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 New blood test can detect ovarian cancer in its early stages

Relatively few cases of ovarian cancer are diagnosed in their early stages, so many people lose the opportunity for effective treatment. A newly developed blood test, however, could change this situation. 

The American Cancer Society (ACS) state that "only about 20 percent of #ovarian_cancers are found at an early stage."

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However, when a doctor can diagnose the cancer early on, about 94 percent of people have a good prognosis following treatment.

Beyond a full pelvic exam, a doctor has two diagnostic tests at their disposal: the transvaginal ultrasound and the cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) blood test.

Both tests have significant limitations. The ultrasound test allows a doctor to look for tumors in the uterus, fallopian tubes, and #ovaries, but it cannot indicate whether a growth is cancerous.

The CA-125 test assesses the levels of an #ovarian_cancer marker in the blood. The problem is that high levels of this antigen are also present in people with unrelated conditions.

The authors of the new study, which appears in the journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, note that "CA-125 serum levels may also be elevated in nonmalignant conditions, such as #endometriosis, #pregnancy, #ovarian_cysts, pelvic inflammatory disease, #hepatitis, #cirrhosis, and in the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle."

For this reason, the researchers sought to develop a new, more accurate blood test to detect #ovarian_cancer. 

The team came from Griffith University in Gold Coast or the University of Adelaide, both in Australia.

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Study shows #nurses’ scrubs become contaminated with bacteria in hospitals

Clothing worn by healthcare providers can become contaminated with bacteria, however having #nurses wear scrubs with antimicrobial properties did not prevent this bacterial contamination from occurring, according to a study published online in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

As part of the Antimicrobial Scrub Contamination and Transmission (ASCOT) Trial, researchers from Duke University Hospital, followed 40 #nurses who wore three different types of scrubs over three consecutive 12-hour shifts, taking a series of cultures from each #nurses’ clothing, patients, and the environment before and after each shift.

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“Healthcare providers must understand that they can become contaminated by their patients and the environment near patients,” said Deverick J. Anderson, MD, MPH, Director of the Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention at Duke University Medical Center and lead author of the study. “Although not effective, we looked to eliminate this risk for contamination by changing the material of #nurses’ scrubs.”

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In a random rotation, each #nurse wore traditional cotton-polyester scrubs, scrubs that contained silver-alloy embedded in its fibers, or another type of scrub treated with a combination of antibacterial materials. The #nurses did not know which scrubs they were wearing.

The researchers analyzed 2,919 cultures from bed rails, beds, and supply carts in each room and 2,185 cultures from the sleeve, abdomen and pocket of #nurses’ scrubs. No differences in contamination were found based on the type of scrubs worn.

Researchers identified new contamination during 33 percent, or 39 of 120 shifts. Scrubs became newly contaminated with bacteria during 16 percent, or 19 out of 120, shifts studied, including three cases of contamination of #nurses’ scrubs while caring for patients on contact precautions where patients were known to be infected with drug-resistant bacteria and personnel entering the room were required to put on gloves and gowns. The mostly commonly transmitted pathogen was Staphylococcus aureus including MRSA and methicillin susceptible S. aureus. The #nurses in the study worked in medical and surgical intensive care units, caring for one to two patients per shift.

“There is no such thing as a sterile environment,” said Anderson. “Bacteria and pathogens will always be in the environment. Hospitals need to create and use protocols for improved cleaning of the #healthcare environment, and patients and family members should feel empowered to ask #healthcare providers if they are doing everything they can to keep their loved one from being exposed to bacteria in the environment.”

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Nurses can make a difference when it comes to malnutrition

After falling at home and sustaining a left hip fracture, Charlotte struggled to regain her lost independence. As the pain medications led to constipation and nausea, Charlotte became less and less interested in eating. At 350 pounds, some of the staff commented that the unplanned weight loss of 20 pounds during the past two weeks might be good for her.

But is it?

The face of malnutrition isn’t always what you would anticipate. Unplanned weight loss and poor nutritional intake is never a benefit to healing or improved physical functioning.

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Our new interdisciplinary course “Malnutrition Alert! How to Improve Patient Outcomes” for #nurses, dietitians and physicians is designed to help you recognize the role that protein-calorie malnutrition plays in adult morbidity and mortality and to focus on the tasks required of the inter-professional team in preventing, diagnosing and treating malnutrition.

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What’s behind the weight loss?

For many people who already have had a decline in muscle mass associated with aging, the addition of disease or injury leads to further loss of lean body mass and decline in functional abilities.

Up to 50% of hospitalized patients are at risk for or already have malnutrition, but only 7% actually receive a diagnosis during their hospital stay, according to an article in #Clinical Interventions in Aging and the Agency for #Healthcare Research and Quality.

Malnutrition diagnoses can significantly impact Medicare reimbursement and the case mix index for a facility.

Patients who are malnourished may not only have longer lengths of stay of up to four to six days, but also hospital costs twice as high for patients with malnutrition, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In the new interdisciplinary course “Malnutrition Alert! How to Improve Patient Outcomes,” Terese Scollard, MBA, RDN, LD, FAND, a leading expert in malnutrition and a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics work group that designed and released the Consensus Statement on malnutrition in 2012, provides the guidelines you need to tackle this important condition.

According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, malnutrition also can lead to:

• An increased risk of adverse events and complications
• A 54% higher likelihood of hospital 30-day readmission
• Up to 5 times more likely to die in the hospital than a non-malnourished patient
• It was difficult to diagnose malnutrition in the past as there were no widely accepted characteristics that clinicians could use to classify this condition consistently throughout all care settings.

What can you do to help?

• Recognize that malnutrition can have a significant impact on healing, length of stay and readmission rates.
• Refer patients of concern to your registered dietitian nutritionist for a comprehensive nutrition assessment.
• Avoid weight bias in identifying malnutrition. Patients of any size can become malnourished.
• Ensure that accurate weights and meal percentages are documented.
• Communicate your concerns with the primary care provider.

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Dear Colleagues,

The purpose of this invitation is to solicit your gracious presence at our “53rd World Congress on Nursing & Health Care” to be held during June 21-22, 2019 Brisbane, Australia. This conference is organized around the theme "Exploring Innovations and Latest Advancements in Nursing & Health Care”, which covers a wide range of critically important sessions from basic research to latest innovations in the field of Nursing & Healthcare. 

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Based on your expertise in Nursing & Healthcare, we would be glad to receive your support and contribution for the conference proceedings. Kindly confirm us with your decision so that we can inform you about the further proceedings

Conference Highlights:

Nursing Education and Research, Critical Care Nursing, Cardiac Nursing, Adult Health Nursing, Women Health Nursing, Dental Nursing, Health Care, Medicine, Emergency Nursing, Public Health, Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Cancer Nursing and Midwifery.

Benefits:
     •   All accepted abstracts will be published in the respective Journals.
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     •   Opportunity to organize Workshop/Symposia

We really like to have your presence at this conference please let me know your interest towards the same. If you are interested to shell out your presentation please submit your abstract ASAP.

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We are confident that participants will benefit from the high value scientific program.

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Nurse is concerned PCTs are not documenting properly on patient charts

An RN submitted a question about her patient care technicians not signing off on their work and sometimes not taking patients’ vital signs.

Repeated reporting of these omissions to her supervisor resulted in no change. In fact, the RN stated she had been written up for complaining to the PCTs.

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In addition, since she states she is unable to “close shifts” at the end of the day, she also was written up for not doing so. Her supervisor told her to document the information and sign the PCTs’ names to any labs, meds or care. The reader asked if this constitutes falsifying documentation. The simple answer is, “Yes.”

Any time you sign another person’s name on a patient record with the intent to deceive another person or entity, falsification occurs. It is seen as a felony under criminal law and is especially a concern when the person doing so falsifies a legal record to obtain financial gain.

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The reader said her supervisor told her not closing the shift results in the healthcare entity’s parent company losing money.

In addition to the potential for criminal liability, the nurse also can face disciplinary action by the state board of nursing. Most nurse practice acts list falsification of a patient record or document required by his or her nursing practice (e.g., time cards) as a basis for professional discipline. Last, but by no means least, any falsification involved within your nursing practice is unethical.

What can you do to protect yourself?

Rather than handle the PCTs’ refusal to fulfill their job responsibilities as the supervisor suggests, the nurse does have several options, and they all rest on principles of good supervision of delegated patient care and good documentation.

The PCTs are supervised by the RN. Their care is delegated by her and they are required to report to her concerning the care that she has delegated. So, at least verbally, she should regularly receive information about patients’ statuses.

For example, the RN might document: “Mary L, PCT, reported to me [or this RN] at 2:30 p.m. that patient John Jones’ blood pressure readings were 150/80 at 8:30 a.m. and 135/80 at 2 p.m. – Nurse Smith, RN.”

The reader did not include how the PCTs “sign off” their work, but it is assumed if they do not document directly in the patient record that they document their findings on “worksheets,” which may or may not become part of a patient’s record.

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How confidence and closeness transformed my family’s NICU stay

My son Jackson was born 16 weeks premature. Weighing just 1 pound, 8 ounces, he was considered a micro preemie and would experience a long stay in the neonatal ICU. In the hours and days that followed his birth, I felt empty and helpless. It was a feeling I never associated or expected with the birth of an infant.

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As I became more familiar with the NICU, I still felt like a visitor, unable to contribute meaningfully to my son’s care. I couldn’t hold him or feed him or change his diaper. I was told that too much noise could be overstimulating, so I whispered prayers over him and told him that I knew he was a fighter. But it was hard to bond with my baby. I struggled to develop an emotional connection with a baby I couldn’t hug or feed.

It was about seven days before I was invited to change my son’s diaper. I was excited, nervous and scared because Jackson was still very small and his skin was delicate. I will always be grateful to the NICU #nurse who patiently talked me through it — an ordinary task to her and parents of full-term newborns. In the time she spent with me for this one diaper change, she could have changed 10 diapers.

"Still, she realized the significance of the moment for me; this was the first time I was involved in any sort of routine care for my baby – our first bonding experience".

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Patient turned advocate

#Nurses and other #healthcare professionals are the experts when it comes to the clinical care of an infant. After my firsthand experience, I was impassioned to become an advocate for family-integrated care and to help other parents like me. In 2010, I founded a nonprofit organization, Hand to Hold, to provide support to #NICU and bereaved families. That first diaper change not only boosted my confidence as a mother, but also helped alleviate the helplessness I felt that first week of my son’s life. Hand to Hold strives to inform, inspire and empower other NICU families.

In addition to my role as a NICU advocate, I’m also a member of the Huggies Nursing Advisory Council. Our group is comprised of multidisciplinary experts in neonatal care who work to educate and inform research with the goal of delivering the best care for babies and families.

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Job satisfaction increases for post-acute care nurses

Pay and benefits for home care, hospice, palliative care and long-term care nurses haven’t always been on par with nurses who work in the acute setting.

But that has changed for post-acute care #nurses in the past five to 10 years, according to Andrea Devoti, MSN, MBA, RN, executive vice president of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice.

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There are many areas of the country where employers’ salary and benefits packages for these other nursing roles match or are getting close to matching what they offer acute care #nurses. That’s because more employers realize that home care, hospice, palliative care and long-term care patients often are as sick as those in the hospital, Devoti said.

“We take care of sick people,” Devoti said. “We take care of ventilated children. We give chemotherapy. We give intensive care level drugs in some cases.”

Employers’ greater awareness of the complexities of taking care of patients outside the hospital setting is timely, given many want to add the post-acute care services because of increased demand.

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization reported in its Palliative Care Needs 2018 Survey Results that out of 347 responses from hospice and palliative care member organizations, 53% are providing palliative care services and an additional 35 are considering developing these services.

Only 12% have no plans to develop #palliative_care services, according to the report.

Are employers meeting post-acute care nurses’ needs?

#Nurses in acute care, home care, long-term care and other healthcare settings say salary is most important for job satisfaction, followed by benefits, according to our 2018 Nursing Salary Research Report.

The survey represents responses from 4,520 RNs from 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

Although nearly three-quarters of the nurses surveyed ranked salary as the No. 1 aspect of job satisfaction, 15% indicated benefits, including medical and tuition reimbursement, were most important for work satisfaction.

Nursing salaries for home care, hospice, palliative care and long-term care nurses are close to those of nurses in the acute care setting, Devoti said.

In general, these post-acute care nurses might earn $1 per hour or so less than nurses in acute care but that’s better than the pay disparities of $5 or $6 an hour that Devoti said she used to see.

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Employer benefits for home care, hospice, palliative care and long-term care nurses often rival those of the acute care setting, but not always, she said.

“We have many health system-affiliated home care, hospices and long-term care facilities that have the same benefits across the continuum,” Devoti said. “There are a number of home care and hospices that are still freestanding, meaning they’re not really affiliated with a health system or an integrated system, so they actually may have lesser benefits when it comes to tuition reimbursement and continuing education reimbursement than the hospitals.”

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Kids don’t just grow out of their mental health issues

One in five adolescents in the U.S. suffers from developmental, mental or behavioral health illnesses, according to the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.
To avoid serious, adverse outcomes, it is crucial these illnesses be detected early by pediatric nurse practitioners and pediatric-focused APRNs and pediatric nurses.

 

Dawn Garzon Maaks, PhD, CPNP-PC, PMHS, FAANP, president of NAPNAP, shared with us about what the organization is doing to help children with mental health issues and support those who provide care to affected youth and their families.

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Garzon Maaks is a professor at the College of Nursing at Washington State University in Vancouver. She also is a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and an advocate for advanced practice pediatric-focused nurses.

Q: Self-harm and bullying are concerning issues in adolescent mental health. How do pediatric nurse practitioners screen for them and help parents become more aware?
All children get bullied at least once and, unfortunately, many see bullying as something that just happens. Sustained bullying can cause traumatic stress and may be considered an adverse childhood experience.

This non-trivial bullying is hard to detect. Often survivors do not report what is happening because they are afraid they will get into trouble or the bully will actually escalate their behavior.

Bullying and self-harm are much more common now than in past generations. Technology keeps us socially interconnected no matter where we are.

Research tells us social media and technology use that is excessive or inappropriate actually increases the risk of #anxiety and #stress. Self-harm is usually not a suicidal behavior but rather a symptom of overwhelming mental pain.

#Pediatric_nurse_practitioners and other APRNs who care for our youth must talk about these issues as part of routine anticipatory guidance. We have to ensure we do good skin and mental health assessments as part of wellness care or any time symptoms have the potential to be stress related.

Parents need to learn that bullying is not a rite of passage and that self-injury and risk-taking can be subtle.

Q: What other adolescent mental health issues should pediatric care practitioners be aware of and what resources are available to them?
We need to assess for adverse childhood experiences and all children, especially those older than 11, must be screened for anxiety and depression. Suicide is the second leading cause of death for people 10 to 24 years of age and, in some states like Utah, it is the leading cause of death. We lose thousands of children each year to suicide.

Of course, substance abuse is another critical issue that must be screened for. Unfortunately, just telling young people to say no doesn’t work.

NAPNAP’s Developmental Behavioral and #Mental_Health special interest group has an amazing website full of provider resources on a wealth of mental health issues, and they have a great resource for parents on how to raise a healthy teenager.

Other good sources for more information include the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration’s Adverse Childhood Experiences website and the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s adolescent substance abuse screening page.

Q: How do you recommend pediatric #nurse_practitioners screen for these issues in adolescent patients?
Children ages 11 and older should be screened annually for depression and substance use. I personally recommend including anxiety screening as part of wellness care, given the increase in anxiety rates.

The Developmental Behavioral and Mental Health special interest group’s resources listed previously are great and include links to a number of screening tools for each condition. From ADHD to eating disorders to #anxiety and #autism, these passionate advocates have valuable references for anyone looking for pediatric developmental, behavioral or mental health information.

It is best to use standardized tools that really get to significant symptoms and not over identify or under identify issues. Of course, it helps to separate older children from their parents, if they are willing to do so, to maintain confidentiality and remove the fear of getting into trouble.

Q: What are some intervention strategies for at-risk adolescents, namely, those who have been bullied, have performed acts of self-harm or have attempted suicide?
The most important thing is to perform good quality wellness care. When we do expedited older child and adolescent well visits, we miss many of the subtle signs that tell us kids are struggling.

I like to ask kids if anyone has ever made them feel unsafe. It is an open-ended question that lets them steer the conversation.

Look at your patients’ skin! Of course, you should preserve modesty, but if you do not get them into underwear and robe, you will never notice wounds hidden under bulky clothing.

Suicidal ideation is real. It is important to ask your patients if they have ever thought of harming themselves or others.

If they say yes, ask open-ended questions to find out when this occurred. If recent, ask if it consisted of only thoughts or if there was a plan involved.

The key is to have in place how you will refer out, if needed, prior to finding a child in crisis. We prepare for how we will deal with a medical emergency in practice. It is equally important to think about how we will deal with a mental health emergency.

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The school denies these incidents occurred, but the reader states they have the logs to prove it. The reader also states other deviations from the standard of care occurred, but she did not provide details.

School nurses face daily challenges in their practice, one of which is caring for insulin-dependent students. Several federal laws require diabetic students to have the care they need while in school. They include the Americans with Disabilities Act, Guidance and Training on the Americans With Disabilities Act and The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act).

Many states also have specific statutes relating to diabetic students and the care they receive while in school. At a minimum, the laws require that each student has an Individualized Education Plan, Individualized Health Plan, and an Emergency Care Plan developed by the school nurse in conjunction with the student, family, and orders and management guidance in the Diabetes Medical Management Plan.

The reader did not share what, if any, actions they took to rectify this situation, but it can be assumed that they shared their concerns with the school administrator and with members of the student’s IHP and ECP to no avail.

If the parents did not discuss this issue with the school superintendent, this would be an important step in correcting the problem, since the school may be liable if an #injury or death occurs due to the nurse’s conduct.

Did the nurses have the correct training?

It is quite odd that a school nurse would give insulin when hypoglycemia exists. Because this is so contrary to what any nurse, including a school nurse, would do, one has to question whether the #nurse is qualified to care for diabetic students. As a result, reporting the situation to the state board of #nursing for review would help to remedy the situation.

After investigating what happened, if the state board determines that the school nurse in not qualified to care for diabetic students, it may require the #nurse to take a course, either in an academic setting or through a professional association such as the National Association of School Nurses.

The board will most likely take into consideration the American Association of Diabetes Educators’ Position Statement, “Management of Children With Diabetes In The School Setting.”

Or the board may determine this #nurse has additional practice issues besides caring for a student with diabetes. In either event, providing a truthful and complete complaint to the board of nursing is most likely in order and would hopefully result in a quick solution so the student’s well-being is protected.

Although the circumstances surrounding the administration of insulin when the student was hypoglycemic were not included in the parents’ question, it sounds as though another problem must be considered: The student’s ECP, if one existed, was not followed by the school #nurse. Or, if one did exist, it may be faulty.

Although not the focus of this situation, it is important to note that one of the roles of the school nurse is to help a #diabetic student become independent in his or her care. In other words, with the consent of the family, the involvement of the primary #healthcare provider and consistent with school policy, a diabetic student eventually can self-administer insulin based on self-determined blood glucose levels and becomes the manager of his or her own chronic disease.

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5 ways healthcare teams can improve how they care for skin injuries

Need evidence skin injuries are a major concern in healthcare? Consider that 2.5 million U.S. patients are afflicted annually.

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According to the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the cost of skin injuries is more than $9.1 billion each year.

The price is even higher, AHRQ reports, because 17,000 lawsuits related to hospital-acquired pressure ulcers are filed each year, second only to wrongful-death suits.

“Skin injuries are extremely prevalent,” said Pamela Damron, MSN, RN, CWON, who has been a certified wound and ostomy nurse for more than two decades. “The cost is very hard on a healthcare system. Patients are coming into the hospital much sicker than they were years ago. They’re already at risk for so many things, and most every patient has two or more comorbidities. And to Medicare, pressure injuries are preventable.”

Damron is the featured presenter of our popular CE webinar course, “It’s Just a Stage 1 Pressure Injury. Or Is It?” She has been a certified wound-ostomy nurse since 1998 and is a nursing instructor at the University of Tennessee Martin.

The 1-hour recorded CE webinar is accredited for nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, pharmacists and dietitians/nutritionists.

Here are five ways to ensure you and your team are delivering the highest quality of patient skin care.

#1 — Healthcare is a team sport
This phrase is especially true with pressure injuries and wounds.

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#2 — Look from head to toe
Re-positioning patients every two hours is a high priority to avoid pressure injuries, Damron said. The need to examine potential problem areas of the body also is a necessity for healthcare clinicians.

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#3 — Document, document, document

Hospital-acquired pressure injuries are among the conditions considered preventable by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. Thus, healthcare facilities are not reimbursed for treating these injuries when they are acquired by a patient in the hospital.

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#4 — Consider where patients are going/coming from

Knowing the path your patients take during their hospital stay can offer helpful clues, Damron said. For example, a patient who spends hours in surgery or getting tests such as an MRI, x-ray or CT scan all will be lying for long periods on hard surfaces. This leads to a greater risk for pressure injuries.

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#5 — Start with a smile
For Damron, learning about a patient begins when entering a room. “You can tell a lot just by smiling at them,” she said.

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New medical chip grows human cells on the body and heals illnesses in seconds

The tiny device known as Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT) “injects genetic code into skin cells, turning those skin cells into other types of cells required for treating diseased conditions,” according to a release. It can restore any tissue or #injury from broken bones to strokes. The technology will not require a hospital and can be used anywhere. It has healed all mice tested and will be tested on humans within the next year.

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Nursing shoes that fit and are made for walking lead to happy feet

In a Sept. 7 Facebook poll, we asked #nurses how many steps they log per nursing shift, and your answers were astounding.

One nurse said she logged between 4,000 and 8,000 steps on a weekend shift — around two to four miles, and many others logged a solid 8,000 steps per shift.

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Other nurses who shared their step counts logged thousands more steps, averaging between 10,000 and 12,000 steps. A few of you even logged as many as 20,000 steps during a 12-hour shift!

Joint, back and foot pain may seem like an expected part of the job, given the amount of time nurses spend on their feet.

But experts who specialize in foot care urge you to reconsider this assumption.

Kate Clayton-Jones, MSN, MBA, RN, CFCS, CFCN, was working as a #nurse at a Massachusetts hospital when she started specializing in the foot care field in graduate school.

“I noticed an incredible number of #nurses complaining about their feet hurting at the end of their shifts,” Clayton-Jones said.

She began informally educating #nurses about how their feet, legs and muscles worked together, and she offered suggestions about how to select shoes that could reduce or eliminate pain.

According to our recent survey, 75% of female respondents and 67% of male respondents said the design of a medical show was either very important or extremely important when buying shoes.

When asked about comfort, 88% of female respondents and 83% of male respondents reported comfort was extremely important when buying medical shoes.

There are some simple ways to maximize comfort for #nurses who may be walking up to 50 miles a week on the job. We talked to Clayton-Jones, founder of FootCare by Nurses, about best practices for selecting #nursing shoes

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