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Thousands of Nurses Attend Special Viewing of Acclaimed Nursing Documentary at AACN Conference
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A documentary about the complex world of nursing reached its largest audience to date when thousands of nurses attended a special screening May 2...
UMass Medical Center University Campus Nurses Reach Agreement
WORCESTER, Mass., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After hours of negotiations, the registered nurses of UMass Memorial Medical Center University Campus reached a tentative agreement with...
Former Joint Commission Executive To Lead TeleTracking Consulting Services
PITTSBURGH, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Nanne Finis, RN, MS, formerly executive director of solutions services for Joint Commission Resources (JCR), has joined TeleTracking Technologies as Vice...
Aviv REIT Announces Closing Of $14.4 Million Acquisition
CHICAGO, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Aviv REIT, Inc. ("Aviv" or the "Company") (NYSE: AVIV) announced today it has acquired a post-acute and long-term care skilled nursing facility ("SNF"...
Kindred Healthcare Announces Voting Results for the 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
Kindred Healthcare, Inc. (the “Company”) (NYSE:KND) today announced the voting results of the Company’s 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on May 21, 2013....
Fresenius Medical Care Wins Multiple National Awards for Outstanding Patient Case Management
Case in Point Magazine’s 2013 Awards Recognize Programs and Individuals Making the U.S. Health Care System Safer, More Productive and Cost Effective Fresenius...
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Emerging trends in patient care combine with advances in healthcare technology as thousands of nurses who care for high acuity and critically ill...
DETROIT, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- DMC Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan (RIM) has achieved Magnet® recognition as a reflection of its nursing professionalism, teamwork, and...
News Follows Recent Announcement From Kaplan University Regarding Introduction of Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Degree Program DNP program begins accepting enrollment...
Hospital Patients, Family Members Speak Out About Damaging Medi-Cal Budget Cuts
SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As budget discussions begin to kick into high gear following Tuesday's release of the May revision to the proposed 2013-14 state budget,...
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Companies
Physician Therapeutics is a division of Targeted Medical Pharma, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops and sells prescription medical foods to physi...
SunLink Health Systems, Inc. currently operates seven community hospitals, three hospital-based nursing homes, and one hospital-based home care business in the Southeast and Midwe...
OncLive is the official website for Intellisphereâs Oncology Specialty Group, which publishes Oncology & Biotech News, OncologyLive, Oncology Nursing News, and Contemporary O...
Five Star Quality Care, Inc. is a senior living and healthcare services company. Five Star owns or leases and operates 217 senior living communities with 22,905 living units locat...
National Health Investors, Inc.
National Health Investors, Inc. is a healthcare real estate investment trust that specializes in the financing of healthcare real estate by purchase and leaseback transactions and...
Medrec Inc. recruits and employees only the highest-quality Physical, Occupational, Speech Therapists and Assistants at all types of healthcare facilities, blanketing communities...
Chamberlain College of Nursing LLC
Chamberlain College of Nursing offers bachelor's and master's degree programs in nursing. Campuses are currently located in Phoenix, Arizona, Jacksonville, Florida, Addison and Ch...
Reliant Healthcare Professionals, Inc.
Based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, Reliant Healthcare Professionals, Inc. is a premier provider of rapid-response nurse staffing services, operating as FASTAFF Travel Nu...
Rothman Healthcare Corporation
Since 2004, Rothman Healthcare Corporation has been developing the Patient Condition Tracker to bridge gaps in continuity of care. Rothman's software application uses electronic h...
St. Joseph Hospital and St. Joseph Health System
Founded in 1929, St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, California is a nationally recognized, 525-bed, not-for-profit Catholic hospital dedicated to extending the healing ministry of the...
Clinical Trials
Sedation and Psychopharmacology in Critical Care
Certain methods of sedation increase the duration of respiratory failure. Two strategies, a nursing- implemented sedation algorithm and daily interruption of sedatives, decrease length of...
Cerebral Perfusion Pressure (CPP) Management Information Feedback and Nursing
The aim of the initial proposal was to evaluate, in the context of optimal medical management, the impact of a bedside system of cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) information feedback on n...
SONICS - Effectiveness of Specialist Oncology Nursing
This research project will address the issue of gaps in continuity of supportive care for cancer patients during the early phases of the disease trajectory that result in unmet needs and u...
An RCT on Preventing Pressure Ulcers With Wheelchair Seat Cushions
The primary aim of the proposed multi-site, randomized pressure-reducing wheelchair trial (PRWC-II) is to determine the efficacy of pressure-reducing cushions in preventing sitting-acquire...
Early Rehabilitation After Hip Fracture
The aim of this study is to compare a low versus high intensity physiotherapy early rehabilitation program combined with a low versus high dose vitamin D early rehabilitation program in a...
Pharmacokinetics of Mycophenolate Mofetil in Healthy Volunteers
This study will examine how people differ in the way their bodies process and eliminate mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), a drug that is used to treat problems affecting the eye and immune syst...
Sirolimus for Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
This study will determine the safety and effectiveness of sirolimus (Rapamune® (Registered Trademark)) in treating focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a disease involving kidney sc...
Effects of Functional Incidental Training in VA NHCU Residents
This research on Functional Incidental Training ( FIT) primarily involves women residing in community nursing homes. It is an individualized rehabilitative protocol intended to improve mo...
Objectives 1. To determine the increase in VZV-specific cell-mediated immune response from pre-zoster vaccination to 3 weeks post-vaccination in nursing home residents after 4 mont...
Effects of Daily Nutritional Supplementation in Combination With a Eurhythmics Training (NUDAL)
Malnutrition and lack of regular exercise are often found in older adults and have been identified as important risk factors for independence loss and nursing home admission in older commu...
PubMed Articles
The use and costs of health and social services in patients with longstanding substance abuse.
BACKGROUND: Persons with longstanding substance abuse might become increasingly dependent on help by the public, eventually requiring permanent care. In 2006 the municipality of Stavanger established...
Nursing faces an uncertain future as technological developments, structural changes within health systems and rapidly evolving health needs create new and challenging possibilities. This article draws...
The coming crisis: Obtaining care for the growing burden of neurodegenerative conditions.
As the US population ages, the burden of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease, will increase substantially. However, many of these patients and their families...
BACKGROUND: Down syndrome (DS) affects not only children but also their families. Much remains to be learned about factors that influence how families of children with DS function, especially families...
The Challenges of Female Adolescents' Health Needs.
Due to adolescents' future crucial roles, their health needs should be included in the national health system policy. In this cross-sectional study 2010 female adolescents were recruited from randomly...
Joint contractures in nursing textbooks.
BACKGROUND: The transparency criteria of the German statutory health insurance on joint contracture prevention have led to controversies about the appropriate assessment, prevention and treatment as w...
ABSTRACT Background: This study evaluated private family caregiving at the intersection of private migrant home care and public nursing care on the hospitalization of an older patient. Methods: Sevent...
Recent graduate nurse views of nursing, work and leadership.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To assess recent nurse graduates of a large university and seeks their views of university preparation, requisite nursing skills and qualities, workplace transition, supports rece...
Support interventions for caregivers of physically disabled adults: A systematic review.
In developing countries family caregivers are an important community-based resource who provide care for physically disabled adults. Substantial caregiving commitment is known to adversely affect care...
Legal position of non-medical personnel in hospitals.
There are currently many assistant professions in the German healthcare system which have either a more nursing or a more medical character. All these assistant professions have in common that as yet...
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Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Qualitative Research
Research that derives data from observation, interviews, or verbal interactions and focuses on the meanings and interpretations of the participants (From Holloway and Wheeler, "Ethical issues in qualitative nursing research," Nursing Ethics, 1995 Sep; 2(3): 223-232).
Nursing Informatics
The field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of data through the application of computers applied to the field of nursing.
Forensic Nursing
The application of NURSING knowledge to questions of law. It is a specialty of nursing practice involving victims of crime which includes not only attending to the physical and emotional distress of victims, but also the identifying, collecting, and preserving evidence for law enforcement and the criminal justice system.
National Institute Of Nursing Research (u.s.)
Component of the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. It conducts and supports clinical and basic research to establish a scientific basis for the care of individuals across the life span, from the management of patients during illness and recovery to the reduction of risks for disease and disability; the promotion of healthy lifestyles; the promotion of quality of life in those with chronic illness; and the care for individuals at the end of life. It was established in 1986.
Evidence-based Nursing
A way of providing nursing care that is guided by the integration of the best available scientific knowledge with nursing expertise. This approach requires nurses to critically assess relevant scientific data or research evidence, and to implement high-quality interventions for their nursing practice.
