Researchers from the Department of Health Policy in the GW School of Public Health and Health Services have found that an increased “scope of practice” for advanced practice nurse practitioners is not associated with lower wages for primary care physic…
Clean delivery kits combined with clean delivery practices could lead to substantial reductions in neonatal mortality in infants born at home, according to a study published in this week’s PLoS Medicine. The authors, led by Nadine Seward and Audrey Pro…
In 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. The midwife experience uses these rituals to send the message that home birt…
The 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 Educ…
Since 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) …
Nova 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. T…
Many 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…
A 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 are…
On December 22, up to 4,000 nurses who work for the Stutter 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. Al…
According 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-pro…
