Vol 23, No 7 (2021)

The article is devoted to the results of a study of the development problems in the Russian Federation of higher nursing education. The opinions of 4th year students, graduates of 2020 and teachers in the direction of training “Nursing” of the Medical Institute the RUDN University, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University about the prospects for the development of higher nursing education in the Russian Federation were studied. The results may contribute to the optimization of the educational process in the direction of training «Nursing».

Graduates of educational organizations of professional education have the greatest potential to cover the staffing needs of employers in the pharmaceutical market. According to the statistical report of the publicly available system for online monitoring of the Russian labor market - the HeadHunter Index in St. Petersburg for 2020, the largest number of resumes (16%) are placed by students and job seekers without work experience, that is, starting their careers. This suggests that practitioners of related specialties (medicine, chemistry, engineering) underestimated the possibilities of professional development in the field of pharmaceuticals and biotechnologies by obtaining a second professional education - pharmaceutical education (on an accelerated individual trajectory). The article presents current models of personnel training for the in dustry, describes the practical experience of St. Petersburg State Chemical and Pharmaceutical University in this direction.

The article analyzes one of the problems that arose in a third of the students of the medical institute of RUDN during the distance learning period, namely, weight gain. To study this problem, the role of inactivity as a cause of weight gain among students was considered. The main measures to pre-vent weight gain are also given. After studying the theory about this problem, a questionnaire was compiled for students of the medical institute of RUDN on the Google Forms. The survey showed that 36% of the respondents had increased weight, and the rest of the respondents had a risk of weight gain. After analyzing the results of the online survey, the main factors of weight gain among students of the medical institute of RUDN were identified, and then recommendations for the pre-ven-tion of weight gain were compiled on the basis of these factors.

The journal «The Nurse» № 6 for 2021 contains an article by prof. V.V. Skvortsov et al. «Migraine in the practice of a nurse» (p.51). It’s about headaches and helping adults. The editorial board had a desire to supplement this publication. To expand the possibilities of assistance provided by nurses to patients with headaches in childhood. Children and adolescents of all ethnic and socioeconomic groups suffer from headaches. All medical workers, regardless of their place of work, face the need to provide emergency care for children and adolescents with headaches. If there is an established diagnosis, drug therapy is carried out - an obligatory weapon in the fight against this ailment in «good hands». The article discusses the issues of non-drug support for children and adolescents with headaches. Attention is paid to the safety of the use of drugs in children, diets, the principles of «behavioral therapy», etc.

This article provides basic information on the prevalence, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The main approaches to the treatment of this disease are outlined. The use of the drug Pirfect® (pirfenidone) as the main means of antifibrotic therapy for IPF is considered.

This article deals with problems of etiology, pathogeny, classification, clinical symptomatology, approaches to detection and treatment of сardiomyopathies.