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July 2006 Edition
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|  Cruz Moderates Informative Forum | Felicitas A. dela Cruz, RN, DNSc, FAANP serves as moderator for the current on-line forum, "Developing a Scale for Measurement." She has taught at various nursing schools in Southern California since 1972 including California State University at Los Angeles, Mount St. Mary's College, UCLA, and University of San Diego. Dr. Cruz has been teaching at Azusa Pacific University in Southern California since 1983. She was a finalist in NurseWeek's 2002 California Teaching Excellence Nursing Award.
She is responsible for designing, implementing and evaluating several federally-funded and state-funded nursing educational programs, providing access and career opportunities for many registered nurses. In 2004, launched Second Careers and Nursing (SCAN), an accelerated master's entry into nursing program for individuals with baccalaureate or higher degrees in the Arts and Sciences who desire to become master's-prepared nurses .....Full Story
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Culture Helps Keep Asian-Americans From Quitting Smoking
Study found cigarettes deeply embedded in immigrants' way of life
FRIDAY, June 9 (HealthDay News) -- Although Asian-American immigrants smoke at a rate that's over 10 percent higher than the national average, very few programs to help them quit are targeted to that population.
And a new study shows that cultural stigmas surrounding not smoking may prevent many of these immigrants from worrying about smoking's effects on their health, according to study author Grace Ma, director of the Center for Asian Health at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Ma's study focused on 100 Korean smokers participating in a smoking cessation program at the center. Sixty-one percent of the first-generation immigrants participating in the study were heavy smokers ..... Full Story
| An upcoming conference sponsored by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will address the risks of low literacy of patients, particularly for the elderly and minorities, the Chicago Tribune reports. The national symposium for health professionals, called "Health Literacy: The Foundation for Patient Safety, Empowerment and Quality Health Care," will be held June 26 through June 27. According to the Institute of Medicine report on health literacy, roughly 50% of U.S. adults lack the literacy skills to manage their personal health care. The problem can lead to prescription medication errors; difficulty understanding informed-consent instructions, health pamphlets, insurance applications, appointment schedules; and following physician directions, the Tribune reports. In addition, U.S ..... Full Story
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| A study by Harvard Medical School researchers in the July, 2006 issue of the American Journal of Public Health finds that U.S. residents are less healthy than Canadians. Moreover, despite spending nearly twice as much per capita for health care, U.S. residents experience more problems getting care and more unmet health needs.
The study analyzes the Joint Canada-U.S. Survey of Health, the first-ever cross national health survey carried out by the two nations' official statistics agencies. The authors found that U.S. residents were less healthy than Canadians, with higher rates of nearly every serious chronic disease examined in the survey, including diabetes, arthritis, and chronic lung disease. U.S. residents also had more high blood pressure (18% of U.S. residents versus only 14% for Canadians). U.S. rates of obesity and sedentary lifestyle were higher; with 21% of U.S. respondents reporting obesity versus 15% of Canadians. However, U.S .....Full Story
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TUESDAY, July 4 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers have found a way to genetically manipulate human embryonic stem cells so they grow into mature disease-fighting T-cells -- a discovery they say might help in the development of gene therapy against AIDS.
T-cells are one the of the body's main defenses against disease. In this study, researchers demonstrated that it is possible to convert embryonic stem cells into blood-forming stem cells that, in turn, can turn into the helper T-cells .....Full Story
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WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- In the short run, hospitals may have managed to stave off a nurse staffing crisis, but in the long run, they may not be so lucky, a new study says.
'At this point, the hospitals` staffing problem has calmed down a bit,' said Jessica May, a health research analyst at the Center for Studying Health System Change and author of the study appearing on the Web site of the journal Health Affairs.
'But the shortage is going to intensify in the future and we`re concerned about how providers will deal with it,' she told United Press International.
And when the crisis arrives, it could have a tremendous impact on the healthcare system. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated that by 2012 there could be a shortage of 1 million nurses or more.
One of the causes of the shortage is the fact that it was traditionally an occupation for women, May said .....Full Story
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