Posts Tagged Risk
Light Drinking Linked to Slight Breast Cancer Risk
Posted by admin in careers oklahoma on January 10, 2012
In 1980, a research study was initiated with input from 105, 986 nurses, 30to 55 years old. The study investigated the relationship between light alcoholconsumption and breast cancer. The study was completed in 2008. Researchresults encompass close to 30 years of data and were published in the Journalof the American Medical Association in November 2011.Facts to PonderThink about these facts and their impact on the ...
Coffee Decreases Risk of Depression in Women
Posted by admin in careers oklahoma on September 30, 2011
Coffee, a well known kick start for the day, has been a recent subject inmany studies about health, particularly regarding its positive effects. A newstudy by Harvard School of Public Health has found that the early morningantidote to being awake has definite effects on depression in women. Drinkingfour cups a day is enough to have the effect of a 20 percent reduction in riskof depression.USA Today reports:Women wh...
New California Bill Aims To Reduce Nurse Injury Risk
Posted by admin in careers oklahoma on August 23, 2011
The fine art of patient-lifting doesn’t usually get a lot of attention inthe media. Nor does the fact that this very delicate operation often results ininjuries to the people doing the lifting. A new bill in California aims toredress that situation. The current state of affairs is to put it mildlycreating difficulties for the health care sector:According to the LATimes:More than 9,700 nurses filed workers’ comp...
Kids at Risk: Making The Difficult Call
Posted by admin in careers oklahoma on January 19, 2011
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing recently published a disturbingfinding. Only 8% of reports to child protection agencies are made by nurses.This is despite the fact the nurses have broad-spectrum contact with childrenthroughout the timeline of incidents of abuse.Read the rest of this entry »...
Presenteeism: Sick Health Workers Are Putting Patients at Risk
Posted by admin in careers oklahoma on January 2, 2011
The strange state of the health sector is being made more grotesque by thefact that doctors and health workers are as sick as the patients. Adorably medievalas this custom is, it’s also lousy health practice.Read the rest of this entry »...