Should nurses practise prevention?

Exemplary medicine: why doctors should practise what they preach.

The experiences of Canadian-educated early career nurses who practise in the US.

Nurses who are early in their careers make important decisions that begin them on unique career trajectories. One of these decisions may be migration. Little is known about the experiences and career decisions made by early career nurses who were educated in Canada and are working in the United States. Focus groups were conducted with nine nurses to explore and describe their experiences. Utili...

Practise of Gynæcology

The fact, that this is the 5th edition of a book which was first published in L905, speaks for the popularity in which it is held, and for the want it has evidently supplied. Before criticising this edition it would be well to point that, in it many additions have been made and alterations undertaken. For instance, the recent advances' in the diagnosis and treatment of syphilis have naturally n...

Outpatient nurses "own" MRSA prevention initiatives.

I t’s a reality that no part of a healthcare system exists as an island; inpatient and outpatient settings overlap. This became apparent at VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS), an integrated three-division system with a medical center consisting of 583 operational beds, servicing a veteran population of over 360,000 patients. VAPHS had made an organizational commitment to reduce methicillin...

Fitness to Practise Panel