Copyright 2012 Medical News TodayLatest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/nursing/admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin)editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors)en-us Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241147.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241147.phpAccording to a new analysis of hundreds of recorded office visits, doctors and nurse practitioners typically issued orders and asked closed or leading questions when talking to their HIV-positive patients about adherence to antiretroviral therapy. Attempts at problem-solving with patients who had lapsed occurred in less than a quarter of visits. Take your medicine, Doctor's orders...HIV / AIDS Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240833.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240833.phpWomen who consumed a diet high in animal fat and cholesterol before pregnancy were at higher risk for gestational diabetes than women whose diets were lower in animal fat and cholesterol, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health and Harvard University. Gestational diabetes is a form of diabetes seen during pregnancy...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240826.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240826.phpAfter falling for 14 years, the percentage of home births in the US from 2004 to 2009 rose by 29% to the highest level since data collection on this began in 1989. However, although this looks like a big surge, the overall proportion of American women giving birth at home is still low: in 2004 only 0.56% of births were at home, rising to 0.72% in 2009...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240530.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240530.phpA nurse's tender loving care really does ease the pain of a medical procedure, and grandma's cookies really do taste better, if we perceive them to be made with love - suggests newly published research by a University of Maryland psychologist. The findings have many real-world applications, including in medicine, relationships, parenting and business...Psychology / Psychiatry Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240537.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240537.phpA large regional hospital in Ghana saw a reduction in maternal and infant deaths after continuous quality improvement (QI) initiatives were put into place through a collaborative partnership. New research from lead author Medge Owen, M.D...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240446.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240446.phpWith the prodding of new federal legislation, electronic health records (EHRs) are rapidly becoming part of the daily practice of hospital nurses - the frontline providers of care...IT / Internet / E-mail Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240403.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240403.phpIf organisations want to retain qualified nurses they need to tackle the different work factors that are important to the three key age groups and build on the strong attachment that many nurses feel to the profession. Those are the key messages to emerge from a large-scale survey of nurses published in the January issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing...Nursing / Midwifery Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239415.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239415.phpIn reaction to what midwives view as the overly medicalized way hospitals deliver babies, they have created birthing rituals to send the message that women's bodies know best...Nursing / Midwifery Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239726.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239726.phpThe Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program at Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing (MNSON) has been granted accreditation for a five-year term, the maximum number of years possible, by the Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). MNSON introduced the DNP program for advanced practice nursing students in the fall semester of 2009...Nursing / Midwifery Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239523.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239523.phpSince they were pre-teens, Kathrine McKay and Kathryn Lito had aspirations of pursuing a nursing career. So when they applied to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.) program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Nursing, they decided to take an accelerated approach to their education with the new Pacesetters program...Nursing / Midwifery Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239520.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239520.phpNova Southeastern University will create the College of Nursing on Jan. 1., 2012. Formally a part of NSU's College of Allied Health and Nursing, the new college has emerged because of the nursing program's growth and success over the last five years...Nursing / Midwifery Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239330.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239330.phpSome 56 evidence-based interventions will sharply reduce the 358,000 women who still die each year during pregnancy and childbirth and the 7.6 million children who die before the age of 5, according to a massive three-year global study...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239071.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239071.phpMany plants produce compounds that serve as a defense against predators or pathogens. Some are also used by humans for a variety of beneficial purposes, such as in medicines. As recently as the early 1990s, a unique class of proteins previously unknown to science, the cyclotides, was discovered...Nursing / Midwifery Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239017.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239017.phpA study on the geographic mobility of registered nurses (RNs) recently published in the December Health Affairs magazine suggests that the profession's relative lack of mobility has serious implications for access to health care for people in rural areas. According to the study - part of the RN Work Project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - more than half (52...Nursing / Midwifery Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239018.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239018.phpOn December 22, up to 4,000 nurses who work for the Sutter Corporation are going on strike, protesting against sweeping cuts in healthcare coverage and patient care protections, according to the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United...Nursing / Midwifery Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238919.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238919.php Nurses working in hospitals around the world are reporting they are burned out and dissatisfied with their jobs, reported researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research in a study of 100,000 nurses in nine countries...Nursing / Midwifery Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238915.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238915.phpNurses working in hospitals around the world are reporting they are burned out and dissatisfied with their jobs, reported researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research in a study of 100,000 nurses in nine countries...Nursing / Midwifery Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238677.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238677.phpThe number of young people becoming registered nurses has grown sharply since 2002, a trend that should ease some of the concern about a looming nursing shortage in the United States, according to a new study. The number of people aged 23 to 26 -- primarily women -- who became registered nurses increased by 62 percent from 2002 to 2009, approaching numbers not seen since the mid-1980s...Nursing / Midwifery Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238503.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238503.phpA comparison of home-birth trends of the 1970s finds many similarities - and some differences - related to current trends in home births. For instance, in the 1970s - as now - women opting to engage in home births tended to have higher levels of education...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238517.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238517.phpAccording to a study published online in advance of print publication in Health Services Research, the largest for-profit nursing homes in the nation deliver considerably lower quality of care as they often have fewer staff nurses compared with non-profit and government-owned nursing homes...Nursing / Midwifery Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238473.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238473.phpWhile nurse-to-patient ratios are widely recognized as an important factor in determining the quality of patient care, those ratios are not always easy to change without significant cost and investment of resources. What's more, the projected nursing shortage will make it even more difficult for hospitals to increase nurse staffing...Nursing / Midwifery Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238436.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238436.phpThe nation's largest for-profit nursing homes deliver significantly lower quality of care because they typically have fewer staff nurses than non-profit and government-owned nursing homes. That's the finding of a new UCSF-led analysis of quality of care at nursing homes around the country. It is the first-ever study focusing solely on staffing and quality at the 10 largest for-profit chains...Seniors / Aging Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238367.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238367.phpSerious global discussions have begun in the lead-up to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) deadline of 2015. Governments and international agencies are asking what has been achieved, what still needs to be done and how best to proceed after the deadline...Sexual Health / STDs Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237921.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237921.phpNewly qualified nurses, midwives and allied health professionals who took part in an online course during their first year of employment reported increased clinical skills development and confidence. However the survey on the Flying Start NHS™ programme, published in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing, found that mentors needed more training and time to provide support...Nursing / Midwifery Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237900.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237900.phpNumerous polls show recent college grads have been hit hard by the recession and are facing tough odds in finding well-paying employment. Others show the classes of 2010 and 2011 to be underemployed, with many not finding jobs in their preferred fields or geographic locations. That's the bad news; the good news is that nursing grads might be proving to be the exception to the polls...Nursing / Midwifery