse or behavior technician is also present to help supervise. The group is looking for 10 volunteers ages 16 and up from 5:45 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. every Friday and Saturday to help make this possible. For more information or to register, visit https://kotm.org/volunteer-portal. Coronavirus measures are being taken, including requiring masks, taking temperatures and frequent hand sanitizing.

    Foster Grandparents Wanted — Utah County is looking for senior volunteers to serve as adoptive grandparents. Volunteers must be people with limited income who are at least 55 years old and able to serve 15 hours or more per week. Volunteers serve as mentors, tutors and carers for children and young people in schools, hospitals, youth centers and similar organizations. Volunteers receive a tax-free stipend, paid personal time off, transportation reimbursement, ongoing training and more. For more information or if you or someone you know would like to participate, call (801) 851-7784.

    Utah County Home Visiting Programs Need Donations – Utah County Health Department home visiting programs lack donated resources such as baby blankets and diapers. The Health Department is asking community members in Utah County to consider donating items or organizing service projects to help provide donations. The most needed items are new receiving blankets or small quilts and diapers. Other welcome items include: baby ‘onesies’, knitted hats and baby-friendly board books. Items must be in new condition. Donations can be dropped off Monday through Friday (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) at the following health services locations: Provo — 151 S. University Ave., Suite 1610, American Fork — 599 S. 500 East. Questions regarding home visiting programs should be directed to Bonnie Hardy at (801) 851-7026.

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    LAUTECH’s head nurse wins first class in psychology, says every challenge is an opportunity for growth

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    Joy Chinwe Onuegbu, head nurse at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) health center, recently graduated with a first course in psychology. She also has a nursing/midwifery certificate, a PGD and a master’s degree (PhD) in social work. In this interview of KINGSLEY ALUMONA, she talks about why she needs a PhD scholarship, the HND/degree dichotomy, her work at the LAUTECH Health Center, among others.

    You did your first graduate studies in a school of nursing and midwifery. Why didn’t you go to college then or go to one immediately after nursing school?

    I couldn’t attend college back then because I wasn’t properly guided in my career. We thought college education was for the wealthy and the exceptionally bright. It was when my husband asked for my hand in marriage that I told him I wanted to study nursing and he helped me get the form. I passed the entrance exam and the career began. So, I was already married before I got into nursing school and had a baby while in college.

    After my nursing school, taking care of the family was more important then, coupled with the fact that we had financial constraints. The opportunity to study at university was not there until I started working at university.

    How long have you been a nurse at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Health Center and what is your current position there?

    I have been a nurse at LAUTECH since October 1994 (27 years now). My current position is Chief Nursing Officer, and I have held this position since 2009.

    With what educational qualification were you employed as a nurse at the LAUTECH Health Center? How have the promotions with your nursing certificate gone since?

    I was employed with a Registered Nurse/Registered Midwife certificate as a nurse/midwife and my promotions progressed like any other nurse, up to my current position.

    You have a PGD and a Masters in Social Work. Why social work? And how has your social work degree shaped your life and career?

    LAUTECH started a PGD program in social work in 2006. I saw the opportunity to get a degree at the university where I work because I couldn’t go to BSc in nursing because I was not a high school science major. It was also necessary to set up a social work unit at the health center in the same year, so I thought I could switch to this unit at the end of the course, but before completing the program, a junior worker was hired to run the place. I couldn’t reapply to change social work departments because I was already way ahead of the department head in my position at the time. So after completing the PGD, I felt the urge to go for my masters degree hoping there will be opportunities for me to use the certificate.

    On how the degree has shaped my life and career, I have come to realize that social work degrees teach students how to improve the well-being and quality of life of vulnerable people like children, youth, people without -shelter and minority groups. Students learn to support people who need help and empower them to take action and solve the problems they face. The largest percentage of college students are teenagers and we still have teenage health and behavioral issues like substance abuse, psychological and mental health issues, violence, and other vices.

    Thus, knowledge of social work has helped me understand the social predictors of health and illness behaviors, and how to care for vulnerable people within the university community. In fact, every nurse looks out for the social welfare of their patient and my degree in social work helps me do that with ease.

    You opted for a doctorate, but the university you applied to refused your application because you did not have a bachelor’s degree. How did that make you feel?

    I was about to apply when I heard about the first degree challenge. Well, I was not happy. But every challenge presents an opportunity for growth, and that’s what made me choose a degree in psychology.

    With your age and your pressing schedule, how did you manage to get an undergraduate degree in psychology? And why psychology rather than nursing or social work?

    God allowed me to graduate with a first class. I don’t see my age as a problem when I study. After all, aging is in the mind. God gave me the strength, the determination and the grace to aim for the best and achieve it.

    Why I chose Psychology instead of Nursing, As I said before, I was not a high school science student. I only had biology when I got into nursing school. Physics and chemistry weren’t compulsory back then, but you’ll take them as courses in nursing school and have to pass them in first year before you’re promoted to the next level. So I couldn’t go for a nursing degree. In addition, my next promotion will lead me to an administrative position, so I took the opportunity to go into psychology since it is a course that deals with understanding human behavior, organizational culture and management.

    The goal is to allow me to understand why people behave the way they do, what motivates or pushes them to give their best at work or otherwise, and how I can best manage them. I think it will also be useful for the future.

    You said you wanted a fully sponsored PhD scholarship. Why do you need a Ph.D. Which foreign university would you like to do and why this particular university?

    I need a PhD because completing a PhD can give you a great sense of personal accomplishment and help you develop a high level of transferable skills that can be useful in your career as well as contributing to the development of knowledge in the area of ​​your choice. I know that I have an intrinsic motivation for self-realization and I believe that no knowledge is wasted. I’m sure it will be needed in the future, by God’s grace. I am hoping for a scholarship abroad as I believe it will allow me to meet people from diverse cultures in a better study environment.

    The question of the university to which I want to apply; I haven’t applied to any overseas universities yet, and I don’t have any in mind. I’m still looking and I haven’t made my decision yet.

    Have you spoken to the university you work for or the government or any organization about your interest in studying for a PhD and possible sponsorship from them?

    I did not make any contact or request for sponsorship. A lot of things happened over the year that made me pause. But I will start an active search for sponsorship in pursuit of my PhD dream.

    If you are lucky enough to be awarded the fully sponsored scholarship, what area of ​​research/discipline would you like to explore and why?

    I would like a social psychology study, examining how social experiences such as stress, social status, social support, discrimination, etc., influence physical and mental well-being. I would also like to focus on interventions aimed at improving health behaviors. Youth and reproductive health issues will also be an area of ​​focus.

    There is a bill in the National Assembly aimed at ending the dichotomy between HND and diplomas. For or against the bill?

    Chances and opportunities sometimes tempt people to opt for an HND or a bachelor’s degree. Thus, people should not be discriminated against or stagnated in their career progression depending on whether they hold an HND or a degree. That’s my opinion, though.

    What are the three challenges nurses face in the hospital you work in, and how do you want LAUTECH management/Oyo State government to address these challenges?

    First, the lack of staff in the health center is a major concern for nurses. They should employ more nurses and hospital attendants.

    Second, there are workplace hazards, workplace violence, bullying and harassment by students. Standard security measures should be in place. I also think good student orientation will help them know how and where to channel their complaints and grievances, instead of venting their anger on the staff.

    The third is the non-representation of nurses at political/decision-making tables. We want our voices to be heard through better representation of nurses at political tables.

    How do you deal with the stress of your job? And how does your family help in this regard?

    The work environment and the stress of the workload are managed by the grace of God. I plan my day, do my best at work, and leave the rest to God. I try as much as possible not to let problems at work affect the emotional environment at home. God also gave me the grace to balance church life, work life, and family life so that neither negatively affected the other as much.

    I have a very supportive husband and supportive family members. They are also my sources of strength after God. So, I can say that I have very powerful social support.

    What advice do you have for women who aspire to be like you?

    Be determined to follow your heart and give your best to what you want to do. Trust the Lord with all your heart and He will establish the desires of your heart. There is no limit to what a determined person can accomplish.

    Congressman LaHood meets with workers at Hopedale Medical Complex over staffing challenges

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    HOPEDALE, Ill. (WMBD) — Rural hospitals are feeling the pressure of staffing challenges. 18th District Congressman Darin LaHood toured the Hopedale Medical Complex on Friday to hear from healthcare workers firsthand.

    Like major health systems, leaders at the Hopedale Medical Complex said they are facing a staffing crisis. This comes as some have left the medical field or are dealing with the disease themselves.

    “There’s not a lot of staff available right now or if you go to the agency one they don’t have any, or it’s very expensive,” said Emily Whitson, chief operating officer of the Hopedale medical complex.

    In some cases, Emily Whitson said staff at her hospital have been asked to work overtime to fill the void, a decision that is not easy.

    “I think we’re getting to that point where the mental stressors are more than we can or should have to handle,” Whitson said.

    Whitson explained that the situation is about to become dire.

    “We’re on the verge of finding out if someone is sick and has COVID and doesn’t have a lot of symptoms, they may need to work depending on what department they’re in,” Whitson said.

    As health systems face major constraints, Congressman LaHood says the federal government should find ways to help.

    “We’ve looked at other sectors of society and our economy and how we’ve helped them, now we’re looking at how we’re helping healthcare workers,” LaHood said. “It largely depends on funds and resources. How do we look at tax incentives or do we look at additional funding that can go to medical facilities, hospitals, nurses,” he added.

    LaHood said he introduced legislation focused on adding people to the nursing industry.

    “Giving them the necessary resources, tax incentives, to hire more, to make sure that we have strong members among people going into nursing schools,” LaHood said.

    As firefighters and nurses go abroad, Zimbabweans do without | Business and Economy News

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    Harare, Zimbabwe – Samuel Chikengezha, a 35-year-old firefighter, sits on a sofa in his modest home, watching TV while insisting on how he will make ends meet this month.

    He has yet to pay school fees for his three children, he said – one of many financial challenges he faces because the money he makes as a first responder in Zimbabwe has not kept pace with inflation for years.

    “I survive on borrowing from friends and family to get by because the money is barely enough,” he told Al Jazeera.

    Like many of his colleagues, Chikengezha believes the solution to his financial problems is to leave Zimbabwe for a better paying job abroad.

    “I want to leave the country. Each of us wants to go to other countries. We’re all in waiting mode, really,” he said. “As soon as an opportunity arises, I leave.”

    Zimbabwe’s economy was already on its knees before the pandemic hit, and COVID-19 has only made matters worse.

    Wages are stagnating, foreign currency is scarce and the purchasing power of the Zimbabwean dollar continues to erode, with annual inflation exceeding 60% at the end of last year. Manufacturing is weak and poverty is rising with the prices of everything, including basic necessities like food and fuel.

    Today, economic carnage threatens essential public services by triggering a massive brain drain in critical sectors.

    Harare City Council, which runs the Zimbabwean capital’s fire service, said the city lost 125 firefighters last year.

    Council spokesman Innocent Ruwende told Al Jazeera they had left to seek more lucrative jobs abroad, mainly in Gulf states in the Middle East.

    “Our firefighters are in demand because they are highly trained,” he said.

    The lure of higher pay, better conditions

    The lure of a more lucrative and more stable salary overseas is a tempting proposition for Chikengezha, who currently earns $200 a month.

    “Entry salaries [abroad] are between $1,300 and $1,500,” he said.

    As firefighter numbers dwindle, public outcry ensues, blaming first responders for poor service [Courtesy of Chris Muronzi/Al Jazeera]

    It’s not just firefighters looking for bigger paychecks. The brain drain is also disrupting the health sector in Zimbabwe. With the pandemic increasing the demand for healthcare workers around the world, Zimbabwe lost some 2,000 medical professionals last year, according to state media. This is more than double the exodus rate of 2020.

    Zimbabwe Nurses Association president Enock Dongo told Al Jazeera that poor pay and poor working conditions are forcing more nurses to seek positions outside the troubled southern African nation, where nurses earn less than $200 a month.

    “The salaries of nurses in Zimbabwe are too low. Even compared to their peers in the southern African region, Zimbabwean nurses are the lowest paid,” Dongo told Al Jazeera.

    He also noted that the lack of personal protective equipment has made conditions for nurses in Zimbabwe “really dangerous”.

    The public outcry

    As the number of firefighters dwindles, a public outcry ensues, blaming first responders for poor service.

    In November, Harare firefighters came under fire for a penthouse fire that claimed the life of investment banker Douglas Munatsi.

    Acting Fire Chief Clever Mafoti defended the firefighters’ performance, saying trees prevented the deployment of aerial ladders to rescue Munatsi on the ninth floor.

    And while Mafoti acknowledges that an exodus of firefighters is having an impact, he insists the service is still there for the people of Harare when it matters.

    “Our ability to perform our duties has diminished or diminished, but we are still capable of performing our duties,” he told Al Jazeera. “We haven’t reached a stage where we failed to do our duty and just let people’s properties burn to the ground.”

    But Mafoti said financial constraints were taking their toll beyond staffing shortages – especially with aging fire engines.

    “[The city] the council has promised us vehicles, but as you know that’s normally a process,” he said.

    On the health front, pregnant women in Glen View and Budiriro, two high-density suburbs south of Harare, no longer have antenatal care at specialist clinics because there are no nurses in the staff to provide these services.

    “Specially trained nurses such as antenatal nurses have left to seek better opportunities elsewhere,” Harare City Council spokesman Ruwende said, adding that he was looking for partners to provide US dollar funding to hire increasingly scarce talent.

    “People prefer to earn US dollars and they turn down our job offers,” he said.

    Local United Way at 43% of its fundraising goal | News, Sports, Jobs

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    LEWISTOWN — United Way of Mifflin-Juniata announced Thursday that it has so far raised $193,000 or 43% of the $450,000 goal for the 2022 campaign.

    This amount is 11% lower than last year at the same time. The decrease is attributed to the uncertainty of the past two years caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, United Way said.

    Several major workplace campaigns are underway and United Way said it hopes these will raise an amount comparable to last year, although United Way said many of the workplace campaigns that were completed raised less than last year.

    The majority of donations to Centraide come from workplace campaigns and corporate contributions. Any company that wants to participate in a workplace campaign or donate still has time to do so. These businesses are encouraged to contact the United Way office to find out how to join the many local organizations that participate in employee giving.

    United Way works hard to fund programs and initiatives that can improve the course of a person’s life. The organization supports many large local nonprofits through various programs, all of which provide community assistance in the areas of education, income, and health. These programs provide an assortment of essential services to area residents. These efforts touch the lives of thousands of men, women and children in all parts of the community.

    United Way partner agencies include: American Red Cross, The Abuse Network, Crossroads Pregnancy Center, Community Partnerships RC&D, Juniata County Library, Juniata Valley Council of the Boy Scouts, LUMINA Center, MidPenn Legal Services, Mifflin County Library, Compass Community Connections, NuVisions Center and Fayette Lions Den area. In addition, two United Way initiatives are made possible through community contributions: Success By 6 and The Nurse’s Pantry.

    “To those who donated, we thank you”, the United Way DOJ said in a statement. “To those considering joining the campaign, we look forward to hearing from you!”

    Donations to the 2022 campaign can be made to United Way of Mifflin-Juniata, 13 East Third St., Lewistown, PA, 17044. Contributions can also be made online by visiting www.mjunitedway.org.and clicking “Make a donation” or text donate22 to 41444 from your smartphone.

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    Kansas House panel approves bill to extend executive orders on health care staffing shortages

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    TOPEKA — A Kansas House committee on Thursday approved legislation codifying the temporary suspension of health care provider regulations included in recent governor’s executive orders, sending the bill to the full chamber for debate.

    In response to the worsening COVID-19 situation and workload at many health care sites, Governor Laura Kelly last week issued a 15-day executive order to allow expanded practice by some healthcare professionals and temporarily halted some requirements in adult care homes. House Bill 2477 would extend those provisions until May 15.

    Linda MowBray, president of the Kansas Health Care Association and the Kansas Center for Assisted Living, said the executive orders are a lifesaver, but 15 days can pass in the blink of an eye. Without those arrangements in place, workers facing extended hours might not have someone available to replace them, she said.

    “HB 2477 is not the panacea that will solve all of our labor needs,” MowBray told the House Judiciary Committee. “Instead, it is a much-needed safety net that will allow providers to work with their associations, agencies, the legislature and the governor’s office to find and create more permanent solutions to our staffing crisis. .”

    The panel moved quickly to send the bill across the board, passing it unopposed. At the Senate Judiciary Committee, a brief discussion of the bill resulted in no final decision.

    Long-term care facilities and medical providers across the state are reporting significant numbers of staff falling ill with COVID-19 or simply walking off the field. Some hospitals and nursing homes have closed amid these shortages.

    Provisions in the bill passed from Kelly’s executive orders would allow nurses with licenses that have expired within the last five years to perform medical services. Another section of the bill would allow students enrolled in medical programs and certain qualified military personnel to provide medical assistance.

    “The sad reality is that the peak in hospitalizations may not have been reached yet,” said Tara Mays, vice president of state government relations for the Kansas Hospital Association. “Expanding these provisions will allow hospitals in Kansas to access additional resources as we continue to develop contingency plans that help us meet the health care needs of our communities.”

    Additionally, the bill would allow temporary care aides to provide care to nursing home residents, allowing fully certified staff to focus on other potentially more pressing needs within the facilities.

    Rep. John Carmichael, a Democrat from Wichita, said his mother lived in an assisted care facility in Kansas. The care provided to his mother has never diminished during the pandemic despite the long hours and difficult circumstances endured by staff, he said.

    “Unfortunately, I also receive notifications every day for this establishment that in addition to people who are tired and burnt out or who leave the profession and take up higher paying jobs, it seems that every day more employees are diagnosed and also need to be quarantined. like some close contacts,” Carmichael said. “It seems to me that massively complicates the issue.”

    Under current law, the governor’s declaration of disaster could last 15 days. The governor has asked lawmakers to codify the substance of his orders through March, but the bill would extend the provisions through May to be sure.

    Although there were no opponents to the bill, some stakeholders had concerns about certain provisions or ramifications. Mitzi McFatrich, acting director of Kansas Advocates for Better Care, said the use of temporary nursing aides in long-term care facilities should only serve as an emergency palliative.

    Temporary aides are only required to complete eight hours of unsupervised online training, while certified aides must complete 90 hours of classroom and clinical training.

    Courtney Cyzman, general counsel for the State Board of Healing Arts, said the only concern was a provision allowing medical professionals licensed in good standing in another state to practice that profession in Kansas. The board licenses and regulates many healthcare professionals in Kansas.

    “The way the board or any regulator has jurisdiction over someone is with a license,” Cyzman said. “Those people who are unlicensed (in Kansas) as stated in the bill, without specifying that those people are going to be treated as a licensee under applicable practice law, it’s entirely possible that people work in this state and we have no idea who they are.

    Desire and Need Drive Expansion of Bettendorf’s Professional Health Science Education Program | local education

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    The lab, where students will practice their skills, was designed to resemble a patient care space. It has four beds, walkers, and other tools a CNA might use to care for a patient. He also has patients in the form of four mannequins – life-size human figures.

    Funding for the health sciences program was provided in part by the Scott County regional authority, according to the district. Money was also obtained through a federal grant to encourage vocational and technical training.

    Being able to peek into what health care has to offer professionally is critically important, said Rebecca Eastman, chair of the Bettendorf School Board.

    “We are incredibly proud to have the opportunity to offer this program,” said Eastman.

    Rosetta Schulte, who is enrolled in the CNA class, said she wanted to be a pediatric nurse.

    Schulte, a junior, said she got interested in healthcare because she watched “Grey’s Anatomy” a lot. Although she knows that much of what happens in this drama is fictional, the medical aspects of the show have always held her interest.

    “I love helping people, I love working with kids,” Schulte said.

    Through the CNA course, she hopes to deepen her experience of the real demands of a healthcare career: learning about human anatomy and practicing on people.

    Nurses praise Assembly Health Committee’s passage of guaranteed health care bill as ‘hope for California’

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    The California Nurses Association (CNA) today commended the Assembly Health Committee Chairman and committee members for approving the Single-Payer Guaranteed Health Care for All (CalCare) Act, AB 1400 Tuesday evening.

    “We are proud of those who have reached this monumental milestone. Pushing forward legislation that can finally strengthen the health security of millions of people is a momentous day. It offers hope to California families who have long endured the pain and suffering of a broken health care system that excludes so many in need of care, or buries them under thousands of dollars – or more – in medical debt. and the nightmare of choosing which other family essentials to cut,” said CNA President Cathy Kennedy, RN.

    Kennedy praised committee members who voted 11-3 to push the bill forward despite vocal opposition from the multibillion-dollar health care industry and its allies and lobbyists. “This is just the first step, but a huge step,” Kennedy said, adding that nurses and the dozens of health and community activists who have worked so hard to enact transformative health care reform health will continue to intensify the campaign. The bill then goes to the Assembly Appropriations Committee and is due for adoption by the full Assembly by the end of the month.

    In her testimony before the committee, Carmen Comsti, senior regulatory policy specialist for CNA, described the issues and some of what the bill would accomplish:

    Every day, nurses witness preventable health care tragedies that result from our current fragmented insurance system – patients forgo the drugs and care they need simply because they don’t have the means. Meanwhile, insurers and health plan intermediaries are denying and limiting care — avoiding coverage for the sickest, restricting provider networks, creating financial barriers — all to maintain business results.

    The bill establishes and guarantees, under CalCare, universal health care to all Californians as a right. Every California resident would be eligible for the program — regardless of their ability to pay, unrelated to employment or immigration status, and regardless of whether an insurance company considers them a liability for the books of company pocket.

    AB 1400 ensures everyone gets the care they need by removing financial and insurance barriers to care. Without cost sharing under the program, care would be free at the point of care. No copays, no deductibles and no bonuses. Profit motives and financial incentives would no longer determine care. Rather, decisions about patient care under CalCare would be based on patient needs. CalCare puts care decisions in the hands of patients and their doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, as opposed to insurance companies and corporate boards.

    Renowned health justice activist Ady Barkan told the committee about his struggles to get proper care after his ALS diagnosis:

    I knew our health care system was failing before my diagnosis, but having a serious illness made it clear how cruel our system really is. My insurance denied me a ventilator, saying it was experimental, and then two weeks later they denied access to an FDA-approved ALS drug. Even good health insurance, which I have, does not cover the cost of the care I need to survive. It shouldn’t take a viral moment, a team of lawyers and an experienced activist to get the healthcare you need to survive. My result is the exception, but the challenges we have faced, fighting insurance companies for services that are rightfully owed to us, are not. At best, California can lead the nation toward a more just future, as we have done for environmental protection and marriage equality. We should do the same for health care.

    Presenting the Bill to the Committee, Assembly Member Ash Kalra pointed out how the current health care system is “embedded in too much suffering” and is financially and morally unsustainable, placing a burden on workers and employers . The bill, he said, “will save our state tens of billions of dollars in health care costs,” while achieving real progress in health care “economic justice. , racial justice and immigrant justice”.

    Committee chair and dentist Jim Wood said the choice to practice by putting patients first has been frustrated by “health care that has lost its way… Profits are the engine of the whole system. Californians need affordable, quality care. They are angry, desperate, scared. Their anger is justified and we must react.

    Representatives from numerous cities, counties, and labor and community organizations blocked phone lines during the hearing to voice their support for the bill, including representatives from the cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Delano and many more. others.

    “One-time efforts to fix our multi-payer insurance quagmire have not and will not end our health care crisis,” said CNA’s Comsti, concluding, “we cannot expect to a system designed to extract every dollar and penny from our health – from the pain, misery and disease of your constituents – to put patients before profits. This committee must act urgently to pass AB 1400 – any delay will be paid for by the health and lives of Californians.

    California Nurses Association/National Nurses United is the nation’s largest and fastest growing union and professional association for registered nurses, with 100,000 members at more than 200 facilities across California and more than 175,000 AI nationwide.

    Internationally trained nurses willing to support local hospitals

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    WATERLOO –

    The province has announced plans to deploy internationally trained nurses to hospitals and long-term care homes to address staff shortages.

    Imma Marie Yamat, an internationally trained Filipino nurse living in Kitchener, now has the chance to return to the frontlines in the coming weeks.

    “I’m glad they are able to realize us and use us,” said Yamat, who is finishing her final semester at Conestoga College’s Enhanced Practice for Internationally Educated Nurses.

    She has almost 8 years of nursing experience specializing in trauma and intensive care in the Philippines and Saudi Arabia.

    Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliot told a press conference on Tuesday that the province would deploy internationally trained nurses to health facilities in need of staff support due to COVID-19.

    The launch of the Supervised Practice Experience Partnership is led by the College of Nurses of Ontario and Ontario Health.

    Matthew Anderson, president and CEO of Ontario Health, said the program will provide nurses with a supervised experience while allowing them to meet the requirements of their application for a full license.

    “We will have a preceptor in the hospital who will receive these people and oversee them and their care through the system,” Anderson said.

    It is estimated that there will be 300 internationally trained nurses in the first cohort of the program who will be matched with approximately 50 hospitals in Ontario as soon as possible.

    Lee Fairclough, the chief of the Waterloo-Wellington hospitals, said they are considering all options to bring in skilled healthcare workers, including this program.

    Yamat can’t wait to finally get off the sidelines and continue to provide care where it’s needed.

    “This [the program] will speed up our application and, of course, contribute to healthcare, ”Yamat said. “It will be a win-win situation. “

    Medicinal Cannabis – Where Are We Now?

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    Guest author Edward Henry QC, of ​​Mountford Chambers, examines current issues regarding access to medicinal cannabis, in particular as it relates to the treatment of children, in the United Kingdom (UK).

    What’s the problem?

    The battle for NHS prescriptions for the use of unauthorized cannabis medicines (CBMPs) in childhood epilepsies resistant to severe treatment continues to spark controversy.

    Since the law was changed in November 2018 allowing the prescribing of CBMP, there has only been one prescription through the NHS, not three, as variously claimed. Indeed, in the case of Alfie Dingley and another child, access to CBMPs was resolved by a prescription from a general practitioner (GP) before cannabis reprogramming. Thus, the provisions that appeared after November 2018 stipulating that the prescriber must be entered in the register of specialists did not apply.

    What is the explanation for this acute bottleneck, or block? The responsibility seems to lie with the British Pediatric Neurology Association (BPNA). In his March 2020 annual report, he stated the following:

    The Association had to face particular challenges this year. The first concerns the issue of the use of unauthorized cannabis-based drugs in childhood epilepsies. The Association, at the request of the Chief Medical Officer and NHS England, has reviewed the clinical and scientific evidence in this area and issued interim guidance for clinicians. They have also actively participated in the development of NICE guidelines in this area. Both guidelines emphasized the need for further research, and the BPNA was actively involved in submitting requests for NIHR funding for research trials.

    Given the compelling real-world evidence of many children who have seen remarkable improvement in their treatment-resistant severe epilepsy (“STRE”), as documented by the Drug Science charity, BPNA’s paradigm-based approach pharmaceutical development of evidence-based, double-blind, randomized clinical trials appears to have been too restrictive.

    Their self-declared contribution to the development of the NICE guidelines, referenced above in their 2020 annual report, has been the subject of a legal challenge against NICE guideline NG144 regarding CBMPs. This legal action (settled out of court) was necessitated by the restrictive influence that the guidelines (borrowing from the already rigid BPNA approach) had had on prescribers. It was argued that the inflexible adherence to the double-blind model of RCTs, which then prevailed over the question of evidence, would have ignored many individual cases in which CBMPs had already had a beneficial impact. As a result, the amendment of the law of November 2018 to allow such requirements would have been hampered.

    Unfortunately, before the challenge arose and was resolved, many clinicians weren’t ready to prescribe CBMPs that appeared to have had the above beneficial effect. They then claimed that they could not or should not do so because of the advice then made available to clinicians by NICE and / or BPNA.

    So when, on March 22, 2021, NICE released the NG144 Guideline Clarification (“the Clarification”), many parents believed that a ray of hope would soon be seen in the distance.

    The clarification, from NICE, however, would seem to have little impact over the past 8 months. So the question is why?

    To understand, one must investigate the Clarification itself, and deduce how and why it remains to be implemented correctly and has been frustrated in practice.

    The clarification was issued through an agreement between NICE and the parents of a child with STRE. His parents had initiated a judicial review of directive NG144. They argued that guideline NG144 was misinterpreted by clinicians, as clinicians viewed it as preventing them from prescribing CBMPs on the NHS. In response, NICE denied that directive NG144 was intended to have such an effect. As a matter of procedure, NICE issued the Clarification to remove the wrongdoing that parents had valiantly argued against.

    It should never be forgotten that children with STRE very often die from seizures or suffer from irreversible brain damage, ruining their lives and their quality of life forever. The Clarification was therefore intended to provide authoritative guidance on this important (often painful) topic. It replaced and took precedence over any directive (issued by other bodies including the BPNA) to the contrary.

    Drug Science, in a recent article, showed that in a cohort of children with STRE, there was a 96% chance that a child would improve significantly after receiving treatment with a spectrum CBMP. full. Since these children have so far been resistant to all licensed anticonvulsant drugs, often suffering hundreds of seizures per week and having a very poor quality of life combined with a statistically significantly increased risk of death, this was an article which deserved the most recognition by the medical profession.

    The clarification was important in two significant ways. He made it clear that NICE’s view was not, and is not, that CBMPs should not or should never be prescribed in individual cases where it is clinically appropriate. This NG144 had not been spelled before.

    The clarification, very helpfully, also explicitly explained when, in an individual case, prescribing a CBMP would be clinically appropriate. The key phrase is the last of paragraph 3.2:

    “Patients in this population may be prescribed cannabis-based medicines if the healthcare professional considers it appropriate on the basis of a benefit / risk balance, and in consultation with the patient, their families and caregivers. or tutors ”(emphasis added).

    This phrase means that healthcare professionals, when deciding whether or not to clinically support the prescribing of a particular CBMP, should actively look to:

    (a) what benefits do they think this will or could bring; and

    (b) what risk do they think this will or could create?

    If the healthcare professional considers that the benefit outweighs the risk in all the circumstances of the case, and the parents support the use (i.e., knowingly consent), there is no there is no reason for them, clinically or on the basis of the recommendations, not to support the prescription of the CBMP in question.

    What if, rhetorically, a clinician who has performed this risk / reward exercise, which results in a tilted balance in favor of prescribing, subject to obtaining valid informed consent from the parent, but then decides not to do so? , based on his own point of view (according to the BPNA) that there needs to be more pharmacological evidence first, on a population-wide study? If they considered that the actual or potential benefits outweighed the actual or potential risks, but did not clinically support the prescription, then the clinician would act, in our opinion, at odds with the clarification and not in the best interests of the physician. patient. The purpose of the clarification was to emphasize that the state of the research evidence on CBMP to treat STRE, although currently limited, cannot be a reason for refusing prescribing in an individual case.

    Unfortunately, in a display of apparent disregard for clarification, the BPNA issued updated guidelines in October 2021, which were either designed to overturn the clarification released by NICE or create such obstacles in its implementation in one case. individual that it would become impractical. As an example, this can be seen in the following paragraphs of the current BPNA guideline:

    5.13 If a pediatric neurologist is considering prescribing an unlicensed CBMP in private practice, he or she should:

    5.13.1 inform the NHS pediatric neurologist who normally cares for the child and

    5.13.2 Provide comprehensive and ongoing care for a child with complex epilepsy, including appropriate psychological, developmental and physical assessment / therapy, with 24 hour support.

    5.13.4 If a pediatric neurologist prescribes unauthorized CBPM in a private practice, he or she should also be certain that the family can bear the cost of the ongoing private prescriptions. We consider it unethical to initiate treatment in private practice for which funding is not available in the longer term. The NHS is unlikely to cover the cost of future prescriptions for an unlicensed drug that has no Level 1 evidence of efficacy and safety.

    From our reading, paragraph 5.13 could be interpreted as a veiled threat that the NHS pediatric neurologist will wash the patient’s hands if he receives a private prescription for CBMP. As for 5.14, this is an intrusive element, and totally outside the specialist’s remit.

    The research recommendations in paragraph 6 of the BPNA offer show that it is still committed to the double-blind RCT model, completely forgetting the importance of clarification, in which NICE said:

    3.1 “The (original) guideline made research recommendations for the use of unauthorized cannabis-based drugs for severe treatment-resistant epilepsy. The committee considered, based on the evidence available at the time, that there was insufficient evidence of safety and efficacy to support a population-wide practice recommendation (i.e. i.e. a recommendation relating to the entire population of people with severe resistance to treatment). epilepsy).

    3.2 The fact that NICE has not made any population-wide recommendations, however, should not be interpreted by healthcare professionals to mean that they are precluded from considering the use of non-cannabis-based medicines. permitted when clinically appropriate in an individual case. Patients in this population may be prescribed cannabis-based medicines if the healthcare professional considers this to be appropriate on the basis of a benefit / risk balance, and in consultation with the patient, family, caregivers or others. his tutor.

    3.3 There is no recommendation against the use of cannabis-based medicines ”.

    Remark

    It appears, in view of the clear divergence from the proposed clarification by NICE cited above, that the BPNA is sticking to its rigid, orthodox and conventional approach to CBMPs, and therefore there is no real change. in sight for families.

    Medical Eyewear Market Share, Growth, Statistics, Industry Size, Development, Trend, Demand, End User Analysis

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    The medical eyewear industry generated $ 442.9 million in 2020 and is expected to reach $ 946.8 million by 2030, registering a CAGR of 8.8% from 2021 to 2030.

    PORTLAND, OREGON, UNITED STATES, January 11, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ – Indirect ventilation segment contributed the highest market share in 2020, accounting for over four fifths of the global medical eyewear market, and is expected to maintain its leading status throughout the forecast period. In addition, the segment is also expected to have the highest CAGR of 7.10% from 2021 to 2030. This is attributed to the fact that the indirect vent goggles do not allow splash penetration and therefore provide more protection compared to direct vent goggles.

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    Hospitals and clinics segment accounted for the highest market share, holding more than two-thirds of the global medical eyewear market in 2020, and is expected to maintain its leading position during the forecast period. In addition, the segment is also expected to grow at the greatest CAGR of 7.5% from 2021 to 2030. This is due to the increase in adoption of medical glasses by hospitals and clinics to avoid infection with covid -19.

    North America held the highest market share in terms of revenue with more than a third of the global medical eyewear market in 2020, and is expected to continue its highest contribution through 2030. This is attributed to the rate high adoption of medical glasses and awareness. among healthcare workers the same in the region. However, Asia-Pacific is expected to register the fastest CAGR of 8.7% during the forecast period. This is due to the increased prevalence of infectious diseases and COVID-19 and an increase in awareness of the use of medical glasses among healthcare workers in the region.

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    Health officials let COVID-infected staff stay at work

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    (AP) – Health officials in the United States are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none.

    The move is a reaction to severe hospital staff shortages and overwhelming workloads caused by the omicron variant.

    California health officials announced over the weekend that hospital staff who tested positive but asymptomatic could continue to work. Some hospitals in Rhode Island and Arizona have also told employees they can stay on the job if they have no symptoms or only mild symptoms.

    The highly contagious variant of omicron has exploded new cases of COVID-19 to more than 700,000 per day in the United States on average, erasing the record set a year ago. The number of Americans hospitalized with the virus is around 110,000, just below the peak of 124,000 last January.

    Many hospitals are not only overwhelmed with cases, but severely understaffed due to the large number of employees with COVID-19.

    At the same time, the omicron appears to cause milder disease than the delta variant.

    Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said health workers who have no symptoms can return to work after seven days with a negative test, but isolation time can be further reduced if there is a shortage. of staff.

    France announced last week that it was allowing health workers with mild or no symptoms to continue treating patients rather than isolating them.

    In the Phoenix area, Dignity Health, a major hospital operator, sent a note to staff members saying people infected with the virus who feel well enough to work can seek permission from their managers to resume care. patients. Dignity Health hospitals in California have yet to implement the new guidelines, but have said they may have to do so in the days and weeks to come.

    “We are doing everything possible to ensure that our employees can return to work safely while protecting our patients and staff from the transmissibility of COVID-19,” Dignity Health said in a statement.

    In California, the Department of Public Health said the new policy was driven by “critical staff shortages.” He called on hospitals to do everything possible to fill vacancies by bringing in employees from outside recruitment agencies.

    Additionally, infected workers will need to wear extra-protective N95 masks and should be assigned to treat other COVID-19 positive patients, the department said.

    “We haven’t asked for this advice and we don’t know whether hospitals will take this approach or not,” said Jan Emerson-Shea, spokesperson for the California Hospital Association. “But what we do know is that hospitals are expecting a lot more patients in the next few days than they will be able to treat with current resources.”

    Emerson-Shea said many hospital workers have been exposed to the virus and are either sick or caring for family members who are.

    The California Nurses Association, which has 100,000 members, has spoken out against the decision and warned it would lead to more infections.

    Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state health officials “put the needs of healthcare companies above the safety of patients and workers,” said Cathy Kennedy, president of the association, in a statement . “We want to take care of our patients and see them get better – not potentially infecting them. “

    Earlier this month in Rhode Island, a state mental hospital and rehabilitation center allowed staff who tested positive for COVID-19 but asymptomatic to work.

    At Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, chief medical officer Dr Hany Atallah said they were not yet at breaking point and workers who tested positive were staying away for five days. “We always have to be very careful to avoid the spread in the hospital,” he said.

    Jackson Memorial nurse Kevin Cho Tipton said he understands why hospitals are so eager for employees to come back after five days of isolation. Still, he is concerned about the potential risk, especially for patients at higher risk of infection, such as those receiving transplants.

    “Yes, the omicron is less lethal, but we still don’t know much,” he said.

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    Associated Press editors Amy Taxin, in Orange County, Calif., And Terry Tang, in Phoenix, contributed to this report.

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    COVID-19 outbreak exposes mass educational inequalities in live broadcast lessons

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    If you’re a student in the Needham suburb who is ill or in quarantine, you can still attend classes – remotely via the live broadcast. The process is simple: the student questions the teacher and logs in from home.

    For Boston Public School students who need to self-isolate or self-quarantine, there is no similar procedure. The district has what it calls a “Home and Hospital Process” that only applies to students who are ill for two weeks or more. These students and their families must go through a bureaucratic and little-known six-step process. It takes a doctor to fill out a form, a parent to fill out a form, and a nurse to approve these forms and submit them to the district team for a student to get approval for live lessons.

    This may explain why only 39 of Boston’s nearly 50,000 public school students are enrolled in the live broadcast even as cases of COVID-19 increase. And it highlights the lingering inequalities in education depending on where a Massachusetts child attends school during the pandemic.

    “As much as the pandemic has exacerbated these inequalities, so much it sheds light on long-standing inequalities,” said Justin Reich, professor at MIT, director of his Teaching Systems Lab. “Long before March 2020, the children of Needham had more opportunities to learn effectively with technology than the children of Boston. It’s much more visible now. But it was no less shameful in March 2019 than in January 2022. “

    The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education maintained during the 2021-22 school year that schools are not allowed to teach remotely, even amid the latest wave of COVID-19, officials with Education and Governor Charlie Baker citing the student mental health crisis and the benefits of in-person learning last week. Not everyone agrees, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu recently suggested it was too rigid, and a student petition circulating for distance learning with more than 3,500 signatures.

    But there is an opening in the state’s education department rule that districts seem to interpret differently. He says, if schools have the capacity, they can allow sick or quarantined students to remotely join their regular day by broadcasting live. Students who participate in at least half of the school day at a distance in these circumstances will not be considered absent. Some districts, however, may not be aware that the option exists for students, or may not have the technological resources to pull it out.

    The appearance of the politics on the ground is very different when you compare public schools like Boston and Needham, one serving a high proportion of students of color, often from difficult economic circumstances or with special needs; the other predominantly white, middle to upper class and in homes where the Internet is a given.

    Aaron Sicotte, the principal of Needham High School, said he regularly made phone calls with a group of principals from various districts who were trying to offer students these services to help them keep up with their education during the pandemic. About a quarter of the 1,700 students at Needham High School were absent last week.

    “Supporting more children at home is just the latest thing we’ve tried to figure out,” he said. “I think we have a pretty good plan for Needham High School in place. And I think most of the other high schools I’m in communication with feel the same way, even though their plan might seem a little different from ours. Each of them responds to the needs of the community itself that we each serve.

    Students can access a live streamed course, which he says isn’t as interactive as last year’s fully synchronous format, when teachers were set up to answer students’ questions in person and remotely. But he said it was useful and that many absent students participate.

    A Boston Public Schools policy outlining the process for students to learn remotely. He clarifies that it is exclusively for students who will not be able to learn in person for at least 14 school days, noting at the top: “This is not for students who may require isolation or quarantine due to COVID-19 “.

    At Boston public schools, spokesman Jonathan Palumbo said the district sent out notices to families about a live streaming option last summer. It’s an option only for sick students who will be absent two weeks or more, he said, and explicitly excludes students who are isolated or quarantined due to COVID-19.

    The district has also worked with schools and families to ensure that students who are absent because they are in quarantine or isolated due to exposure to COVID-19 have access to lesson plans during the time they are in. they missed.

    Reich said it wasn’t fair to keep Boston on par with neighborhoods like Needham. Boston has over 20 high schools to run, and Needham only one. Distance learning took place in Boston public schools last year, when the state’s education department allowed schools and classes to operate entirely remotely, and some students were given computers. and a temporary internet connection. But Reich said computers go down, networks go down and hotspots may no longer be available.

    Last spring, MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab surveyed K-12 teachers and students, primarily in the Boston area, to ask their perspective on the first year of learning under COVID conditions. , and what they needed for school and the year 21/22. beyond. One of the themes among the hundreds of students and teachers surveyed was to correct long-standing inequalities between school systems, inequalities that often look like indignities to students. Some students wanted larger, more modern science classes or less police presence in school buildings. Others cited better bathrooms, better quality school lunches or relaxed dress code requirements, according to the report.

    These are fixable issues, Reich said.

    “It’s about creating a fairer world where, you know, every Boston kid has high speed internet in their home, has access to technology, and has access to high quality medical care and testing and testing. things like that, ”he said. . “If there are great choices available for students in Needham, there should be the same set of great choices available for students in Boston. The problem is, schools alone cannot make all of the great choices available.


    Nicolette Baker, Truro launches Gofundme crowdfunding for surgery

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    A FORMER student from Helston School launched a crowdfunding appeal for £ 50,000 for life-saving surgery in Germany before she literally starved to death.

    Nicolette Baker, 36, who lives near Truro and whose mother is said to have also taught at Porthleven School in the 90s, suffers from an incredibly rare condition that causes nausea and pain every time she tries to eat .

    This has left her underweight and is currently only three stones, she says, without treatment she will die as she becomes weaker and more organs run out of supply. bleeding.

    Posting on her Gofundme page, which can be found here or on gofundme.com by searching for Nicolette Baker, she said: “First of all, I want to thank you for taking the time to read my story. It is not in my nature to ask for help. others, but with the encouragement of friends, I took their advice and opened up to you.

    “I have an incredibly rare disease which, due to the fact that only 0.013% of the population actually suffers from it, went undetected throughout my childhood.

    “It wasn’t until I had a complete bowel obstruction threatening to kill myself that the reason for my life’s pain and illness while eating and drinking became clear.”

    She adds: “Because my condition is so unrecognized by the medical profession, there are few experts who can offer any improvement in what is a severe prognosis. I am now in palliative care.

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    “However, there is a clinic in Germany specializing in vascular compressions as severe as mine and Professor Sandmann agreed to perform this life-saving surgery on me in February 2022, which has every hope of regaining my quality of life.

    “This is really my only chance. This surgery costs well over £ 50,000 and does not include my accommodation, flights, travel and medical insurance, Covid tests and a medical chaperone that accompanies me to the surgery. I will have to spend six weeks in Germany and due to my severely emaciated medical condition I will have to take taxis and rely on extra support with luggage and transport. ”

    The condition is caused by multiple vascular compressions caused by the superior mesenteric artery compressing on its duodenum, left renal vein, and celiac artery.

    With a diameter of 2.2mm (the normal diameter being 4cm), his duodenum is so pinched that even fluids have trouble passing normally and cause him immense pain and disease. “My body is starving and I’m struggling to survive on what little food I can get,” she says. “My multiple vascular compressions severely restrict the blood supply to my organs, including my intestines, and affect my ability to eat and drink.

    She says that if surgery in Germany is not possible for reasons beyond her control, the funds will lead her to seek specialist medical treatment in other parts of the world.

    So far, the GoFundMe page has raised over £ 15,000 to reach its goal of £ 50,000 with over 650 donations.


    A former CSCC nurse serving her community throughout her career

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    Many students who choose to enroll in Cleveland State Community College to study nursing continue their education in health care while choosing to serve their community.

    Cleveland State Alumnae Elizabeth Jackson works in the community in which she grew up. From now on, she makes it her duty to help the sick and comfort the unfortunate.

    Jackson is originally from Cleveland and uses his abilities to help his community as a nurse practitioner. She began her educational journey at Cleveland State Community College with a major in Nursing and graduated in 2010. She continued her education at UTC with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, then moved on to Southern Adventist. University to obtain her MSN as a family nurse practitioner.

    Jackson believes CSCC helped her graduate faster and created a solid foundation that got her to where she is today.

    “I feel like CSCC has prepared me to enter the workforce. I had no difficulty making the transition, ”said Jackson. “There are things that cannot be taught in school and you just need to understand these things as you come across them in your career, but as for the issues that can be taught in the classroom, I felt more than prepared. “

    Jackson was a non-traditional student, but that didn’t stop her from achieving her goals. She described her time in college as a family. The teachers and staff were always there to support and hold her accountable. The small class sizes in college helped Jackson receive more attention in his classes and form stronger friendships with his peers. At the time of the transfer, Jackson felt that the CSCC was preparing her for the job market.

    Right after graduation, she was offered a job in the pediatric intensive care unit at TC Thompson Children’s Hospital with much more than basic knowledge and minimum requirements for a nurse. Today, she works at Tennova Healthcare in Cleveland as a nurse practitioner and has also treated COVID patients since the start of the pandemic.


    Analysis of the 2021 Variable Beam Extenders Market Outlook by Major Key Players

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    8 latest healthcare industry lawsuits and regulations

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    From lawsuits against health insurers to settling an opioid case, here are the latest healthcare lawsuits and regulations hitting the headlines.

    1. Supreme Court Reviews Federal Immunization Warrants: 8 Things You Should Know
    The United States Supreme Court held a special session on January 7 to consider challenges to the Biden administration’s authority to impose a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for healthcare workers and a vaccination requirement or test for workers in large companies.

    2. The lawsuit accuses Anthem of denying employees overtime
    Two Anthem employees filed a complaint on Jan. 3 alleging that the insurer refused to pay enrolled employees overtime compensation despite having to work more than 40 hours per week to meet quotas.

    3. New Jersey hospital loses $ 850,000 billing dispute
    On December 22, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled against Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, in a billing dispute of $ 850,000.

    4. BCBS of Tennessee sued for allegedly dismissing a whistleblower employee
    A former BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee employee is suing the payer, alleging she was fired for complaining about the company’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement to state lawmakers.

    5. Linet sues Hillrom for the sale of hospital beds
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