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Early Intervention to Improve Kids’ Healt

...t home at regular intervals by a specially-trained nurse until the child is two,” he said. “They should also be given effective parenting education and have access to effective early child development support programs. “Governments should ensure they have access to the appropriate ongoing medical and t...

Over 50 Vietnamese Girls Faint Due to Mass 'Hysteria'

...brought to the Vong Dong Senior Secondary School's nurse Thursday. The five girls that accompanied the 13-year-old to the nurse's office then fell unconscious. Emergency medical personnel arrived to take the children to hospital. Dozens of students in their classrooms, who saw the girls being carried awa...

Clinical Simulation Technology Could Cut Down Medical Errors

... misses the blood pressure number// and orders the nurse to inject a drug that may cause the blood pressure to drop even lower. This example is only part of a clinical simulation scenario, but such miscommunications between members of a medical team during actual treatments can lead to bigger problems. ...

Health Care Suffers at Los Angeles Jails: Report

...awoke one morning with a headache and fever, and a nurse who examined her found her blood pressure was elevated. A doctor over the phone ordered blood and urine tests for Wimberley, who was diabetic, to determine if she was developing a respiratory infection. Wimberley was given a pain reliever and sent...

Racists Attack Indian Nurses in Liverpool

... is reported to be getting worse. Minu Subash, a nurse working at the Fazakerley hospital, was quoted as saying: "We are really afraid to go out at night because of young boys roaming around outside. I have stopped them trying to take my car and they tried to smash their way into a flat through the windo...

A ‘Good Samaritan’ to the Aid of Lepes

...ndreds of lepers in south China. Fu is the only nurse at the Tanshan Leper Rehabilitation Village in Gao...s and damage to eyes. Fu Pochu used to work as a nurse at Nam Lang Hospital in Hong Kong. After a leg injury, she was given artificial hipbones in an opera...

Positively Charged Nurses, Best in Nursing Dying Children

...the more hours of palliative care education that a nurse receives, the more comfortable the nurse is in providing palliative care and in talking about death and dying with patients and families. We ...

Nurses Ease the Wounded Heart

..., and health care disparities are among the issues nurse researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) are exploring in efforts to care for and heal //the wounded lives of a wide variety of audiences. Sick at Heart —JHUSON Associate Professor Cynda Hylton Rushton, PhD, RN recently...

Poor Ward Care Is Harming Patients

... Teale. Common complaints include never seeing a nurse except when drugs are being handed out, days going by without any contact with senior medical staff, having to virtually beg for help moving up the bed or getting to the toilet, and repeated requests for pain relief. It’s these experiences, and not...

Skepticism is Bad for Your Health

...ng, reducing its capacity. Vicky Styman, cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation, said: "There is insufficient evidence to say that stress, depression or other emotions are significant risk factors for heart disease, although they are often associated with it. One difficulty is that emotions are su...

Good Oral Health Practices Should Begin in Infancy

...ad to remove plaque. - Never allow your child to nurse or breast feed for prolonged periods and don't give him or her a bottle with milk, formula, sugar water or fruit juice during naps or at night in bed. - Encourage children to drink from a cup by their first birthday. - Discourage frequent use of ...

Communication in the ICU to Be Strengthened

... led by the attending ICU physician, the patient’s nurse was also present in 60 percent of the customary-practice conferences and 81 percent of the intervention conferences. All conferences resulted in a decision to forgo further life-sustaining treatment. After the conference, 95 percent of family membe...

Dengue Alert Issued in South America

...four people have already died. In Bolivia, a young nurse died last week. The authorities have called on the population to take more preventive measures to avoid infection. In the meantime, the authorities in Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay have declared a health alert and increased measures to try to s...

Study Urges Doctors to Go Easy on Antibiotics

...ake up call for individual prescribing physicians, nurse practitioners, midwives, dentists and others that inappropriate use of antibiotics does have consequences,” says Dr. John Conly, former chair of the Canadian Committee on Antibiotic Resistance and head of the department of medicine at Foothills Medic...

Culturally Specific Diabetes Management Helps Low-Income Patients

...tients underwent an initial 50-minute visit with a nurse and were asked to return for additional visits. They also had a 25-minute visit with the dietitian and were called by team members for appointment reminders. Patients also participated in a group self-management training program consisting of an e...

Primary Health Care Parishioners of Second Largest HIV Infected Area in US Fail to Offer HIV Tests

... these primary care providers — including doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants — surveyed between March and June 2004 had regularly offered advice about sexually transmitted infection or safe sex to patients during the prior six months. Only 36 percent had offered more than 20 HIV tests du...

HIV Tests Offered to Los Angeles Hispanics Insufficient: Study

...primary care providers (PCPs) — including doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants — surveyed between March and June 2004 had regularly offered advice about sexually transmitted infection or safe sex to patients during the prior six months. Only 36 percent had offered more than 20 HIV tests du...

Routine Oxygen Administration in Heart Attack Victims, Challenged

...be administered oxygen. Says Cathy Ross, cardiac nurse at the BHF: "The current practice of giving high-flow oxygen is an important part of heart attack treatment. Best practice methods have been developed and refined over the years to ensure the best possible outcome for patients." <B...

Quality of Childcare Program Affects Language Development

...elay, children were examined weekly by a pediatric nurse to rule out infections. All children were tested repeatedly through the three-year study. None were eliminated due to sensori-neural hearing loss and there were no effects of chronic ear infections on the basic language constructs measured in this st...

Medical Personnel Can Save More Lives by Screening for Oral Signs of Disease

...nts, hygienists, physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and hospital HIV/AIDS counselors to follow the same. "Dental health providers can be the first line of care when it comes to oral health," she says. “The mouth is the portal to the body and a reflection of general health. We as health...

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