Here are my thoughts on two important health care issues:
-Taking health care into the home, a blog post for Disruptive Women in Healthcare: http://tinyurl.com/cu86r6o
-Women’s health and the presidential race, a post for the JAMA News Forum: http://tinyurl.com/9749lvx
What are your thoughts on these two issues?
Diana J. Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN, Rudin Professor of Nursing
Here are my thoughts on two important
The following guest post is by Patricia Wagner Dodson, a fiction writer and research nurse at Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. She recently attended Telling Stories, Discovering Voice: A Writing Weekend for Nurses, led by Jim Stubenrauch and Joy Jacobson and co-sponsored by the CHMP and Hunter–Bellevue School of Nursing. Pat blogs at StoryStreams: fiction as comfort.
Storyteller Under Sunny Skies, Rose Pecos-Sun Rhodes, Jemez Pueblo, NM
I’m a nurse, I might say.
But I don’t say it. I qualify it. I spin it. I elaborate on it. I never just say it.
I’ve often wondered why.
I used to think it might be because it sounds so ordinary. I imagine that the person I am speaking to might conjure up an image of a woman in white going from room to room, dispensing medications, holding the hands of the dying, recording the responses to treatment, changing IV fluids. I did that for six months when I graduated from nursing school. I was exhausted and miserable, and it nearly sent me back to my old job, the job I had before I became a nurse.
The following guest post is by Patricia Wagner Dodson, a fiction writer and research nurse at Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. She recently attended Telling Stories, Discovering Voice: A Writing Weekend for Nurses, led by Jim Stubenrauch and Joy Jacobson and co-sponsored by the CHMP and Hunter–Bellevue School of Nursing. Pat blogs at StoryStreams: fiction as comfort.
Storyteller Under Sunny Skies, Rose Pecos-Sun Rhodes, Jemez Pueblo, NM
I’m a nurse, I might say.
But I don’t say it. I qualify it. I spin it. I elaborate on it. I never just say it.
I’ve often wondered why.
I used to think it might be because it sounds so ordinary. I imagine that the person I am speaking to might conjure up an image of a woman in white going from room to room, dispensing medications, holding the hands of the dying, recording the responses to treatment, changing IV fluids. I did that for six months when I graduated from nursing school. I was exhausted and miserable, and it nearly sent me back to my old job, the job I had before I became a nurse.
The Affordable Care Act includes authorization and some funding for ramping up the nation’s focus on promoting health and preventing illness. On August 8th, from 11:00 to 11:25 PM on WBAI (99.5 FM, NYC; www.wbai.org) , Susan Sullivan, a retired public health nurse, RN, and Anne Llewellyn, RN, a certified case manager, discuss national efforts to promote health with Healthstyles producer and moderator, Diana Mason, RN. Sullivan and Llewellyn are both involved in an initiative to create a position of National Nurse for Public Health and argue that this position could be key to achieving the nation’s health goals.
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The Affordable Care Act includes authorization and