GMO Crops - news, views, reports

Transgenic plants have been engineered to possess several desirable traits, such as resistance to pests, herbicides, or harsh environmental conditions, improved product shelf life, and increased nut...

Social phobia social anxiety disorder

Social anxiety is the third largest psychological problem in the United States today, affecting 15 million Americans a year. It is far from well understood by the medical community.  Examples...

O2PR

O2PR is a specialist PR and communications consultancy providing bespoke services to public and private sector organisations operating in the fields of science, engineering and technology. The de...

Plasmid Land: The Plasmid Cloning Game

When the average person asks, “What is a plasmid?” we sometimes struggle to give them a basic answer. Plasmids are circular fragments of double-stranded DNA that can replicate independen...

Cystic Fibrosis

Affecting over 8,500 people in the UK, Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is one of the UK's most common life-threatening inherited diseases. Around half of the CF population can expect to live over 38 year...

Nurse denies falsifying records

A former accident and emergency nurse in the hospital at the centre of the Stafford care scandal has denied fiddling records of patient waiting times to fulfil management’s “draconian” demands t...

Nurse Hostility in Hospitals; High-Pressure Environment Problematic for Patients

Veiled or overt hostility in a hospital setting, particularly nurse-nurse and nurse-physician, may strike a familiar note for many healthcare professionals. However, the following article marks the fi...

Oceanside, NY - South Nassau Nurse Creates Program to Help Long Island Teens

Long Island youth and teenagers isolated and under duress from emotionally painful issues such as bullying, peer pressure and school demands have a "lifeline" that they can turn to for immediate HELP....

Future key Role of Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care

I have come to believe that nurse practitioners (NPs) will function, even more than today, as key players in the delivery of primary health services (see: A Solution to the PCP Shortage: Nurse Practit...

Cambridge, MA - CHA Nurse Named Metro Boston EMS Nurse of the Year

Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) nurse Jennifer Wallace, RN, has been named the EMS Nurse of the Year by the Metropolitan Boston Emergency Medical Services Council. The award, which honors a nurse wh...

Workplace Update: Nursing

A CNO, nurse manager and staff nurse discuss nurse-patient ratios, mandatory overtime and job safety.

Paul Nurse: From waking the nation up to building a world-class research institute

If you regularly wake up to Radio 4’s Today Programme, you might have heard a special edition edited by Professor Sir Paul Nurse this morning. A former CEO of Cancer Research UK, Professor Nurse is...

Nurse looks back at 50 years in the profession

Nancy Bennett, a staff nurse at Doncaster Royal Infirmary, can remember a time when different grades of nurse were not allowed to sit together and nurses helped carry patients on stretchers.

Nurse teaching and research: Symbiotic partners or estranged relatives?

"If you haven't got a PhD, you're not going to get a job": The PhD as a hurdle to continuing academic employment in nursing.

This paper is drawn from a larger study that sought to identify and examine issues around the employment of sessional academic staff in baccalaureate nurse education. Twelve sessional teachers and 12...

Unleashing Home Health's Potential: Looking Beyond Today's Medicare Benefit.

Comparison of nurse practitioner job core competency expectations of nurse managers, nurse practitioners, and physicians in Taiwan.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare expectations of nurse practitioner (NP) job competencies among physicians, nurse managers, and NPs. Data Sources: A quantitative survey was designed u...

Cognitive dissonance experienced by nurse practitioner faculty.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explicate the concept of cognitive dissonance as experienced and reported by nurse practitioner (NP) faculty members. Data sources: Responses from NP faculty...