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When HIV Patients Waver On Meds
POSTED: 2012-02-06 NEW
According to a new analysis of hundreds of recorded office visits, doctors and nurse practitioners typically issued orders and asked closed or leading questions when talking to their HIV-positive patients about adherence to antiretroviral therapy. Attempts at problem-solving with patients who had lapsed occurred in less than a quarter of visits. Take your medicine, Doctor's orders......
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Study Finds Good Intentions Ease Pain, Add To Pleasure
POSTED: 2012-01-20
A nurse's tender loving care really does ease the pain of a medical procedure, and grandma's cookies really do taste better, if we perceive them to be made with love - suggests newly published research by a University of Maryland psychologist. The findings have many real-world applications, including in medicine, relationships, parenting and business......
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The RN And The EHR - Better Together
POSTED: 2012-01-19
With the prodding of new federal legislation, electronic health records (EHRs) are rapidly becoming part of the daily practice of hospital nurses - the frontline providers of care......
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Key Factors Affecting 3 Generations Of Nurses Identified By Retention Study
POSTED: 2012-01-18
If organisations want to retain qualified nurses they need to tackle the different work factors that are important to the three key age groups and build on the strong attachment that many nurses feel to the profession. Those are the key messages to emerge from a large-scale survey of nurses published in the January issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing......
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Midwives Use Rituals To Send Message That Women's Bodies Know Best
POSTED: 2011-12-29
In reaction to what midwives view as the overly medicalized way hospitals deliver babies, they have created birthing rituals to send the message that women's bodies know best......
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Loyola's Advanced Practice Nursing Program Receives National Accreditation At Maximum Level
POSTED: 2011-12-27
The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program at Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing (MNSON) has been granted accreditation for a five-year term, the maximum number of years possible, by the Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). MNSON introduced the DNP program for advanced practice nursing students in the fall semester of 2009......
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New Approach To Nursing Education Gives Students The Chance To 'Live Like A Nurse'
POSTED: 2011-12-22
Since they were pre-teens, Kathrine McKay and Kathryn Lito had aspirations of pursuing a nursing career. So when they applied to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.) program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Nursing, they decided to take an accelerated approach to their education with the new Pacesetters program......
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NSU Nursing Program To Become Its Own College
POSTED: 2011-12-21
Nova Southeastern University will create the College of Nursing on Jan. 1., 2012. Formally a part of NSU's College of Allied Health and Nursing, the new college has emerged because of the nursing program's growth and success over the last five years......
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Cellular Processing Of Proteins Found In Congolese Child Birthing Tea
POSTED: 2011-12-13
Many plants produce compounds that serve as a defense against predators or pathogens. Some are also used by humans for a variety of beneficial purposes, such as in medicines. As recently as the early 1990s, a unique class of proteins previously unknown to science, the cyclotides, was discovered......
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New Study Finds Nursing One Of The Least Mobile Professions
POSTED: 2011-12-12
A study on the geographic mobility of registered nurses (RNs) recently published in the December Health Affairs magazine suggests that the profession's relative lack of mobility has serious implications for access to health care for people in rural areas. According to the study - part of the RN Work Project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - more than half (52......
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