Last week to submit poster abstracts for next Nursing Consortium conference |
"This will be the Nursing Consortium of South Florida's first in-person educational conference in two years, and plans include doubling the space normally reserved to permit for greater distancing and contracting for services to provide live webcasting of the the conference to those not able to attend in-person, remarked committee chair Jean Seaver who is also the Consortium's new president-elect. Please click here for sponsor and exhibitor opportunities. |
The program will open and close with presentations by highly acclaimed nurse consultant, author, and speaker Donna Wright and will also feature panel presentations by local leaders on strategies for rebuilding high performing teams with greater resilience. |
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Don’t miss what is certain to be a truly exceptional educational conference and networking opportunity. More than 100 have already registered! Register today Our last in-person conference set an attendance record and this one will surely sell out early. You can register now for as little as $75.00. Click here to make sure you don't get left out! This conference will also be presented live via Zoom with the assistance of Creative Particle to those needing to attend remotely. |
Latest Nursing Leadership COVID-19 survey shows staffing shortages,
emotional health and well-being of nurse leaders have worsened
The American Organization for Nursing
Leadership (AONL) has released results of a third longitudinal study on
the impact of COVID-19 on nursing leadership in key areas over time. The
August 2021 Longitudinal Study focuses on new data and major shifts that have
occurred in health care going back to the first survey conducted in July 2020.
The new data from this survey indicates access to PPE and the ability to
communicate and implement changing policies have improved, while staffing
shortages and the emotional health and well-being of nurse leaders have
worsened. The August report also offers new insights into nurse leaders’ needs
and tactics being used to address the growing staffing shortage. The report
continues to identify a gap between roles, with focus on chief nursing
officers, directors, and managers. Please click here to read more
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McKinsey stresses five priorities for leaders in
the next normal
The latest guidance from leading business consultant
McKinsey & Company pinpoints five key priorities for leaders to focus on in
a very different future. McKinsey says that over the course of the pandemic,
businesses have largely—and often successfully—adapted to new ways of working.
They’ve also embraced digitization and reorganized their supply chains. All of
this has been necessary, but it will not be enough. To prepare for the
post-COVID-19 era, leaders need to do more than fine-tune their day-to-day
tasks; they need to be ready and willing to rethink how they operate, and even
why they exist. To put it another way, leaders need to step back, take a
breath, and consider a broader perspective. The pandemic has both revealed and
accelerated a number of trends that will play a substantial role in the shape
of the future global economy. In discussions with global executives, McKinsey
says they have identified five priorities that companies will want to adopt while
they navigate the trends that are molding the future. These are: 1) Center
strategy on sustainability; 2) Transform in the cloud: 3) Cultivate your
talent; 4) Press the need for speed; and 5) Operate with purpose. Please click
here to read more and see details on each key point.
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CDC reports increasing
diabetes among US youth
New research from the CDC has uncovered concerning
increases in diabetes developing in America’s youth. Surges have been noted
with Type 1 diabetes in both White and Black populations, while type 2 diabetes
skyrockets in Black and Hispanic youth. From 2001 to 2017, the number of people
under age 20 living with type 1 diabetes increased by 45%, and the number
living with type 2 diabetes grew by 95%. Type 1 diabetes remains the most
common type of diabetes in U.S. youth according to a report published today in
JAMA, “Trends
in Prevalence of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents in the
United States, 2001-2017external icon.” Giuseppina Imperatore, MD, PhD,
chief of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, Economics, and Statistics Branch in
CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation said “Increases in diabetes are always
troubling – especially in youth. Rising rates of diabetes, particularly type 2
diabetes, which is preventable, has the potential to create a cascade of poor
health outcomes. Compared to people who develop diabetes in adulthood, youth
are more likely to develop diabetes complications at an earlier age and are at
higher risk of premature death.” Please click here to read more.
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Growing
need to increase addiction treatment in the ER
Amidst a devastating overdose epidemic that has only
escalated in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital emergency departments
have a crucial role to play in addressing this crisis. While many emergency
departments have adopted evidence-based practices to diagnose
individuals with substance use disorder, care for them, and link them to
treatment, far too many others have not. A recent report from the Legal
Action Center discusses how this failure to identify individuals with
life-threatening substance use disorders and the decision to subsequently
discharge them without providing proven life-saving interventions can be
remedied through simple practices. The report details each practice, as well as
common justifications for not adopting these practices, and how this resistance
exacerbates other barriers to care. The report also notes the particular
implications of inadequate care for Black, Latino and Indigenous people who
have experienced the steepest increases in rates of overdose deaths nationally.
Please click here to read more.
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Students at UM Miller School
launch mobile clinic to aid underserved
A group of students at Consortium member University of
Miami’s Miller School of Medicine have launched a mobile clinic to bring
awareness and aid to the underserved populations in Miami-Dade County. The
mobile clinic, “Miami Street Medicine,” will visit to help many of the poor
and homeless found in rows of tents, mats and cardboard boxes in the areas
around the Miller School, Jackson Hospital and other places. The idea for the mobile
clinic came from Dan Bergholz, a third-year student at the Miller School. Working
with him are student team members Christian Adair Powers, Sanjana Satish, Wuilson J. Rodriguez, Charlotte Smith and Kavan Malloy. For
Bergholz, street medicine was an initiative he brought with him from his
college days at the University of Colorado. The experience there that inspired
him was his interaction with a homeless woman who was developing a small toe
wound from her unmanaged diabetes. Despite his efforts to help get her
connected with a physician, the woman refused and ended up needing her foot
amputated. Like many homeless persons, she faced barriers to care due to past
traumas, disabilities, mental health, lack of insurance/ID, prioritization of
basic needs and difficulty navigating the system. Please click here to read
more.
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Holy Cross Health introduces OB/GYN hospitalist program
Consortium member Holy Cross Health in Fort Lauderdale has introduced an
OB/GYN hospitalist program that allows
hospital-based, OB/GYN physicians (hospitalists) to focus on providing
consistent care to patients in the hospital, as well as emergent care to those
arriving in Labor and Delivery. To
support this initiative, Holy Cross Health is partnering with Ob Hospitalist
Group (OBHG), the industry’s largest dedicated OB/GYN hospitalist provider. The
new service will help elevate the standard of women’s healthcare by ensuring
every expectant mother is evaluated and treated by a physician regardless of
time, location, complication or circumstance. As part of the program, board
certified OB/GYN physicians are immediately available on-site 24 hours a day,
365 days a year. Please click here to read more.
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Study by Miami Cancer
Institute gives hope for patients with inoperable Pancreatic Cancer
A recent study by Consortium member Baptist Hospital Miami
Cancer Institute showed that an advanced type of radiation therapy may
significantly prolong overall survival for patients diagnosed with inoperable
pancreatic cancer. Because it is elusive and can go undetected until it has
spread elsewhere in the body, pancreatic cancer is particularly deadly, with a
mortality rate of roughly 80 percent. It is the fourth leading cause of cancer
deaths among both men and women in the U.S., according to the American Cancer
Society. However, the results of this study from Miami Cancer Institute, showed
that patients treated with MR-guided stereotactic ablative radiation therapy
(SABR) had a significantly longer median survival and some patients were still
alive several years later with excellent quality of life. The study was
conducted by Michael Chuong, M.D.,
medical director of radiation oncology at the Institute. The full results were
presented at the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO)
2021 conference in Madrid on August 29, 2021. Please click here to read more.
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Memorial Healthcare System expands its Covid-19 Long
Haulers Clinic to community at large
Consortium member Memorial Healthcare System has
expanded its Memorial Primary Care Long Haulers Clinic to treat community
members who are suffering from COVID-19 long-term symptoms. The clinic, was
originally opened in May 2021, treating only patients within the Memorial
Primary Care group. It is now expanded to the entire community. As COVID-19
case numbers soar, there is an increasing need to treat long-haulers – those
individuals who are experiencing long-term symptoms, also known as Post Acute
Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC). Melida Akiti, vice president of Memorial’s
Ambulatory Program and Community Services says, “We are seeing people in our
community suffering, and a Memorial multidisciplinary team has come together to
make sure these lasting side effects are addressed, so our patients are able to
resume life in a post-pandemic era.” Please click here to read more.
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