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Hey-O Nursing Beat Friends!
It’s time for another round of Two-for-Tuesday medical facts!
💪The human body contains enough iron to make a spike
that’s strong enough to hold your weight. (I honestly don’t want to know how or why scientists figured this out.)
👅Most people lose 50% of their taste buds by the time
they reach 60. (I guess that means to fully enjoy the decadence of good food before you hit 60. For me, that’s reason enough to get prosciutto mac and cheese for dinner tonight!)
Big love and even better health,
Kel M.
Managing Editor of TNB
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Nurse Encourages Mammograms After One Saved Her Life
You’ve likely already heard that the United States Preventive Services Task Force updated breast cancer screening guidelines last week,
issuing a draft recommendation that suggests all women begin getting mammograms at age 40 instead of 50, as the previous recommendations stated. At least one nurse in New Jersey would agree that’s a good age to start—it’s how old she was when a routine mammogram found breast cancer.
After Rachel Vasquez, a nurse and clinical risk manager at AtlantiCare Atlantic City, had her first child in 2020 at age 40, she got a mammogram that revealed breast cancer. So all in three years, she went from “pandemic nurse to new mom, to cancer patient, to survivor,” reported a local ABC affiliate. Now she’s become an advocate for getting recommended screenings, participating in charity events, and even encouraging her colleagues to get screened.
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Five Mississippi Nursing School Instructors Fired
At the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, five of the seven professors teaching in the accelerated nursing program were fired on May 1st, according to Mississippi Today. The decision, made in the middle of the one-year program’s cycle, was allegedly due to “restructuring based on programmatic and student needs,” according to the email students received from Julie Sanford, DNS, the school’s dean.
Despite contracts running through June 30th, the instructors were told to return their badges and computers immediately, Becker’s reports. Then a few days later, Sanford herself announced she was leaving for a new position at the University of
Alabama Capstone College of Nursing. The students and dismissed faculty members are equally baffled, and at least one of the former instructors is “devastated.” The students also worry about whether they will be able to prepare for the licensure exam.
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What Hospital Executives Told Their Nurses Last Week
“No one can put a price on the contribution you bring to the communities we serve,” wrote Vi-Anne Antrum, DNP, RN, the Chief Nursing Officer at Cone Health in
Greensboro, North Carolina. Antrum was one of 38 hospital executives who sent Becker’s messages of appreciation for their nurses. The words are a collection worth reading in full and bookmarking for difficult days, but here are two more gems:
“Your compassion, expertise, and empathy for patients make a real difference in the lives of those we serve.” —Nancy Blake, Ph.D., RN, Chief Nursing Officer at LAC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles
”A nursing career has a reputation of perseverance and stability that has made it appealing to many, but one of its strongest features is empathy and caring.” —Melissa Hall, MSN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President of Clinical Services at Calvert Health in Prince Frederick, Maryland.
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COMMUNITY PICKS 🌼
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We all know that sometimes we get a little ripe during extra hard shifts. That's why this travel size Sol de Janiero spray would be a perfect
addition to your locker stash to keep you smelling good all day long!
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TECH TUESDAY with NURSE MANNY 🤖
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Smart Bandages
Chronic wounds, whether a result of diabetes, vascular insufficiency, or other pressure, are often putrid, lifestyle-limiting, and difficult to care for. Treatment begins with the TIME principle, followed by cause-specific interventions. However, new research out of CalTech shows promise in advancing and improving the healing of chronic wounds with a new smart bandage. While at risk of sounding like a new hipster cocktail, a smart bandage is a wearable, flexible biosensor capable of monitoring valuable pH information, directly dispensing antibiotic medication stored within the bandage, and delivering electricity to the wound to stimulate tissue healing. While this was a proof of concept paper researched on mice, with human research
coming soon, there is the promise this technology can significantly reduce the costs of treating chronic wounds. Costs aside, improving wound healing for these patients will improve their lives.
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DAILY DIVERSION 💊
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“We’re old, and because we’re old, we have interesting ghosts….” That’s how this creepy video begins as the viewer is taken on a tour of the haunted Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Would you take a tour like this?
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🤯 ONE BIG NUMBER
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250 BC
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The year the first known nursing school in the world was established in India, and only men could attend, according to nurse trivia published at Southern Healthcare Agency.
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