Medical Practice

Magazine articles on medical practice and technical issues of treatment.

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Nursing March 2010 Peg Gray-Vickrey	Gathering pearls of knowledge for assessing older adults If you attended nursing school more than 10 years ago, you may have received limited education about gerontological nursing. But as baby boomers age, this is becoming an increasingly important area of nursing practice.
Nursing Management February 2010 Chuck Fort	So good it's unreal: The value of simulation education The advantages of simulation in healthcare education are many.
BusinessWeek February 4, 2010 Terhune & Weintraub	Take Your Meds, Exercise -- and Spend Billions Washington wants to pump big money into so-called disease management, though there's scant evidence that it works.
BusinessWeek February 4, 2010	How Disease Management Works Providers have convinced many big employers that their services save money and improve employee health.
American Journal of Nursing February 2010 Melissa M. Smith	Emergency: Variceal Hemorrhage from Esophageal Varices Associated with Alcoholic Liver Disease This article describes alcoholic cirrhosis and its complications, discusses the etiology of esophageal varices and the risk factors for hemorrhage, and addresses emergent treatment.
Nurse Practitioner February 2010 Andrews et al.	ARVC: Help prevent sudden death Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy is a dangerous condition that can cause sudden death.
Nursing February 2010 Jeanne Held-Warmkessel	How to prevent and manage Tumor lysis syndrome Potentially fatal, tumor lysis syndrome is a metabolic disturbance caused by the death of cancer cells during cancer treatment and the release of their intracellular components into the bloodstream.
Nursing February 2010 Daniel A. Hussar	New Drugs 2010, PART 1 In this article, you'll learn about 16 new drugs.
Nursing Management January 2010 Janet Snapp	Partnering with palliative care The goal of palliative care is to prevent and relieve suffering and to support the best possible quality of life for patients and their families, regardless of the stage of the disease or the need for other therapies.
American Journal of Nursing January 2010	Life-Support Interventions at the End of Life: Unintended Consequences Nurses need to be knowledgeable life-support interventions at the end of life and able to communicate what they know about those consequences to patients, family members, and others on the health care team, leading to better decision making at this difficult time.
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