New fellowship for MS nurses. (National MS Society).One thing is certain about MS: it's a complicated disease. The range of symptoms alone offers a significant challenge--for health-care workers as well as for people who have MS. It's crucial, then, that healthcare professionals become well-educated about its myriad physical manifestations-what they are and how they can be managed. To address this need, the National MS Society has established an important new educational opportunity for nurses who plan to specialize in care for people with MS. The John Dystel Nursing Fellowship Funded by a generous contribution from Oscar Dystel, long-time member of the Society's National Board of Directors, the John Dystel Nursing Fellowship will provide expert, comprehensive clinical nursing education for a nurse who will then help train other nurses and become a leader in MS clinical care. Nurses selected for the program will work intensively for up to six months with a mentor in a Society-affiliated MS specialty clinic. Nursing fellows will be involved in supervised care of people with MS, working with an interdisciplinary health-care team including experts in physical medicine and rehabilitation physical medicine and rehabilitation or physiatry or physical therapy or rehabilitation medicine Medical specialty treating chronic disabilities through physical means to help patients return to a comfortable, productive life despite a medical , physical therapy occupational therapy speech therapy, social services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales , clinical and cognitive psychology cognitive psychology, school of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language. It had its foundations in the Gestalt psychology of Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka, and in the work of Jean , neurology neurology (n  rŏl`əjē, ny–), study of the morphology, physiology, and pathology of the human nervous system. ; and vocational rehabilitation Noun 1. vocational rehabilitation - providing training in a specific trade with the aim of gaining employmentrehabilitation - the restoration of someone to a useful place in society . |
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