NSO is hosting a webinar for Nursing Professionals on December 14th at 3pm ET to highlight Vaccination Errors and Prevention.

All Nursing Professionals, Students, Business Owners and Educators are invited to register for this free event.  This session is ANCC approved for 1 contact hour.  Below are details for the event, we also attached a flyer that can easily be shared with your members.

Safety Considerations for Minimizing Vaccination-Related Errors

Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET

Click here to register: Safety Considerations for Minimizing Vaccination-Related Errors (on24.com)

Webinar Overview:
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), immunizations prevent between 2 and 3 million deaths per year. Despite this success, many children and adults in the US remain vulnerable to the 17 vaccine-preventable diseases. Although vaccination ranks high among the greatest public health achievements of the twentieth century, the success of any individual vaccine relies on correct and widespread administration to the appropriate patient population. Vaccine errors threaten to undermine the protection immunizations provide and often leave patients inadequately protected against serious diseases such as hepatitis A and B, pertussis, diphtheria, cervical cancer, and many others. This program will review events submitted to the ISMP National Vaccine Errors Reporting Program (VERP) and will include a discussion of the risks associated with vaccine errors, including COVID-19. There will be a review of the common types of errors involving vaccines as well as a discussion of best practices for preventing errors as well as patient harm that may occur when errors involve vaccines.

Speakers:

• Michael Cohen, RPh, MS, ScD (hon), DPS (hon), FASHP, Founder and President Emeritus at the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
• Ronald Zentz, RPh, DDS, FAGD, CPHRM, Risk Control Consulting Director, CNA
• Jennifer Flynn, CPHRM, Risk Manager, Healthcare Providers Service Organization (NSO)

Climate Change and Our Health: Nurses Taking Action

In the News

In the past few weeks articles about health and the climate have populated headlines in nursing and health publications including Climate change is causing fungal pathogens to spread: Here's what providers should know, Making Good on Climate Pledges for Health Care and the National Academy of Medicine’s new Grand Challenge on Climate Change, Human Health and Equity.

Also, the Arizona Health Professionals for Climate Action hosted the Arizona Climate and Health Summit for Health Professionals on November 15^th that provides an excellent introduction to the importance of our action, featuring Dr. Amy Collins, ‘Climate Change, Health and Health Care: How Health Professionals Can Help’.  Here is one of several key points made during the Summit.

Credit: Amy Collins M.D., Medical Director of Physician Engagement & Education, Health Care Without Harm & Practice Greenhealth

Today’s Action

Sign on to a letter calling for climate action (the names of the Arizona Congressional members will be updated after 12/5 when the election results are official). If you support this ask, please sign and consider sharing the organization letter with your colleagues and health organization to see if they would like to sign as well. Nurses can help move climate action by becoming part of the solution.

Individual Sign-on Letter:

https://forms.gle/psy81dRJodoqWERYA

Organization Sign-on Letter:

https://forms.gle/8TsHaTKRUdcaKCDY8

Credit: Amy Collins M.D., Medical Director of Physician Engagement & Education, Health Care Without Harm & Practice Greenhealth

Resources

• Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health & Arizona Health Professionals for Climate Action
• The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
• HealthCare Without Harm
• Health Care Climate Action
• Nurses Climate Challenge

Alliant International University is looking to hire a Program Director BSN/ MSN - Direct Entry Prelicensure Nursing Programs (AZ)

The Program Director, Nursing Prelicensure (BSN and MSN-Direct Entry) programs, is an inaugural position and represents an opportunity to shape program philosophy, curriculum, and faculty composition

Summary:

This role will act as Open-Rank Professor, a faculty member who has completed a terminal degree (e.g., doctorate) in the area in which the faculty member will be teaching. As an Open Rank Professor, they facilitate learning, and partake in scholarship, service, or any combination of those activities. As Program Director, this individual is critical for the successful operation of the University. Under the supervision/direction of the school dean, the program director is central to academic planning, to faculty recruitment, retention, and development, and to budget management and oversight, as well as to the quality of the student’s academic experience. The Program Director is an integral part of the school’s leadership team and works closely with the dean in fostering a learning community infused with vitality for all constituencies.

https://jobsearch.createyourowncareer.com/Alliant/job/Phoenix-Open-Rank-Professor-BSN-and-MSN-Direct-Entry-Prelicensure-Nursing-Programs-%28Arizona%29-1-AZ-85012/839410201/