Sigma Theta Tau International is one of the largest and most prestigious nursing organizations in the world. The honor society is a group of nurse scholars and leaders recognized for their superior achievement, leadership qualities, high professional standards and commitment to the profession of nursing. Sigma Theta Tau chapters are found around the world, in Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, the United States and parts of Africa, Europe and South America.

Primary care doctors -- internists, family medicine and others -- are in short supply in parts of Ohio and the country and are expected to become even more scarce in the coming years.

Medical students, saddled with $100,000 plus debt, are picking more lucrative and less time-consuming specialties such as radiology, surgery or dermatology.

Possible reforms in the U.S. health system are expected to promote preventive care, which will make primary care docs -- the cornerstone of the system -- even more important.

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A nurse practitioner who developed a social enterprise that works for PCTs and out-of-hours providers has urged colleagues to follow her lead. Amanda Mayo, clinical director of the 14-month-old Urgent Care Ltd, received £400,000 funding from FutureBuilders England, a government-backed fund offering investment and support to third-sector organisations to develop their capacity to deliver public services.

Most executive M.B.A. programs aim to give managers a general business background, with the goal of helping them climb the corporate ranks. But a growing number of specialized E.M.B.A. programs are attracting increasing interest by targeting specific industries such as health care, technology and finance.

The problem will lessen a little as Rasmussen College has been allowed to accept more students. But a shortage of nursing educators, problems finding enough hospitals and clinics to train nurses, and tight state funding are all putting a big pinch on nursing programs.

"Alta Care & Rehabilitation Center will be an excellent addition to Ensign's growing presence in the dynamic Utah healthcare community," said Christopher Christensen, Ensign's President and Chief Executive Officer. He added that Ensign expects the newly-acquired facility, which had an occupancy rate of 51% at acquisition, to be earnings-neutral in the near term.

Noreen Mulvanerty, a Family Nurse Practitioner and Herbalist proudly announces her first product, Omyst™, a healing herbal first aid spray. This revolutionary, international patent-pending spray has been successfully tested on over 2,000 patients and has been clinically proven to aid in the treatment of minor cuts, burns, scratches, rashes, insect bites, stings and sutures.
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Amanda Mayo, clinical director of the 14-month-old Urgent Care Ltd, received £400,000 funding from FutureBuilders England, a government-backed fund offering investment and support to third sector organisations to develop their capacity for delivering public services.

SSH chief administrative officer Kevin McNamara said at a recent health board meeting the green light has been given by the Department of Health (DOH) to hire a nurse practitioner to work at the centre. Traditionally, the New Germany centre has been home to two family physicians funded by DOH's alternate funding plan. But in the past few months, both of the full-time doctors closed their practices within a month of each other.

Pain may not be all in your mind, but some of it is. A bizarre new study of people with chronically achy hands found that how subjects literally saw their hands changed their perception of pain. Researchers had 10 subjects watch their own hands while performing a 10-step test that caused pain every time. Participants each did the test four ways: looking as normal with their own eyes, looking through binoculars with no magnification, looking through binoculars that doubled the apparent size of subjects' arms, and looking through inverted binoculars that reduced the apparent size of

Hip replacement surgery at age 17 gave Elizabeth Matias ideas for her dream career. One year later, on a recent Friday in the emergency room at Memorial Hospital Miramar, Elizabeth's dream was real enough to feel. ''I got a hug today. A woman came out of nowhere and hugged me just for being here,'' said the Everglades High School senior during the hospital's Day in the Life of a Nurse event for future nurses. Five students from the school's allied health science program, taught by registered nurse Sheron

However, women like me, might have cause to rejoice after all. According to a study published in the November issue of science journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, research suggests that migraine headaches could significantly reduce the risk of the most common types of breast cancer. In Migraine in Postmenopausal Women and the Risk of Invasive Breast Cancer, Christopher I. Li, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center analyzed 3,412 Seattle-area postmenopausal women.

Working from home has its advantages. No need to shower, shave or even dress; traffic jams are minimized to dodging laundry in the hallway; and then there's the Judge Judy break at four. Yet with such fringe benefits come disadvantages and dangers few employers are taking seriously and few employees understand, such as the stress of working daylong in front of a computer in what could be an ergonomically undesirable setting,

Students in Beaver Brae’s Health and Wellness High Skills Major program took a step into the hospital to check out the vitals for future careers in the health care field. “People think of hospitals as places where only doctors and nurses work,” said the hospital’s volunteer department manager Debbie MacDonald. “There are so many different jobs here and we have shortages in all of them.” The tour was one of several mandatory outings in the specialty diploma, consisting of a total of ten courses designed to expose students to careers in health

For Family Nurse Practitioner Justine Emerson, the chance she would contract breast cancer seemed highly improbable. Nonetheless, she was diagnosed with infiltrating ductal carcinoma in March 2006. According to Emerson, 80 percent of breast cancers are this type. "Mine was not an aggressive breast cancer," she said. "It was picked up on a mammogram done at Bartlett Regional Hospital. I had a mammogram every year from the age of 40." Emerson said her initial reactions were unbelief and horror.