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Every Woman Every Child" is a global effort bringing together governments, philanthropic institutions and other funders, the United Nations and multilateral organizations, civil society and non-governmental organizations, the business community, health-care workers and professionals, and academic and research institutions around the world that support the "Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health", which was launched during the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit. The Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health provides a new opportunity to improve the health of hundreds of millions of women and children around the world, and in so doing, to improve the lives of all people.

NCSBN conducted a landmark, national, multi-site, longitudinal study of simulation use in prelicensure nursing programs throughout the country.

The tool was conceived by a research team from the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at UWE Bristol led by principal lecturer Simon Messer, and developed in collaboration with Avon Somerset and Wiltshire Cancer Services (ASWCs) who commissioned the project as part of the National Awareness and Early Diagnosis Initiative. The idea is that GPs can access GP Sim from their computer at a time that suits to fine tune their diagnostic skills.

"Welcome to Free Emergency Medicine Talks, more than 1900 MP3s of lectures recorded at many national and international meetings."

Health Council Canada's report on National Symposium of Patient Engagement

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCNN) has recently updated its treatment guidelines for malignant pleural mesothelioma for oncologists and other

Key benefits of the NAS include the creation of a national framework for assessment that includes comparison data, reduction in the burden associated with the current process-based accreditation system, the opportunity for residents to learn in innovative programs, and enhanced resident education in quality, patient safety, and the new competencies. Over time, we envision that the NAS will allow the ACGME to create an accreditation system that focuses less on the identification of problems and more on the success of programs and institutions in addressing them.

"Bedside teachers identify potential benefits of bedside rounds, many of which align with national calls to change our approach to medical education. The practice of bedside rounds enables activities essential to high-quality patient care and education."

Using problem-based learning to allow students to explore the connections between science and the law

"n December of 2009, the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation in collaboration with the Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope and the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) launched the Health of Women Study (HOW) of the Army of Women."

National Cancer Institute

"Get FREE messages each week on your cell phone to help you through your pregnancy and your baby's first year. Text4baby is an educational program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition."

A joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government, the Australian e-Health Research Centre is a leading national research facility in ICT for healthcare innovations.

This is the login/registration page for the UK National Library for Health

7 page HRT decision aid from National Prescribing Centre

The requirements developed from across 8 different institutions in the original 2005-07 project are given here with tick boxes for departments, schools and institutions to select which aspects of item banking and associated functionality they feel are key to their own current or future processes. The tool will then give match information using the results of appraisal of 12 pieces of software, including some well known software companies e.g. Speedwell and QuestionMark, and some lesser known projects and companies such as TOIA and BTL. The original project was based heavily in medical undergraduate assessment. Note, a 2009 project is due to create and release information relevant to a V2 specification. The V2 will be more generic, building on the information brought forward for V1. UKCDR is a sister project to UMAP, a national collaborative project in the UK for core, applied assessment in undergraduate medicine.

Most registered nurses (RNs) earn between $47,700 and $69,800 annually, with the highest-paid nurses earning a national average of over $83,400. See salaries in different RN industries.

MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.

"In this national study of internal medicine residents, suboptimal QOL and symptoms of burnout were common. Symptoms of burnout were associated with higher debt and were less frequent among international medical graduates. Low QOL, emotional exhaustion, and educational debt were associated with lower IM-ITE scores. "