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World Health Organization
The State of the World’s Nursing 2020 Report provides the latest, most up-to-date evidence on and policy options for the global nursing workforce. It also presents a compelling case for considerable – yet feasible – investment in nursing education, jobs, and leadership.
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Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
A commentary published in The Lancet highlights the detrimental impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic response on sexual and reproductive health and rights. The piece emphasizes the threat to sexual and reproductive health services caused by policies designating these services as non-essential and diverting resources.
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Medpage Today
Stephanie Zerwas, PhD, knew therapists in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, wanted to give back during the COVID-19 crisis. It was evident that one community needed strong mental health support, and quickly: healthcare workers on the front lines. Zerwas, a clinical psychologist who runs a private practice in Chapel Hill, began organizing local therapists to aid the University of North Carolina's physician mental health program. But as the number of volunteers grew, Zerwas decided to create her own initiative to provide accessible mental healthcare to a wider scope of front-liners.
She named it Project Parachute, and what started as a local movement in North Carolina now has more than 500 volunteer therapists in 37 states, all offering pro bono therapy sessions to front-line health workers — including physicians, nurses, custodial staff, management, and others.
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Becker's Hospital Review
The American Nurses Association is speaking out about retaliation against healthcare workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The association, which represents the interests of four million U.S. nurses, said it is disturbed about reports of employers retaliating against nurses and other healthcare workers for raising concerns about their personal safety while caring for COVID-19 patients.
ANA went on to call reports of intimidation, firing and ostracizing "unacceptable," and called for "ongoing, transparent and effective communication" between nurses and employers about nurses' ability to provide safe care.
The association also urged nurses who are experiencing acts of retaliation from their employer to file a whistleblower complaint online with the U.S. Department of Labor and Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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HUB
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases accelerates in the United States, nurses on the front lines of the health care response have found themselves in unprecedented positions, making high-stakes decisions for patients and their own personal lives.
"We in uncharted territory in response to the magnitude of the pandemic," says Cynda Rushton, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Berman Institute of Bioethics known as an international leader in nursing ethics. "It's a time of great stress and uncertainty, and nurses are rising to the challenge."
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Nursing Times
Children whose parents have a mental illness are at increased risk of injury, suggests a new study, which found the risk was particularly high in the first year of a child’s life.
The study, published in the BMJ, found the risk of injury was slightly higher among children whose mother had a mental illness compared with those whose father had a mental illness.
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Medpage Today
Although personal protection is often cited as a motive for firearm ownership, self-defense homicides accounted for far fewer firearm-related deaths than accidental deaths and suicides in Washington state's King County, which includes Seattle and many of its suburbs. Across a seven-year period, the incidence rate of firearm deaths was 3.9 per 100,000 person-years, Elissa K. Butler, MD, of the University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues wrote in a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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New York Institute of Technology via Medical Xpress
Abusive head trauma, like that of Shaken Baby Syndrome, is the leading cause of fatal brain injuries in children under two. While children can suffer permanent neurological damage, developmental delay, and disability, the long-term effects of AHT are difficult to diagnose and predict. Now, researchers at New York Institute of Technology have developed computational simulations to help clinicians and caregivers better understand the impact of these injuries.
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U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Elevated symptoms of PTSD and moral injury can lead to pregnancy complications, found a VA study of women veterans. Both PTSD and moral injury were predictors of adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm birth and gestational diabetes, while PTSD symptoms also predicted postpartum depression, anxiety, and a self-described difficult pregnancy.
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