Health Behavior to Counter Childhood Obesity: Community Nursing 2018

About 1 in 6 youngsters are taken into consideration overweight, in step with the facilities for disease control and Prevention 
“One essential reason is the supply of cheap food this is high in fats and occasional in nutrients”. From fast meals restaurants to comfort stores to their personal kitchens, children are surrounded by way of excessive-calorie foods which can satisfy an initial yearning, however, don’t hold them complete.
further to eating more energy than their bodies need, today’s children are expending fewer calories than they used to. With TVs and telephones and iPads, children are spending extra time on screens and less time moving their body, whether or not that's playing out of doors or doing sports activities.
Too many calories in and no longer sufficient energy out equals weight benefit. It seems simple enough, however, it’s honestly more complicated than that.
“obesity is occurring in all ages, which include girls of reproductive age . Gaining extra weight in the course of pregnancy puts the mother in danger of developing gestational diabetes, and being born very huge is related to youth weight problems. further to possible shipping complications, larger babies are much more likely to hold gaining weight at an excessive price
Heavier newborns can be more likely to store body fats than ordinary-weight newborns, which may additionally intervene with glucose regulation and the urge for food law systems of the brain, in turn setting children as much as getting even heavier in the course of early life and into adulthood.
Weight management programs help children make better lifestyle picks, however, the only weight reduction interventions start at home. An easy way to get children thinking about eating healthy is to involve them in the shopping, preparing and cooking food. Get a cookbook and say, ‘let’s study this cookbook and find something wholesome we can cook collectively, or say, allow’s select out something you’ve in no way tried earlier than, and we can do a little bit of research on it to peer why it’s exact for us to eat.

For More such insights on Public Health join us at the International Conference on Community Nursing and Public Health, November 19-21, 2018, Cape Town, South Africa

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John Hunt

Program Manager

Community Nursing 2018

47 Churchfield Road, London, W3 6AY, United Kingdom

Phone +44-2088190774
Email: community@nursingconference.com

Better Pre-treatment and Chemotherapy Administration

Nurse-identified solution to near-misses in pretreatment lab evaluations was effective in improving chemotherapy administration; however, continued efforts may be needed to sustain the practice changes.

Oncology nurses often find themselves multitasking in a fast-paced environment. Routine tasks such as evaluating lab results prior to administering chemotherapy may become automatic, increasing the risk for near-misses. For this project, a near-missis defined as “orders approved by nurses but halted by pharmacy.” 

Data collected over 6 nonconsecutive weeks identified a total of 36 near-misses (range, 4 to 11 near-misses/week). A nurse-led intervention was developed with the goal of reducing the number of near-misses by 50% over 3 months, explained Ayo Sato-DiLorenzo, RN, BSN, OCN, BMTCN, a nurse educator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

For this study, the researchers created a process map to understand baseline nursing processes, a staff survey to understand existing barriers as identified by staff nurses, and a cause-and-effect diagram to categorize each existing barrier and visually present its influence on the system. 

Potential causes identified in a staff survey included lack of clear treatment criteria, delays in lab processing, and patients distressed by long wait times. Group brainstorming sessions by staff nurses produced a variety of possible interventions. Ideas were organized in priority/pay-off matrix and each evaluated for its merit based on 2 domains: perceived ease in implementation and perceived effectiveness. 

These efforts produced 2 potential interventions. A 2-nurse lab check during order verification and using the “display the last day” feature in the electronic medical record to limit lab display to the most recent results only.

Over 9 weeks, only 1 near-miss was identified. Post intervention surveillance collected 7 months after intervention initiation identified 11 near-misses over 6 weeks (range, 0 to 3 near-misses/week). Although this data demonstrated that the near-miss rate was still lower than pre-intervention rates, a slight increase had occurred since the initial implementation was noted.

A follow-up survey of the staff nurses called out the barriers to full success: a return to past habits and the primary nurse simply telling the second verifying nurse that pretreatment labs have been verified.

For More such research insights join us at the International Conference on Community Nursing and Public Health, November 19-21, 2018, Cape Town, South Africa

Last few speaker slots open.
Submit your abstracts now at
https://community.nursingconference.com/abstract-submission.php

John Hunt

Program Manager

Community Nursing 2018

47 Churchfield Road, London, W3 6AY, United Kingdom

Phone +44-2088190774
Email: community@nursingconference.com

Gender Equality in Public Health

One might expect to see a high degree of gender equality in the global health sector, but a new report shows how its organizations are falling embarrassingly short on addressing gender disparities. Over the past few decades, the international community has tasked itself with achieving a wide range of social and environmental objectives, many of which are enshrined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for 2030.

But it has also been realized that far too many efforts to fulfil global commitments lack the meaningful reporting mechanisms needed to succeed. If the global community is indeed serious about translating lofty pronouncements into real progress for people and the planet, this will have to change.

Consider public health, an issue that affects everyone. The global agenda in this area determines the norms and standards that shape how public and private actors promote health, prevent disease, and administer care. It encompasses research initiatives and global public goods such as vaccines and emergency-preparedness programs for epidemic outbreaks. And it brings people together to work toward providing universal health coverage and ensuring everyone’s right to health.

In the SDG framework, the separate issues of gender and health are intertwined, because gender itself is a major driver of health outcomes. Gender can influence whether one smokes tobacco, exercises regularly, or has access to nutritious food. And given that over 75 per cent of the health workforce worldwide is female, it also often determines who will care for the sick.

For decades, the global health community has paid lip service to the critical role of unequal power relations, particularly relating to gender, in determining health outcomes. At this point, one might expect to see a high degree of gender equality in the health sector. But a recent report by the advocacy and accountability group Global Health 50/50 shows otherwise.

In fact, the report, which reviewed 140 organizations working in the global health sector, makes for disturbing reading. Many of these organizations are falling embarrassingly short on addressing gender disparities. Half of the organizations’ strategies do not include a specific commitment to gender equality; and while a third do focus on the health of women and girls, they make no mention of gendered risks.

The situation is even worse for men and boys, who, regardless of country, can expect to live shorter, unhealthier lives than their female peers. According to the Global Health 50/50 report, only a third of organizations take a gendered approach to the health needs of the whole population, and no organizations target men and boys specifically.

Moreover, only 43 per cent of the organizations that were surveyed have specific measures in place to support women’s careers in public health, despite the overwhelmingly female composition of the health workforce. It should come as no surprise that the majority of these organizations are run by men. Across the full sample, 80 per cent of board chairs and 69 per cent of chief executives are male.

One of the report’s more dismaying findings is that two-thirds of the organisations do not disaggregate data by sex. Without data, transparency, and adequate reporting on gender disparities, there can be no progress toward gender equality.

Still, the report’s findings are not all negative. The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the Bangladesh-based organization BRAC, Save the Children International, and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria are among a dozen or so organizations that perform well across the board. What they have in common are committed leaders who have taken proactive steps to ensure progress.

The successful organizations have all adopted clear policies and roadmaps for driving organizational change. They have established systems of accountability, including measures to ensure that gender competence is included in job descriptions and staff performance evaluations. And they have created flexible work environments, featuring parental leave and other family-oriented policies.

Join the dialogue on gender equality at Community Nursing 2018

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John Hunt
Program Manager
Community Nursing 2018
47 Churchfield Road, London, W3 6AY, United Kingdom
Email: community@nursingconference.com

Phone +44-2088190774

Nurses' Workload Linked to Patient Safety

When nurses' workload exceed "optimal" levels, the possibilities of a patient safety incident are inflated by up to roughly 30% and therefore the chances of patient mortality are spiked by around 40% according to a recent study.

The analysis is the first of its kind which explores the connection between nurse workload and patient outcomes on a day to day basis. The researchers gathered primary data from thirty-six units in four Finnish hospitals which included data on nursing workload, staffing, patient safety incidents and mortality rates. The info was collected daily for over one year.

Depending on the kind of patient safety incident, once nursing work exceeded the "optimal" level, the chance of a patient safety incident increased by 8% to 32%! The risk of patient mortality saw a hike of around 43% as and when workload exceeded this level.

The study discovered once workload languishes below that level, leaving nurses with longer periods to treat patients, the risks of a safety incident was around 25% lower.

Although various studies demonstrate the possibly harmful result that inadequate nurse staffing has on patient care, the authors argued some results are "inconsistent" and therefore the association between staffing and rates of mortality and patient safety factors isn’t always easy to figure out.

However, through the analysis of daily data on nurse staffing and safety, the researchers claim that it would be much easier to see figure out the connections with certainty.

Still, the authors emphasized how it remained unclear which method was able to best avoid patient safety incidents and deaths. To determine this, the authors said larger studies over a longer period of time are necessary.

For more such insights into Nursing and Public Health join us at the CNE accredited International Conference on Community Nursing and Public Health - September 17-18, 2018 - Cape Town, South Africa.

Submit your abstracts now at https://community.nursingconference.com/abstract-submission.php 

John Hunt

Program Manager

Community Nursing 2018

47 Churchfield Road, London, W3 6AY, United Kingdom

Phone +44-2088190774
Email: community@nursingconference.com