Scienmag

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

What The Study Did: Researchers examined the association between nursing home crowding and COVID-19 across the entire nursing home system of Ontario, Canada, during the first months of the pandemic. Authors: Kevin A. Brown, Ph.D., of the University of Toronto and Nathan M. Stall, M.D.,

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Rethinking Clinical Trials

JULY 6, 2023

Balas is the associate dean of research and the Dorothy Hodges Olson Distinguished Professor of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing. Dr. Helen Lavretsky is a professor-in-residence in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA and a geriatric integrative psychiatrist.

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JAMA Internal Medicine

DECEMBER 6, 2020

This perspective is that of a nursing researcher turned volunteer in a COVID-19 vaccine trial. She considers the experience of study participants and how clinicians will need to prepare their patients for the vaccine’s possible adverse effects.

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Scienmag

JULY 11, 2021

COVID-19 outbreaks in French nursing homes almost certainly started in staff – and none of measures put in place stopped the virus from taking hold, new research being presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), held online this year, shows.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 22, 2020

UC San Diego researchers find a distinct shift from using pharmacological poisoning to firearms in nurses who die by suicide In a new study, University of California San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Health researchers report that the rate of firearm use by female nurses who die by suicide increased between 2014 […].

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Every four months, pathologist Aaron LeBeau scoops into a net one of the five nurse sharks he keeps in his University of Wisconsin lab. Then he carefully administers a shot to the animal, much like a pediatrician giving a kid a vaccine.

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Scienmag

JULY 9, 2021

Babies younger than four weeks old, called neonates, were once thought not to perceive pain due to not-yet-fully-developed sensory systems, but modern research says otherwise, according to researchers from Hiroshima University in Japan.

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Bioengineer

JULY 15, 2021

New Rochelle, NY, July 14, 2021-Firsthand reports from nurses in correctional facilities detail the challenges they faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. These firsthand accounts are reported in a special issue on correctional nursing in the Journal of Correctional Health Care. Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. liebertpub.

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Scienmag

JUNE 23, 2021

Pandemic deepened anxiety and depression among nurses — those working in long-term care affected the most Working in the highly charged environment of COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the mental health of nurses, according to a new survey by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the Institute for Work & Health […]. (..)

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Scienmag

MAY 4, 2021

May 4, 2021 – From the very beginning of the AIDS epidemic in 1981, nurses have been at the forefront of patient care, advocacy, and research.

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Scienmag

MAY 11, 2021

Philadelphia (EMBARGOED UNTIL May 11, 2021 at 6:30 PM EST) -A new study published in The Lancet today showed that a policy establishing minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in hospitals in Queensland, Australia saved lives, prevented readmissions, shortened hospital stays, and reduced costs.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 7, 2020

With limited hours and low wages, workers in long-term care facilities seek second jobs Nurses and other long-term care workers in nursing homes who hold multiple jobs, may be one of the factors contributing to the spread of COVID-19 in these facilities, according to a new study published in Medical Care Research and Review.

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Scienmag

JUNE 25, 2021

Continuity of Nursing Care Improves Patient Outcomes People with dementia receiving home health care visits are less likely to be readmitted to the hospital when there is consistency in nursing staff, according to a new study by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Researchers at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, conducting independent research on whether pending nurse staffing legislation in New York state is in the public’s interest, found that the wide variation in patient-to-nurse ratios across hospitals in New York is contributing (..)

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Rethinking Clinical Trials

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The PRIM-ER intervention includes, among other elements, communication skills training and simulation workshops for emergency medicine clinicians using the EM Talk training program. The program is designed to improve serious illness conversation skills for emergency medicine physicians and advanced practice providers.

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Scienmag

APRIL 28, 2021

Research highlights how hospitals can support nurses during public health crises to protect their mental health New York nurses caring for COVID-19 patients during the first wave of the pandemic experienced anxiety, depression, and illness–but steps their hospitals took to protect them and support from their coworkers helped buffer against the (..)

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A variety of measures are necessary to prevent the spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in hospitals and nursing homes. Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for […]. It is particularly important to develop an appropriate strategy to protect healthcare workers from airborne transmission.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A collaborative research team led by Dr. Philip Li from the LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has pioneered a new nurse-led penicillin allergy triage and testing strategy—the Hong Kong Drug Allergy Delabelling Initiative (HK-DADI), and demonstrated its effectiveness and safety compared to traditional allergy testing.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 7, 2020

What The Article Says: This perspective is that of a nursing researcher turned volunteer in a COVID-19 vaccine trial. She considers the experience of study participants and how clinicians will need to prepare their patients for the vaccine’s possible adverse effects. Authors: Kristen R. Choi, Ph.D.,

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Older racial and ethnic minority residents and their caregivers bear the severest brunt from COVID-19 across the entire spectrum of US nursing homes and assisted living communities, University of Rochester Medical Center researchers report in two groundbreaking studies in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Study finds nurse practitioners helped reduce costs by up to $3.2 A study led by researchers from McGill University and Université du Québec en Outaouais shows that introducing nurse practitioners can significantly reduce […].

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 19, 2020

What The Study Did: Researchers examined asymptomatic and presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection rates in a large multistate sample of U.S. skilled nursing facilities and variation in case counts by SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in the counties where facilities are located. Authors: Elizabeth M. White, Ph.D.,

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STAT News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The answers might vary, depending on who a person asks, which friend or TikTok nurse, and when. Researchers at the University of Washington want to make it easier to find current, evidence-based health advice.    Read the rest…

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Scienmag

AUGUST 10, 2020

– Hospital patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities often bring a high-dose painkiller prescription with them, suggesting more attention should be paid to opioid safety for those patients, research from the Oregon State University College of Pharmacy shows. PORTLAND, Ore.

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Trialfacts

JULY 31, 2023

More Study Details About the Research Center: Study Location Research Center: University of Kansas Medical Center Locations: 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66160; and 4350 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Fairway, KS 66205 Lead Researchers: Russell H. Participants will be helping to advance medical research.

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Rethinking Clinical Trials

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Devon Check, PhD, is a health services and implementation researcher and Assistant Professor, in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Duke University. Jill George, CCRA, of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, will serve as the project manager for the Implementation Science Core in the Coordinating Center.

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Scienmag

MARCH 12, 2021

It is given to a Penn Nursing faculty member, or a graduate from the School’s doctoral program, who has made a distinguished contribution to nursing scholarship. PHILADELPHIA (March 12, 2021) – The biennial award honors the best scholarly qualities that Dr. Fagin, the School’s third Dean, exemplified.

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Scienmag

JUNE 17, 2022

The Baylor College of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (BCM-TMC LEAH) training program has been awarded a five-year grant totaling $2.3

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Scienmag

AUGUST 10, 2020

E-cigarette companies know how to target their products UBC researchers are raising the alarm about the increase of vaping among teenagers and how e-cigarette marketing strategies target youth.

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Scienmag

MARCH 19, 2021

The prestigious Magnet® recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center highlights City of Hope’s world-class nursing team and their superior level of compassionate patient care Credit: City of Hope DUARTE, Calif.

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Scienmag

MAY 7, 2021

Credit: Brian Persinger/WVU More than ever, patients are using telehealth to ask doctors and nurses about worrying blood-pressure readings, nauseating migraines and stubborn foot ulcers. West Virginia University researcher Jennifer Mallow is trying to answer these […]. Can that frequency change? Under what conditions?

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Trialfacts

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

More Study Details About the Research Center: Location Research Center: Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Location: 67 President Street, Charleston, SC 29425 Lead Researcher: Xingbao Li, MD IRB: This study has been reviewed and approved by the MUSC Institutional Review Board About the Study Are you looking for ways to quit smoking?

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ACRP blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Education and training remain key elements in the development and professionalization of the clinical research workforce. 1,2} Two research-intensive academic medical centers (AMCs) are seeing benefits from competency-based job classifications. We needed a way to standardize our clinical research staff hiring process.

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Trialfacts

OCTOBER 23, 2023

More Study Details About the Research Center Location Research Center: The University of Texas Medical Branch Clear Lake Campus Location: 250 Blossom St 3rd Floor, Webster, TX 77598 Lead Researcher: Steven R. Contents About the Study Why Participate? Your Rights Who Can Participate?

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Scottish scientists are teaming up with researchers from Zambia to find new ways to diagnose and treat a condition which affects millions in Sub-Saharan Africa. . The researchers are working to optimise a prototype breath test built around a process known as isotope ratio infrared spectrometry. Breath test key to diagnosis.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In general, the challenges of being a health care provider and the risks for potential COVID-19 infection are acknowledged, but it’s less clear how COVID risk mitigation strategies in hospitals impact maternity health care workers. To that end, researchers from the University of Michigan School of Nursing and the Obstetrics Initiative at Michigan (..)

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

What should researchers do if they encounter a study participant who reports suicidal thoughts? Suicide is […].

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