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The substantial expansion in the RN workforce between 2005 and 2010 is largely a temporary bubble that is likely to burst between 2010 and 2015 as the unemployment rate falls.
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California has taken steps to implement components of a comprehensive professional development system for its early child education workforce. However, further advances are needed and more information is required to identify possible inefficiencies in the current system.
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Uses two sources of representative data, the 2005 National Household Education Survey and the 2007 RAND California Preschool Study, to describe child care and early learning arrangements for the approximately 2.8 million California children ages 0 to 5 who are younger than the age at which they would enter kindergarten.
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Offers recommendations for improving the education and training of California's early childhood workforce.
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With or without electronic charting options, nurses spend about 19% of their time completing documentation, compared with all other categories of care.
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Reports the results of a longitudinal study of youth from military families and their caregivers concerning their emotional well-being and how well they are coping with servicemembers' extended deployments.
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Children and spouses of military members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan report facing challenges as family relationships change and they assume more responsibility for household duties during deployment.
NEWS RELEASE
Children and spouses of military members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan report facing challenges as family relationships change and they assume more responsibility for household duties during deployment.
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Nurses play a key role in educating cancer patients and their caregivers on how to effectively cope with and manage cancer. African American caregivers may benefit from interventions tailored to their specific caregiving experience.
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A significant amount of clinical cancer care is delivered in the home by informal caregivers, such as family and friends, who often lack training and have limited resources.
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Caregivers affiliated with the National Guard and those with more months of deployment report significantly poorer emotional well-being, and more household and relationship hassles.
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Only 42 percent of the 354 million annual visits in the U.S. for acute care—treatment for newly arising health problems—are made to patients' personal physicians. The rest are made to emergency departments (28 percent), specialists (20 percent), or outpatient departments (7 percent).
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In 2005, the VA created consumer-providers (CPs)—individuals with experience of serious mental illness who support others with similar conditions. Data from the groups suggest that hiring and employing CPs within VA has been feasible, beneficial, and acceptable to most members of clinical teams.
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Assesses evidence about interventions to improve palliative and end-of-life care.
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Reviews evidence on psychosocial interventions for non-professional careers of people with Parkinson's disease. Most studies were not designed to assess the clinical- or cost-effectiveness of the intervention for the careers.
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The literature summaries that support each indicator judged valid by the expert panel are described.
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The transfer of care from the hospital to home settings has shifted responsibility for the day-to-day care of the long-term, medically complex patient to the family.
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The authors' objective was to explore, in a predominantly Latino inner-city population, why caregivers bring their children with asthma to the ED (emergency department).
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hroughout the course of the disease, routine use of community resources allows care to be provided by a network of professionals, many of whom will be specialists in Alzheimer's disease.
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The authors found a strong association between caregiver dissatisfaction (caregiver dissatisfied with the level of care the home care participant was currently receiving) and an increased likelihood of hospitalization.
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