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Self-Management Of Rheumatoid Arthritis Aided By Nurse-Led Programs
Data first presented at EULAR 2013, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism demonstrate the benefits of a nurse-led programme on patient self-management and the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) co-morbidities. The COMEDRA study was a six-month trial involving patients with RA who attended one of the twenty participating treatment centres in France... (Medical News Today)

More Cancer Specialist Nurses To Improve Hospital Care
Patients battling cancer have a better experience of care at hospitals that employ more cancer specialist nurses. Research from the University of Southampton, shows that patients of better staffed hospitals are more likely to report being given more emotional support by nurses who work well together on wards... (Medical News Today)

UK Doctors And Nurses That Are Injured While Treating Unconscious Patients Cannot Test Them For HIV Due To Lack Of Legal Protection
Doctors and nurses in the UK that are injured in the course of treating injured patients cannot currently test that patient for HIV without their consent. In emergency situations where the patient is unconscious, such consent cannot be given, putting healthcare staff at risk of subsequent legal action if they test the unconscious patient... (Medical News Today)

Survey Reveals Disagreement On The Role Of Primary Care Nurse Practitioners
At a time when the U.S. health system is facing both an increasing demand for primary care services and a worsening shortage of primary care physicians, one broadly recommended strategy has been to increase the number and the responsibilities of nurse practitioners... (Medical News Today)

Survey Of Nurses Regarding End-Of-Life Preferences
Nurses will use extreme measures to save patients and their parents. But they'd prefer less aggressive life-preserving methods for themselves, according to an international survey on nurses' end-of-life preferences... (Medical News Today)

Change In Tactics Means Health Visitors May Be Able To Identify Child Abuse
New research at The University of Nottingham is calling for changes to a government scheme which engages community nurses in the prevention of child abuse and neglect in the home as part of a maternal and child health care programme... (Medical News Today)

Giving Babies Formula In Early Days May Help Prolong Breastfeeding For Some
In a bid to promote breastfeeding, hospitals push to reduce formula feeding in infants in the days following their birth. But in a new study, the first to carry out a randomized trial, researchers show that giving small amounts of formula to newborns who lose a lot of weight in their first few days of life, can actually help prolong breastfeeding in the long term... (Medical News Today)

For Children With Common Conditions, Hospital Readmissions Affected By Nurse Staffing Ratios
A new study shows that pediatric nurse staffing ratios are significantly associated with hospital readmission for children with common medical and surgical conditions. The study, led by a nurse scientist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, is believed to be the first to examine the extent to which hospital nurse staffing levels are related to pediatric readmissions... (Medical News Today)

Nurses Assess Robotic Assistants
Roboticists are currently developing machines that have the potential to help patients with caregiving tasks, such as housework, feeding and walking. But before they reach the care recipients, assistive robots will first have to be accepted by healthcare providers such as nurses and nursing assistants... (Medical News Today)

Why Work Experience For Nurses Won't Improve Healthcare
An article published today on bmj.com argues that forcing nurses to undergo work experience before their studies will not improve nursing standards. Following a suggestion from the Francis report that nurses should undergo paid work as healthcare assistants prior to study, Elaine Maxwell says that there is no reason to think it makes them better practitioners... (Medical News Today)

Investment In Nursing Helps Magnet Hospitals Achieve Lower Mortality
Lower mortality and other improved patient outcomes achieved at designated "Magnet hospitals" are explained partly - but not completely - by better nurse staffing, education, and work environment, reports a study in the May issue of Medical Care. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health... (Medical News Today)

The Public Can Be Confident In The Care Nurses Provide, Comparable To That Of Doctors For Resolving Health Problems Of Low Complexity
A new study has found that Spanish nurses trained specifically to resolve acute health problems of low complexity provide care of comparable quality to that of general practitioners. Published early online in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, the findings suggest that nurses may be able to take on some of the care generally provided by physicians... (Medical News Today)

Study Suggests Nurse Understaffing Associated With NICU Infection Rates
JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlights A study by Jeannette A. Rogowski, Ph.D., of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, and colleagues suggests nurse understaffing in US neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) is associated with higher rates of nosocomial infections among infants with very low birth weights (VLBW)... (Medical News Today)

Employinjg Nurses With Baccalaureates In Nursing Leads To Fewer Patient Deaths
When hospitals hire more nurses with four-year degrees, patient deaths following common surgeries decrease, according to new research by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research as reported in the March issue of the prestigious policy journal Health Affairs... (Medical News Today)

Nurse Migration In North And Central America Could Strengthen Health Systems
International nurse migration is a multibillion-dollar global phenomenon. Historically, Mexicans and Central Americans have not played a significant part in the migration of nurses to the United States... (Medical News Today)

Patient Satisfaction Starts At The Bedside
Quality is a central component of any discussion around health care and one of the key dimensions and measurements of quality care is the patient experience. However, many healthcare organizations struggle to become 'patient focused' and fail to score well on patient satisfaction surveys... (Medical News Today)

Pregnant Women Infected With Syphilis Estimated At Over A Million World-Wide
Syphilis still affects large numbers of pregnant women world-wide, causing serious health problems and even death to their babies, yet this infection could be prevented by early testing and treatment, according to a study by international researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine. Researchers, led by Lori Newman from the World Health Organization, estimate that in 2008, 1... (Medical News Today)

Babies Of African Ancestry Get Less Prenatal Care In Brazil, More Likely To Be Born Prematurely
Low birth weights are more prevalent among Brazilians with African ancestry and may be attributed to less use of prenatal care facilities and where those ethnic groups live, according to a new study... (Medical News Today)

High Filtration Fitted Face Masks Protect Health Care Workers Who Work In High Risk Settings Or During A Pandemic
Health care workers who consistently wear special fitted face masks while on duty are much less likely to get clinical respiratory and bacterial infections, according to new research led by University of New South Wales (UNSW) academics... (Medical News Today)

More Men Becoming Nurses
The demand for nurses has significantly increased over the past few years and while the profession is mainly represented by females, more and more men have started to join the field as well. According to a study by the U.S. Census Bureau, male nurses are becoming increasingly more commonplace. In 1970, only 2.7 percent of nurses were male, compared to 9... (Medical News Today)

Should The NHS Operate Seven Day Healthcare?
Head to Head: Should the NHS work at weekends as it does in the week? The NHS offers essential emergency care at weekends. Yet there is mounting evidence that patients are more likely to die if admitted to hospital on Saturday or Sunday. This has led to calls for greater consultant presence at the weekend and opened up a wider debate on whether regular routine services should also be available... (Medical News Today)

Quality Of Patient Care In Hospitals May Be Affected By Staff Satisfaction
The satisfaction levels among a hospital's staff are closely linked to the quality of healthcare it provides, say a team of doctors from Imperial College London. In the first study of its kind, Dr Richard Pinder and colleagues at Imperial found that hospitals in England with lower mortality rates were more likely to have members of staff satisfied with the quality of care they provide... (Medical News Today)

Better Hospitals Have Happier Staff
A new UK study suggests hospitals that perform better have happier staff. Doctors at Imperial College London reviewed satisfaction measures from NHS staff surveys and found hospitals in England with lower mortality rates were more likely to have staff who were happier with the standard of care they provided... (Medical News Today)

Collaboration Agreement Between Johns Hopkins Medicine And Fundacion Santa Fe De Bogota To Focus On Research, Nursing
An expansion of collaborative projects involving Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota (FSFB), one of Colombia's premier health care institutions, and Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHI) will continue for another 10 years under an agreement signed Feb. 18, 2013, in Baltimore, USA. The collaboration agreement detailing joint efforts in research and nursing, among other areas, was signed by Steven J... (Medical News Today)

Community Health Workers Improve Diabetes Outcomes And Related Behaviors
Researchers who conducted a clinical trial in American Samoa to test whether community health workers could help adults with type 2 diabetes found that the patients who received the intervention were twice as likely to make a clinically meaningful improvement as those who remained with care only in the clinic. The results appear in the journal Diabetes Care... (Medical News Today)

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