To further expand the readership and accelerate the development of this journal, the publisher’s committees decided to jointly organize a Chinese version

We work hard to provide top-notch courses authored by leading healthcare experts, covering everything from pediatrics and pain management to anesthesia and geriatric health.

“A number of years ago, we refocused our efforts as CE providers to produce CE activities that would meet the needs of the healthcare team,” said Robert G. Hess Jr., PhD, RN, FAAN, executive vice president and chief clinical executive of healthcare for OnCourse Learning. “For example, our pain management module is one of our finest endeavors to address the joint efforts of multiple disciplines as they come together interprofessionally to meet the patient’s multifaceted needs. It is ironic that when we first produced interprofessional modules we had to justify this approach. Luckily the healthcare world has caught up with us and fully understands how important this approach now is.”

Mariann had a horrific awareness that she picked the wrong specialty.

Seven years of post-college education and interminable anesthesiology training had morphed into brutal 12-hour, in-house OB shifts, when she often gave more than a dozen epidurals. She envisioned a joyless future as she watched the other women in her anesthesia group who were 20 years older and still working long hospital hours.

Mariann decided no amount of money justified this lifestyle. And she had grown dissatisfied with anesthesia practice itself — long hours of boredom, punctuated by minutes of crisis when a patient tried to die on her. No matter the cost, she had to change specialties.

The regulator demanded that improvements were made to keep both patients and staff safe. The CQC said that planned new national guidance was badly needed to give a consistent response to sexual incidents on mental health wards.

This guidance is due to be drawn up by the Royal College of Nursing and Royal College of Psychiatrists, in partnership with NHS Improvement and NHS England.

The CQC said that people using mental health inpatient services did not always feel that staff keep them safe from unwanted sexual behaviour.

More than 5,000 new places on nursing training courses are to be created each year as part of government efforts to boost the NHS workforce in England.

The nation’s 65 and older population is projected to double in size by the year 2050, according to the U.S. Census. To improve health care for the nation’s aging population, researchers from the Sinclair School of Nursing at the University of Missouri are studying how advanced practice nurses (APRNs) can improve nursing home care by serving as leaders of health care teams in nursing homes.

The global prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) among children is estimated at 7.7 per 1,000 in the general population, according to a review published online Aug. 21 in JAMA Pediatrics.

Armed with simple paddle signs, patients and parents can feel empowered to remind clinicians to perform hand hygiene and successfully improve compliance rates, according to US researchers.....

From 2001-2002 to 2012-2013 there was an increase in alcohol use, high-risk drinking, and in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM-IV) alcohol use disorder (AUD), according to a study published online Aug. 9 in JAMA Psychiatry.....