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Music Can Improve Mental Health

Music Therapy is the evidence-based use of music in clinical situations that help people reach desired health outcomes. There is evidence that music can alter brain chemistry and components of the immune system.

Music can help improve mental health by reducing certain symptoms of depression and by making people feel more in control. It can reduce stress, help sleep, and elevate mood. In many healthcare settings music is being used to complement treatments patients are receiving.

Senior Fellow & co-producer, Eve Adler interviews Lori Meono, Psy.D. in this HealthCetera segment. Dr. Meono has worked extensively looking at the integration of music and psychology with diverse groups and populations. She has provided psychological services at community counseling centers, homeless shelters, transitional living facilities for women and their children, and at several academic institutions in California.

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March 29, 2018

author: Editorial Staff

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Nursing, Radio/Podcast

School Nurses Demand Action

Lisa Kern MSN, RN, NCSN, is the Director for the State of Florida Association of School Nurses and on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN). That Tweet was posted on February 17th.

Three days earlier, on February 14th, a mass shooting was committed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Seventeen people were killed and seventeen more were wounded, making it one of the world’s deadliest school massacres.

On March 24th, School Nurse Kern and school nurses across the nation joined thousands in March for Our Lives protests in Washington, DC and throughout the country to advocate for school safety and gun control.

NASNA has a policy statement on gun violence, Common Sense Solutions Needed to Keep Students Safe – School Violence – The Role of the School Nurse in Prevention. The 2018 NASN Legislative Priorities urges Congress to pass the Nurses for Under-Resourced Schools Everywhere (NURSE) Act. This bill establishes a competitive demonstration grant program to increase the number of school nurses in public elementary and secondary schools. The bill was introduced in the Senate by Jon Tester (D-Mont.) Senate Bill – NURSE ACT 2018 you can see the Senate co-sponsors and bill actions here. and introduced in the House by Dina Titus (D-Nev.) HR 5251 –

HealthCetera co-producer and host Barbara Glickstein talks with School Nurse Kern about the role of school nurses in preventing violence and the need for gun safety in our country in this segment of HealthCetera:

You can follow Lisa Kern on Twitter: @Lkern12 and the National Association of School Nurses @schoolnurses

Special Thanks to Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, Faculty – Rutgers-Camden School Nurse Certificate Program, Johnson & Johnson School Health Fellow and Nationally Certified School Nurse for permission to use #SchoolNursesDemandAction Photo Credit:Cogan/Knapp

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March 29, 2018

author: Barbara Glickstein

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HealthCetera, Media Engagement

Increasing Nurses as Sources in Reporting on Health

Journalists reflect society as a whole, changing the public’s view of nursing means educating health reporters. Why do journalists who cover health care use or not use nurses as sources in stories?

Educating health reporters to diversify their sources to include nurses will help move the needle. More will be needed.

What’s nursing’s role in being invisible in the media? Are we unheard, or are we not putting our voices out there? To increase nurses as sources in the media demands strategic actions to prepare nurses to be media competent.

Elevate Nursing’s Voice with Media Training, was my presentation at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Deans Annual Meeting on March 24th in Washington, DC. My charge to the Deans was to be the movers and shakers and act to make nurses more visible and powerful in the media.

The Women’s Media Center The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2017 reports that men still dominate media across all platforms and women are not equal partners in sourcing and interpreting what and who is important in the story.

Nurses are 90%+ women and underrepresented in media coverage of health news. Are nurses prepared to be media sources? Nursing can gain media competency that teaches them strategic messaging, on-camera experience and how to translate their published research results into a pitch telling the journalist why this matters to the public. The Center’s Nurse Messenger Media Training delivers these skills with the potential to turn nurses into media mavens.

The Tweet screen shots below were posted by #AACNDeans18 attendees during the presentation.

Media tip: Journalists find stories on Twitter.