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New video reviews teen birth control options; NAMS issues revised menopause guidelines
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The next patient in your exam room is a 32-year-old woman with type 2 (adult onset) diabetes. While she is obese, she does not smoke, and her chart shows no evidence of hypertension, nephropathy, or retinopathy. What birth control options can you offer her?
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Just-published papers in the Journal of the American Medical Association add to heightened concern regarding hormone therapy (HT).
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Findings from a new Australian study indicate that use of modern, low-dose oral contraceptives (OCs) containing 50 mcg estrogen or less do not appear to appreciably raise the risk of ischemic stroke in healthy women.
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The word is getting out about emergency contraception (EC). A just-released national survey reports that two-thirds of women ages 18-44 are aware that there is something a woman can do to prevent pregnancy in the few days following sexual intercourse.
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If you have any patients who use 28-day packages of Nortrel 7/7/7 oral contraceptives (OCs), be sure your clinic has initiated its patient notification plan following the July 9, 2003, voluntary recall issued by the pills manufacturer, Barr Laboratories of Pomona, NY.
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Hospitals and health systems are working hard to improve the working environment for nurses as part of their efforts to relieve the widespread nursing shortage, according to a report released recently by the American Organization of Nurse Executives, an American Hospital Association affiliate.
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The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) has established a partnership with CampusRN.com to offer scholarships and on-line career center for graduates of baccalaureate and higher degree nursing programs.
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Everyone knows that health care is a high stress industry. But stress is a known factor in many illnesses and causes numerous lost workdays per year. Finding a way to get staff to relax both on and off the job could be a way to combat burnout and, as two hospitals are finding, improve employee retention.
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Higher salaries, better hours, bonuses, incentives, education programs. You name it, rehab directors have tried it to recruit and retain nurses. But St. Francis Health Center in Topeka, KS, has spent a lot of time thinking outside the nursing shortage box. Its starting to pay off: Within six months of incorporating a number of innovative strategies, rehab nursing applications began rolling in the door.
