Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
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What matters most to senior citizens? Not what you might think
New study asks older customers at walk-in care clinics about their priorities
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June 25, 2013
Medical advancements that extend the lives of patients with cancer, heart failure and other serious chronic diseases have created another need: more clinicians skilled in specialized care for people with terminal illnesses. Acknowledging this need, ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ’s Frances Payne…
June 13, 2013
Infants as young as 2 months old already exhibit growth patterns that can predict the child’s weight by age five, according to researchers at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and Tennessee State University. “Almost from birth, we quickly saw this growth…
May 29, 2013
Nurses will use extreme measures to save patients and their parents. But they’d prefer less aggressive life-preserving methods for themselves, according to an international survey on nurses’ end-of-life preferences. Findings from a cross-cultural survey of 1,089 nurses from five countries about…
May 14, 2013
The sound of a helicopter triggers memories of wounded soldiers arriving at the military field hospital in Iraq for Paula Simpson, who graduates this summer from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ. “I was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness. So I never said the…
April 16, 2013
Mothers suffering from postpartum depression after a high-risk pregnancy would turn to online interventions if available anonymously and from professional healthcare providers, according to researchers from ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and College of Arts…