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20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors

Offers practical tips for preventing medical errors in hospitals, clinics, outpatient surgery centers, doctors' offices, nursing homes, pharmacies, and patients' homes. This patient fact sheet provides questions to ask about medicines, surgery, medical diagnoses, equipment, and lab reports.

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Interactive Health Tutorials

The National Library of Medine has put several basic tutorials online. You may find them interesting and might consider them a resource for your patients! Requires Flash Player. Download Flash

For many, many others go to the National Library of Medicine's Tutorial Page!

Gestational diabetes mellitus

Thomas A. Buchanan and Anny H. Xiang J Clin Invest 2005 March 1; 115(3) 491. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as glucose intolerance of various degrees that is first detected during pregnancy. GDM is detected through the screening of pregnant women for clinical risk factors and, among at-risk women, testing for abnormal glucose tolerance that is usually, but not invariably, mild and asymptomatic. GDM appears to result from the same broad spectrum of physiological and genetic abnormalities that characterize diabetes outside of pregnancy. Indeed, women with GDM are at high risk for having or developing diabetes when they are not pregnant. Thus, GDM provides a unique opportunity to study the early pathogenesis of diabetes and to develop interventions to prevent the disease. Read complete article HTML PDF

Integrative Oncology: Complementary Therapies for Pain, Anxiety, and Mood Distur

CA Cancer J Clin Deng and Cassileth 55 (2): 109. (84K) The term "complementary and alternative methods" (CAM) refers to products and regimens that individuals may employ either to enhance wellness, relieve symptoms of disease and side effects of conventional treatments, or cure disease.CAMarticles provide evidence-based information on promising complementary and alternative methods, and inform clinicians of methods that may harm patients.
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ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses

Kevin G. Hook, M.A., B.S.N., R.N.
Gladys B. White, Ph.D., R.N. "The primary purpose of this independent study module is to familiarize nurses with the nine major planks of the current Code and the accompanying interpretive statements. It will orient nurses to the ethical code and how it affects their own nursing practice; facilitate nurses' ability to use the Code as a guide; and demonstrate how it directs the profession of nursing as a whole. In addition, the module will provide nurses with a brief history of the development of the Code of Ethics by the American Nurses Association." ANA Continuing Education Article

Development in Adolescence

Christine Krause MSN, CRNP
Ann O'Sullivan PhD, CPNP, FAAN
Susan Terwilliger MS, RNCS, PNP
Nicole Nierstedt BSN Student "The purpose of this module is to increase nurses' knowledge of anticipatory guidance for positive youth development in adolescence. Ultimately, by sharing this important information with families, nurses help teens reduce high-risk behaviors and promote health during adolescence." ANA Continuing Education Article

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the Intensive Care Unit

From the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) "In this article, we briefly review the epidemiology and pathophysiology of SLE and describe common pathological changes that bring these patients to the ICU. " (PDF format)

Lactation

Notes from Human Reproductive Biology Course Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
HST.071: Human Reproductive Biology

Maternal Physiology I

Notes from Human Reproductive Biology Course - Maternal Physiology I Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
HST.071: Human Reproductive Biology

Pathology of the Esophagus and Stomach

Notes from Gastroenterology Course Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
HST.121: Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology, Intestinal Physiology, Pathology, Pathophysiology, and Mechanisms of Disease