The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has gained control over all tobacco products and released new finalized rules in 2016 on the oversight of them. According to Mitch Zeller, JD, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, before the FDA’s final rule, certain tobacco products could be sold without any review of ingredients, the process of how they were made, and the potential dangers associated with them.
Scope of practice issues are essential in health care, and the lines are often starkly drawn. However, coordinated care with an emphasis on patient-centered care, through evidence-based research, is at the heart of how nurses practice. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recognized this, and, at the end of 2016, amended its rules to better reflect both the expertise of advanced practice nurses and the needed backlog and inefficacies of the VA.
Cicely, who is being treated for stage III colon cancer, has lost seven pounds between her first and second cycles of chemotherapy. She admits to Julie, an outpatient oncology nurse, that her nausea is well controlled but she just doesn’t feel like cooking meals anymore. What Would you do?
Researchers conducting the largest study to date on screening mammography outcomes have found no evidence to support stopping mammography screenings at a certain age. The findings were presented at the 2016 Radiological Society of North America annual meeting.
Happy New Year! With a new year comes new changes: earlier this month, ONS published the inaugural print issue of the ONS Voice, which is replacing your monthly ONS Connect. But we haven’t just given the news magazine a facelift: the ONS Voice is so much more than just “the new ONS Connect.”
