Sheri Raves is a third-year nursing student in the Athabasca University at Mount Royal College bachelor of nursing program. This piece on the role nurses play in our healthcare system is part of a class assignment to share with the public more about what nurses do.
What does nursing mean to you? Most people picture a [...]
This submission summarizes Human Rights Watch’s key concerns with Zambia’s fulfillment of its human rights obligations and commitments in the context of women’s human rights and HIV/AIDS, and outlines recommendations to Zambia.
For an elaborate analysis, outlining our concerns in detail, please see the Human Rights Watch report Hidden in the Mealie Meal: Gender-based Abuses and [...]
Here�s a list of classes and events in Douglas County during the next week.Ongoing:Children�s Bereavement Support �Wings of Hope� � Grief and loss support group for children and their caregivers. Information on meeting dates and registration: 677-2384.Mammography Screening Services � Mercy Outpatient Imaging, 1887 W. Harvard, by appointment only. Information: 677-4418.Outpatient Diabetes Education � Mercy [...]
Laisha Kneuven�s clients are women who are ending a marriage, starting a business, facing retirement, struggling with an illness or are simply concerned about their future.They�re women who have taken care of children and husbands for so many years, said Kneuven, and they�ve forgotten about themselves. Since becoming a certified ontological life coach in 1999, [...]
Here�s a list of classes and events in Douglas County during the next week.Ongoing:Children�s Bereavement Support �Wings of Hope� � Grief and loss support group for children and their caregivers. Information on meeting dates and registration: 677-2384.Mammography Screening Services � Mercy Outpatient Imaging, 1887 W. Harvard, by appointment only. Information: 677-4418.Outpatient Diabetes Education � Mercy [...]
Here�s a list of classes and events in Douglas County during the next week.Ongoing:Children�s Bereavement Support �Wings of Hope� � Grief and loss support group for children and their caregivers. Information on meeting dates and registration: 677-2384.Mammography Screening Services � Mercy Outpatient Imaging, 1887 W. Harvard, by appointment only. Information: 677-4418.Outpatient Diabetes Education � Mercy [...]
At 51 years old, Becky France took her seat behind a car steering wheel for the first time, despite being legally blind.France was declared legally blind as a child. All of her life she has relied on public transportation and friends or family members when she needed to get from place to place. All of [...]
Russia is an unhealthy nation, and its health-care system is just as sick. Its hospitals are understaffed, poorly equipped and rife with corruption. The biggest reason Russia’s population plummets at a rate of more than 700,000 people each year is not that its birthrate [...]
Marcia Hall has been helping women overcome violent encounters for more than three decades. Since 1996, she has helped hundreds of women veterans recover from traumatic experiences while serving in the military. Twelve years ago, Hall, a trauma therapist, was asked to start the Women�s Trauma Recovery Program at the Veterans Affairs Roseburg Healthcare System. [...]
This translates to less pain and anxiety after the operation, less use of pain medication, and fewer days spent in the hospital, researchers report.
Our hope is to try to put a spotlight on this for surgeons, Dr Daniel B Hinshaw told Reuters Health. The findings make it clear, he explained, that surgeons should ask patients [...]
