Reconstructing a healthcare system in Iraq
...c and Kurdish field coordinators distributed it to nurse participants at their place of work and the data was emailed to Squires. In addition to new hospitals, language training and leadership development, nurses reported the need for new equipment and furniture for patient care, financial support for stud...Listening to music can reduce chronic pain and depression by up to a quarter
...ing the control group, kept a pain diary" explains nurse researcher Dr Sandra L Siedlecki from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio. "Forty people were assigned to the two music groups and the other 20 formed the control group. "The first group were invited to choose their own favourite music and this inc...Penn researcher uses computer-based screening to help identify domestic violence victims
...reening were more likely to talk to a physician or nurse practitioner about domestic violence and twice as likely to disclose domestic violence during the ED visit as those who received standard care. In the urban ED, women who completed the computer survey were more likely than those who received routi...Computer-based screening may encourage discussions about domestic violence
...reening were more likely to talk to a physician or nurse practitioner about domestic violence and twice as likely to disclose domestic violence during the ED visit than those who received standard care. In the urban ED, women who completed the computer survey were more likely than those who received routi...Pharmacists go beyond the counter to help hospitalized patients
...erapy. They work with the patient, physician, and nurse to help maximize the benefits and outcomes of medications and to minimize adverse effects," Abramowitz said. "This also includes a significant amount of attention to medication safety in every step in the medication use process" added Abramowitz, wh...BU Health Policy Institute receives grant to study complex patient care, staffing, and cost issues
...t from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study nurse staffing and patient care issues in the context of...nd analysis of data on admissions, patient census, nurse staffing, and patient care in a medical/surgical unit in each of the four hospitals. Although varia...Less agitation in AD patients, less stress and depression in caregivers with collaborative care
... a primary care physician and an advanced practice nurse who served as the care manager working with the patient and the caregiver giving them access to resources, providing education, and helping them navigate the health-care system," said Christopher Callahan, M.D., the study's principal investigator. D...Collaborative care decreases some symptoms of dementia for patients with Alzheimer disease
...e management by an interdisciplinary team led by a nurse practitioner working with the patient's family car... minimum intervention were provided by a geriatric nurse practitioner, who served as the care manager. Augmented usual care included participants and their ...Online calculator and chemotherapy order systems reduce medication errors in children
...ed orders were also less likely to have incomplete nurse safety checklists. Researchers estimate that the computerized system prevented 17 to 18 such errors per every 100 chemotherapy orders. "Most of these errors may have been caught by pharmacists or nurses before they could have hurt a patient," emphas...Unsung heroes recognised in 2006 Australian Nursing Awards
...and $5,000 prize money, Linzi Donlan, an emergency nurse from Portland, Victoria, plans to use her prize mo...Development scholarship, Sonia Bisson, an oncology nurse from Port Macquarie, New South Wales and Angela Castle, an accredited Stomal Therapy nurse from Hoba...Incarcerated women more likely to use birth control when given in jail
...amily planning and reproductive health services. A nurse educator worked at both the prison and the health ...d sooner than expected. One solution is to provide nurse and physician assessments more immediately to women interested in contraceptives. The authors say th...School-based quality initiative improves childhood asthma outcomes
...-8. Cincinnati Children's provides physicians and nurse practitioners for these centers and collaborates with the Cincinnati Health Department, which provides school nurses; the Cincinnati Public Schools; and, parents of children with asthma. These individuals and organizations met and engaged in "visio...Survey finds care for Europe's adults with congenital heart disease is inadequate
...hysiology laboratory; There must be at least one nurse specialist trained and educated in the care of ACH...f congenital heart operations a year and involving nurse specialists in patient care. The median number of operations in specialist centres was 42, indicatin...Locked door psychiatric units have more disadvantages than advantages say staff
...was 52 five years older than the 20 mental health nurse assistants. The registered nurses had been working...age of 10 years, compared with eight years for the nurse assistants. 39 of the 40 participants mentioned both advantages and disadvantages during their tape...Research team to examine impact of genetics and exposure to secondhand smoke
... places on their child," says Dr. Martha Tingen, a nurse researcher at the Georgia Prevention Institute and principal investigator on the $220,000 National Institute of Nursing Research grant. Researchers will look for adverse clinical cardiovascular measures, including reduced ability of arteries to dila...Innovations in the care of women during pregnancy and labor
...models for a partnership between the doula and the nurse to improve labor and delivery care....Binghamton University research focuses on heart health in rural women
...rticipants. Those women will talk regularly with a nurse who will provide guidance about exercise and nutrition and reinforce information the women receive about heart healthy behaviors. This group will also participate in nurse-run group activities focused on diet, physical activity and tobacco avoidance....Surgical critical care team at HUP earns Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence
..., PhD, RN, Chief Nursing Officer at HUP. "The same nurse takes care of the same patient. Our nurses are not rotated from bed to bed. They develop a relationship and confidence with that patient. When you combine experience with advocacy, you can't help but win." Vince Gracias, MD, Medical Director of the S...Parents need better education to reduce drug overdoses in feverish children
...ncern, both in terms of dosage and frequency" says nurse researcher Anne Walsh from Queensland University of Technology in Australia. "We also discovered that some parents are giving their children one fever-reducing drug and then trying another type within a few hours if the first one doesn't have the d...Panel finds insufficient evidence to recommend for or against maternal-request Caesarean delivery
...rics, family planning and reproductive physiology, nurse midwifery, anesthesiology, patient safety, epidemiology, pediatrics, perinatal medicine, urology, urogynecology, general nursing, inner city public health sciences, law, psychiatry, and health services research. The panel was chaired by Mary D'Alton...