PEPID RN Clinical Nursing Suite

Redefining nursing perceptions: becoming an RN.

S ince the days of Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton, the scope of nursing (and its image) has changed. As Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), medical assistants, and many other allied health professionals enter nursing school and change the image of nursing, nursing faculty have been challenged to address the needs of these students. I interviewed some o...

Intraprofessional Nursing Communication and Collaboration: APN-RN-Patient Bedside Rounding

Roger M. Kao, Russell D. Brown, Allan G. Halline, Rita M. Herm-Barabasz, Rama P.Venu. Use of Droperidol during ERCP: Does it reduce the Need for Anesthesia.Submitted to AGA 2002. Crawford JA, Meyer JM, Herm-Barabasz RM, Goldstein JL. Two open-label efficacytrials of Ranitidine bismuth citrate (RBC) in combination with Clarithromycin andAmoxicillin or Metronidazole for Helicobact...

PEpiD: A Prostate Epigenetic Database in Mammals

Epigenetic mechanisms play key roles in initiation and progression of prostate cancer by changing gene expression. The Prostate Epigenetic Database (PEpiD: http://wukong.tongji.edu.cn/pepid) archives the three extensively characterized epigenetic mechanisms DNA methylation, histone modification, and microRNA implicated in prostate cancer of human, mouse, and rat. PEpiD uses a distinct color sch...

An Environmental Clinical Experience in a RN-BS Program.

Clinical Nursing Education Based on Nursing Process and Group Discussion

Introduction: Considering the importance of promoting nursing education and benefits of new teaching methods, especially group discussion, this study aimed to compare the effects of group discussion combined with the nursing process and traditional method on learning and satisfaction of nursing students in clinical situations. Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted during 2009 on 28...