Low-trauma fractures, especially in women over
40 and men over 50 years of age, can be devastating. They often result in deformity, chronic pain, and loss of mobility and independence that sometimes require admission into nursing homes or long-term care facilities. Their profound impact on quality of life has not yet been fully calculated. One-year mortality [...]

Families, educators, and students are often looking for good Internet resources on the general topic of Alzheimer’s disease. Identified here are best Web sites on the science of Alzheimer’s: what it is and how it progresses. Each site is slightly different. Aimed at promoting an environment of trust for persons with Alzheimer’s and those who [...]

Considering subsequently several methods regarding health related details towards your fingertips — several regarding them online — that it is usually challenging to be able to inform truth through fictional, or useful health related products and services through those that don’t work or aren’t safe. The FTC has created this booklet to be able to [...]

PATIENTS AND TREATMENTS
Treatment with antibiotics was withheld in 23% (ABwithheld) of the 706 patients in the Pneumonia Study. A few patients (8%) were treated with antibiotics according to their physicians for palliative reasons (ABpalliative), whereas all others (69%) were treated with antibiotics for curative reasons (AB-curative).
Table 3 describes the characteristics of the treatments used in [...]

Nursing home residents frequently develop lower respiratory tract infections, mostly pneumonia and bronchitis,1-5 with estimated 30-day mortality from pneumonia or lower respiratory tract infection varying between 10% and 30%.3,6-9 Because meaningful cultures from specimens are rarely obtained in practice,10,11 antibiotic treatment is usually empiric.10-12 Despite guidelines from authoritative groups,13-15 however, little evidence supports any specifi [...]

Dental hygienists have been providing services in Washington since 1923 when the requirements for licensure took effect. Hygienists are covered by the Uniform Disciplinary Act, chapter 18.130 RCW.
In 1994, the Legislature requested the department complete a sunrise review of the dental hygiene profession. The department was to determine if dental hygienists should be allowed to [...]

There is a critical shortage of geriatrics-prepared health care professionals. There are currently about 750 geriatric nurse specialists in the United States compared with a projected need for 25,000 geriatric nurse specialists in the year 2020. Geriatrics needs to join pediatrics as a required element of training for the next generation of health care professionals. [...]

Nurse practitioners (NPs) are RNs who’ve received additional training, especially in diagnosis and treatment. Current educational standards for NPs require graduation from a master’s degree program. Functioning as primary care providers, NPs have expanded into areas vacated by physicians in their quest for higher paying specialties. An excellent example of one such area is nursing [...]

The New York State Department of Health is revising the current nursing home nurse aide training program content curriculum. The current training program content for nursing home nurse aides was developed in 1987 with minor modifications during 1990. The content is being revised to ensure that the curriculum reflects current professional practice. The new curriculum [...]

This purpose of this report is to complete the Report to Congress that was mandated by Public Law 101-508 which required the Secretary to report to the Congress on the appropriateness of establishing minimum caregiver ratios for Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes. In addition we secured expert review from a Technical Expert Panel as [...]

This is certainly true for several nurses at Beth Israel Medical Center, and in particular
Frederick Dunau, RN, who received the Nurse of Distinction Nurse Preceptor Award following a citywide competition conducted by 1199 SEIU/ League of Voluntary Hospitals & Homes. He was honored at a gala dinner held at the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan.
In Mr. [...]

Prior to the late 1980s, North Carolina had no statewide standards for nurse aide training or recognition. Preparation was primarily through on-the-job training, although some nurse aide training programs were offered through community colleges. Subsequent to federal and state legislation, nurse aides working under the supervision of a licensed nurse had to meet training and [...]