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    Omega-3s: Good Fats for Kids

    Find out more about these essential fats and how to make sure your kid's getting enough.  
    Submitted by Shan4691 | Rated: +1
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    4 Ways to Breastfeeding Success

    How to find the support you need to get through the first months.  
    Submitted by Shan4691 | Rated: +1
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    Health Update: Babies and Kids Need More Vitamin D

    The American Academy of Pediatrics says children need twice as much vitamin D as previously recommended. Is your child getting enough? minmax_bound=
    Submitted by Shan4691 | Rated: +1
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    Nurses with Disabilities Find On-the-Job Support

    Nurses with Disabilities Find On-the-Job Support
    While working as a nurse in today’s healthcare world can be stressful enough, nurses with disabilities can face additional on-the-job challenges, including colleagues who may not feel they are capable of doing the work and needing assistance in a job that often requires strength and stamina. However, by making some adjustments, nurses with disabilities can continue to practice their profession. Cary ...
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    CA-MRSA: How Should We Respond to Outbreaks?

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    Contemporary Management of Depression in Adolescents

    This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.
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    Fetal Hypoxia and Oxygenation: What Have We Learned?

    This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.
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    Developmental Abnormalities in Infants: When Can You Wait and See?

    This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.
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    Back Pain in the Adolescent Athlete

    This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.
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    Infectious Disease Potpourri: Update on Antibiotics, Vaccines and MRSA

    This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.
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    Addressing Adolescent Acne

    This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.
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    Sports Supplements: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.
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    A Rational Approach to Neonatal Septicemia: How to Stop Using All Those Antibiotics!

    This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.
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    Contemporary Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage

    This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.
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    Liability Considerations When Delivering the Fetus at the Threshold of Viability

    This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.
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    Prematurity: Can It Be Prevented?

    This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.
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    Menopause Management: Interesting Case Studies

    This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.
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    Motivational Interviewing for Encouraging Healthy Lifestyle Changes

    This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.
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    Depression in Women: Let's Talk!

    This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.
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    Quick Start, Extended Regimens and Shortened Pill-Free Interval: New Products and Protocols for Contraceptive Management and Menstrual Suppression

    This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.
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    GYN Endocrinology Update: Managing PCOS

    This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.
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    Endoscopic Harvesting of Radial Artery: Less Painful, But Approach Fails to Reduce Infections

    Endoscopic harvesting of the radial artery for CABG surgery failed to significantly reduce wound infection when compared with traditional harvesting using the surgical approach, a randomized, controlled clinical trial has shown.
    Submitted by prettykitty64 | Rated: -1
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    How To Bridge the Nursing Generation Gap

    How To Bridge the Nursing Generation Gap
    When you begin your first nursing job, you'll encounter colleagues from four generations -- generations with differing and sometimes colliding values. Don't let these disparities sidetrack your career. By understanding your coworkers, you'll appreciate what they have to offer and create productive working relationships. p((. • Hidden Diversity p((. • The Silent Generation p((. • The Baby Boomers p((. • Generation ...
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    Tips for a Smooth Nursing Shift Change

    Tips for a Smooth Nursing Shift Change
    At the end of a long day of caring for patients, it’s time to give the end-of-shift report to the oncoming nurses. Although it may be tempting to rush through this routine duty, patient safety hinges on a complete and correct exchange of information. “We underestimate its importance,” says Elizabeth Henneman, RN, PhD, CCNS, an assistant professor in the School of ...
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    Continuing Education

    If you join the LVN Association of Texas they have seminars once a year and you receive continuing education credits for you to be able to renew your nursing license when it it time.  If you need more information please contact me and I will be able to provide you with more information. Thanks Tammy Wolff, LVN
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    Malpractice and Other Lawsuits Affecting Nurses

    Malpractice and Other Lawsuits Affecting Nurses
    Q: How can I be responsible for a bad patient outcome when I barely knew the patient? Am I responsible for a patient's bad outcome when several others also took care of the patient? Why am I being sued when the patient was well and discharged from my floor a week ago? I am only the HMO "Call A Nurse", how ...
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    Resolve Nursing Conflicts How to Communicate with Your Supervisor to Get Results

    Resolve Nursing Conflicts How to Communicate with Your Supervisor to Get Results
    Maybe it’s the whiny colleague who makes your 12-hour nursing shift seem twice as long or the turf war raging between the nurses, physicians and technicians in your department. Or maybe you’re just tired of feeling overworked and underappreciated. Whatever the scenario, you sense that changes are needed before you lose your sanity or start looking for another nursing job. Whether ...
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    The Effects of ciprofloxacin and paclitaxel on metastatic and recurrent chondrosarcoma

    Page 1 516 COMMUNITY ONCOLOGY Submitted by prettykitty64 | Rate This
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    Brain Health Five Tools for Improving Your Memory

    There is hope for all of us "forgetful" ageing.  Just excersise your brain daily ! !   Great Artical
    Submitted by JoyceTallant | Rated: +5
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    Fibromyalgia Resource Center

    This is a CME activity that has credits for RN's and APN's.  Covers Pain management and Alternative therapies for Fibromyalgia.
    Submitted by rjlcrnp | Rate This
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    Diet high in trans fats linked to miscarriage

    Trans fatty acids, the much maligned 'solid' fats implicated as artery-clogging contributors to cardiovascular disease, may also increase the risk of fetal death during pregnancy, study findings suggest.

    Submitted by Shan4691 | Rated: +1

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    Getting an epidural may hinder breastfeeding

    NEW YORK - Some women who get epidural anesthesia during childbirth may have difficulty with breastfeeding in the short- and long-term, a new study suggests. Specifical
    Submitted by Shan4691 | Rated: +3
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    Breastfeeding basics: Overcoming the hurdles

    Nursing seems to be a natural instinct, however many new moms know it's a learned skill. And with the help and support of breastfeeding experts, breastfeeding becomes something that gets better
    Submitted by Shan4691 | Rated: +2
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    Answering your questions about breastfeeding

    How long should a mother breastfeed? Is it going to hurt? Pediatrician Joan Meek addresses viewers' concerns, and explains the health benefits.   Submitted by Shan4691 | Rated: +2
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    Common Contamination of Gloves and Gowns with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci during Routine Patient Care

    Tamar F. Barlam, M.D.; Dennis L. Kasper, M.D. Author Information Content To prevent transmission of nosocomial infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America recommend contact precautions. Health care workers (HCWs) caring for patients infected or colonized with MRSA and/or VRE must wear ...
    Submitted by prettykitty64 | Rated: +2
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    Nursing home profit status and quality of care: is there any evidence of an association?

    This article critically reviews the association between the profit status of North American nursing homes and the quality of care. Studies were identified by searching MEDLINE (January 1990-October 2002), reference lists, letters, commentaries, and editorials. The quality indicator(s) used to measure quality of care, and its relationship to profit status, was extracted from each publication. The study design and risk-adjustment methodologies ...
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    How Should I Evaluate an Adult for Possible Asperger's Syndrome?

    How Should I Evaluate an Adult for Possible Asperger's Syndrome?
    A patient reports a childhood history of difficulty learning social rules, learning problems, and rocking behaviors, which she learned to stop. She also reports social difficulties as an adult. What is the best way to evaluate her to rule out Asperger's syndrome (AS) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD)? Response from Mary E. Muscari, PhD, CPNP, APRN-BC,CFNS Professor, Director of Forensic Health/Nursing, ...
    Submitted by prettykitty64 | Rated: +1
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    I.V. Starts . . .

    A Calm Start: Ensure the patient is comfortable and sufficiently warm to prevent vasoconstriction, allay his apprehension, have him understand the necessity of the procedure and how best he may help. Enter Confidently: Do not say "I'm here to try and start your IV." Boldly state "I'm here to start your IV." The patient will be encouraged by your confidence, and ...
    Submitted by StarlightRN | Rate This
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    Inhaled Anticholinergics and Risk of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

    Inhaled Anticholinergics and Risk of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Sonal Singh, MD, MPH; Yoon K. Loke, MBBS, MD; Curt D. Furberg, MD, PhD JAMA. 2008;300(12):1439-1450. Context Inhaled anticholinergics (ipratropium bromide or tiotropium bromide) are widely used in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) but their effect on the ...
    Submitted by prettykitty64 | Rated: -1
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    Sleep Products That Really Work

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