Sept 2009 NursingInsider

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• Majority of Respondents Receive Tuition Assistance from Work, According to Poll

  
  Read Poll results on Nursingworld.org

• Recall - Children's and Infants' Tylenol Oral Suspension Products

  
  Read the complete MedWatch 2009 Safety summary including a link to the FDA news release

• New ANA Health Care Reform PowerPoint, Media Tools

  
  ANA WORKING FOR YOU: New Health Care Reform PowerPoint, Communications Tools

• Report Released by IOM on How the Standards of Care Could Change During a Disaster

  
  Read IOM Report

• Health IT Meeting

  
  On September 29, the National Chamber Foundation will host a summit titled Health IT: Improving the Health System with Information Technology at the U.S Chamber of Commerce.

• RWJF Health Policy Fellows Call for Applications

  
  Applications deadline is Nov. 13, 2009.

• ANA Commends UN Resolution on the Creation of a UN Women’s Agency

  
  ANA is gratified to see the UN General Assembly’s decision to create a new United Nations (UN) Agency for Women. Read ANA Press Release.

• Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses Seeking New Executive Director

  
  MARN is seeking candidates for the part-time position; detailed information about the position can be found on the MARN web site.

• 2009-2010 IOM Nurse Scholar-in-Residence Named

  
  Dr Julie Fairman named IOM Nurse-in-Residence - Read press release

• HHS Releases ARRA Funds to Train Health Professionals - Including Nursing Workforce Diversity

  
  See HHS Secretary Press Release

• Recall of LIFEPAK CR Plus Automated External Defibrillators

  
  Read 9/16/09 FDA notice

• ANA Criticizes "America's Healthy Future Act

  
  Read ANA Press Release

• FDA Approves Vaccines for 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus

  
  See FDA Press Release

• Majority of Respodents Do Not Use Electronic Personal Health Record Products, According to Poll

  
  

• ANA Launches Web Site to Broaden Support for Safe Patient Handling Goals

  
  New ANA Web Site Safe Patient Handling -ANASafePatientHandling.org

• ANA Testifies Before Congress on Health Insurance Reform

  
  Read ANA Press Release and Testimony

• ANA Board Member to Testify on Health Reform

  
  Live Webcast and Twitter Feed Available www.twitter.com/nursingworld

• House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee Forum on the Urgent Need for Health Care Reform - 9/15/09

  
  View web cast of hearing.

• 1st Official Sept. 11 National ‘Day of Service and Remembrance'

  
  

• ANA Nurses Answer Call to Support Obama's Stand for Health Care Reform

  
  ANA Nurses Join Obama at White House

• New Offering for Members Only “PubMed Citations for You”

  
  PubMed is a U.S. National Library of Medicine database.

• New Poll Shows Concerns with Current Health Care System Remain High

  
  AARP, AMA and ANA Jointly Release New Data

• Call for Public Review - Proposed AORN Standards of Perioperative Nursing

  
  Call for Public Review - Proposed AORN Standards of Perioperative Nursing - Sept 14, 2009

• AAN’s 36th Annual Meeting and Conference

  
  

• Two New Free Guides on Premixed Insulin Analogues

  
  Available through the AHRQ Effective Health Care Program

• First National Clinical Nurse Specialists Recognition Week - Sept 1-7

  
  September 1-7 marks the 1st ever National Clinical Nurse Specialists Recognition Week.

• Respondents Feel Their Units Are Not Properly Staffed, According to Poll

  
  See biweekly "Have Your Say" poll results. This poll asked online visitors if they felt that their unit was properly staffed.

• ACS Scholarships in Cancer Nursing