Depression in LTC Often Goes Untreated

Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:41 PM EST (Nursezone.com)

Older adults living in LTC are at risk for depression for a number of reasons. Factors include medication side effects, untreated or undertreated pain, and/or medical conditions, such as cardiovascular disease or stroke, which often go hand-in-hand with depression.

health, aging, depression, nursing-homer

Few Americans make end-of-life wishes known

Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:33 AM EST (AP)

The health overhaul bill that narrowly passed the House on Saturday includes a provision to nudge more people to confront such choices: It would pay for end-of-life counseling for Medicare patients.

health, end-of-life-care, health-reform, death-and-dying, hospice

First Forensic Nurses Week Highlights the Problems of Violence

Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:21 AM EST (Nursezone.com)

Nov. 9. 2009 - "Violence is a Health Care Problem" is the theme of the first Forensic Nurses Week, taking place November 9-13, 2009. This week, which is expected to become an annual event, was created to honor and celebrate forensic nurses.

health, nursing, violence, forensic-nursing, sane-nursing, death-investigation

Suicides in the downturn raise worries about recession's real cost

Seeded on Sat Nov 14, 2009 12:31 PM EST (msnbc.com)

ELKHART, Ind.— Coroner John White is presiding over a sad tally in this northern Indiana county, tracking rising numbers of suicides he believes are linked to the lingering recession.

health, suicide, economy, recession, mental-health

Follow 3 Rules for an Energizing Lunch

Seeded on Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:23 AM EST (Real Age)

To help ensure your lunch is giving you rock star energy -- instead of weighing you down -- you just have to follow three simple rules.

fashion, nutrition, weight-loss, healthy-eating

Treating trauma victims may cause its own trauma

Seeded on Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:13 AM EST (CNN)

Those who counsel trauma victims -- whether they be psychiatrists, social workers or advocates -- can experience an emotional toll after intensive exposure to patients' stories of horror. Experts call this phenomenon "vicarious trauma."

us-news, trauma, ft-hood, mental-health

FDA Initiative Seeks to Reduce Accidental Overdoses

Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:52 AM EST (US News & World Report)

The Safe Use Initiative will focus on preventable injuries and deaths caused by "medication errors such as unintentional exposures, misuse, abuse and attempts at self- harm," Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the U.S.

health, health-care, medications, drugs

Will You Take His Name?

Seeded on Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:33 AM EST (MSN)

I am freshly gobsmacked every single Sunday morning when I see that about half the women — mostly under 35, all women with careers, all women who chose to submit their announcement to the putatively liberal New York Times — are electing to give up their identity.

marriage, names, identity, women, relationships

Influential Force -- "Central Park Jogger" tell ADVANCE how one nurse was instrumental to her recovery from TBI

Seeded on Sun Nov 8, 2009 1:33 PM EST (Advance for Nurses)

In 1989, Meili, known to the world as "The Central Park Jogger" was bludgeoned, raped, sodomized and beaten so severely she was given last rites. Because she was a victim of rape, the media never released her name.

health, health-care, nursing, traumatic-brain-injury, recovery

Statin drugs may lower deaths from flu: study

Seeded on Sun Nov 8, 2009 12:17 PM EST (Reuters Health Information)

* People taking statins 50 percent less likely to die * Study supports earlier research * Too soon to give statins to flu patients

health, flu, cholesterol, statins, flu-deaths

The Future of Abstinence

Seeded on Sun Nov 8, 2009 12:09 PM EST (Newsweek)

It's been a mainstay of sex ed for more than a decade. Now, as the Obama administration cuts off federal funding, the movement scrambles for money, determined to continue its mission.

education, teen-pregnancy, abstinence, sex-education, federal-spending, obama

Nurses' Union Plans to Strike/One-Day Event at 39 California, Nevada Hospitals Is Focused on Swine-Flu Precautions

Seeded on Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:18 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

A union is threatening a one-day strike involving 16,000 registered nurses at 39 hospitals in California and Nevada, saying hospitals aren't providing enough protections against swine flu for its members.

health, health-care, nursing, h1n1, unions, strike

Somers' new target: conventional cancer treatment

Seeded on Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:25 PM EDT (AP)

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now mainstream and used by more than a third of all Americans.

health, alternative-medicine, healthcare, suzanne-somers, cancer

Fat baby can get coverage after all, insurer says/Colo. company had turned tot down saying he had 'a pre-existing condition'

Seeded on Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:00 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Rocky Mountain Health Plans said Monday it will no longer consider obesity a "pre-existing condition" barring coverage for hefty infants. The change comes after the insurer turned down a Grand Junction 4-month-old who weighs about 17 pounds.

Surgical Deaths Linked to Handling of Complications/Staffing and hospital culture play a role, expert contends

Seeded on Sun Oct 11, 2009 12:50 PM EDT (HealthDay)

The way that a hospital handles the complications of surgery, not just the rate of those complications, determines the hospital's surgical death rate, a new study has found.

health, health-care, patient-ratios, surgery

Nursing a "Broken Heart" -- Recognizing Takotsubo Syndrome

Seeded on Sun Oct 11, 2009 12:23 PM EDT (Advance for Nurses)

Sometimes that crushing chest pain associated with a heart attack is not a heart attack at all, but something else that has gone terribly wrong with the heart - because something has gone terribly wrong with life.

health, heart-disease, mind-body-connection, cardiac-research

Reviving Your Existing Nursing Team

Seeded on Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:01 PM EDT (Advance for Nurses)

There probably aren't any nurse recruiters or administrators who would tell you retaining employees is bad for business. It's pretty obvious any staff thrives when everyone is familiar with one another and the system.

health, nursing, hospital

Family mental history shadows future children

Seeded on Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:48 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

Mental health professionals have long known that certain mental illnesses can run within families — and that history weighs heavily on some people who are struggling to decide whether to have children and risk passing it on.

health, health-care, mental-health, parenting, children, schizophrenia, bipolar, depression

Nurses Asked to Spread Information on Healthcare Reform

Seeded on Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:37 AM EDT (Nurse.com)

"The Obama administration recognizes the huge role that nurses play in teaching and engaging patients in dialogue," says Mary K. Wakefield, RN, PhD, FAAN, head of the Health Resources and Services Administration.

health, health-care, nursing

Poor Substitutes — Why Cooperatives and Triggers Can't Achieve the Goals of a Public Option

Seeded on Wed Oct 7, 2009 10:18 PM EDT (New England Journal of Medicine)

Baucus's draft bill offers a brief description of cooperatives as new decentralized "non-profit, member-run health insurance companies that serve individuals in one or more states" by issuing "qualified health benefit plans in the individual and small group markets."3 F …

health, health-reform, baucus, cooperatives

Injectable Vaccines More Effective for Adult Flu Than Nasal Sprays/Results may be different in children and in H1N1 swine flu vaccines, researchers say

Seeded on Sun Oct 4, 2009 2:18 PM EDT (HealthDay)

Among those who got sick, participants who'd received the injected flu vaccine were 68 percent less likely to have the flu compared to those who'd received a placebo, according to the study. The flu virus was confirmed using lab tests.

health, flu, vaccines

45,000 American deaths associated with lack of insurance

Seeded on Thu Oct 1, 2009 12:56 PM EDT (CNN)

Story Highlights Study calculated that the uninsured have a 40 percent higher risk of death An expecting father worried about ER cost and died from ruptured appendix Previous research also shows uninsured are more at risk than insured

health, health-care, uninsured, insurance-crisis

California's Real Death Panels: Insurers Deny 21% of Claims

Seeded on Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:38 AM EDT (California Nurses Association)

Claims denial rates by leading California insurers, first six months of 2009:

health, health-care, denial-or-care, insurance

8.3 Million U.S. Adults Considered Suicide Last Year/National survey also found younger adults at higher risk

Seeded on Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:14 PM EDT (HealthDay)

A national survey has found that more than 8 million adults in the United States seriously considered suicide last year, with younger adults the most likely to contemplate taking their own lives.

health, suicide, mental-health

CNO Presents Purple Heart To A Navy Nurse

Seeded on Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:24 PM EDT (Military.com)

Adm. Gary Roughead, CNO, presented the medal to Cmdr. Kim M. LeBel, Nurse Corps, for wounds received in action

health, nurses, afghanistan, military, navy, purple-heart

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