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Hello Readers!
I am so excited to share with you that The Nursing Beat (TNB) will be headed to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, next week to co-host an event with our friends at connectRN at Sparrow Rooftop. In partnership with Gales, Beekman 1802, Lyft Healthcare, and Eko, connectRN has carefully curated a networking event where nurses can come to connect and learn. If you are interested in attending, RSVP here. Our team is so excited to be there and meet you!
Stay safe. Be healthy. Be kind.
Tamara AL-Yassin (aka Nurse T)
CEO | The Nursing Beat
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Federal Legislation Introduced to Limit Patient-Nurse Ratios
Leaders from three national unions have endorsed a new federal bill that would limit nurse-to-patient staffing ratios to improve patient safety and work conditions for nurses. National Nurses United, the American Federation of Teachers, and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees all support the bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, co-chair of the House Democratic Caucus Task Force on Aging and Families, and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown.
The Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act would “set minimum nurse-to-patient staffing requirements, study best practices for nurse staffing, and provide whistleblower protections to protect the right of nurses to advocate for the safety of their patients,” according to a press release from Schakowsky. It highlighted research showing that safer staffing reduces patient deaths. Read more on what the bill, which has 55 cosponsors in the House, would do.
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A Pie in the Face for a Good Cause
Twenty-three nursing students from North Dakota State University will head to Malawi in southeastern Africa in April for an international practicum program—but first, they have to raise the money to go. Their solution? A little friendly—and tasty— payback to the professors who taught them
the skills they hope to use.
As one of their fundraisers, the students persuaded their professors to compete on one of two teams; the Brainy Bunch Team or the Piefect Team. The losing team sat before an audience of students as they got pied in the face one at a time as Don McLean’s song “American Pie” played in the background. “This has been a long time coming,” one student told local ABC news station WDAY. The students have raised $5,000 for the trip since they began fundraising in February. Watch the fun here.
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Innovating RN Is Saving Cardiac Patients’ Lives
When Michele Santoro, an RN at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, noticed how many patients were disconnected from their external cardiac monitoring, she did some investigating. She discovered all the patients had the same model pacemaker. So she notified the vendor, who said the problem originated from a software update they weren’t aware of but had affected patients globally.
Over the next year, as Santoro tracked down all the patients who had become disconnected from their monitoring, she developed a comprehensive database tracking system to ensure no patients were missed. She also developed a new process to standardize the preparation of patients’ skin for cardiac surgical procedures. These two innovations earned her the 2022 National Magnet Nurse of the Year Award from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Read
more about how she came up with these ideas and what inspires her.
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COMMUNITY PICKS 🌼
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“Show us what you’re made of” is something we’ve all heard during our careers. Well, now you can show anyone what you’re made of with this quirky nurse’s mug the next time anyone asks!
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TECH TUESDAY with NURSE MANNY 🤖
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In 2020 alone, a year most of us spent at home, falls in older adults accounted for 36,000 deaths and the cause of over three million emergency room visits. While trauma nursing and trauma medicine have advanced over the
years, as we all know, early prevention is better than a late cure. Nymbl Science’s fall prevention program, via their Nymbl App helps reduce these falls in older adults. The software and training combine cognitive challenges with balance exercises to improve the user’s balance and confidence over time. The program is clinically validated and based on American Geriatric Society guidelines. Not your grandmother’s game night, the app’s dual-task cognitive-balance games are designed to challenge the user’s balance and coordination in a safe and fun way. An improvement over time can be seen with as little as ten minutes of daily use.
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DAILY DIVERSION 💊
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It’s considered one of the most haunted places in Texas, but what makes Yorktown Memorial Hospital different from so many other haunted hospitals? That would probably be the dolls, left behind like other toys, but which
allegedly will speak as their eyes glow red! Read more about this creepy abandoned hospital!
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🤯 ONE BIG NUMBER
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The percent increase in gun injuries in 2022 over the previous year, after gun injuries had already increased 40% in the first two years of the pandemic.
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