Pregnancy and lactation may affect maternal behavior and coping skills
...that hormonal changes occurring in rats after they nurse their pups may bring about endocrine and neuroendocrine changes that help produce better mothering skills with each pregnancy and reduce the mother's anxiety levels as she matures," said Robert S. Bridges, PhD, the senior author of this paper and hea...Molecular medicine comes to the rescue
...izon. "Lilly will still see her friend the school nurse every day," said Laurie, "but from now on she'll just wave, and say 'Hi.'"...Thirty percent of nurses report both verbal and physical abuse in the last four working weeks
...ical abuse said that it was carried out by another nurse and three percent by a doctor. When it came to v...nsiderably, with 29 percent reporting abuse from a nurse colleague and 27 percent from a doctor. The results were collated from questionnaires sent to the ...M. D. Anderson teaches the art of aromatherapy to soothe and heal
...ually work? Cherie Perez, a supervising research nurse in the Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, teaches a monthly aromatherapy class to answer those questions for cancer patients and caregivers undergoing treatment at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Perez's classes are offered free of charge t...Two Rutgers nursing professors to explore nursing work environment
...sociation between the nursing work environment and nurse reported outcomes in dialysis centers. The $75,0...w workplace factors influence positive patient and nurse outcomes. A survey will be sent out to 2,000 ANNA member registered nurses practicing in dialysis ...When the doctor is out, nurses next line of defense for heart patients
... (HF) patients who received routine follow-up by a nurse in addition to visits to a physician had fewer hos...al care patients. Cumulatively over 18 months, the nurse group had 55 fewer hospitalizations. Emergency department visits, patients hospitalized at least ...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Aug. 15, 2006, issue
...e with heart failure received either counseling by nurse managers about heart failure, or a patient information handout. After 12 months, the patients in the nurse-manager group functioned better and had modestly fewer hospitalizations (148 vs. 180) than the other group, but the differences did not continu...Two UCSF faculty named fellows of the American Academy of Nursing
... American Academy of Nursing. They are among 55 nurse leaders who will be inducted as fellows during the Academy's 33rd annual meeting on November 11, 2006, in Miami, Florida. More than 50 UCSF nurses are Fellows of the Academy. In a statement announcing the 2006 inductees, Academy President Linda Bu...Reversing malnutrition a spoonful at a time
...xpected to fend for themselves. Once home, mothers nurse infants, and older children eat what little food there is. Toddlers are often left out because they are too small and too weak to compete with older siblings for something to eat. Following a full course of treatment with RUTF, children have more e...Healthcare providers react more positively to men than women who reveal they're gay
...wn to have a negative impact on their health" says nurse researcher and lecturer Dr Stephen Neville. "For example, people who are lesbian, gay and bisexual are more likely to face an increased risk of suicide, depression and other mental health problems." Key findings included: Both sexes said that...Demand for community nurses grows
...o them for a long time because they perceived this nurse tobe experienced with good knowledge and the ability to communicate effectively," she says. "They said the care nurses provided was well coordinated and taughtthem about various aspects of their own care, including knowing signsor symptoms of probl...Rush University Medical Center maintains Magnet status for quality nursing
...ents, lower patient mortality rates, and increased nurse retention rates. "Receiving Magnet designation again is a testament that our nursing staff continues to provide the very best care to our patients," said Dr. Larry Goodman, president and CEO of Rush. "On behalf of everyone at the medical center, we...Women still get lower-quality heart attack care than men, despite hospital improvement efforts
...hospital, and sign a contract with their doctor or nurse pledging to follow recommendations and stick to their medicines. On the whole, men treated after the quality effort began were more likely to receive pre-discharge prescriptions for all four classes of recommended heart medications than were women....Patient care threatened by workforce shortage
...t Nurse Practitioners and the role of the practice nurse in general practice is expanding withincreasing Government Medicare Benefits Scheme payments for nurse care. Professor Nicholas Glasgow, Director of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institut...For men, catheter type makes a huge difference in urinary infection risk, study finds
... to remove their catheters -- which results in the nurse having to clean the area and change the device. This can disturb the bacteria in the area and lead to infection. In addition to being associated with a lower risk of infection, the condom catheters were much better liked than the indwelling ones, t...New research addresses taboos around the impact of rheumatoid arthritis on patients' sex lives
...ing and experience" she continued. Ylva Helland, a nurse and a research fellow, received one of the 12 abstract awards at this congress....Tracking computer-based error reports improves patient safety, Hopkins study finds
...d by a pharmacist dispensing the wrong dose, but a nurse catching the error before giving the wrong dose to the patient. Of the 1,010, 38 percent (379 errors) did not reach the patient, half (511) reached the patient but no treatment or increased monitoring was required, 10 percent (103) reached the patien...Northwestern Memorial earns magnet status for nursing excellence
...N, PhD, CNAA, vice president, Operations and chief nurse executive at Northwestern Memorial. Hundreds of e...ures such things as quality of nursing leadership, nurse and physician relationships, quality improvement and opportunities for professional development....New way to assess risk of heart disease in ethnic groups
... and cholesterol measurements have been taken, the nurse or doctor can go online and plug in the numbers to get a more accurate risk score for that individual. " The recommended way of preventing heart disease involves using the Framingham risk score to identify high-risk patients. Patients above an agreed...New long-distance wireless networking developed at UC Berkeley brings eye care to India
...ich came online in May 2006.) Centers are run by a nurse trained in eye care. Patients first see the nurse, then spend about five minutes on a web camera consulting with an Aravind doctor. If the doctor determines that a closer examination or an operation is necessary, the patient is given a hospital appoi...