We Have Come a Long Way

We Have Come a Long Way

Task Force on CKD – We have Come a Long Way

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is an important medical condition where diagnosis, staging and monitoring is largely based on routine laboratory tests. During the last 15 years there have been many important changes in the clinical management of CKD described in key international guidelines. In order to successfully implement these guidelines, laboratories must collaborate with clinicians to provi...

We've come a long way... or have we?

Emergency contraception (EC) has come a long way since the days when Family Planning clinics and other services provided cut-up sections of pink oral contraceptive pill strips and a dose or two of an antiemetic in tiny sealed plastic bags to women who were lucky enough to know about this option. When evidence demonstrated the superiority of the progestogen-only regimen in 1998 1 , these plastic...

Editorial : We ' ve Come a Long Way but Are We

The two-part article on the development and implementation of a resident classification system for long-term care facilities by Cathy Charles and Corinne Schalm in this issue of the Journal merits special attention. The description of the process and work involved in attempting to develop an equitable funding arrangement for these facilities provides a good example of the contribution applied r...

We've come a long way.

Freddie Mercury died in 1991. I was a nursing student at the time and one of my colleagues said Freddie deserved what happened to him because of his gay lifestyle. I was shocked, but this was not an isolated incident - as a student I experienced both overt and subtle homophobia.