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 October 17, 2005      
 
   
 

Education CE Course: Perspectives on Breast Cancer: Prevention    Before and Support After
Features Positive Outlook Prevails for Nurse with MS
In the News Nurses Get to the Heart of Wellness
Organizational News Hospital Shock Team Saves Lives, Empowers Nurses
Professionally Speaking Are There Research-Focused Master's Degrees in    Nursing?  

 
 
 
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Drexel University recently launched an educational partnership with RN.com to provide discounted education to RN.com visitors. As an RN.com member, you will receive a 25% tuition discount off the regular Drexel University rate when you take courses toward an online bachelor's or master's degree, or toward a certificate in nursing.

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CE Course: Perspectives on Breast Cancer: Prevention Before and Support After

This course focuses on the importance of screening devices and self-examinations. It also looks at the growing area of wellness centers that are offered in association with hospitals and screening centers that not only treat breast cancer patients' physical diagnoses, but also provide them with complementary healing opportunities.

This course can be found in the "Maternal Child/Women's Health" section of the course list.

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RN.com Related Article

 

Breast Cancer Presents Different Issues for Younger Women

By Kristin Rothwell, associate editor

When many of us think about the 30-something years, we often consider them as the prime of a person’s life when one has greater maturity, stability and focus on career, family or life in general. But what happens when a woman in her 30s or younger is rocked by the words: “You have breast cancer.”

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Positive Outlook Prevails for Nurse with MS

By Debra Wood, RN, contributor

More than 25 years since learning she had multiple sclerosis, Ellie Bernstein, RN, credits a positive attitude and an active lifestyle with keeping her healthy.

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Talking Pill Bottles Let Medications Speak for Themselves

By Christina Orlovsky, senior staff writer

Reading the fine print on prescription drug bottles may be challenging for many people. But for people who are visually impaired, it’s an all but impossible—and even potentially dangerous—task. Now, a new pill bottle is becoming music to the ears of those with poor eyesight.

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Dialysis Technician Thrives in the Great White North

By Julie Benn, contributor

He likes his job, he likes his location—all in all, dialysis technician Terry Hoffmaster is a pretty satisfied travel health care professional—even when he is buried under 10 feet of snow.

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Nurses Get to the Heart of Wellness

By Christina Orlovsky, senior staff writer

Heart disease is often mistakenly thought of as a “man’s” disease—one that women need not fear. But statistics show just the opposite. According to the American Heart Association, cardiovascular disease claims more women’s lives than the next six causes of death combined. One organization is aiming to change those statistics through innovative programming dedicated to increasing awareness and prevention of women’s number one enemy.

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Hospitals Reduce Levels of Mercury, Waste

By Christina Orlovsky, senior staff writer

Health news reports frequently spotlight the connection between dietary fish consumption and mercury exposure, a known cause of neurological disorders. In 1997, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported another surprising source of mercury pollution: hospitals. A new study, however, shows that health care facilities have significantly cleaned up their act.

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Proposed Legislation Encourages Hospital Disclosure Initiatives

By Christina Orlovsky, senior staff writer

As hospitals across the country begin to realize the value of full disclosure about medical errors, new legislation has been proposed to encourage physicians, hospitals and health systems to take extra steps toward fair negotiations with patients and their families with the help of two little words: I’m sorry.

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Hospital Shock Team Saves Lives, Empowers Nurses

By Debra Wood, RN, contributor

Fewer patients are dying of septic and hemorrhagic shock these days at Good Samaritan Hospital. Nurses at the San Jose, California, facility have learned to identify early signs and symptoms of impending shock and sound a Shock Alert.

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Organizational News for the Week of Oct. 17

Organizational News is an occasional series on what nursing and other health care organizations are doing to advance the profession. This week read about organizations recognizing schools of nursing, flu information for patients and more.

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Are There Research-Focused Master's Degrees in Nursing?

An RN.com reader writes:

"How can a master’s degree in nursing (MSN) be used? I know most nurses use their master’s degrees to teach. Personally, I would like to use an MSN to conduct research and studies, but I’m not sure if an MSN would allow that."

Read what RN.com columnist Rick Ferri, Ph.D., ANP, ACRN, has to say on the topic