Friday, September 12, 2008

More Accolades for the Mediterranean Diet

Researchers Say Mediterranean Diet May Lower Risk of Cancer, Other Major Diseases
By Kelley Colihan
WebMD Health News

Sept. 11, 2008 -- More accolades are being heaped on the Mediterranean diet. This time, researchers say the diet may actually help prevent certain chronic diseases...

Our Healthy Women, Healthy Nation Project here in St. Kitts is promoting the right formula!

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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Depression & Nursing Students

"First-year nursing students' accounts of reasons for student depression."
Author(s): Dzurec LC; Allchin L; Engler AJ
Source: The Journal Of Nursing Education [J Nurs Educ]
2007 Dec; Vol. 46 (12), pp. 545-51.

"This study examined 53 first-year nursing students' to surmise the reasons for their own or their peers' experiences of feeling down or depressed. Analysis revealed seven themes characterizing student experiences of depression."
Available online throught our EBSCO databases,
or in hard-copy in the Library.

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

'Research into Nursing in the Third Reich'

Forthcoming book by Linda Shields, professor of nursing at the University of Hull, reveals a dark side of the profession, illustrated in this disturbing archive film from the second world war showing a nurse helping a psychiatric patient to a gas chamber."

'Nursing can't move on unless it addresses its black side'

article by Chris Arnot of The Guardian, London
Wednesday April 9, 2008
Click on the title to access the full article and watch the video.

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