Lack of specialist training for nurses is failing adolescent cancer patients
...the unique needs of this age group, according to a nurse manager at the Manchester Teenage Cancer Trust Uni...ecialist services. "Within the UK there is minimal nurse education in TYA cancer, and what exists is fragmented. Pre-registration education is virtually non...UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center named Survivorship Center of Excellence
...ow-up care. The clinic will be staffed by a family nurse practitioner supervised by Ganz and Dr. Jacqueline Casillas, associate director of the new survivorship center and a pediatric oncologist specializing in the care of long-term childhood cancer survivors. A social worker will perform an intake assess...Report finds limited number of psychiatrists statewide
...l programs for other health professionals, such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, with competencies in mental health care. Fostering mechanisms to reduce the isolation of psychiatrists in practice settings....Diabetics who control blood sugar today are more likely to have healthy feet and nerves tomorrow
... Feldman, who led the analysis along with research nurse Catherine Martin, M.S., notes that the study looked at the percentage of participants who had any positive sign of neuropathy on their questionnaire or their foot examination each year of the EDIC study, and then separated them according to which DCC...Better communication between families, health care providers can reduce cost, length of stay in ICU
..." Daly said. Daly's team is training the doctors, nurse practitioners and other medical professionals in t...mbers, the doctor or surgeon, an advanced practice nurse (nurse practitioners or clinical nurse specialists), staff nurse, social worker and other profession...Parents of children with rare diseases benefit from intensive support programmes
...ls" says lead author Dr Lotta Dellve, a registered nurse and Associate Professor at the University. "Fathers experienced high stress related to feelings of incompetence, which decreased after the intervention, as did the strain experienced by the 24 per cent of mothers and 87 per cent of fathers who worke...Hormone linked to good hearing as we age
...rst author of the Hearing Research paper; research nurse Susan Frisina of both NTID and the University; audiologist Frances Mapes of NTID; and otolaryngologist Xiaozia Zhu, M.D., of the University....Air ambulance research identifies best intubation method
...em. Each helicoptor's medical crew consisted of a nurse and paramedic with a mean of 18 years of medical experience and seven years of flight experience. For six months, one helicoptor's patients received the sedative alone and the other helicoptor's patients got the combination of a sedative and a paraly...Rutgers College of Nursing professor to study N.J. nurses' work environment
...dies of New Jersey nurses to explore the impact of nurse staffing levels and work environment on patient outcomes. Funded by a $357,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and contributions from the New Jersey State Board of Nursing, the study's focus is to find out more about the New Jersey's n...AANP and UpToDate partner to improve patient care
...ient care and recognizes the growing importance of nurse practitioners as first line healthcare providers. ... enhance the relevance of the UpToDate program for nurse practitioners and increase its use by NPs to help provide the best care to patients. AANP will be p...Massage for childbirth prep may reduce episiotomy rate
...of an episiotomy," said Sally Avenson, a certified nurse midwife in western Washington state. As more women demand greater control and involvement in their childbirth plan, Avenson said, preventing an episiotomy -- or the spontaneous tears that can occur at childbirth -- has gained mainstream attention, an...Nursing professor calls for steps to close the reality gap between education and practice
... Eve Bendall 30 years ago still persist in today's nurse education system, in spite of everyone's best efforts to change. The original paper and the commentaries are featured in the 30th Anniversary Issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. The special issue also features another 11 papers from the last th...Urine test helps detect 99 percent of recurring bladder cancers
...r even at early stages of the disease. A doctor or nurse can read the results in 30 to 50 minutes. "You know the answer before the patient is out of your office," Stein says. "If the result is positive, and you didn't see anything from the cystoscopy, you would check to see if you missed something." No si...Tool developed to silence genes in specific tissues using RNAi
...ns junctions, or the cell-to-cell contacts between nurse cells and the germ cells that ultimately become sp...archers made a vector with a promoter specific for nurse cells in the testis, so that the small RNA that is associated with WT1 is only made in this cell typ...Patients now surviving once-fatal immune disease
...ited States," said Vanessa Howard, R.N., M.S.N., a nurse practitioner for the Immunology service at St. Jude and first author of the paper. "In the past, the majority of patients with XLA died of acute or chronic infections in the first two decades of life," Howard noted. "But in the last 20 years the outl...Study shows increasing nursing staff improves safety and quality in hospitals
...ove quality and contain costs. For hospitals where nurse staffing is low, this study makes an unequivocal business case for using more RNs in nurse staffing and a strong case based on value to patients for increasing the hours of nursing care," say...Ninety-six percent of minimally invasive knee replacement patients leave same day, no complication
...e." Patients meet with the physical therapist and nurse prior to surgery. "The nurse time is invaluable to patient before going into surgery," says Berger. "They attend a class led by ...'Hospital at home' offers quality care at lower cost
...irators -- was provided in the home setting. The nurse stayed with the patient for 8-to-24 hours initially, depending on the protocol of the project site, and then visited at least once a day until "discharge." The Hospital at Home physician made daily visits and was available 24 hours a day for emergen...Physicians: Simple 'instrument' allows medical staff to check patients' literacy
...nts are given the ice cream nutrition label by the nurse or physician and asked a series of questions about it," Pignone said. "Based on the number of correct answers given, we can determine their literacy level and adjust the way we communicate with patients to help them understand what's going on." Accor......need for hospital care through innovations such as nurse led telephone help lines and delivering more care in the community. In many ways, nursing is the key profession and doctors, managers and politicians must recognise and respect the contribution nurses can and must make, he argues. The response to the...