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The AHA urges hospital and health system leaders to join the association’s American Organization for Nursing Leadership subsidiary in an effort to advance the
agenda of the World Health Organization’s (WHO)
State of the World’s Nursing Report 2020. According to the AHA, in the year of the nurse and in the midst of a global pandemic as nurses are on the front lines in the fight against COVID-19, the WHO report is of even greater significance. The report calls,
“to invest in massive acceleration of nursing education, create at least 6 million new nursing jobs by 2030 and strengthen nurse leadership.” The AHA states that, “it is incumbent on all health leaders to utilize evidence in this report to pursue solutions
that meet today’s challenges as well as those in the future.”
The FBI was notified of targeted email phishing attempts against U.S.-based health care providers as a result of an increase in malicious cyber activity during
the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the email phishing attempts, “leveraged email subject lines and content related to COVID-19 to distribute malicious attachments, which exploited Microsoft Word Document files, 7-zip compressed files, Microsoft Visual Basic
Script, Java, and Microsoft Executables.” The FBI provided a list of indicators of compromise related to the phishing attempts intended to help network defenders protect their environments.
The IHI developed a data dashboard that depicts reported deaths from COVID-19 using Shewhart control charts. The control charts model the trajectory of COVID-19
reported deaths for each country and U.S. state and territory to aid in detecting when the COVID-19 pandemic is entering a rapid growth phase and when exponential growth is ending. IHI notes that the data dashboard is updated daily.
The Duke Clinical Research Institute, part of the Duke University School of Medicine,
announced a nationwide registry aimed to facilitate fast-track research on how to better protect front-line providers during COVID-19. The
Healthcare Worker Exposure Response and Outcomes (HERO) registry seeks input from U.S. health care workers with the intention of building a knowledge base to better protect these workers, in addition to understanding how COVID-19 affects people.
Rutgers University
launched a national study of health care workers exposed to COVID-19 that includes clinical trials exploring new drug treatments, antibody testing and long-term health tracking. Nearly 550 health care providers and approximately 300 non-health care workers
from Rutgers, University Hospital in Newark, N.J. and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J. volunteered for the study. Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Chancellor Brian Storm states, “Our hope is that this study and other scientific
developments can give state, national and global leaders the evidence-based tools to ultimately end this pandemic.”
For other COVID-19 resources please visit NCSBN’s
COVID-19 Information webpage.
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