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March 2008 Edition

Nursing dean’s study one of most influential
A Call to conscience - Black History Month event discusses health disparities
Nurses mix research and community service
Announcement Of National Lung Cancer Partnership


Information Overload?

Medical librarian Anne Ludvik takes a proactive approach to helping busy staff nurses solve patient care problems and get up-to-date health information at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center.

“It’s difficult for nurses to get to the physical library, so we work to bring digital resources to them,” Ludvik says.

With a constant barrage of new research studies and hundreds of trade and professional journals available online, most nurses need professional guidance to navigate the database maze, Ludvik says.

Commonly used resources include PubMed, a public site from the National Library of Medicine that contains more than 17 million citations from MEDLINE and life science journals. The citations link to full-text articles often only available by subscription, Ludvik says .....Full Story

Nursing dean’s study one of most influential
Groundbreaking research by Yale School of Nursing Dean Margaret Grey and her colleagues was recently honored as being among the top ten most influential nursing studies in the 22-year history of the National Institute of Nursing Research, according to “Changing Practice, Changing Lives: 10 Landmark Nursing Research Studies,” a publication issued by the NINR last month.

Grey and her team conceptualized and confirmed the long-term effectiveness of a novel behavioral intervention, called Coping Skills Training, for teenagers with Type I diabetes — a disease affecting over 200,000 youth nationally that influences how the body processes sugar.

The study was the first of its kind to statistically show that a cognitive-behavior therapy could be an effective intervention, introducing the importance of a “new approach to diabetes care” which couples both medical and behavioral strategies, Grey said.

“Before this .....Full Story

A Call to conscience - Black History Month event discusses health disparities
Increasing access to medical care is only one aspect of reducing health disparities for African Americans, panelists said at a Black History Month event Sunday.

Other inequities, especially in education, widen the health gap between blacks and whites, panelist Dr. Ben Danielson told an audience of about 60 people at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma.

The discussion was part of an event called “Call to Conscience,” a yearly Black History Month celebration aimed at raising awareness about health issues affecting the black community.

“Disparities is not a strong enough term,” said Danielson, medical director of the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic in Seattle. “We’re talking about racial injustice.”

Those sentiments were echoed by panelist Dr. Maxine Hayes, the state’s top public health doctor.

“It’s too easy to blame the victim for the problem,” she said. Not all neighborhoods are created equal, she said .....Full Story

Nurses mix research and community service

Scales, yogurt and music - just some of the tools Nursing graduate students are using to gather research and to prevent obesity and diabetes in children.

The Nursing students will meet in four sessions over two weeks and assess up to 80 elementary-school-age children in the Sayre Beacon After School Program.

The 13 Penn nurse practitioners, who are enrolled in Nursing 723: Nursing of Children Clinical II, are also working with 20 Sayre high-school sophomores, juniors and seniors who help them take measurements and interact with the children.

Project supervisor and Nursing professor Terri Lipman said the project, which is in its third year and funded by the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships, came out of her own research in pediatrics.

Thew Sayre and Penn students work in stations, the first of which involves gathering basic measurements - such as weight, height and waist circumference - of the children .....Full Story


Announcement Of National Lung Cancer Partnership

The National Lung Cancer Partnership has announced that they are joining three distinguished organizations: the Lance Armstrong Foundation, the Oncology Nursing Society Foundation and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer in continuing the mission to increase opportunities for lung cancer researchers by co-sponsoring new lung cancer research grants.

Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer of men and women in the United States but it receives less research funding than almost any other cancer.

"If we are going to conquer this disease we need to bring new researchers and specialized professionals like oncology nurses into the field," said Joan Schiller, M.D., president of the National Lung Cancer Partnership, deputy director of Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and division director of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas .....Full Story

 

Editor
Hilda Richards, EdD, RN, FAAN

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