A-Z Index

October 2011

Data Shows Skilled Nursing and Post-Acute Care Quality Has Vastly Improved

WASHINGTON /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – With a commitment to quality improvement and transparency, the nation's two leading long term and post-acute care organizations recently released a comprehensive report of the quality of care in America's nursing and rehabilitation facilities. Relying on government data and expert analyses from leading quality researchers, the report shows that America's nursing facilities are continuing to build upon quality improvements reported in previous years, including measurable improvements in nine out of 10 quality measures since 2009.

Senior Health Adviser to Provide Keynote at Inaugural Future of Nursing Summit

With more than 3 million members, the nursing profession represents the largest segment of our nation’s health care workforce. In Iowa alone there are more than 45,000 registered nurses (as compared to 5,500 physicians in the state). Although nurses work collaboratively with physicians and other health care providers, there is a common misconception that they simply assist physicians. Nurses operate independent of other health care disciplines.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Profiled by OPDS

Huntington’s disease (HD) is a genetic disorder in which specific nerve cells in the brain degenerate. Symptoms include behavioral changes such as moodiness and irritability, cognitive changes such as impaired memory and executive function, and abnormal body movements.

There is no cure for Huntington’s disease, which affects about 30,000 people in the United States. People with the disease usually die within 15 to 20 years of onset of motor (movement) symptoms.

Former BSN Student ‘Bringing Joy to Africa’

Daily rains, long bikes rides and learning about diseases not common to her homeland are all part of life now for Joy Storm, a UI College of Nursing BSN graduate, and Peace Corps volunteer.

Storm is currently living in the African country of Kenya, more than 8,000 miles from her hometown of Princeton, IL.