Platin chemotherapy hypersensitivity reactions: Expanding the scope of practice and improving care

Expanding Access to Care: Scope of Practice Laws.

Allied health professionals play an integral role in providing safe, affordable care to communities in need. Laws that define the permissible scope of practice for these professionals may take full advantage of these providers and may unnecessarily restrict safe and effective care. Nurse practitioners in many states may provide care independent of a physician; research reveals that this care is...

Chemotherapy-induced hypersensitivity reactions.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To assist clinical nurses in understanding the complex nature of chemotherapy-induced hypersensitivity reactions as well as effectively preventing or managing these reactions. DATA SOURCES Published articles and abstracts, pertinent book chapters, computerized databases. DATA SYNTHESIS Most available chemotherapy drugs can cause hypersensitivity reactions, but certain dru...

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Evaluation of type I drug hypersensitivity reactions caused by chemotherapy in hospitalized children

Background and Objective: Type I drug hypersensitivity reactions causes immune responses that could endanger life. Therefore this study was designed with the aim of evaluation and register reactions that caused by chemotherapy in hospitalized children in Rasoul Akram Hospital in 2015. Methods: This is a descriptive, cross sectional study. All statistical calculation was performed using the v...

The "doctor of osteopathy": expanding the scope of practice.

This article-the third in a 6-part series-examines the status of the DO degree in the first 3 decades of the 20th century. This time was an era when osteopathic practitioners established other colleges, developed state and national organizations, upgraded the length and breadth of curricula, and sought to secure licensure laws commensurate with their expanded education. During this period, oste...