Foreign-educated physicians (FEPs), also known as "international medical graduates", represent a rich source of potential primary-care providers. Despite their high level of medical knowledge and skills as well as ethnic and cultural diversity suited to meet the demands of patients, FEPs face many barriers in their attempt to continue to practice medicine in the USA. The program of study at Flo...

BACKGROUND Radial-head subluxation is an easily identified and treated injury. We investigated whether triage nurses in the emergency department can safely reduce radial-head subluxation at rates that are not substantially lower than those of emergency department physicians. METHODS We performed an open, noninferiority, cluster-randomized control trial. Children aged 6 years and younger who p...

Background: Epilepsy is a neurologic functional disorder occurs due to the abnormal electrical discharge in neurons of the brain.  Objectives: The current study aimed at evaluating the relationship between perceived social support and self-esteem in patients with epilepsy referring to Kashani Hospital in Isfahan, Iran, from 2017 to 2018. Materials & Methods: The present cross sectional, corre...

As a nurse it is difficult for me to read this paper without feeling somewhat 'prickly' but at the same time I welcome May's attempt to address an unfashionable topic, which needs some debate. Why the defensiveness? It follows from certain statements May makes, for example his assertion that full colleague status for nurses with doctors, is connected with nurses taking on 'certain responsibilit...

OBJECTIVES To study the ethical reasoning of nurses and physicians, and to assess whether or not modified focus groups are a valuable tool for this purpose. DESIGN Discussion of cases in modified focus groups, each consisting of three physicians and three nurses. The discussion was taped and analysed by content analysis. SETTING Five departments of internal medicine at Danish hospitals. S...

The purpose of this study was to compare the attitudes of anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists toward collaboration with each other. Data for this descriptive, comparative study were gathered through a mailed survey to 501 nurse anesthetists and 353 anesthesiologists licensed to practice in 7 state of the United States. Attitude toward collaboration was measured using an adaptation of the J...

Background: Pain management is among the key tasks of nurses. Numerous studies have investigated the barriers and facilitators of pain management with conflicting results. The current study investigated the Iranian nurses’ perspectives in terms of the barriers and facilitators of pain management in hospitalized patients. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. A total of 321 nurses working ...

Over the years I have served as both a preceptor and colleague for more than a dozen physician assistants and nurse practitioners. All the while I wondered: are they as good as they seem, and are doctors as indispensable as we’d like to believe? When my daughter became a physician assistant I was forced to respond. I share a small practice with six family physicians. Each of us works closely wi...

© 2011 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research Nearly a decade has passed since the Institute of Medicine released its seminal report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. The report described the US health care system as a decade or more behind other high-risk industries in its attention to ensuring basic safety. One recommendation was that Congress should create a center...