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What is Harm Reduction?

Diversity Nursing

In the United States, drug overdose deaths have reached historical rates. From September 2020 to September 2021, more than 104,000 Americans died due to a drug overdose. Harm reduction services play a key role in preventing death, injury, disease, overdose, and substance misuse or disorder. According to DrugPolicy.org , harm reduction is based on acknowledging the dignity and humanity of people who use substances and bringing them into a community of care in order to minimize negative consequenc

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OSHA Re-opens Comment Period and Schedules Public Hearing on ETS – Occupational Exposure to COVID-19

Healthcare Law Insights blog

On March 23, 2022, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a notice in the federal register announcing a limited re-opening of the comment period regarding OSHA’s final standard to protect healthcare and healthcare support service workers from occupational exposure to COVID-19. The comment period will end on April 22, 2022, and the virtual public hearing will be held on April 27, 2022.

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HIMSS 2022: When Nurses Reimagine Health Care

Capitol Beat

ANA staff attended the 2022 Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference last week where reimagining health and the health care delivery system were top of mind. The week started by reimagining health with a NursePitch TM Innovation event. ANA’s Innovation Department collaborates with HIMSS by setting the stage for nurses to share their creative business ideas and programs to a team of judges, who are health innovation, business, and industry leaders.

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A Profound Lesson I learned in Hollywood from the Wizard of Oz

Yoga Nurse

There’s no place like hOMe Greetings, my heart greets your heart, Yep that’s a pic of me and TOTO. A little personal stuff + a Spiritual Story. I was in LA awhile back visiting a good friend, a singer song writer who lives in a fabulous home in the Hollywood Hills, from my days when I was working as an actor and fashion model. I haven’t seen her in 32 years!!!

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Fertility Benefits for Every Age: A HR Roadmap from Gen Z to Baby Boomers

Speaker: Lauri Armstrong, SHRM-SCP - Sr. Director, People Operations at Carrot Fertility

Today’s workforce includes multiple generations of employees all looking for something different from their benefits package. While meeting these disparate needs can be challenging, a comprehensive fertility benefit can support everyone from junior staffers learning about their fertility health to senior leadership managing menopause and low testosterone symptoms.

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Squishing hierarchies

Teresa Chinn

One of the things that I have always loved about nursing social media is that hierarchies are irrelevant. The way that a nursing student can contact a chief nursing officer, or a director of nursing can chat with a newly qualified nurse, or even a professor of nursing can engage with a person who is merely thinking about coming into nursing is so valuable.