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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510095

Micronutrients in Congestive Heart Failure: An Integrative Review

Jaclyn K Gaulden, Susan J Appel and Victoria Kilcawley

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: June 21, 2018

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a common disabling disease that affects approximately 5.1 million people in the United States (US). More than 55,000 deaths annually are contributed to CHF. CHF occurs equally among men and women and is responsible for approximately 11 million office visits per year. Economic cost of CHF in 2010 was $39.2 billion and accounted for 5.4% of the total health care budget....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510094

The Effectiveness and Related Factors of Taiwan's Long-Term Care Professional Manpower Training (Level I Common Curriculum)

Meei-Shiow Lu, Ching-Min Chen Chung-I Huang, Li-Chu Wu and Yao-Hua Wang

Article Type: Original Article | First Published: May 28, 2018

In view of the increase in demand for long term care professionals, the Department of Health in Taiwan has launched a training program for long term care professionals in 2010 and has entrusted the National Union of Nurses Association in Taiwan to carry out the Level I 18-hour long term care professionals training scheme. Training lessons commenced from May till July in 2011 and the teaching materials are certified by professionals and Delphi technique....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510093

The Croatian Model of University Education for Nurses

Stipan Jankovic, Sonja Koren, Matea Saric, Rahela Orlandini, Vesna Anticevic, Deana svaljug and Ante Buljubasic

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: May 25, 2018

Following the example of Dutch "Model of macro-efficiency of the higher education system" in 2011 the University Department of Health Studies was founded in Split. It is fully integrated with the University of Split (legal and economic services, human resources...). In the course of preparing the curriculum of university study programme in Nursing, for both the undergraduate and graduate university levels....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510092

Humanized Care: A Challenge for Nursing

Oscar Alberto Beltran Salazar

Article Type: Letter To The Editor | First Published: May 10, 2018

The practice of health care currently reflects a constant tension between to be and should be, in other words, between what actually the care is and what it should be, up to limits in which people can speak of dehumanization. This tension is evident in areas such as the relationship between the medical and nursing staff, the patients and their families, mediated by labor conditions, the use of technology and health administration often guided by reductionist criteria that have limited the intera...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510091

Telemedicine: An Opportunity to Upgrade the Function of the Nurses!

E Andres, S Talha, M Hajjam, C Grohens and A Hajjam

Article Type: Letter To The Editor | First Published: April 26, 2018

Chronic diseases, e.g. chronic heart failure (CHF), diabetes mellitus (DM), and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD), remain serious diseases in terms of their functional or survival prognosis, and morbidity and mortality are high. This applies particularly well to CHF, in which the mortality rate of patients with stage III-IV disease according to the NYHA classification is at least currently around 30% at 5 years in more recent studies. The cost of these chronic diseases has rocketed.....

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