February 25, 2017
International Journal of Computer-Human Interaction (Latest Articles) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Exploring Patients’ Use Intention of Personal Health Record Systems: Implications for Design” by A. Ant Ozok, Huijuan Wu, and Ayse P. Gurses “Nurses’ Perceptions of … Read More
February 24, 2017
(The Atlantic) – Medicine, in World War I, made major advances in several directions. The war is better known as the first mass killing of the 20th century—with an estimated 10 million military deaths alone—but for the injured, doctors learned … Read More
February 24, 2017
Nursing Ethics (vol. 24, no. 1, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “A Good Death” by Judith L Hold “Defining Dignity in End-of-Life Care in the Emergency Department” by Cayetano Fernández-Sola et al. “Reasons Behind Providing Futile Medical … Read More
February 22, 2017
(CNN) – The unthinkable is happening at facilities throughout the country: Vulnerable seniors are being raped and sexually abused by the very people paid to care for them. It’s impossible to know just how many victims are out there. But … Read More
February 13, 2017
Nursing Philosophy (vol. 18, no. 1, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Good Relations with Technology: Empirical Ethics and Aesthetics in Care” by Jeannette Pols “Mediating Patienthood—From an Athics of to an Ethics with Technology” by Asle H. … Read More
January 31, 2017
(Wired) – By one estimate, a quarter of all doctors in the US were not born in this country. Across the healthcare industry, from medical students to doctors to pharmacists to orderlies, lives were changed in an instant last Friday. … Read More
January 17, 2017
Public Health Nursing (vol. 34, no. 1, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Eliminating Health Disparities through Action on the Social Determinants of Health: A Systematic Review of Home Visiting in the United States, 2005–2015” by Laurie S. … Read More
January 10, 2017
(Edmonton Journal) – Nurse practitioners are registered nurses, with graduate education, who can order and interpret screening and diagnostic tests, perform procedures and prescribe medications and therapeutic interventions. There are 450 nurse practitioners in Alberta. The provincial cabinet approved last … Read More
January 6, 2017
(STAT News) – These are newborns born dependent on opioids, the youngest victims of an epidemic that’s touched every corner of the country. Even when mothers seek treatment for their addictions early in pregnancy, they are typically urged to stay on methadone … Read More
January 4, 2017
(New York Times) – Now Miller also seemed to be on the cusp of modest celebrity. He’d started speaking about death and dying at medical schools and conferences around the country and will soon surface in Oprah’s living room, chatting … Read More
January 3, 2017
(The Guardian) – Rising mortality rates, an increase in life-threatening infections and a shortage of staff and medical equipment are crippling Greece’s health system as the country’s dogged pursuit of austerity hammers the weakest in society. Data and anecdote, backed … Read More
December 28, 2016
(Scientific American) – Alzheimer’s dementia disproportionately affects women in a variety of ways. Compared with men, 2.5 times as many women as men provide 24-hour care for an affected relative. Nearly 19 percent of these wives, sisters and daughters have … Read More
December 23, 2016
(Health IT News) – Nurses rank, by far, the top profession for honest and ethics in the U.S. in the 2016 version of the annual Gallup poll on ethics in professions, Americans Rate Healthcare Providers High on Honest, Ethics, published this … Read More
December 2, 2016
(The Atlantic) – Here’s an alarming statistic: Around one in four nurses has been physically attacked at work in the last year. Patients often kick, scratch, and grab them; in rare cases even kill them. In fact, there are nearly … Read More
November 22, 2016
(Reuters) – In places like Villa Esperanza, or Village of Hope, a neighborhood in Carabayllo where clusters of pastel-colored homes cling to dusty hills, the problem is inadequate health services to help patients follow through with treatment, which takes six … Read More
November 16, 2016
(Medical Xpress) – Hospitals that employ more nurse assistants relative to the number of professionally qualified nurses have higher mortality rates, lower patient satisfaction, and poorer quality and safety of care, according to a new European study published today in … Read More
October 26, 2016
(Dallas Morning News) – Nurse Nina Pham settled her lawsuit Monday against Texas Health Resources, owner of the hospital where she contracted Ebola while caring for the first person in the United States diagnosed with the deadly disease. The deal … Read More
October 20, 2016
(The Guardian) – Despite its immense oil wealth, the country is in the midst of devastating economic, social and health crises. It has the world’s steepest economic decline, the second highest murder rate and the sharpest-rising inflation (forecast to reach … Read More
October 17, 2016
(STAT News) – Recognizing the prevalence of the problem, doctors and nurses across the country are now pushing an ambitious campaign to change practices in intensive care units to reduce cases of “ICU delirium” — a sudden and intense confusion … Read More
October 11, 2016
Nursing Philosophy (vol. 17, no. 4, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Metaethics of Nursing Codes of Ethics and Conduct” by Paul C. Snelling
September 27, 2016
(Quartz) – For decades, nurses from Asia have looked to hospitals in the US for a chance at upward mobility. Hundreds of thousands of people from countries like the Philippines, India, and China, aided by a nursing shortage in the … Read More
August 26, 2016
(Medical News Today) – Emergency room crowding is a common and complex problem for hospitals all over the world, and anything that can be done to improve patient flow without compromising care is a great help. Now, a new study … Read More
August 24, 2016
(UPI) – Some patients’ movement needs to be restricted in order to prevent them from hurting themselves or falling, or disrupting their own treatment. New research suggests, however, that restraints are used less when more nurses are on duty. The … Read More
August 18, 2016
(Reuters) – A Scottish nurse who contracted then recovered from Ebola is facing disciplinary action over allegations she concealed her temperature on her return from Sierra Leone, according to charges from a nursing watchdog seen by British media. Pauline Cafferkey, … Read More
August 12, 2016
(Kaiser Health News) – Many elderly patients like Prochazka deteriorate mentally or physically in the hospital, even if they recover from the original illness or injury that brought them there. About one-third of patients over 70 years old and more … Read More
