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Hey-O Nursing Beat Friends!
Welcome back to Trivia Tuesday (aka the former Two-for-Tuesday fact break)! Here are your two trivia questions for the day:
How long has each human being on the planet spent as a single cell?
Identical twins share identical DNA, but what is the one thing that makes them uniquely different from one another? 🧬
Click the links in the questions to see the answers!
Big love and even better health,
Kel M.
Managing Editor of TNB
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Have you ever had an event happen to you that was so powerful, it changed the trajectory of your career? Today’s blog discusses exactly that. Read all about Tonya Lewis’ journey from bedside nursing to health and wellness coaching in “Paying It Forward: A Personal Mission.”
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Eight Nursing Students Sue Closed Connecticut Program
The Stone Academy nursing program shut down all three of its campuses in East Hartford, Waterbury, and West Haven, Connecticut in February because of “unqualified faculty” and “invalid student clinical experiences,” among other issues, according to a state health department press release at the time. Now eight students have filed a class action suit
against the for-profit institution for violating unfair trade practices. The school’s attorneys dispute the claims in the students’ 36-page complaint.
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New CEO for National Council of State Boards of Nursing
Philip Dickison, PhD, RN, of the University of Pittsburgh, has been named the new chief operating officer of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, reports Becker’s. Dickison, who has served as the council’s COO since 2017, will replace David Benton, the current and retiring CEO, on October 1. Learn more about Dickison here, and see the council’s current board of directors here.
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Long Covid Finally Officially Defined in NIH Study
A major challenge of studying long Covid is figuring out what actually qualifies as the condition. Despite moving at a snail’s pace,
according to its critics, the NIH’s $1 billion long Covid initiative RECOVER has finally settled on criteria for the diagnosis in a paper published in JAMA May 25. The study uses a composite symptom score for any of the 37 possible symptoms occurring at least 6 months after a Covid infection.
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COMMUNITY PICKS 🌼
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Need a little extra relaxation after your shift? Give Lemon Lavender Lane tea a try. It's great hot or iced and it's caffeine free!
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TECH TUESDAY with NURSE MANNY 🤖
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Suki AI
“I just love charting!” said no nurse ever. As value-based care (VBC) evolves, clinical documentation has become even more critical in ensuring and demonstrating great care has been delivered. Unfortunately, current EHR software can make documenting difficult and tedious, removing bedside staff from caring for patients. Suki, a healthcare-oriented AI voice assistant, shows promise in truly helping clinicians provide care. Think Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant for the healthcare world; Suki can understand natural language, pull data from the EHR, and document. In addition, Suki’s ambient note-taking feature can generate clinical notes during patient assessment. While this, unfortunately, can eliminate the need for a scribe, I think it’s a good use of tech that can help clinicians rather than chain them to a particular workflow. You can see a demo of their software
here. Suki is currently a physician-only product; as nurse documentation becomes a critical tool in VBC, I predict a nurse voice assistant down the pipeline.
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DAILY DIVERSION 💊
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Every nurse has some kind of special skill that makes them exceptional in one area of care. For Michigan nurse Donte Felder, that nursing ninja skill is providing a sense of calm to patients anxious about getting dialysis, earning him the Nursing Support Staff Helping Hands Hero Award from his hospital.
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🤯 ONE BIG NUMBER
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45.7%
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The anticipated growth through the year 2031 of nurse practitioners, the fastest growing job in nursing, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. See what the other four fastest growing nursing jobs are here.
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