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unusual facts about Nurses' Health Study


Nurses' Health Study

In 1996, over 16,000 children of women in the second Nurses' Health Study cohort were enrolled in their own follow-up study called the Growing Up Today Study, or GUTS.


Anna Pou case

Charles Foti lost the 2007 election for state Attorney General after criticism for prosecuting Pou and the nurses.

In 2006, Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti arrested Dr. Anna Pou and two nurses, publicly stating that "this is a homicide".

Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor

In August 2011, a six-year-old named Avalanna Routh who was battling AT/RT at Dana–Farber Cancer Institute was given a pretend wedding with her idol Justin Bieber, with doctors and nurses providing a cardboard life-sized cutout of Bieber, a guitarist, flowers, and a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "Future Mrs. Bieber".

Australian Service Nurses National Memorial

The memorial honours past and present nurses of the Australian Defence Force, serving in the Royal Australian Navy, Australian Army, and Royal Australian Air Force and associated services.

Australian women during World War I

Hundreds of other Australian trained nurses served overseas with organisations including the British nursing services, Red Cross, St John Ambulance and the Australian Voluntary Hospital.

Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine

Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine was founded as the Journal of Aviation Medicine in 1930 by Louis H. Bauer, M.D., and is published monthly by the Aerospace Medical Association, a non-profit organization of physicians, physiologists, psychologists, nurses, engineers, and others working to solve the problems of human existence in threatening environments on or beneath the Earth or the sea, in the air, or in outer space.

Bangka Island

Bangka is famous for two other events: the Banka Island massacre during World War II, perpetrated by the Japanese against Australian nurses and British and Australian servicemen and civilians, and for reputedly being the setting for the book Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.

Candice Rialson

After appearing in a series of exploitation films (such as Candy Stripe Nurses, Chatterbox, and Summer School Teachers), Rialson found herself typecast as a sex kitten, and had difficulty obtaining new roles, although she did work sporadically on television.

Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award

Alarmed at the disturbing number of nurses leaving the profession within their first few years in practice, Cherokee Uniforms provided a grant to Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning director David Hoffman to create a film for nurses and nursing students that would encourage, inspire and instruct.

Coconut water

The Documentation Center of Cambodia has cited the practice of allowing untrained nurses to administer coconut water infusions in its list of medical practices for which the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

Doddinghurst

The village has a doctors' surgery located on Outings Lane with four or five doctors and several nurses.

East London NHS Foundation Trust

In May 2013 the Trust took over the Health E1 clinic in Brick Lane which had been run by nursing staff with GPs and other specialist nurses for those who couldn’t register with a practice because they had no settled address.

Evidence-based practice

In recent years, EBP has been stressed by professional organizations such as the American Psychological Association, the American Occupational Therapy Association, the American Nurses Association, and the American Physical Therapy Association, which have also strongly recommended their members to carry out investigations to provide evidence supporting or rejecting the use of specific interventions.

George Mussallem

His sister Helen was considered to be considered to be one of the top nurses in the world and served with the World Health Organization to develop nurse training and triage systems.

George Perry-Smith

He was introduced to cooking by Eric Green, a fellow member of the FAU, during a week working in the nurses' kitchen of Middlesex Hospital.

Henrietta Stockdale

The Henrietta Stockdale Training College for nurses in Kimberley was named in recognition of this pioneer nurse who initiated training courses for nurses at Kimberley Hospital and was instrumental in obtaining state registration for nurses and midwives in the Cape Colony in 1891.

Henry O'Farrell

The Prince was hospitalised for two weeks, and cared for by six nurses trained by Florence Nightingale, who had arrived in Australia that February under Matron Lucy Osburn.

I Was a Spy

Based on the 1932 memoir I Was a Spy by Marthe Cnockaert, the film is about a Belgian woman who nurses injured German soldiers during World War I while passing intelligence to the British.

Ian Holbourn

During the voyage, Holbourn befriended 12-year-old Avis Dolphin, who was being escorted to school and family in England by two nurses, Hilda Ellis and Sarah Smith.

IsraAid

2009 -- IsraAID sent six volunteer doctors, nurses and paramedics to the Philippines to assist Operation Blessing International after two devastating typhoons.

Mental health in Singapore during the colonial period

Right up to that point, care for the mentally ill was the responsibility of a few expatriate nurses and health attendants who lacked training in nursing (Institute of Mental Health 2003, p. 16).

Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council

The poison call center is staffed with poison experts including – physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and other specially trained in toxicology – provide life-saving services to Illinois residents and health care professionals.

Michele Leonhart

During Leonhart's testimony before the Judiciary Committee, she was questioned by a member of the Committee on Aging, Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), about her policy for nurses prescribing painkillers for patients in nursing homes.

Monkey Businessmen

Mallard then assigns two nurses to train the Stooges, which sends the boys head over heels into fits of love — until the nurses turn out to be men (Cy Schindell and Rocky Woods).

Night Call Nurses

Night Call Nurses is a 1972 film directed by Jonathan Kaplan.

Pat Darling

She was one of the Australian nurses taken prisoner by the Japanese in Sumatra during World War II.

Psychiatric and mental health nursing

Dix also was in charge of the Union Army Nurses during the American Civil War, caring for both Union and Confederate soldiers.

Ramingining, Northern Territory

The village has an airstrip at Ramingining Airport, a general store, a school, a police station opened in January 2008, and a health clinic with four nurses and a fly in doctor every Tuesday/Wednesday from Nhulunbuy.

Re-Mission

The Re-Mission games for young cancer patients were conceived by Pam Omidyar and designed based research by the nonprofit HopeLab Foundation, with direct input from young cancer patients and oncology doctors and nurses, and game developer Realtime Associates, among others.

Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario

An announcement is made by the Minister of Health Elizabeth Witmer, and Dianne Cunningham, Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities that, beginning in 2005 a baccalaureate degree would be the educational requirement for registered nurses practicing in Ontario.

Reproductive Health Matters

Health service providers, including obstetricians, gynaecologists and other clinicians, midwives and nurses, family planning providers and associations, primary health care providers, HIV counselling and treatment providers, and counsellors

Richard Watts Charities

Thomas Aveling complained in January 1871 about "the reported inefficiency of the Nurses ... more than twlve months since", which is interesting because as mayor 1869–70 he had a level of supervision of the charity.

Robert O. Wilson

During the Nanjing Massacre, Wilson was the sole surgeon responsible for treating the victims of the ongoing atrocities (although several nurses were still available) and, along with John Rabe and Minnie Vautrin, was instrumental in the establishment of the Nanjing Safety Zone, which sheltered more than 200,000 people within its confined walls.

Royal Far West Children's Health Scheme

An idea conceived by a doctor from the remote town of Trangie was adopted by Far West in 1931 which saw it operating mobile baby clinics staffed by nurses out of converted railway carriages along railway lines in the west of the state.

Rural and Isolated Practice Registered Nurses

Another characteristic is that these nurses need to be great generalists.

Salisbury District Hospital

The hospital has strong links to Bournemouth University for the practical education of advanced diploma and degree level student nurses; as well as providing a training location for students of radiography and physiotherapy from the University of the West of England.

Saud bin Saqr al Qasimi

Sheikh Saud has also sponsored the building of Ras al-Khaimah Medical and Health Sciences University(RAKMHSU) to train future generations of doctors, nurses and pharmacists for the UAE as a whole.

Sharan Patil

This marathon surgery led by Patil constituted a large team of doctors, nurses, paramedical staff and which included the famous paediatric anesthetist Yohannan John.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a novel by American author Kim Edwards that tells the story of a man who gives away his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to one of the nurses.

Thorpe Coombe Hospital

It ceased maternity facilities in 1973 and was subsequently used as a nurses' home, then a treatment centre for Alzheimer's disease patients, and latterly an out-patients and inpatient service psychiatric hospital.

Tiffany Pratt

While in charge of the hospital, Chris Warner (Michael Galvin) hired Tiffany, much to the annoyance of the other nurses.

Torso Fragment

The other two works are a commissioned fictional bust of the patron saint of nurses, St. Camillus de Lellis installed in the School of Nursing and another bust, of Dr. Joseph T. Taylor, the first dean of the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI.

Twigg Brown Architects

Evening Standard Housing Award for the St John's redevelopment as housing of a former nurses accommodation block of Westminster Hospital

Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War

Among the notables who served as nurses or medical assistants were poet Walt Whitman, American Red Cross founder Clara Barton, and Dorothea Dix.

West Midlands Ambulance Service

The CARE Team is a volunteer group of BASICS doctors and nurses, conveyed in a specially equipped fast response car by a paramedic officer to provide advanced medical care at the scene of an incident.

West Midlands CARE Team

Working in teams alongside West Midlands Ambulance Service, volunteer doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals deliver enhanced critical care to seriously injured and unwell patients.

Winkler County nurse whistleblower case

The Winkler County nurse whistleblower case was a series of legal proceedings in West Texas that centered around the retaliation upon two nurses who submitted an anonymous state medical board complaint against a physician in 2009.

Zoran Lilić

Lilić involved himself in attempting to sort out the HIV trial in Libya, where four Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor were sentenced to death for allegedly infecting Libyan babies with the HIV virus.


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