The American Nurses Association’s Center for Ethics and Human Rights is seeking applications for a Moral Resilience Professional Issues Panel to be convened January 2017. The panel will develop policy and identify strategies to strengthen moral resilience within practicing nurses. The goal of strengthening moral resilience is to address the phenomena of moral distress. Moral distress occurs when nurses know what the morally right thing to do is, but institutional, procedural or social constraints make doing the right thing nearly impossible. Moral distress threatens the core values and moral integrity of nurses and other health care providers. The panel will conduct its work over a 4-6 month period. Applications must be received by ANA by December 1, 2016.
Nursing News - Year: 2016
Grant Opportunity : Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) Program
This announcement solicits applications for the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) Program. Program Purpose The ANEW Program supports innovative academic-practice partnerships to prepare primary care advanced practice registered nursing students to practice in rural and underserved settings through academic and clinical training. The partnerships support traineeships as well as infrastructure funds to schools of nursing and their practice partners who deliver longitudinal primary care clinical training experiences with rural and/or underserved populations for selected advanced nursing education students in primary care nurse practitioner (NP), primary care clinical nurse specialist (CNS), and/or nurse-midwife (NMW) programs, and facilitate program graduates’ employment in those settings.
Cardiac Care Bundled Payment Model Proposed
CMS Announces Expansion of Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program
The Diabetes Prevention Program is a structured lifestyle intervention that includes dietary coaching, lifestyle intervention, and moderate physical activity, all with the goal of preventing the onset of diabetes in individuals who are pre-diabetic. The clinical intervention consists of 16 intensive “core” sessions of a curriculum in a group-based, classroom-style setting that provides practical training in long-term dietary change, increased physical activity, and behavior change strategies for weight control. After the 16 core sessions, less intensive monthly follow-up meetings help ensure that the participants maintain healthy behaviors. The primary goal of the intervention is at least 5 percent average weight loss among participants.
The Joint Commission Has Approved New National Patient Safety Goals for CAUTI
NACNS Comments to CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
On behalf of the 72,000 clinical nurse specialists in the country, the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) is pleased to provide comments on the on the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain — United States, 2016.