| Nursing - Study backs use of physician assistants, nurse practitioners for treating VA patients with diabetes |
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June 10, 2019 |
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The latest nursing news from News Medical |
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 | | |  Advantages of Transcutaneous CO2 over End-Tidal CO2 for Sleep Monitoring
Evaluation of a patient’s respiratory status is often based on intermittent arterial samples that are neither practical during sleep nor offer continuous blood gas monitoring despite continuous monitoring methods being available. Radiometer's on demand webinar summarizes the CO2 measurement landscape and distinguish between the various methods currently in use in the Sleep lab.
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| | | | |  According to preliminary results of a new study, there is a high prevalence of insufficient sleep and symptoms of common sleep disorders among medical center nurses. Results show that 49% of participating nurses at an academic medical center averaged less than 7 hours of sleep per night, and the overall average nightly sleep time was 6.6 hours. | | | | |  Vaccines are essential for any person looking to travel to another part of the world. Thanks to advances in medicine, safe and effective vaccines are now available for many infectious diseases. Getting vaccinated not only benefits the person who is traveling, but their family, friends and those in the community too, as it prevents the spread of infection. | | | | |  Neonatal exposure to nicotine alters the reward circuity in the brains of newborn mice, increasing their preference for the drug in later adulthood, report researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine in a study published "in press" April 24, 2019 in Biological Psychiatry. | | | | |  For the first time, the federal government is shining a spotlight on the quality of rehabilitation care at nursing homes — services used by nearly 2 million older adults each year. | |
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