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Antihypertensive Medication and Fracture Risk in Older VA Nursing Home Residents

JAMA Internal Medicine

This cohort study using a target trial emulation approach assesses whether initiating antihypertensive medication is associated with increased fracture risk among older long-term Veterans Health Administration nursing home residents.

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Study shows frequent COVID testing of nursing home staff protected residents, saved lives

Medical Xpress

A new study, appearing today in the New England Journal of Medicine, shows that nursing homes that conducted staff surveillance testing more regularly during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced significantly lower rates of COVID infections and deaths among residents.

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Future doctors and nurses feel unprepared for disasters, finds Swedish study

Medical Xpress

Most students of medicine and nursing in Sweden consider their own knowledge of disaster medicine inadequate. However, students who have been conscripts in the military are at an advantage, a University of Gothenburg study shows.

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MU study examines benefits, challenges of telehealth in nursing homes during pandemic

Scienmag

. — The COVID-19 pandemic caused nursing homes to rapidly change their policies overnight. Credit: MU Sinclair School of Nursing COLUMBIA, Mo. — The COVID-19 pandemic caused […].

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During COVID-19, nurses face significant burnout risks, reports American Journal of Nursing

Scienmag

Findings point to strategies to support well-being and resilience July 22, 2021 – Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 40 percent of nurses and other health care workers had risks associated with an increased likelihood of burnout, reports a survey study in the August issue of the American Journal of Nursing (AJN).

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Gabriela Meléndez-Peláez to receive 2022 Penn Nursing Renfield Foundation Award for Global Women’s Health

Scienmag

PHILADELPHIA, PA (January 13, 2022) – Gabriela Meléndez-Peláez, a Guatemalan nurse-midwife, maternal health advocate, and the Founder of Asociación Corazón del Agua, will receive the 2022 Penn Nursing Renfield Foundation Award for Global Women’s Health for her tireless work in addressing maternal health inequities in Guatemala.

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New data shows burden of dementia symptoms just as high in community population as nursing home residents

Scienmag

INDIANAPOLIS — New data shows that the symptoms suffered by people with advanced Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias who live in the community occur at a strikingly similar rate to those of dementia patients in a nursing home.

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