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MU Nursing Professor Serves On National Panel Examining Nursing Home Care In U.S.
From staffing shortages to underpaid staff and a lack of personalized care, issues that have plagued nursing homes for decades in the United States were exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In response, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine organized a team of 17 national nursing home experts, including MU’s Marilyn Rantz, a Curators’ professor emerita at the MU Sinclair School of Nursing. The panel, which first met in fall 2020, recently released a national report providing recommendations to the U.S. Congress for improving the quality of care in nursing homes throughout the country.
The report highlighted seven key priorities:
• Deliver person-centered, equitable care that promotes autonomy and manages risks.
• Ensure a well-prepared and appropriately compensated workforce.
• Increase transparency and accountability of finances and operations.
• Create
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Periods Start Earlier for Young Girls. How to Prepare Them?
During the pandemic, the number of young girls entering puberty has doubled in some countries—from 140 cases in 2019 to 328 in 2020. Given that girls are already reaching puberty five years earlier than at the beginning of the 20th century, early maturity and menstruation might prove challenging to both girls and their parents or custodians if they fail to prepare their young children about the upcoming changes.
Why do periods start earlier?
In the last couple of years early puberty has been linked to the change in lifestyle during lockdowns: an increased use of electronic devices, higher amounts of foods rich in fat and sugar, higher levels of stress, and reduced physical activity. Even before the pandemic, some girls started to mature as early as 10 years old, and the age of menstruation dropped from 16 or 17 a hundred years ago to the current 13.
However, Vilmante Markeviciene, fou
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ASHA Marks Better Hearing and Speech Month With New PSA Campaign That Encourages the Public To Seek Care From Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists
A new national broadcast public service announcement (PSA) campaign launched today by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) showcases the life-altering treatment outcomes made possible with care from audiologists and speech-language pathologists.
The bilingual television and radio PSAs feature the stories of real professionals and people they have treated across the lifespan. Their release coincides with national Better Hearing and Speech Month (BHSM), celebrated each May, along with new polling results documenting a high incidence of concern among Americans about communication and swallowing disorders.
The national polling, commissioned by ASHA and completed by YouGov in March 2022, shows a strong need for public education about treatment services for these disorders. Results of nearly 3,000 American adults ages 18 and older revealed that more than 6 in 10 people (65
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Nurse-Led Cedars-Sinai Study Leads to Creating ‘Serenity Lounges’
A new Cedars-Sinai study shows that "Serenity Lounges"–break rooms equipped with massage chairs and other relaxation tools–reduced feelings of stress, anxiety and burnout among nurses.
The study, co-authored by Cedars-Sinai nurse investigators Florida Pagador, MSN; Melanie Barone, MSN; Mana Manoukian, MSN, RN; Wenrui Xu, MPH; and Linda Kim, PhD, MSN, RN, PHN, found that use of a massage chair in a quiet room for as little as 10 minutes provided nurses mental and emotional relief, allowing them to return to patient care better equipped to handle the stress. The study appears this month in the American Journal of Nursing.
"We know that our nurses can’t pour from an empty cup," said David Marshall, JD, DNP, RN, senior vice president, chief nursing executive and the James R. Klinenberg, MD, and Lynn Klinenberg Linkin Chair in Nursing in honor of Linda Burnes Bolton. "This study highlight
