Breaking news on nursing
Animal Fat Consumption Before Conception Linked To Gestational Diabetes Risk published
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Women who consumed a diet high in animal fat and cholesterol before pregnancy were at higher risk for gestational diabetes than women whose diets were lower in animal fat and cholesterol, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health and Harvard University. Gestational diabetes is a form of diabetes seen during pregnancy...
Rise In Home Births In US published
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PST
After falling for 14 years, the percentage of home births in the US from 2004 to 2009 rose by 29% to the highest level since data collection on this began in 1989. However, although this looks like a big surge, the overall proportion of American women giving birth at home is still low: in 2004 only 0.56% of births were at home, rising to 0.72% in 2009...
Study Finds Good Intentions Ease Pain, Add To Pleasure published
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
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...
Improving Maternal And Neonatal Care In Africa Saves Lives published
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
A large regional hospital in Ghana saw a reduction in maternal and infant deaths after continuous quality improvement (QI) initiatives were put into place through a collaborative partnership. New research from lead author Medge Owen, M.D...
The RN And The EHR - Better Together published
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
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...
Key Factors Affecting 3 Generations Of Nurses Identified By Retention Study published
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
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...
Midwives Use Rituals To Send Message That Women's Bodies Know Best published
Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PST
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...
Loyola's Advanced Practice Nursing Program Receives National Accreditation At Maximum Level published
Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PST
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...
New Approach To Nursing Education Gives Students The Chance To 'Live Like A Nurse' published
Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PST
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...
NSU Nursing Program To Become Its Own College published
Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PST
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...
Key Interventions To Reduce Maternal, Newborn And Child Deaths Identified By 3-Year Study published
Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PST
Some 56 evidence-based interventions will sharply reduce the 358,000 women who still die each year during pregnancy and childbirth and the 7.6 million children who die before the age of 5, according to a massive three-year global study...
Cellular Processing Of Proteins Found In Congolese Child Birthing Tea published
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PST
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...
New Study Finds Nursing One Of The Least Mobile Professions published
Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PST
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...
Up To 4,000 Nurses To Strike, Says Nursing Union, California published
Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:00:00 PST
On December 22, up to 4,000 nurses who work for the Sutter Corporation are going on strike, protesting against sweeping cuts in healthcare coverage and patient care protections, according to the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United...
To Keep Nurses, Improve Their Work Environments published
Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PST
Nurses working in hospitals around the world are reporting they are burned out and dissatisfied with their jobs, reported researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research in a study of 100,000 nurses in nine countries...
To Keep Nurses, Improve Their Work Environments published
Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:00:00 PST
Nurses working in hospitals around the world are reporting they are burned out and dissatisfied with their jobs, reported researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research in a study of 100,000 nurses in nine countries...
Nursing Shortage May Be Easing published
Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PST
The number of young people becoming registered nurses has grown sharply since 2002, a trend that should ease some of the concern about a looming nursing shortage in the United States, according to a new study. The number of people aged 23 to 26 -- primarily women -- who became registered nurses increased by 62 percent from 2002 to 2009, approaching numbers not seen since the mid-1980s...
Home Births - Then And Now published
Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PST
A comparison of home-birth trends of the 1970s finds many similarities - and some differences - related to current trends in home births. For instance, in the 1970s - as now - women opting to engage in home births tended to have higher levels of education...
For-Profit Nursing Homes Have Low Staffing and Poor Quality of Care published
Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:00:00 PST
According to a study published online in advance of print publication in Health Services Research, the largest for-profit nursing homes in the nation deliver considerably lower quality of care as they often have fewer staff nurses compared with non-profit and government-owned nursing homes...
Physical Environment, Workgroup Cohesion Play Significant Roles In Nurses' Ratings Of Quality Of Patient Care published
Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PST
While nurse-to-patient ratios are widely recognized as an important factor in determining the quality of patient care, those ratios are not always easy to change without significant cost and investment of resources. What's more, the projected nursing shortage will make it even more difficult for hospitals to increase nurse staffing...
Nation's For-Profit Nursing Homes Provide Poor Quality Of Care, Low Staffing published
Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PST
The nation's largest for-profit nursing homes deliver significantly lower quality of care because they typically have fewer staff nurses than non-profit and government-owned nursing homes. That's the finding of a new UCSF-led analysis of quality of care at nursing homes around the country. It is the first-ever study focusing solely on staffing and quality at the 10 largest for-profit chains...
Progress In Pursuit Of Global Reproductive Health And Rights May Be Hampered By Good Intentions published
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PST
Serious global discussions have begun in the lead-up to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) deadline of 2015. Governments and international agencies are asking what has been achieved, what still needs to be done and how best to proceed after the deadline...
Off To A Flying Start: Online Course For Newly Qualified Nurses, Midwives And AHPs published
Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PST
Newly qualified nurses, midwives and allied health professionals who took part in an online course during their first year of employment reported increased clinical skills development and confidence. However the survey on the Flying Start NHS™ programme, published in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing, found that mentors needed more training and time to provide support...
Nursing Grads Beat Employment Odds, Debunk Hiring Myths published
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:00:00 PST
Numerous polls show recent college grads have been hit hard by the recession and are facing tough odds in finding well-paying employment. Others show the classes of 2010 and 2011 to be underemployed, with many not finding jobs in their preferred fields or geographic locations. That's the bad news; the good news is that nursing grads might be proving to be the exception to the polls...
Home Visits Benefit New Mothers, Newborns published
Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PST
Home nursing visits are as safe and effective as office-based care for initial post-delivery well-baby check-ups, according to medical researchers. "Generally, moms and babies are discharged from the hospital less than 48 hours after delivery," said Ian Paul, M.D., professor of pediatrics and public health sciences, Penn State College of Medicine...
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