MSNJ Member COVID-19 Update
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Happy Mother's Day & Happy National Nurses Week From MSNJ!
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From all of us at MSNJ, we would like to thank all of the extraordinary nurses and mother's around the world, as we celebrate
National Nurses Week
this week and
Mother's Day
this weekend.
In recognition of these holidays, we are putting the spotlight on an amazing New Jersey nurse and mother. Susan Kalayilparampil (pictured) is a postpartum nurse on Saint Barnabas Medical Center’s Family Centered Care Unit -- but her most important role is being a mother to MSNJ's Marlene Kalayilparampil! During the past few months, Susan has cared for several mothers who have given birth & tested positive for COVID-19 and was recognized for her extraordinary work this week by
New Jersey First Lady Tammy Murphy
! Thank you, Susan!
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COVID-19 Updates & Resources
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American College of Physicians
Releases Guidance on Partial Resumption of Activities While Mitigating COVID-19 Risk
Today, the American College of Physicians (ACP) released “Partial Resumption of Economic, Health Care and Other Activities While Mitigating COVID-19 Risk and Expanding System Capacity" -- a new clinical and public policy recommendations about how to resume some economic, social and medical care activities in a phased and prioritized approach to help mitigate COVID-19 risk and allow for rapid expansion of health system capacity to conduct essential public health functions.
ACP expressed concern that it is unhelpful and misleading to frame the decision facing federal, state and local authorities as a binary choice of opening up the economy or keeping it closed, saying this creates unnecessary conflict, and hampers decision-making. Instead, ACP believes the U.S. should chart a way forward to allow certain economic and social activities to be resumed in a phased and prioritized way, based on the best available evidence, in a manner that mitigates risk (slows and reduces the spread of COVID-19, and associated deaths and other harm to patients) and rapidly expands health system capacity to diagnose, test, treat, conduct contact tracing (with privacy protections), and conduct other essential public health functions.
Read the full clinical and public policy recommendations here
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From The CEO's Desk...
MSNJ's CEO Larry Downs recommends the following article of interest:
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HHS Provider Payments Survey
MSNJ would like to hear about your overall experience with the HHS provider portal to receive payments. Please take our short
survey
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MSNJ Medical Student Section Update - COVID-19
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This week, the NJ COVID-19 Medical Student Coalition donated 3,018 PPE (face shields, masks, & straps) to 8 sites throughout
New Jersey
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- 400 to Saint Peter's Healthcare System / Saint Peter's University Hospital
- 1140 to CareOne Management in North Jersey
- 440 to The Valley Hospital
- 473 to RWJBarnabas Health in Livingston
- 340 to Hackensack Meridan Health in Prospect Heights
- 225 to WhiteHouse Rehab
To date, the coalition has donated more than 6,000 PPE to sites across the state!
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Please continue to support the NJ COVID-19 Medical Student Coalition.
Donate and get involved! More information on the Coalition is listed below below.
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Neil Jain (left), Immediate-Past Chair of the MSNJ Medical Student Section (MSS), started a Medical Student Coalition to collect medical supplies such as N95/99 masks, face shields, sterile gloves, latex gloves, protective eye wear, as well as other necessary supplies for NJ hospitals state wide. They have partnered with MSNJ and MSNJ-MSS on this initiative. We applaud them on their outstanding efforts! Check out their
website
for more information and to donate.
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MSNJ Member Discount:
Endocannabinoid Educational Learning System
Medical Cannabis Deemed “Essential” and “Life-Sustaining”
In the current COVID-19 environment, state governments recognize medical cannabis as essential and life sustaining for many different qualifying medical conditions reinforcing the need for essential ECS knowledge. MSNJ has partnered with Havas ECS to give MSNJ members a 10% discount on their Educational Learning System which offers a 12 CME Credit Certification in Endocannabinoid Medicine.
When purchasing these modules,
please register using the email address that MSNJ has on file.
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Massachusetts Medical Society CME: Burnout Podcast Series
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AMA Physician Burnout & Wellness CME Course
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American Meditation Institute's "First-Aid Kit for Burnout"
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Harvard Medical School COVID-19 CME Video Series
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