Medical Practice

Magazine articles on medical practice and technical issues of treatment.

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Nursing September 2008 Denise L. Lyons et al.	Double Trouble: When Delirium Complicates Dementia Learn to protect a patient with dementia from the disabling effects of delirium.
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2008 Gayle Lorenzi et al.	Spanning the Treatment Gap How a diabetes field team helped docs overcome the treatment gap.
Nursing Management August 2008 Jill R. Quinn	Women and Heart Disease: An Update A look at statistics regarding coronary heart disease in women as well as related risk factors and prevention.
American Journal of Nursing August 2008	Compliance with Hand Hygiene Guidelines: Where Are we in 2008? Hospitals may best improve hand hygiene among its staff by assessing the barriers to it, measuring the rates of compliance, educating staff on the importance of hand hygiene, making sanitizing products more available for staff use, and holding staff accountable.
American Journal of Nursing August 2008 Stockdell & Amella	How to Try This: The Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia Scale: Determining How Much Help People with Dementia Need at Mealtime. The Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia scale is an 11-item instrument developed to assess eating and feeding problems in people with late-stage dementia. Using the scale, a nurse can identify a patient's needs and build an effective care plan.
American Journal of Nursing August 2008 Carla L. Graf	How to Try This: The Hospital Admission Risk Profile A simple screening tool can be used to classify hospitalized older adults as being at low, intermediate, or high risk for losing the ability to perform activities of daily living, based on assessments of age, cognitive function, and the ability to perform independent activities of daily living.
Nursing August 2008 Bill Pruitt	Loosening the Bonds of Restrictive Lung Disease Find out about restrictive lung disease and how to help your patient.
Nursing August 2008 Carl A. Kirton	Managing Long-Term Complications of HIV Infection Now that advances in treatment have transformed HIV into a chronic, manageable disease, patients are facing cardiovascular and metabolic complications you might not have expected 15 years ago. Here's how to help your patient manage them.
Nursing Management July 2008 Scott Weber	Ergonomics Standards: An Overview Know your part in establishing programs in skilled nursing facilities, hospitals, or assisted-living settings.
Scientific American August 2008 Jessica Wapner	Cancer Drug Costs May Help Doctors Select a Treatment In discussing treatments, cancer doctors plan to include cost.
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