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April 2008 Edition
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What’s ailing nursing schools | There’s a bigger problem than the much-discussed U.S. nursing shortage - it’s the nursing faculty shortage.
Nationwide, more than 30,000 qualified potential nursing students were turned away last year because this country’s nursing schools cannot find enough professors to teach them, according to a report by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. Seventy-three percent of nursing schools in the United States currently have faculty vacancies, the group reports.
“We can’t solve the nursing shortage until we solve the nursing faculty shortage,” says Nancy Hoffart, dean of the school of nursing at Northeastern’s Bouve College of Health Sciences.
The aging of nursing faculty is a major contributing factor. According to the AACN, the median age of nursing school faculty is 54.3 years. Local nursing schools are seeing one or two retirements per year .....Full Story
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NIH will launch a new Center for Genomics and Health Disparities to study the "many mysteries involving the interaction between health and race," the New York Times reports. The new research center, which will operate within the National Human Genome Center at Howard University, will study the dynamics of genetics, the economy and other social factors that result in different disease rates and medical responses among racial groups. According to the Times, some genetics experts "have long argued that human genetic variability is so profound that race is not a scientifically useful label," and other experts cite "clear disparities in health outcomes to argue that race matters."
Recent studies have found that scientists can use clusters of genes to define broad racial categories, such as white, black, Hispanic or East Asian ..... Full Story
| NCEMNA wishes to thank all those who came to this year's conference "Creating Research Careers: Setting the Bar High:Aiming for Success". We experienced excellent southern California weather, informative presentations and had an over all great time. If you missed this year's conference, be sure to check our calendar periodically for a schedule of web casts of our fantastic speakers ..... Full Story
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| A study of the potential impact of state mandated nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in California hospitals revealed little impact on patient outcomes in two critical areas of patient care. The findings were published in the March 2008 issue of Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice, a peer-reviewed journal that explores the multiple relationships between nursing and health policy. However, the study's researchers caution the results are far from conclusive in scientifically determining the required number of staff to provide quality care.
"Mandated alterations in the volume of direct-care staff alone have not resulted in expected reductions in the incidence of patient falls or the prevalence of pressure ulcers. Instead, we have found there are many variables we do not yet fully understand .....Full Story
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Bethesda, Md -- The U.S. National Institutes of Health announced the creation of the Intramural Center for Genomics and Health Disparities.
The center will be a new venue for research about the way populations are impacted by diseases, including obesity, diabetes and hypertension. The NIH said the center will employ a genomics approach, collecting and analyzing genetic, clinical, lifestyle and socio-economic data to study a range of clinical conditions that have puzzled and troubled public health experts for decades.
The new facility will be directed by genetic epidemiologist Charles Rotimi, former director of the National Human Genome Center at Howard University.
"This new center will be an NIH resource to help move research related to the complex factors underlying health disparities into the 21st century," said NIH Director Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni .....Full Story
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the main cause of death in the European Union, killing over 2 million people per year. These deaths cost the economy 192 billion Euros annually. Many of these deaths could be averted with proper prevention policies. Cardiac nurses and allied health professionals are on the frontline of the battle to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in Europe and discussed new ways to assess risk, advise and treat their patients at their 8th Annual Spring Meeting1 in Malmo, Sweden. The meeting was organized by the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions (CCNAP) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in association this year with the Swedish Association on Cardiac Nursing an Allied Professions (VIC).
"Cardiac research and development leads to rapid clinical changes which require nurses and allied health professionals to be updated with the latest information on treatment and care .....Full Story
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