BACKGROUND Stand Against Cancer (SAC) is a long-running, community-based, organization-led program that addresses breast and cervical cancer disparities. Managed by Access Community Health Network (ACCESS), ongoing program evaluation reports on program performance over 5 years and public health implications. OBJECTIVES To reduce disparities by making free cancer screening readily accessible t...

INTRODUCTION Public health nursing is the foundation of the United States' (US) public health system, particularly in rural and remote areas. Recent increasing interest in public health in the USA has highlighted that there is limited information available about public health nursing in the most isolated areas, particularly in the US. The purposes of this study were to: (1) describe the charact...

This community-based participatory research, conducted in partnership between a European-American academic researcher and a professional group of Filipino nurses, aimed to determine the diabetes research priority for the Filipino community on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, and to evaluate the multi-voting technique to seek input from the community. The study design was a qualitative, cross-secti...

AIM This paper is a report of a study to develop a methodology that corrects nurse staffing for nursing care intensity in a way that allows nationwide benchmarking of nurse staffing data. BACKGROUND Although nurse workload measurement systems are recognized to be informative in nurse staffing decisions, they are rarely used. When these systems are used, however, it is only possible to compare...

AIMS To investigate how general practitioners and community nurses value the support that they receive from a nurse case manager with expertise in palliative care, whether they think the case manager is helpful in realizing appropriate care and what characteristics of the patient and case management are associated with this view. BACKGROUND For sustainable palliative care in an ageing society...

Nurse practitioners are the first line of defense when combating the problem of nonmedical use of prescription drugs. This article outlines related clinical issues and provides tools and treatment options to use with patients and the community.

COMMUNITY NURSES' chances of leading primary care groups (PCGs) have been given a boost by new guidance to health authorities and trusts which insists on nurse involvement and warns that the groups must not be GP-dominated.