Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
A new study of American women at high risk of premature labour showed that giving them an intravenous infusion of magnesium sulfate, commonly known as Epsom salts, just before delivery cut the rate of cerebral palsy in their babies by half.The study was was presented today, Thursday 31st January, at the annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM), which is taking place this week in Dallas.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Throughout the country, nurses are pushing for legislation that will regulate how many patients one nurse can tend to. On a landscape of nursing shortages, an aging population and overcrowded facilities, hospitals are lobbying lawmakers to be flexible on their policies.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
A patient codes and a nurse quickly administers Levophed, a blood pressure medication, to stabilize her patient. The minutes tick by, but the patient's heart rate doesn't improve. That's when the attending physician notices that in the rush of the emergency, the nurse had accidentally administered Levaquil, an antibiotic with a similar name and packaging.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
A 56 year-old nurse from Old Baseford, Nottingham has been struck off the register after a string of drug failings stretching over three years.An independent panel of the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) heard that Doreen McHale was working at Highbury Hospital between January 2001 and August 2003 when the incidents occurred.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
UNLV School of Nursing professor Nancy Menzel and a multidisciplinary team of researchers were honored recently by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the development of a safe patient handling and movement training program for schools of nursing.
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Automated dispensing or distribution cabinets (ADCs) can decrease the amount of time before a medication is available for administration, ensure greater security, and reduce the risk of medication errors, but only when specific safeguards are consistently used.
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Greater investments in state tobacco control programs are independently and significantly
associated with larger and more rapid declines in adult smoking prevalence, according to
a study by researchers at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and RTI International,
an independent nonprofit research institute based in Research Triangle Park, North carolina. Researchers
were able to quantify the link between comprehensive tobacco control programs and a decrease in
adult smoking--observing a decline in prevalence from 29.5 percent in 1985 to 18.6 percent in
2003.
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Medical Careers Institute , the School of Health Science at ECPI College of Technology, is pleased to introduce a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing program to be offered through its Virginia Beach, VA, Newport News, VA, and Online Education campuses.
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
A new study has found more than two thirds of nurse practitioners in Australia report their role is "extremely limited" because of a clash between state and federal government laws. The study led by Queensland University of Technology is the first national survey of Australian nurse practitioners.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) Board of Directors has approved ACNM participation in a project to produce an assessment or meta-analysis of existing research on care delivered by Advance Practice Nurses (APNs).
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