| Asthma care guidelines are released
Asthma control and prevention of attacks are the focus of new national asthma guidelines released by the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's National Asthma Education and Prevention Program. The 23 million Americans --including 6.5 million children -- with asthma can avoid serious symptoms and disability if they follow these latest guidelines to keep their asthma under control, said the experts who wrote the guidelines. .
Go, Do, Learn
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Chambersburg Memorial YMCA 2007 Power-lifting Meet will begin Saturday, Dec. 8. The event will provide individuals ages 15 and older with an opportunity to test their strength in any one or all three power-lifting events: squat, bench and dead-lift. No need to be an experienced competitor, but training is highly recommended. Awards will be provided for female and male divisions and classes. This is a non-sanctioned preliminary meet. For information, call Leigh Cordell at 717-263-8508 or go to www.chbgy.org for invitation and registration. Family classes at Frederick hospital FREDERICK, Md. - Frederick Memorial Hospital Wellness Center will office the following family focus program classes: The Healthy Weight is a weight management program for kids, toddlers through teens.
Smoking snapshots spark debate in India
Health activists said Tuesday that powerful tobacco industry groups could scuttle a federal government decision to require photographs of cancer patients on cigarette packs sold in India by next month. Several other countries have tried similar strategies to discourage smoking. .
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Nurse prescribing - the benefits and the pitfalls
More than 30,000 district nurses (DNs) and health visitors (HVs) are qualified to prescribe from the restricted list of medicines described in the Nurse Prescribers Formulary (NPF) for Community Practitioners. Over 10, 000 nurses (across England) are qualified to prescribe both as independent and supplementary prescribers. As of May 2006, Nurse Independent Prescribers (NIPs) have been able to independently prescribe any licensed medicine (and some controlled drugs) provided that it is within their area of competence. These nurses can also prescribe any medicine as a supplementary prescriber.
This article takes a look at some of the benefits and disadvantages of nurse prescribing (as seen by doctors, patients, and nurses), the extent to which nurses are prescribing medicines, and some of the factors that facilitate and hamper the prescription of medicines by nurses.
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