A program providing home visitation by nurses to low-income first-time mothers in the two years following the birth of their child is helping to reduce "rapid second pregnancies," according to a study by PolicyLab at The Philadelphia Children's Hospital.
St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital officials said today they will give Hoosiers injured in car crashes and other calamities another option for trauma care.
While advanced practice nurses ought to have the authority to practice medicine to the fullest level of their training, that doesn't mean state lawmakers should change scope-of-practice rules so that patients wind up in the hands of caregivers with inadequate education, a physicians' group says.
Marilyn Quinn, president of the New Brunswick Nurses Union, said the province's 6,200 nurses want a voice into how the provincial government deals with battling the $747-million deficit.
The Canadian Paediatric Society is urging provincial governments to establish breast milk banks as a measure that could help save the lives of premature infants.
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