| New Council Calls for Immediate Increase in Nurse, Physician Education
PHILADELPHIA -- The Council on Physician and Nurse Supply concluded its first meeting in Philadelphia with the statement that, at current levels of training, nurse and physician shortages will deepen and there will be too few physicians and nurses to meet the future needs of the nation. The council called for immediate efforts to expand nursing and medical education. The council, which is based at the University of Pennsylvania and is supported by AMN Healthcare, a national healthcare staffing organization, expressed concern that persistent shortages of nurses and physicians could have a number of adverse consequences, including the following: *inadequate access to care, particularly in rural and inner city locations.*lack of the necessary capacity for emergency preparedness.*decreased ability to accomplish planned expansions of healthcare services, with attendant negative effects on local and national economies.*increased dependence on foreign nurses and physicians, worsening the brain drain that already is crippling a number of developing countries, while young people in the US are deprived of the opportunity to become high-level health professionals.
HSU alumna works with dolphins, other marine life
Kristi Davis Thompson graduated from Henderson in 1995 with a degree in education, specializing in physical education with a sports medicine emphasis. She has a dance/theater minor.
Twelve years later, is Thompson a teacher?
No.
A physical education teacher or a sports trainer?
No.
A professional dancer or actor?
No.
Thompson is a marine mammal specialist working with dolphins, sea lions and many other species. She is currently the director of marine operations of a new facility at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas.
So how did Thompson stray from her academic specialties and end up in the water with sea creatures?
"It's something I always wanted to do," Thompson said.
MC gets grant for program
Marietta College will begin a course this summer that may benefit local elementary school students.
The colleges education department was recently awarded a $30,000 grant from the Special Education Personnel Development Advisory Committee of the Ohio Department of Education Office for Exceptional Children. The grant will be used to help future teachers learn how to assess students with reading and behavioral problems.
Were going to work with students to teach them how to work with at-risk students, said Carolyn Backus, assistant professor of education at Marietta College. If youre having problems with reading, you might be having behavior problems, and if youre having behavior issues, its highly probable youre having reading problems.
Part of the goal of the project is to show that some children have increased behavior issues due to the frustration of reading difficulties, said Bill Bauer, associate professor of education.
US Women are Poorly Informed about Human Papillomavirus and ...
Researchers from the NIH have reported that only 40% of US women had ever heard of human papillomavirus (HPV) and less than 50% of these knew it caused cervical cancer. The details of this study appeared in the February 2007 issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention.[1] Infection with human papillomavirus is thought to be the most common infection that is transmitted sexually. There are of more than 100 different HPVs. Some types of HPV cause warts on the hands or feet; others cause genital warts; and some have been linked with cancer, most notably cervical cancer. The types of HPV most commonly linked with cervical cancer are HPV 16 and HPV 18, though several other high-risk types also contribute to cancer. The types of HPV that cause cervical cancer or genital warts are transmitted sexually.
Break the Barriers Awarded $1.5 Million Grant to Support Physical ...
FRESNO, Calif. (FV Newswire) - Break the Barriers, Inc., the nation's premier sports-arts center uniting the able and disabled, today announced that it will receive $500,000 per year for the next three years from The Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP). The PEP funds will be used exclusively to improve and expand the physical education and afterschool programs in the Fresno, Clovis, Madera, Kings Canyon, Fowler and Golden Valley Unified School Districts. Program partners include CSU Fresno, Fresno and Madera County Offices of Education, Kids Kan, Inc. and, Joe Herzog, Region 28 chairman for the California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAPHERD).
The Carol M. White Physical Education Program is part of the U.S. Department of Education that provides grants to initiate, expand, and improve physical education programs for K--12 students in order to help them make progress toward meeting state standards for physical education.
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