Monthly Archives: June 2010

School Nurse Practitioners Link Communities to Primary Care

This news story looks at using nurse practitioners in school situations. This is a look at a nurse practitioner in Indianapolis working with children in the middle school setting and helping them to find out what’s going on. A lot … Continue reading

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New Standards and Policies to be Implemented for School Nurses

Let’s jump on into this week’s first news item and this is an item that I picked up coming out of Wales in the UK. It’s looking at the council of nurses there implementing new standards and policies for school … Continue reading

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Student Nurses’ Program Help Improve Kids’ Health

This is a great story I found from a Canadian nursing program that their nursing school programs are actively involved in the community. One of the programs for the senior nursing students is getting them out into the school system … Continue reading

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Asthma Review for Nurses – Episode 135 Studio Video

Join Jamie Davis, the Podmedic and watch the video version of this week’s Nursing Show from the podcast studio at MedicCast Productions. This week’s show features the usual look at nurses in the news with commentary and links. Jamie also … Continue reading

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Asthma, Reactive Airway Disease and Episode 135

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Welcome to Episode 135 of the Nursing Show The Nursing Show is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. Subscribe to the Podcast MP3 Audio Version iTunes | Zune | Podcast | Blog —- Subscribe to the Podcast Studio Video … Continue reading

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13,000 Nurses Make History by Organizing Largest Strike

I don’t usually cover a whole lot of nurse union articles but I did want to bring this out since this article says 13,000 California nurses prepared to strike starting next week, June 10th and this would be the largest … Continue reading

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Reform Needed in Aged Care

I found this news story over at Medical News Today.com from Australia. The Australian Nursing Federation is putting out a press release; I guess you could say, talking about some changes and reform going on in the nursing home laws … Continue reading

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Study Shows Safer, Less Expensive Procedure Equally Predictive of Colon Cancer Risk

We all talk about different types of colon cancer, of different cancer screenings in general and there’s been a lot of looks and studies at prevention and ways to predict and to determine early if there’s a risk for certain … Continue reading

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Nurses Review on Allergies and Episode 134

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Welcome to Episode 134 of the Nursing Show The Nursing Show is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. Subscribe to the Podcast MP3 Audio Version iTunes | Zune | Podcast | Blog —- Subscribe to the Podcast Studio Video … Continue reading

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Economic Recession Linked to Decreasing Birth Rates

Have you seen in your hospital or in your community that there’s been a baby bust in the current recession- in the current economic climate? Well there’s an article I picked up out of a California news paper and this … Continue reading

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