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Dreaming in nursing
I woke up at 0430 this morning with my heart pounding. Occasionally this happens, I have a “nightmare” about nursing. In this particular dream, I was working a night shift and at the end of the shift I was chatting with the nurses. I was getting ready for report, and I couldn’t remember seeing any […]
What Not to Say to a Nurse — Hooters Opens Nursing School
March 9, 2013 by monashattell
“Male Nurses Make More Money” was published last week in the Wall Street Journal. As a registered nurse and a woman, I was angered and appalled at the comments that this article spawned, about the sexualized physicality of women nurses. Here are just a few of the comments: “Just another happy old guy” wrote: “I […]
Becoming the Transformed Nurse
“Nursing worldwide has been so confined and controlled by external material, physical reality, found within Westernized medicine and institutions, that it has almost lost it own heritage and purposive existence. It has been so consumed by the modern demand for technological competencies it now is faced with having to restore the under-developed ‘ontological competencies’ so […]
The (nursing) revolution will not be televised: Part II
“If we do not change direction, we are likely to end up exactly where we are headed”- Chinese Proverb. In one of my previous postings, I mentioned that the nursing revolution would not be televised; in other words, our own revolution begins with an evolution of consciousness about nursing and our practices. I do believe, […]
Powerful Profession
May 17, 2012 by Jane K. Dickinson
Did you see the NYT opinions article, The Power of Nursing? It’s a busy time (for all nurses, I’m sure), and I didn’t really know how to relate this to some brilliant idea, but thought it was important to share anyway. Makes me proud of the work nurses do. Reminds me of the variety in […]
Some history on the origin of the word “nurse”
April 24, 2012 by Jane K. Dickinson
Thomas Lawrence Long, from the University of Connecticut, has graciously provided a guest blog post on the etymology of “nurse.” I happened to see something Tom posted about Shakespeare and “nurse” and thought this would be an interesting topic to discuss here. Because historians of health and health care are sometimes preoccupied with the slipperiness […]
The Future of Nursing revisited
March 13, 2012 by Jane K. Dickinson
The editorial printed in this quarter’s Journal of Nursing Scholarship takes a look at where we are with nursing one year (and change) after the Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing report. Susan Gennaro discusses changes that are being made toward the four key areas called for in the “landmark report”: ensuring that nurses are […]
Nursing and the Environment
February 1, 2012 by Olga Jarrín
Valentine’s Day edit: Here is a narrated version of the presentation I gave last week. Redefining the Metalanguage of Nursing I just watched the film “The Politics of Caring” featured on the nursemanifest.com website and oh, does it make some powerful statements about politics in nursing that are still relevant today! A core messages in the film […]
2011 in review
January 17, 2012 by peggychinn
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,000 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 50 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the […]
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May 6, 2013 by Carey S.
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