MedSurg Nursing back issues from June 2004:
The stressful world of nursing.
Jun 01, 2004; ... Stress is unavoidable, a fact of life. During your life, you will face stressful situations. As nurses, we often wear many different hats--all at the same time. We are nurses, parents, grandparents, husbands or wives, homemakers, students, financial planners, and domestic engineers. We are ...
Competence increases comfort for float nurses.(Editorial)
Jun 01, 2004; ... Floating is out of our comfort zone. As nurses in the diverse medical-surgical specialty, we still quickly find our favorite patient groups and feel most confident when we can work consistently with them. But what happens when an orthopaedic nurse floats to a nephrology unit? When an ...
Care of the adult patient with cystic fibrosis.
Jun 01, 2004; ... Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited, autosomal-recessive disease that disrupts ion transport in epithelial-lined organs. The CF gene was first discovered in 1989 and mapped to a single locus on the long arm of chromosome seven. The protein product of the CF gene has been identified as the ...
Admission and discharge mobility of frail hospitalized older adults.
Jun 01, 2004; ... Immobility is a common occurrence among hospitalized elders and may contribute to multiple, long-lasting adverse physiologic and functional outcomes. Functional decline during hospitalization is an important clinical problem with potential long-lasting undesirable outcomes, but little is ...
Essential oncology facts for the float nurse:.(Clinical Practice)
Jun 01, 2004; ... The American Cancer Society estimates that 556,000 Americans will have died in 2003 from cancer, making it the second leading cause of death behind heart disease (American Cancer Society, 2002). A national survey of registered nurses practicing in oncology reported that supplemental ...
Implementation of the peer review council.(Best Practice)
Jun 01, 2004; ... Within hospitals, the form and content of the appraisal process are driven by various accrediting bodies, as well as state and federal law. These are further tempered by hospital leaders' values, philosophy, and culture. Historically, job descriptions and the associated performance ...
Balanced analgesia after hysterectomy: the effect on outcomes.(Research for Practice)
Jun 01, 2004; ... Hysterectomies are the second most frequent major surgical procedure performed among reproductive-aged women in the United States; approximately 600,000 American women have a hysterectomy each year (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention ...
Individual telephone support for family caregivers of seriously ill cancer patients.(Research for Practice)
Jun 01, 2004; ... Cancer continues as the second leading cause of death in the United States with over 500,000 deaths per year (Minino & Smith, 2001). Seventy-five percent of families in the United States have at least one family member diagnosed with cancer (American Cancer Society, 2001). As the delivery ...
ISONG President presents testimony to genetics committee.(ISONG News)(International Society of Nurses in Genetics)(Transcript)
Jun 01, 2004 ... On March 1 ISONG President Judith Lewis had the privilege of presenting testimony to the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society. She was the only nurse to present on either day of the meeting. Her testimony follows: "Good afternoon. I am Judith Lewis, ...
New oncology strategy: molecular targeting of cancer cells.(Nursing Pharmacology)
Jun 01, 2004; ... The search for anti-cancer therapies which target cancer cells specifically and selectively with less toxicity has been a quest in oncology for many years. Conventional chemotherapeutic agents do not target cancer cells selectively, leading to widespread adverse systemic effects ....
Professional nursing development: improving the way medical-surgical nurses learn.(Professional Enhancement)
Jun 01, 2004; ... Nursing professional development is the lifelong process of active participation by nurses in learning activities that assist in developing and maintaining their continuing competence, enhance their professional practice, and support achievement of their career goals" (American Nurses ...
Hearing screening.(Try this: best practices in nursing care to older adults)
Jun 01, 2004; ... WHY: Hearing impairment is common in older adults. Over 30% of individuals aged 65 to 74 and 50% of those over 75 have some degree of hearing loss. Hearing loss related to normal aging is the most common cause, but other risk factors include: exposure to regular, excessive noise; cerumen ...