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UPDATE: Effective Monday, April 20, 2020, Children’s of Alabama implemented the following visitation restrictions to protect patients, staff, visitors and the community from the potential spread of illness. ALL visitors must arrive to campus wearing a mask.
For inpatients:
• Visitors are limited to two (2) parents/caregivers at this time.
• No other visitors, including siblings, will be allowed.
• Please do not visit if you have flu-like symptoms and/or cough, fever, and/or shortness of breath, runny nose/nasal congestion or sore throat.
For scheduled surgery patients, outpatient clinic appointments and Emergency Department visits:
• One (1) parent/caregiver is allowed to bring the child.
• No other visitors, including siblings, will be allowed.
• If your child is ill, please call before arrival for additional instructions.
For more information, please visit childrensal.org/coronavirus.

The Breema Center is offering Self-Breema classes online via Zoom, as well as videos of classes with the Director of the Breema Center, Dr. Jon Schreiber. This has never been done before, yet we are seeing an increase in participation from people all over the world including Breema students, instructors, health practitioners and the general public, for these much needed and appreciated self-care exercises to bring harmony and balance to the body, mind and feelings and to support presence in one’s daily life. Go to https://www.breema.com/events/center or https://www.breema.com/doselfbreema to participate.

❗️NEW BLOG POST❗️

6 Steps to Protect Yourself and Others from 🦠COVID-19🦠 PLUS: Resources for Preparing, Preventing, & Controlling the Pandemic

🔗 General Prevention

🔗 FAQs r/t Infection Control

🔗 How to Properly Don, Use, And Doff PPE (PDF)

🔗 Interim Infection Prevention & Control Recommendations

🔗 Risk Assessment & Management

🔗 Interim Guidance for Healthcare Facilities

🔗 Steps Healthcare Facilities Can Take

🔗 CMS LTC Infection Control Worksheet (PDF)

To have a 👀 look 👀 at the full article, click here 📲https://enurseconsulting.net/blog/f/7-steps-to-protect-yourself-and-others-from-covid-19

6 Steps to Protect Yourself and Others from COVID-19 Resources for Preparing, Preventing, & Controlling the COVID-19 Pandemic

Practice breathing your way to resilience.

Deep breathing, or Diaphragmatic breathing, can help keep your immune system strong. Try breathing in deeply to a count of 4, holding for 4 and then exhaling to a count of 6. Repeat this cycle for a few minutes to help bring your body into the parasympathetic state necessary to reach a state of equilibrium in the body.

AHNA would like to thank all those stepping up to support all the nurses on the frontlines in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. We acknowledge contributions from FIGS Corporation, Clove, the various food delivery services and flower delivery services among many others. We are in this together!

update for 🏥Children's of Alabama🏥

Children's of Alabama is addressing the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic by taking significant actions to further support social distancing, to help protect demand for supplies and human resources and to limit exposure. Physicians and nurse practitioners are contacting scheduled patients to help decide who must be seen and who can be deferred. Chemotherapy, biologic therapy and critical follow up is occurring. We are providing telephone advice to those patients who are deferred.

We are enacting the following to limit activity:

1. Most elective/non-urgent specialty clinic visits are either being deferred or converted to telehealth visits.
2. All elective/non-urgent surgeries are being deferred until a later time.
3. Routine new patient visits will not be scheduled at this time.
4. We will not have “non-essential personnel” on our campus.

https://www.childrensal.org/body.cfm?id=4454&fr=true

Infographic via UAB Medicine

Visit uab.edu/coronavirus to learn more!

MANAGING ANXIETY AROUND COVID-19

“If you’re noticing anxiety in yourself or those around you these days, you’re not alone. With mention of COVID-19 (commonly known as coronavirus) filling radio and television news, social media feeds, and our email inboxes, it’s no wonder we’re all anxious. Between the uncertainty, the real health risks, and the hype, fear and anxiety are feelings that are both valid and common. We wanted to provide you with a few ideas for managing those feelings.”

(1) Start with yourself.
(2) Be aware of your own emotions and accept how you feel.
(3) Focus on the facts.
(4) Control the amount of information you take in.
(5) Don’t be afraid to say no.
(6) Respect others’ decisions but know what’s right for you.
(7) Be your best self when dealing with stigma and fears.
(8) Support others who are dealing with anxiety and uncertainty.

~ The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence Team

Read the full article here: https://www.rulerapproach.org/managing-anxiety-around-covid-19/

Additional resources you may find helpful as you navigate this challenging time:

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission.html


• Coping with Stress During Infectious Disease Outbreaks: https://store.samhsa.gov/product/Coping-with-Stress-During-Infectious-Disease-Outbreaks/sma14-4885


• Talking to Children About COVID-19 (Coronavirus): A Parent Resource: https://www.nasponline.org/resources-and-publications/resources-and-podcasts/school-climate-safety-and-crisis/health-crisis-resources/talking-to-children-about-covid-19-(coronavirus)-a-parent-resource


• Talking with Children: Tips for Caregivers, Parents, and Teachers During Infectious Disease Outbreaks: https://store.samhsa.gov/product/Talking-With-Children-Tips-for-Caregivers-Parents-and-Teachers-During-Infectious-Disease-Outbreaks/SMA14-4886


• Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence – Free E-Learning Tools for Educators Transitioning to Distance Education:http://www.rulerapproach.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/eLearning_Tools_Distance_Education.pdf

What we now know about stress that we didn’t know before:


There are 3 types of stress
• positive.

• tolerable.

• toxic.


In the presence of ongoing, inescapable, debilitating stress (aka: TOXIC stress), our body’s “default mode of defense” = an INSTINCTUAL response that causes an individual to “collapse”, or to go into a state of physiological SHUT DOWN and EMOTIONAL DISCONNECTION.

This shut down response is what is now being referred to as “Burnout” in the workplace, and is of particular concern among individuals working in healthcare.


What causes the “shut-down” response?



Our body has 3 ways of responding to stress

1.) Positive Stress: We feel it and process it and it’s a healthy level of stress that keeps our body and mind working

2.) Tolerable Stress: Our initial stress response to persistent stress = the response of fight or flight. When this occurs, the body responds by releasing adrenaline and norepinephrine into the bloodstream to fuel the body’s response in the form of actionable behaviors to defend itself against the stress or threat

3.) Toxic Stress (AKA ‘Burn-out’): If removing oneself from the stress inducing situation is not an option and stress becomes ongoing, prolonged, and perceivably inescapable, then our body goes to our 3rd and final stress response, which is “shut down” mode. This is what we are beginning to see more and more among healthcare workers, and what is collectively being referred to as “Burnout”

For individuals in healthcare, particularly nurses, this is becoming an epidemic. Learn more to educate yourself on the signs and symptoms of burnout and what YOU can do to be proactive in preventing it from occurring, hit the link our bio!

As nurses we have a tendency to want to say “yes” to everything if we feel as though it may help someone. It’s time we learn to say “NO” to the things getting in the way of our achieving a healthy work/life balance and start saying “YES” to more things that help us prosper and put the JOY back in our lives. Learn more, read our most recent blog post, 5 Ways For Nurses to Say “NO”!!

5 Ways Nurses Can Say “NO”...Without Feeling Guilty 5 Ways Nurses Can Say “NO”

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