Nursing

Nursing is a healthcare profession that focuses on the care of individuals and their families to help them recover from illness and maintain optimal health and quality of life.

Nursing Profession

In most countries throughout the world, the practice of nursing is regulated by national or state law to keep the practice standards high. As such, an individual wishing to enter and continue in the profession is required to pass certain education and training requirement set by the government.

Nursing Healthcare Profession

Nursing Specializations

Neonatal Nursing

Mental Health Nursing

Roles of a Nurse

Pediatric Nursing

History of Nursing

Workplace of a Nurse

Nursing Career

Latest Nursing News and Research

For nurses feeling the strain of the pandemic, virus resurgence is ‘paralyzing’

For Christina Nester, the pandemic lull in Massachusetts lasted about three months through summer into early fall. In late June, St. Vincent Hospital had resumed elective surgeries, and the unit the 48-year-old nurse works on switched back from taking care of only COVID-19 patients to its pre-pandemic roster of patients recovering from gallbladder operations, mastectomies and other surgeries.

24 Nov 2020

New project integrates genomics, electronic healthcare data and AI to address antimicrobial resistance

A Monash University project will harness the power of technology to help diagnose, treat and prevent one of the most pressing worldwide health issues - antimicrobial resistance.

24 Nov 2020

Study: Home health care provides support, improves recovery for COVID-19 patients

Survivors of COVID-19 are a vulnerable population who often have health ramifications from their illness and hospital stay. Upon returning home from acute care, large proportions of survivors experience functional dependencies, pain, dyspnea, and exhaustion.

24 Nov 2020

First checkpoint inhibitor vaccine shown to be safe, effective in colon cancer animal model

A study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute described a potential therapeutic anticancer vaccine that frees suppressed cancer-killing immune cells, enabling them to attack and destroy a tumor.

23 Nov 2020

Advantech Launches Real-Time Location System (RTLS) Solution-Ready Package (SRP) for Healthcare Applications

Advantech, a leading provider of industrial computing platform solutions, is pleased to announce its real-time location system (RTLS) solution-ready package (SRP) designed for real-time locating and monitoring of medical equipment, staff, and patients.

23 Nov 2020

Sexual minorities who misuse alcohol or tobacco also have a co-occurring psychiatric disorder

More than half of lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals who misuse alcohol or tobacco also have a co-occurring psychiatric disorder, compared to one-third of heterosexuals, a new University of Michigan study finds.

20 Nov 2020

Nursing home residents with medical order forms more likely to have preferences documented

Nursing home residents with medical order forms indicating their treatment preferences were three times more likely to have their current preferences documented in their medical record than residents without the forms, according to a study from Indiana University School of Nursing and IU Center for Aging Research at Regenstrief Institute.

20 Nov 2020

These front-line workers could have retired. They risked their lives instead.

Sonia Brown’s husband died on June 10. Two weeks later, the 65-year-old registered nurse was back at work. Her husband's medical bills and a car payment loomed over her head.

20 Nov 2020

NIH-funded study to test emergency treatment for devastating stroke in Memphis

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center's Stroke Team is joining researchers from more than 100 hospitals worldwide to conduct a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research study called FASTEST that will test the safety and efficacy of a medication called recombinant factor Vlla to prevent hemorrhage expansion in patients with strokes caused by bleeding in the brain - intracerebral hemorrhage strokes.

19 Nov 2020

Study warns elderly individuals less able to reduce contacts during COVID-19 lockdown

In a rigorous medRxiv* preprint paper, a group of researchers demonstrate shifts in age structure and clinical characteristics of individuals affected with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) after social and economic reopening in three US states and show how elderly individuals were less able to reduce contacts when compared to the younger ones.

19 Nov 2020

Randomized trial adds new evidence to effectiveness of wearing masks

Below please find summaries of new articles that will be published in the next issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. The summaries are not intended to substitute for the full articles as a source of information.

19 Nov 2020

Predictive model identifies neighborhoods that have greatest risk of COVID-19 infection

To help slow the spread of COVID-19 and save lives, UCLA public health and urban planning experts have developed a predictive model that pinpoints which populations in which neighborhoods of Los Angeles County are most at risk of becoming infected.

19 Nov 2020

Researchers explore potential role of oxytocin in modulating male sexual function

Hormones are key players of the endocrine system and have a major influence on our emotional and sexual wellbeing.

18 Nov 2020

UTHSC and Regeneron partner to advance precision medicine

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has entered into an agreement with the Regeneron Genetics Center, a subsidiary of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., for the company to sequence DNA that has been voluntarily collected and stored as part of a biorepository initiative UTHSC is building in collaboration with its partner teaching hospitals.

18 Nov 2020

Nursing

Overview

Nursing Healthcare Profession

Nursing Specializations

Neonatal Nursing

Feature Articles

Mental Health Nursing

Roles of a Nurse

Pediatric Nursing

History of Nursing

Workplace of a Nurse

Nursing Career

Latest Nursing News and Research

For nurses feeling the strain of the pandemic, virus resurgence is ‘paralyzing’

New project integrates genomics, electronic healthcare data and AI to address antimicrobial resistance

Study: Home health care provides support, improves recovery for COVID-19 patients

First checkpoint inhibitor vaccine shown to be safe, effective in colon cancer animal model

Advantech Launches Real-Time Location System (RTLS) Solution-Ready Package (SRP) for Healthcare Applications

Sexual minorities who misuse alcohol or tobacco also have a co-occurring psychiatric disorder

Nursing home residents with medical order forms more likely to have preferences documented

These front-line workers could have retired. They risked their lives instead.

NIH-funded study to test emergency treatment for devastating stroke in Memphis

Study warns elderly individuals less able to reduce contacts during COVID-19 lockdown

Randomized trial adds new evidence to effectiveness of wearing masks

Predictive model identifies neighborhoods that have greatest risk of COVID-19 infection

Researchers explore potential role of oxytocin in modulating male sexual function

UTHSC and Regeneron partner to advance precision medicine

UIC study aims to improve smoking cessation interventions for underserved populations

Anger after North Dakota Governor asks COVID-positive health staff to stay on job

Cannabidiol oils are equally or less effective at inhibiting certain cancer cell lines

New study may shed light on the adaptive immune response to COVID-19

LOX plays a number of key roles in promoting skin and organ fibrosis in scleroderma

Two-thirds of older Americans would not seek treatment for depression, new poll shows

The Prospects of Semaglutide for Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Patients

Discovering a new role for a protein that could cause breast cancer to spread to the lungs

How do low levels of oxygen damage the brain?

Nursing

Overview

Feature Articles

Mental Health Nursing

Roles of a Nurse

Pediatric Nursing

History of Nursing

Workplace of a Nurse

Nursing Career

Latest Nursing News and Research

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