The European Community Today

Nurse practitioners in community health settings today.

During a typical week as a Family Nurse Practitioner, I provide primary care to uninsured immigrant patients on a mobile van, teach an undergraduate nursing course entitled Community and Environmental Health Nursing at the Catholic University of America, screen Hispanic women for breast and cervical cancer through Celebremos La Vida (Celebrate Life) at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Cancer Ce...

Bhutan and the European Community

Editorial Review Dialysis adequacy today: a European perspective

The need to improve haemodialysis (HD) therapies and to reduce cardiovascular and all-cause mortality frequently encountered by dialysis patients has been recognized and addressed for many years. A number of approaches, including increasing the frequency versus duration of treatment, have been proposed and debated in terms of their clinical efficacy and economic feasibility. Future prescription...

Steel and the European Economic Community

Real Convergence , the European Community and Ireland *

As is well known, average living standards in Ireland are much lower than in most of our EC partners. It is of considerable interest to Ireland whether, and in what way, its living standards will catch up or fall further behind as Europe becomes more integrated. The issue is understandably at the heart of the government's strategy towards the EC, and was at the forefront of its diplomatic effor...