| 23 July 2010 Access to previous issues of Reflections on Nursing Leadership (RNL) |
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By Eileen P. Williamson, 15 July 2010 A unique guide for nurses to leverage a new role for themselves in health care facility design. |
| 15 July 2010 By Gary Scholar; book review by Eileen P. Williamson (open access) |
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By Eileen P. Williamson, 14 July 2010 To retire or not to retire. Is that any longer the question? |
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By Sharon M. Weinstein, MS, RN, CRNI, FAAN, 14 July 2010 Is it possible to achieve balance in our lives? Sharon Weinstein answers that question with a resounding “Yes!” |
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By Kathleen D. Pagana, PhD, RN, 14 July 2010 To move with style and ease through nursing’s new-millennium careers requires nurses to be familiar with the “how-to’s” and “must-not’s” of etiquette. (open access) |
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By Beth P. Houser, DNSc, FNP, NEA-BC, and Kathy N. Player, EdD, RN, MS-N, MBA, 13 July 2010 When it comes to leadership, we can all use words of wisdom from visionaries who have come before us, paving the way for nursing as we know it today. |
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By Patrice Rancour, RN, MS, CS, 12 July 2010 Patrice Rancour shares her experiences with end-of-life care and how they led to a specialized ministry to the dying. (open access) |
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By Nancy Dickenson-Hazard, RN, MSN, FAAN, 11 July 2010 Nancy Dickenson-Hazard shares her knowledge and learning about leadership in a way that challenges and empowers others to reflect on their own leadership journey. |
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By Peter Jaret; Marla Salmon, senior editor; Karen Kasmauski, photographer, 11 July 2010 Nurse: A World of Care is a must-read for those who work to promote social justice and the right of all people to have a fair chance to live healthy lives. |
| 21 June 2010 Guidelines for writing for Reflections on Nursing Leadership (RNL). (open access) |
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By K. Joanne McGlown, 21 June 2010 Lebanon’s Gladys Mouro leads Beirut hospital to Magnet status. |
| 21 June 2010 Calling all U.S. military nurses (open access) |
| 26 May 2010 Washington, D.C., event honored Florence Nightingale |
| 07 May 2010 First non-Japanese citizen to be presented the Prestigious Butterfly award by the Japanese emperor |
| 14 April 2010 Karen Morin spoke about new honor society initiatives during the event. |
| 13 April 2010 Check out the news items for Jane Kirkpatrick, Tim Porter-O'Grady and others in Noteworthy briefs. |
| 13 April 2010 Susan Shapiro and Marilyn Stringer are among the Noteworthy nurses featured this quarter in RNL. |
| 06 April 2010 STTI welcomes Tim Ringslespaugh, Joanne McGlown and Janet Boivin. |
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By Jane Palmer, 31 March 2010 What keeps these nurses motivated may inspire you. |
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By Patricia E. Thompson, 13 March 2010 Share your stories of how nurses are making a difference. |
| 04 March 2010 Authors combine experience and dedication to honor Idaho’s nursing tradition. |
| 01 March 2010 Bar codes track medications 10 to 20 times before they reach patients. |
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By Diane Sieg, 26 February 2010 A former emergency-room nurse finds tranquility and improved health in yoga. (open access) |
| 15 February 2010 Almost half of nurses surveyed say their job isn’t good for their health. |
| 09 February 2010 Accomplished leader in health services heads STTI’s member and chapter initiatives. (open access) |
| 01 February 2010 Some who traveled to the 40th Biennial Convention also took advantage of an opportunity to travel back in time. |
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By Barbara Oakley, 29 January 2010 There are millions of Sarahs in the world. Many of them become nurses. |
| 13 January 2010 A nursing educator, Cleary had a long, prestigious career at Indiana University School of Nursing. |
| 12 January 2010 An academic innovator, Aydelotte established the baccalaureate degree as the minimum preparation for Iowa nursing graduates. |
| 31 December 2009 Check out the accomplishments of Carol Boswell, Shirley Chater, Daniel Drake, Gertrude Hodges and other noteworthy STTI members. |
| 31 December 2009 Maria Magro, Vickie Milazzo, Kammie Monarch and Dorothy Powell are in the news for recent accomplishments. Find out what honors and awards these nurses and other STTI members have achieved. |
| 31 December 2009 Pauline Sherry, Mi-Kyung Song, Terry Valiga and Ruby Leila Wilson are among the Noteworthy nurses featured this quarter in RNL. |
| 17 December 2009 Nature’s beauty inspires Gina Lee Kim, a charge nurse and self-taught artist. |
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By Diane Sieg, 01 December 2009 See if you agree. (open access) |
| 18 November 2009 Nurses must be actively involved in the process. |
| 09 October 2009 Members of advisory board share perspectives on nursing shortage. |
| 08 October 2009 Urge president and congressional leaders to invite nurses to the table |
| 30 September 2009 To include International Nightingale Nursing Training Center |
| 29 September 2009 Family, friends and colleagues celebrate Barbara Robinette's career. |
| 04 September 2009 Pay tribute to President Huston. |
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By James E. Mattson, 01 September 2009 Think of it as an all-inclusive. |
| 01 September 2009 Ever wanted to create and direct your own short film? |
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By Diane Sieg, 31 August 2009 New shows bring exposure—and controversy—to the profession. |
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By Karen S. Hill, 30 August 2009 Former hospital nurses give reasons. |
| 25 August 2009 Three organizations form National Nurses United |
| 06 August 2009 Protest follows first nurse death from H1N1 |
| 05 August 2009 Think like a nurse, CR advises |
| 01 August 2009 Day 5, 40th Biennial Convention |
| 31 July 2009 Poor management of osteoporosis can force early retirement. |
| 30 July 2009 Confirms that improving nurse morale results in lower turnover |
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By Carol J. Huston, 30 July 2009 Research and science must drive patient-care decisions. |
| 27 July 2009 Automation may be key to reducing space battles |
| 22 July 2009 Committee to develop blueprint to better care through better use of nurses |
| 14 July 2009 50 percent of Massachusetts nurses say they have been punched in last two years |
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By Felecia Rivers, 10 July 2009 |
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By Cynthia Saver, 09 July 2009 Is it possible for people to achieve balance in our modern world? |
| 02 July 2009 Alice Crist Malone, 97, recipient of the first research grant awarded by Sigma Theta Tau International, died 3 February 2009 at her home in Tucson, Arizona. |
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By Robin P. Newhouse, 01 July 2009 Evidence-based practice, properly implemented, results in practice-based evidence. |
| 30 June 2009 Check out the latest accomplishments of your nursing colleagues. |
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By Joy Shiller, 28 June 2009 Not all caregivers are human. |
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By Brenda L. Cleary, 26 June 2009 The window of opportunity won’t be open forever. |
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By Kathleen T. Heinrich, 24 June 2009 Break the writing barrier by applying these proven strategies. |
| 18 June 2009 In her keynote speech at the NSNA convention, Rear Admiral Carol A. Romano urges nursing students to create a healthier nation and healthier world. |
| 12 June 2009 Action needed to avoid severe shortage of 260,000 nurses by 2025 |
| 11 June 2009 STTI establishes clearinghouse for student-relevant resources |
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By Donita Cantrell, with Karen S. Hill, 07 June 2009 To reach the next level, you have to leave your comfort zone. |
| 02 June 2009 Chapter with 400-plus members provides nursing leadership for island nation. |
| 29 May 2009 Contribute to a brick paver by 1 August for a chance to win VIP tickets to see Greg Mortenson at convention. |
| 22 May 2009 Her mission: To help the people of Afghanistan and contribute to the reconstruction of that war-torn nation. |
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By Betsy M. McDowell, 20 May 2009 Take a trip back in time and then travel forward to the future. |
| 16 May 2009 When it comes to making connections—whether by video, Twitter, LinkedIn or other media—Rob Fraser is no novice. |
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By Russell R. Lynn and Cory Adams, 15 May 2009 Faculty and student nurse anesthetists experience Honduras up close and personal. |
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By Patricia E. Thompson, 15 May 2009 Connecting generations is a priority for health care. |
| 15 May 2009 The Florence Nightingale Anniversary Rose was planted at the Nightingale Museum on International Nurses Day. |
| 05 May 2009 Patrick Hickey, the only nurse to have scaled the highest mountain on each continent, is the author of a new book, 7 Summits: A Nurse’s Quest to Conquer Mountaineering and Life. |
| 04 May 2009 Any active member of STTI can participate in these communities. |
| 30 April 2009 Ready to hang up your stethoscope? Think again. |
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By Carol J. Huston, 16 April 2009 Intergenerational partnerships and multiple perspectives result in the best thinking. |
| 09 April 2009 Kobkul Phancharoenworakul, Tassana Boontong and Achara Techaritpitak are serving their first term in the Thailand Senate. |
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By Elicia E. Egozcue, 02 April 2009 After caring for terminally ill family members, her passion became her mission. |
| 01 April 2009 References for Economic uncertainty increases need for EBP-savvy nurses |
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By Nancy Wolpert, 27 March 2009 Poetry |
| 26 March 2009 School of Nursing faculty and students from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville are participating in a campaign that challenges residents to embrace wellness. |
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By Kathryn A. Carpenter, 20 March 2009 Ever consider prison nursing a career option? |
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By Susan M. Baxley and Kristrina S. Ibitayo, 12 March 2009 Two PhD candidates reflect on the process and share tips for the journey. |
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By Angela K. Feagan, with Karen S. Hill, 02 March 2009 Should a nurse ever stop learning? |
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By Maureen Dobbins, 01 March 2009 The economic crisis provides stimulus for health care organizations to take definitive action on evidence-informed practice. |
| 24 February 2009 Tales From the Pager Chronicles, by Patrice Rancour, earned a 100-point, 5-star rating from Doody Book Review Services. |
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By Michelle R. Troseth, 23 February 2009 The best way to make use of this gift is to be grounded in the fundamentals, such as scope of practice. |
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By Barbara Oakley, 23 February 2009 Have a mean co-worker? Insights from neuroscience may help you cope. |
| 23 February 2009 The journal has become an essential resource for key evidence-based practice issues. |
| 22 February 2009 Sue Ames' career ended prematurely in 1996, when she began to show signs of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. |
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By Kristene C. Diggins, 20 February 2009 I realized that I often have overlooked my patients’ need for simple affirmation through touch. |
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By Carol J. Huston, 18 February 2009 Technology holds promise for dramatically improving global health. |
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By Carolyn J. Lee, 15 February 2009 Was she an angel? |
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By Manuel C. Co, Jr., 15 February 2009 Creative application of technology improves access to health care and empowers clinicians and patients alike. |
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By Patricia E. Thompson, 10 February 2009 The honor society is a global community of nurses who lead in using service to improve the health of the world’s people. |
| 25 January 2009 Celebrate your own dedication to nursing or honor someone you know by contributing to the Brick Paver Campaign for Nursing Excellence. |
| 24 January 2009 Professor Barbara Duane and eight nursing students spent their spring break helping to improve the health of the Bribri Indians in Costa Rica. |
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By Diane Wieland, 23 January 2009 As a participant in Sigma Theta Tau International’s Board Leadership Development (BLD) Program, I encourage members to consider this two-year mentoring opportunity. |
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By Cynthia Saver, 21 January 2009 Fortunately for readers, Rancour decided nursing was for her. |
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By Jane Palmer, 16 January 2009 From soaring with vultures to improving patient care through evidence-based practice, this nursing duo does it all. |
| 16 January 2009 A student nurse experiences the profession’s dark side. |
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By Barbara Robinette, 19 December 2008 You can't take care of others if you don't take care of yourself. |
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By Darlene Sredl, 19 December 2008 For years, she had a secret ambition. Even her husband didn’t know. |
| 24 November 2008 The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing renamed its building Claire M. Fagin Hall in honor of the school’s former dean at an unveiling ceremony on 30 October. |
| 24 November 2008 The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing has been renamed the Anita Thigpen Perry School of Nursing in honor of the first lady of Texas, who is a member of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International. |
| 24 November 2008 Charlotte A. Weaver, RN, PhD, has been named senior vice president and chief clinical officer at Gentiva Health Services. |
| 24 November 2008 Indiana University School of Nursing unveiled an official portrait of Angela Barron McBride, who served as dean from 1991-2003 and is a past president of Sigma Theta Tau International. |
| 23 November 2008 Florence S. Wald, dean emerita of Yale University School of Nursing and founder of hospice in the United States, passed away Nov. 8. |
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By Tammy Gillock, with Karen S. Hill, 22 November 2008 As the elevator door slid open, I paused and took a deep breath as the bustle of activity swarmed around me. |
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By Elizabeth Friedland, 21 November 2008 An AAN “Living Legend,” Vernice Ferguson still mentors younger nurses. |
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By Shela Akbar Ali Hirani, 21 November 2008 Through knowledge, support and advocacy, nurses empower the powerless. |
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By Kristina S. Ibitayo, 21 November 2008 It was just an orange, but its global shape foreshadowed a nursing career in the developing world. |
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By James E. Mattson, 21 November 2008 Her work influences thousands of caregivers and millions of patients. |
| 21 November 2008 Geralyn M. Frandsen and Demetrius James Porche, mentees in the Board Leadership Development Program, Class of 2007, respond to questions about the program and its benefits. |
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By Kristene C. Diggins, 21 November 2008 The tears flowed as she told me about the progression of her husband’s Alzheimer’s disease. |
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By Kristina S. Ibitayo, 20 November 2008 |
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By L.J. Anderson, 20 November 2008 A profile of the San Francisco nurse policymaker who recently took the helm of AARP |
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By Cynthia Saver, 20 November 2008 How is writing a book like whitewater rafting? |
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By Sandra A. Cavanaugh-Sutkus, 20 November 2008 Their mission? Provide basic medical care and learn about another culture. They also learned about alternative medicine. |
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By Maureen Dobbins, 19 November 2008 In the “methods” section of the review, each step of the process should be spelled out. |
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By Jeneffer Bagirimvano, 23 October 2008 Her aunt and uncle—a nurse and physician—were among the estimated 800,000 killed in the Rwandan genocide. Now she wants to be a nurse so she can help others stricken by war, poverty and injustice. |
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By Jane Palmer, 03 October 2008 Meet the only member of Sigma Theta Tau International in Hungary. |
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By Kathleen T. Heinrich, RN, PhD, 30 September 2008 |
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By Madrean Schober, 20 August 2008 The poem “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost, concludes with the observation that it was the road taken—the road less traveled by—that “made all the difference.” Author Madrean Schober also took the less-traveled road and shares her perspectives. |
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By Joy Shiller and Sandra Clarke, 20 August 2008 Keeping vigil with the dying receives new impetus in the 21st century. |
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By Elizabeth Valente, 20 August 2008 Family nurse practitioner students build bridges between cultures. |
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By Elizabeth Zicari, 20 August 2008 Throughout her career, the author has found that culturally congruent care enhances community health and well-being. |
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By Kristene C. Diggins, 20 August 2008 Glancing around the hospital room, I felt a vulnerability that was unfamiliar to me. |
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By Maureen Dobbins, 20 August 2008 Key criteria include research question, search strategy, level of evidence ... |
| 20 August 2008 The theme for this issue is “Leadership: The continuum from novice to global leader.” |
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By Patricia E. Thompson, 20 August 2008 Leadership is a topic that is abundant in the literature across disciplines. |
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By Elissa Crocker, 20 August 2008 One of her favorite songs is “Climb Every Mountain." It’s a directive that has guided her career. |
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By Lorrie R. Davis-Dick, 20 August 2008 Professor, you don’t know me but I am sure that you have seen me around.
Who am I? What do I look like? Well, that’s not important right now. |
| 20 August 2008 Nominations open 1 November 2008 for the 2009 International Awards for Nursing Excellence. |
| 20 August 2008 What aspect of being “intentionally global” is most important to you? Members of RNL’s International Advisory Board give their response. |
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By Mansour Olawale Jumaa and Carol A. Picard, 20 August 2008 Leadership, without a doubt, is the crucial difference between being more or less effective as an honor society and, indeed, in any progressive human organization. |
| 20 August 2008 The Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library is the place to find searchable and current nursing information that is posted in the Registry of Nursing Research. |
| 20 August 2008 The children of imprisoned women have a high need for social and health services, which usually is attributed to the impact of parental separation. |
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By Jill Derstine, 20 August 2008 “Problem Solving for Better Health” was the theme of a 10 July workshop in Singapore during the 19th International Nursing Research Congress, sponsored by the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International. |
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By Karen S. Reed, 04 August 2008 She went to Cambodia to teach rehabilitation nursing, and came back in love with its people. |
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By Nancy Wesenberg, 04 August 2008 For Sarah Gieschen, who spent a month in Liberia as a volunteer nurse based on the world’s largest nongovernmental hospital ship, singing was a bridge to serving. |
| 29 May 2008 Elizabeth ''Liz'' Macera, RN, PhD, NP-C, associate clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing and member of Alpha Eta Chapter, recently returned from her first trip to South Africa. |
| 29 May 2008 Sixteen mentor-mentee pairs will meet June 25-29 in Portland, Oregon, USA, for the first workshop of the inaugural Geriatric Nursing Leadership Academy. |
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By Kristen Lethbridge, 29 May 2008 A member of the first non-U.S. chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International encourages newly inducted members to take advantage of the significant benefits offered by membership in the honor society, at the chapter level and internationally. |
| 28 May 2008 The visible brick pathway embedded in the earth and running through the Nancy Dickenson-Hazard Celebration of Leadership Garden represents the journey we are all on as nurses. |
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By Mitzi G. Mitchell, 28 May 2008 My mentor |
| 27 May 2008 Donna Lee Wong, PhD, RN, PNP, CPN, FAAN, co-developer of the Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale, died May 4, 2008, following complications of leukemia. |
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By Carol J. Huston, 27 May 2008 The dynamic nature of knowledge poses both challenges and opportunities to those committed to its generation, management and utilization. |
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By James E. Mattson, 27 May 2008 No history of Canadian nursing is complete if it doesn’t mention the contributions of Helen Glass. |
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By Juli C. Maxworthy, 27 May 2008 If poor hygiene fosters disease, why are hospitals so non-compliant with hand washing? |
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By Jane Palmer, 27 May 2008 Eighteen members of a humanitarian mission to the Dominican Republic find out what it’s like on the other side of paradise. |
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By Jane Palmer, 27 May 2008 When a U.S. Army nurse deployed in Afghanistan saw a need for nursing textbooks at a university in Kabul, he responded by enlisting the help of his local honor society chapter. |
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By Alyce A. Schultz, 27 May 2008 The developer of the Clinical Scholar Program reflects on her 28-year journey of applying research to clinical practice. |
| 27 May 2008 Susan Gennaro, RN, DSN, FAAN, editor of Journal of Nursing Scholarship, has been named dean of the Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing. She will assume the post July 1, 2008. |
| 27 May 2008 Becky Navarro and Bruce Hetrick both have connections to the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, but their paths didn’t cross until they were honored as recipients of the Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ) Health Care Heroes Award. |
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By Stacey Watkins, with Karen S. Hill, 21 May 2008 Two values most important to me as a nurse and, indeed, in all my relationships are caring and compassion. |
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By Kristene C. Diggins, 21 May 2008 She stared into my eyes, searching for someone she could trust. |
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By Suzanne S. Prevost, 25 February 2008 After attending her first international convention of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, she returned home and proclaimed, “Someday, I want to lead that organization.” In 1999, she became the honor society’s 23rd president and, in 2007, its chief executive officer. Learn more about Patricia E. Thompson, our multifaceted, consensus-building CEO. |
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By Gabriela Stoeger Stevens, 25 February 2008 Coloring outside of the lines may be frowned upon by those who feel the lines were put there for a purpose, but the author has found that going beyond the usual boundaries provides purpose and fulfillment never experienced by those who never take a risk. |
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By Patricia E. Thompson, 25 February 2008 This is an especially exciting time of year for the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International—its members and chapters. |
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By Leslie Combs, with Karen S. Hill, 25 February 2008 Many times in the course of my nursing career, I have been introduced as someone who used to be a nurse or as a “nurse in high heels.” |
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By Kristene C. Diggins, 25 February 2008 Compassion is an emotion that motivates many of us to pursue a career in nursing. Desire to help others in physical need is at the heart of the art and science of nursing. |
| 25 February 2008 One of the goals identified in both “Vision 2020,” the new visioning document for the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, and “Leading Globally,” the 2007-09 presidential call, is for the honor society to become a truly global organization. |
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By Kim Ann Guth, 25 February 2008 When BSN students at Fullerton State University in California decided to form an honor society and apply for a chapter charter with the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, they wanted to make a difference internationally. That’s exactly what they’re doing, making a difference by helping their nurse colleagues in Morocco. |
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By Carol J. Huston, 23 February 2008 Service is an equally important part of how we accomplish our mission. |
| 19 February 2008 Nominations are open for the 2009 International Awards for Nursing Excellence. Two new awards will be presented. |
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By Patricia Messmer and Jane Palmer, 03 February 2008 Imogene M. King, 84, pioneer nursing theorist and international nursing scholar, died Dec. 24, 2007, in South Pasadena, Florida, USA. |
| 03 February 2008 Mary Elizabeth Carnegie, RN, DPA, FAAN, 92, effective advocate for more than 50 years on behalf of African-American nurses, died Wednesday, Feb. 20. |
| 17 December 2007 The Manas Air Base surgical team visited the Kyrgyz Republic National Surgical Center in October to donate training supplies and other usable items. |
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By Elaine Schmidt, 17 December 2007 When Patti Taylor learned that Marine Cpl. Aaron P. Mankin, a U.S. soldier badly burned in Iraq, would be coming to UCLA Medical Center for facial reconstructive surgery, the former Army nurse's patriotic instincts kicked in. |
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By Brenda B. Petersen, 03 December 2007 Although the severity of the nursing shortage may ebb and flow in the short term, now is the time for nurses to unite and seize opportunities for leadership. |
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By Linda Puffer, 03 December 2007 At age 18, with one semester of EMT to her credit, Tamara McKinnon was assigned to serve as the sole “nurse” to inmates of a jail in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. An experience she would never forget, it has shaped her passion for community health and international nursing. |
| 03 December 2007 For nearly 10 years, the RWJ Executive Nurse Fellows program has invested in developing nurse leaders in health services, public or community health, and nursing education. One of those leaders is 2006 Fellow Cynda H. Rushton, RN, PhD, FAAN, associate professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and member of Sigma Theta Tau International. Learn more about Rushton and her R³ program—Renewal, Resilience and Retention for Nurses. |
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By Darlene Sredl, 03 December 2007 Darlene Sredl knows about taking proper precautions to avoid disaster. She almost died, though, when she took a little, innocuous-looking pill called ibuprofen to ease her throbbing feet after a weekend of three 12-hour night shifts. |
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By Pat Thompson, 03 December 2007 I am excited and honored to serve as chief executive officer of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International. I am humbled to follow the wonderful legacies established by Nell Watts and Nancy Dickenson-Hazard. I truly look forward to working with each of you as members, volunteer leaders, staff and partners as we strive to live our mission daily. |
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By Kristene C. Diggins, 03 December 2007 A person facing terminal illness may find it easy to give up hope. Accepting the inevitable and simply losing daily zeal for life easily follow diagnosis of terminal disease. It seems to be the natural course of things, but do we as health care providers magnify this hopelessness with our own attitudes? |
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By Maureen Dobbins, 03 December 2007 In this column, I discuss how a practice- or policy-based question identifies the type of research evidence needed to answer it. |
| 03 December 2007 It was a pleasure meeting and visiting with so many of you at the convention in Baltimore. I always leave the biennial convention inspired and confident that the organization’s leadership and member commitment has never been stronger and that the future of this organization could not be brighter. This is such an exciting time for the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International. |
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By Kathy Thurston with Karen S. Hill, 03 December 2007 When I was growing up in eastern Kentucky, my options after high school seemed limited to nursing, teaching, secretary/receptionist work or marriage. With support from my family, I decided that nursing would be a good fit for me. I came to Central Baptist Hospital (CBH) in August 1970 ... as the only nurse in a five-bed intensive care unit. Technicians comprised the rest of the staff. How things have changed! |
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By Jennifer Joynt, 03 December 2007 Forward-thinking hospitals, the author says, are focusing on how best to leverage the knowledge and experience of these older nurses. |
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By Bessie Marquis, 03 December 2007 Above the doors of the administration building at California State University, Chico in California are the words “Today Decides Tomorrow.” As Carol Huston, professor of nursing at that university, begins her term as the 27th president of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, those words could also refer to “Leading Globally,” Huston’s proactive plan for guiding the organization toward its goal of being “intentionally global.” As Tim Porter O’Grady, past member of the honor society’s b |
| 03 December 2007 James Mattson, Buerhaus brings RNL readers up to date on the current and future state of the shortage. |
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By Francis C. Biley and Nancy M. Chiocchi, 03 September 2007 “A perfect walking meditation for nurses,” write the authors, “is to transform themselves—visualize themselves—as dancers when in a clinical environment and when performing care.” Whether a solo performance or an entire corps de ballet, the carefully choreographed dances of nurses reveal inner beauty, promote healing and provide insights into group dynamics. |
| 03 September 2007 On holidays, birthdays and sometimes on just ordinary days when we are all together, the family photo albums are dragged out. We gather around the collection of pictures, flip through the pages, share our memories and make disparaging remarks in jest to one another: “What were you thinking wearing that?” Or, “You look like a total dork there!” |
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By Kristene C. Diggins, 03 September 2007 I never realized the feelings that would ensue when I first began caring for elderly patients. I had little training and experience in geriatrics, so when asked to cover a nursing home shift for another nurse practitioner, I was unaware of the nature of the job. Ms. Henderson changed all that for me. |
| 03 September 2007 Who are you as a leader? In contrast with styles and qualities typically ascribed to leaders, self-awareness and learning from one’s life story are key to “authentic leadership.” Nurses have been writing about that kind of leadership in relation to practice, education and research for a long time! |
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By Leslie Flowers, 03 September 2007 They say, what goes around comes around. Anne Ryder, keynote speaker at the 39th Biennial Convention in November, found that when you open up and take time to connect with another person, you receive a gift that stays with you for life. |
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By Christopher Johns, 03 September 2007 Reflection, observes the author, is like looking through a window at one’s self within the context of a particular experience. One of the best ways to capture what you see through that window is to write it down in a reflective journal. |
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By Beatrice J. Kalisch, 03 September 2007 Needed change can be achieved if you understand the strategic styles of nurses and develop a strategy that accommodates them. |
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By Sue-Ella Mueller, 03 September 2007 Since its inception three years ago, the nurse practitioner (NP) program at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, USA, has made a significant impact on the quality of care delivered to patients and their families. |
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By Jane Palmer, 03 September 2007 The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International is not the same organization it was 14 years ago. It is more international, more collaborative and more cutting-edge, and much of the credit goes to Nancy Dickenson-Hazard, who steps down as chief executive officer in November. |
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By Diane Sieg, 03 September 2007 What happens when personality traits become personality traps? The author describes five “emergency living personalities” and provides self-examination questions to help you avoid and/or overcome these traps. |
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By Anne R. Bavier, 04 June 2007 The author compares volunteering with putting together a jigsaw puzzle. A couple of important differences: There’s no picture on the box and not all the pieces in the box belong to your puzzle. |
| 04 June 2007 As our younger child rapidly approaches the end of her undergraduate studies, it has been interesting to watch her sort through the next steps in her life. One thing has become abundantly clear to her in our conversations: The college fund will be depleted, so she needs a job to sustain her lifestyle! |
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By Kristene C. Diggins, 04 June 2007 The human spirit’s will to survive is evident when one faces the diagnosis of a terminal illness, and it is often our privilege to see this in our patients. The drive to fight for life exists in all of us, and the challenge is to nurture this fight in patients who come across our paths. |
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By Maureen Dobbins, 04 June 2007 It has been my pleasure in the past month to engage in meaningful dialogue with nurses both in Canada and the United States about evidence-informed practice. While the settings for these conversations varied—a national evidence-based nursing conference, a nursing research day in a large acute-care hospital and a seminar for a nursing research interest group—I was delighted to observe significant similarities among nurses in relation to their general enthusiasm for evidence-informed practice, as well as thei |
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By Karen S. Hill, 04 June 2007 Nursing and hospital environments are stressful. As nurses, we have always known hospitals are a source of stress for patients. The hospital environment is also stressful for bedside nurses—today more than ever. |
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By Carol Picard, 04 June 2007 Imagine looking into the future: It’s November 2022, and we are celebrating the 100th birthday of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International. What do you see? It will be quite a celebration, and I plan to be there! |
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By Margie Fincham, 04 June 2007 Thirty years into her nursing career, the author began working toward her master’s degree. Fifteen years later, she “took another plunge” and headed to Nicaragua to bring a few supplies to a clinic that provides free and low-cost health care to isolated villages. Now she’s the clinic’s volunteer healthcare manager. Her motto? Solo el amor prevalece—only love prevails. |
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By Carla Hall, 04 June 2007 If you expect Fay Bower, RN, DNSc, FAAN, to kick back and take it easy after handing over the reins as acquisitions editor for the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, you don’t know Fay Bower. |
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By Sally Brosz Hardin, 04 June 2007 The world was different in 1922, when the founders of Sigma Theta Tau International graduated from Indiana University Training School, but this small group of thoughtful citizens founded an honor society that—85 years later—is committed “to create a global community of nurses who lead in using knowledge, scholarship, service and learning to improve the health of the world’s people.” |
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By Gina Lypaczewski, 04 June 2007 They may not have called it that, but nurses have been applying CHB—courage, heart and brains—since nursing began. |
| 04 June 2007 Ruth Watson Lubic, RN, CNM, EdD, FAAN, FACNM, knows how to shift the conversation in a room. |
| 04 June 2007 The Nightingales, a nursing group with members and supporters in more than 28 states and Canada, highlight the role of the tobacco industry in contributing to the epidemic of tobacco-caused disease, disability and premature death. |
| 04 June 2007 Linda Ramirez, RN, BSN, recipient of a scholarship from the Council of Catholic Nurses of the Archdiocese of Chicago, is donating the funds to a deserving undergraduate nursing student, rather than applying the scholarship to her continuing education. |
| 03 June 2007 What aspect of being “intentionally global” is most important to you? Members of RNL’s International Advisory Board give their response. |
| 02 March 2007 My daughter has this thing about wet paper. For some reason, probably related to the time when her older brother threw wads of toilet paper into her bath water when she was 4, she is "grossed out" by the texture and thought of wet paper. |
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By Kristene Diggins, 02 March 2007 I hurried into the exam room to see the next patient on my schedule. It was a busy day in the office, and I didn’t have much time to review charts. |
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By Maureen Dobbins, 02 March 2007 In this quarterly column, I will identify some of the challenges of implementing evidence-informed nursing practice, call attention to effective and ineffective strategies for promoting such practice and recognize ongoing efforts in the field. |
| 02 March 2007 We have begun our search for a new chief executive officer. Nancy Dickenson-Hazard will retire in November after serving the organization for the past 14 years. |
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By Kelly J. Gonzales, 02 March 2007 She went to Venezuela to serve as a pre-op and post-op nurse with Operation Smile, a humanitarian agency that provides craniofacial surgeries for children all over the world, but in helping to heal a little girl she found healing for herself. |
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By Michelle Lilly, 02 March 2007 |
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By James E. Mattson, 02 March 2007 In the ongoing battle to improve health care, it’s nurses, contends Kenneth W. Dion, RN, MSN, MBA, who are on the front lines. From their unique bedside vantage point, where they deliver the lion’s share of patient interventions, nurses can also recognize needs that may be opportunities for innovative products that improve patient care. Learn more about this successful nurse entrepreneur. |
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By Carolyn S. Melby, 02 March 2007 How do you establish a chapter of an organization that promotes individual merit, recognition and achievement—the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, to be specific—in a culture where group success is valued more than individual success? It’s not easy, but proponents for a chapter in Japan—from both sides of the Pacific—accomplished that task by searching for and finding common ground between East and West. |
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By Barbara Elisse Najar and Heddy Bishop Hubbard, 02 March 2007 To gain perspective, it sometimes helps to back away from one’s work and look at it from another angle and greater distance. That’s what Sonj Hall, an Australian nurse researcher did as a Harkness Fellow studying at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Now, she’s back in Australia, putting her new knowledge to work in advocating for better health care for underserved groups. |
| 02 March 2007 New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN) celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2007. |
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By Ashante Dobbs, 02 March 2007 Lynda Nauright offered Mardi Gras beads in exchange for nursing textbooks, which were donated to Dillard University to replace some of the textbooks destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. |
| 02 March 2007 Janet D. Allan, RN, PhD, CS, FAAN, dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing, recently awarded emeritus status to three former faculty members. |
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By Eileen Thomas and Hee Sun Kang, 02 March 2007 One nurse came from Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States, the other from Seoul, in the Republic of Korea. They met at the 17th International Nursing Research Congress in Montreal, Québec, Canada, and found they had a mutual interest in attitudes and behaviors of women with regard to breast-cancer screening. Three months later, they were collaborating on research and making plans to publish a manuscript. Small world. |
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By Deidre M. Blank and Patricia Moritz, 01 December 2006 Two decades after U.S. government-sponsored nursing research moved from the Division of Nursing to the National Institutes of Health, two nurses who observed the process pay tribute to those who laid a lasting foundation for American nursing research and research training at the federal level. |
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By Nancy Dickenson-Hazard, 01 December 2006 In November 2007, 14 years will have passed since my family packed up the minivan and U-Haul truck to make the trek from suburban Washington, D.C., to Indiana, so I could pursue my dream of serving as chief executive officer (CEO) of a renowned nursing organization. |
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By Kristene Diggins, 01 December 2006 The art of listening to a patient is a skill not easily taught. There are no easy steps to becoming a better listener. |
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By Carol Picard, 01 December 2006 As I travel during my presidency, I meet nurse leaders who are collaborating with colleagues in nursing and other disciplines on projects related to improving health. |
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By Cindy Duesing, 01 December 2006 Men comprise roughly 5-6 percent of the U.S. nursing force, and the percentage is even lower in pediatrics. At Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, they’re trying to change that. |
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By Leslie Flowers, 01 December 2006 Throughout Joanne Disch’s career, the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International has been a constant. Recently named board chair of AARP, she shares her perspectives on leadership. |
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By Susan M. Hinck and Kathryn L. Hope, 01 December 2006 When nursing students from the United States traded the hills of Missouri for the volcanic mountain ranges of Ecuador, they thought the people would be different, too. Come to find out, they were much the same as themselves. |
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By Sue Idczak, 01 December 2006 When you’re a nurse and the patient is your mother-in-law, your personal role and your professional role may conflict at times. When the author found herself in that situation, it became an opportunity to learn and teach. |
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By Claudia K.Y. Lai, 01 December 2006 In climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, East Africa, to help raise awareness of and funds to combat Alzheimer’s disease, the author learned that her upward journey was also an inward one. |
| 01 December 2006 The Nursing Education Building at the University of Pennsylvania was recently renamed Claire M. Fagin Hall in honor of Claire M. Fagin. |
| 01 December 2006 An elementary school health fair proved to be a unique educational opportunity for nursing students at Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences in West Reading, Pa. |
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By Jane Palmer, 01 December 2006 It isn’t unusual for nurses from developed countries to travel to underserved areas of the world to provide nursing care. |
| 01 December 2006 It’s not only one of the biggest complaints worldwide when it comes to hospitals, but noise—a common culprit—slows the healing process for hospital patients. |
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By Jane Palmer, 01 December 2006 If one mentoring program is good, two must be better. After completing one mentoring program offered by the Honor Society of Nursing, Julie Snethen took the advice of her mentor and signed up for another. She’s glad she did. CEO Nancy Dickenson-Hazard talks about the benefits of leadership programs in a video that accompanies the article. |
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By Ruth M. Tappen, 01 December 2006 Unique in the state of Florida, a nurse-managed memory disorder clinic that offers both diagnosis and treatment is an example of what nurses can accomplish when they dream big dreams. |
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By Leana Ria Uys, 01 December 2006 Fifty years after nursing education became part of the curriculum in a South African institution of higher education, the author reflects on what has been achieved and challenges her colleagues to reach even further. |
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By Nancy Dickenson-Hazard, 01 September 2006 Like many fathers and sons, my husband and son share a love of sports, particularly football. |
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By Carol Picard, 01 September 2006 As the midpoint of my presidency approaches and I reflect on my call to action, I am convinced there are many ways to foster leadership through collaboration, which is the theme of this issue. |
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By Theresa A. Granger, 01 September 2006 “Instead of eating our young, we need to focus our energies on supporting and nurturing one another,” writes the author, who identifies mentoring, initiated immediately upon graduation, as an effective way for new nurses to learn technically and grow professionally. |
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By Divina Grossman, 01 September 2006 A recent study of 14 hospital boards revealed that only 4 percent of voting members were nurses, compared to 25 percent who were physicians. The author of this article, herself a member of a hospital board, encourages her nurse colleagues to make their voices heard by serving on boards. |
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By Kathleen T. Heinrich, 01 September 2006 In the last issue of RNL, the author described 10 games some nurse educators play that leave colleagues feeling disrespected, devalued or dismissed. In this issue, she offers strategies on how to resist playing the victim. |
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By James E. Mattson, 01 September 2006 She is a pioneer in nursing informatics. Now, as chief nurse officer of the U.S. Public Health Service, Carol Romano is drawing upon her years of experience to provide nursing policy advice and consultation to the Office of the Surgeon General, while representing the U.S. Public Health Service at state, national and international levels. |
| 01 September 2006 Since ancient times, labyrinths have symbolized life's journey, with all its turns and twists. |
| 01 September 2006 Two faculty members at Florida International University (FIU) School of Nursing are recipients of a federal grant that will allow the school to establish a mentored international research program for minority students. |
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By Dana J. Olive, 01 September 2006 Everyone, including student nurses, has “issues” and it’s not realistic, contends the author, to expect students to leave those personal issues at the classroom door. Drawing upon the wisdom of nursing theorist Hildegard Peplau, who identified six dynamic character roles that nurses assume when interacting with patients, the author asks educators to consider assuming similar roles when interacting with students. |
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By Jane Palmer, 01 September 2006 Leaders are made, not born. Graduates of three powerful leadership development programs offered by the Honor Society of Nursing—Chiron, Omada and Maternal-Child Health Leadership Academy—describe how they’ve benefited from the programs. |
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By Maria R. Shirey, 01 September 2006 “Get real!” is an imperative that also applies to leadership. People who do practice authentic leadership possess five distinguishing characteristics. Find out what they are. |
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By Gloria Thupayagale-Tshweneagae, 01 September 2006 A nurse educator from Botswana salutes the educator who mentored her and her colleagues. |
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By Samantha J. Ventimiglia, 01 September 2006 Nurses have a wide range of career options available to them. For the author, NICU nursing—caring for “the littlest of God’s children in the midst of their creation”—was the only way to go. |
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By Nancy Dickenson-Hazard, 02 June 2006 Conversation at our family dinner table is always stimulating and full of interesting revelations. As “rents,” which I understand is the current lingo for parents, we enjoy listening to our young adult college students tell their stories, relate experiences and reveal lessons learned. |
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By Carol Picard, 02 June 2006 The board of directors has set an agenda for this biennium that includes advancing knowledge through collaborative efforts. To this end, the Community Building Implementation Task Force is working to realize new forms of community for knowledge-building within the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International and beyond. |
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By Barbara Ann D’Anna, 02 June 2006 Trying to solve the nursing shortage all by your self? Trying to do it all by going 100 miles per hour, 24/7? It won’t work. “No matter how invincible we think we are,” writes the author, “sooner or later we all need to ‘step away from the plate,’ as they say in baseball, and rest.” |
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By Ann Greiner and Ann Hendrich, 02 June 2006 Most nurses became nurses so they could care for patients, but studies show they spend less than half of their work time delivering direct patient care. Transforming Care at the Bedside, a collaborative effort by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and 13 hospitals across the United States, is out to change that, and is enlisting nurses to help make its case. |
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By Ruth B. Grubesic, 02 June 2006 While political debate rages in the United States about how to secure its southern border from illegal immigration, a U.S. nursing school and a nursing school in Mexico are collaborating to promote better health care while improving cross-cultural awareness. |
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By Susan B. Hassmiller, 02 June 2006 Susan Hassmiller, senior program officer and nursing team leader at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, challenges nurses to hone their leadership skills to a higher level and provides ideas on how to get started. |
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By Kathleen T. Heinrich, 02 June 2006 Many strategies can be used in playing the joy-stealing game, but the object is the same: Rob your co-worker of joy and job satisfaction while advancing your own agenda. |
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By Heddy Bishop Hubbard and Barbara Elisse Najar, 02 June 2006 Sandra Edwardson, 2005 Senior Nurse Scholar in Residence at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), talks about her research experience at the AHRQ, PhD training for nurses and the newly proposed doctor of nursing practice degree. |
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By Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk and Ellen Fineout-Overholt, 02 June 2006 Bernadette Melnyk and Ellen Fineout-Overholt, co-authors of Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare, report on the launching of the United States’ first statewide consortium in evidence-based practice. |
| 02 June 2006 Rachel Jones, RN, PhD, faculty member of Rutgers College of Nursing, premiered video vignettes for hand-held computers aimed at reducing young women’s HIV sexual risk behavior. |
| 02 June 2006 Nurse activists from California, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Jersey and Kentucky attended annual shareholder meetings of tobacco companies Altria/Philip Morris and Reynolds American. |
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By D’Ann Van Lente, 02 June 2006 D’Ann Van Lente, a nurse from the United States, met some of her neighbors in Nigeria while providing immunizations against polio. |
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By Lynn Whitledge, 02 June 2006 How do you say fever and rash in Lusaka, Zambia? If you don’t know Chinyanja, it’s best to have a translator. But one thing five U.S. nurses from Kentucky found that they did have in common with the women of Zambia was a concern for good health. |
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By Mary Ann G. Abiado, 02 June 2006 With a doctoral degree in fish genetics and reproductive biology, Mary Ann Abiado was well prepared to “take care of fish, spawn them, rear their eggs and young, draw blood, perform feeding studies and collect tissue samples,” but could she do a good job caring for older people? Now pursuing a nursing degree, Abiado describes some of what she learned and observed during 18 days of clinical training in a nursing home. |
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By Susan C. Benedict, 03 March 2006 Susan Benedict, professor of nursing at Medical University of South Carolina, provides an overview of daily struggles experienced by members of the Dalits caste in India, also known as the Untouchables, and efforts by health professionals from MUSC to relieve some of their health needs. |
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By Stu Berger, 03 March 2006 Stu Berger, a clinical nurse specialist and former member of San Francisco’s Local Homeless Coordinating Board, compares notes on meeting the needs of the homeless with Alice Leahy, founding director of the Trust organization, an outreach to the homeless in Dublin, Ireland. |
| 03 March 2006 Nurses Amy Spurlock and Deidre Blank report on Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in which they participated. |
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By Nancy Dickenson-Hazard, 03 March 2006 If I remember correctly, our children were introduced to the concept and practice of collaboration in sixth grade. It began with group projects in science and history ... |
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By Carol Picard, 03 March 2006 Twenty years have passed since we added the word “International” to Sigma Theta Tau’s name. I have thought a lot about what this means. |
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By Leslie Flowers, 03 March 2006 Leslie Flowers profiles Margaret Bobonich, contestant on the CBS reality show “Survivor Guatemala: The Maya Empire,” who discusses her experiences during filming of the show and her plans to return to Guatemala to help relieve suffering. |
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By Valda Boyd Ford, 03 March 2006 Valda Boyd Ford, director of community and multicultural affairs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, describes a day in her life as the Unite for Sight director of refugee initiatives. Ford served as a volunteer in 2005 at Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana, Taiama Refugee Camp in Sierra Leone and Galle Refugee Camp in Sri Lanka, and received a 2005 Humanitarian Service Award from that organization. |
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By Katherine H. Murray Frommelt, 03 March 2006 Katherine H. Murray Frommelt, chairperson and professor of the Department of Nursing and Health at Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa, recalls her trip as a People to People Ambassador to South Africa to care for children impacted by HIV/AIDS. |
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By F. Sevgi Hatýpoðlu, 03 March 2006 F. Sevgi Hatipoglu, RN, PhD, professor and colonel, Gülhane Military Medical Academy School of Nursing in Ankara, Turkey, provides a brief history of Turkish contributions to the profession of nursing. |
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By Bhungani ka Mzolo, 03 March 2006 Bhungani ka Mzolo, nurse, member of the Africa Honor Society and spokesperson for the Gauteng [Province] Health Department in South Africa, reviews the history of apartheid in South Africa and describes one initiative that nation is taking to offset the negative impact of nursing migration. |
| 03 March 2006 Joan King, RNC, MSN, PhD, a cancer survivor and director of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program, was chosen to ride across the country alongside seven-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong. |
| 03 March 2006 The Tobacco-Free Nurses Initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was developed to help nurses stop smoking. |
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By Barbara A. Parfitt, 03 March 2006 Barbara A. Parfitt, secretary-general of the Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres for Nursing and Midwifery Development, discusses some of the negative influences of globalization and how the WHO Collaborating Centres for Nursing and Midwifery Development are working to offset those influences by focusing on the ideals of equity, justice, participation and empowerment embodied in the Declaration of Alma-Ata. |
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By Elisa K. Watters, 03 March 2006 Elisa Watters, a nurse practitioner from the state of Washington (U.S.) recalls cross-cultural challenges and achievements she experienced in teaching nursing to Tibetan monks. |
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By Eileen T. Breslin, 02 December 2005 Profile of Carol Picard, recently inaugurated as the 26th president of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International |
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By Nancy Dickenson-Hazard, 02 December 2005 |
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By Daniel J. Pesut, 02 December 2005 |
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By Kristene C. Diggins, 02 December 2005 A U.S. nurse working in the Amazon shares her perspectives. |
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By Sarah Hope Kagan, 02 December 2005 Several years ago, Doris Schwartz, whom I knew professionally in her very active retirement, became my patient. |
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By Mary Ann Kelley, 02 December 2005 Everyone has a passion. For me, it’s nursing. Nursing is my calling, my mission in life. |
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By Wendy S. Carter Kooken, 02 December 2005 How do you predict nursing education needs 10 years from now? The author recommends a helpful tool—complexity science. |
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By Angela Barron McBride, 02 December 2005 Think nursing’s preferred future will only come to pass in the sweet bye and bye? The author describes a “heavenly scenario” that may be closer than you think. |
| 02 December 2005 Imagine a hospital where a personal phone replaces a nurse’s feet as his or her most important communication device. That’s just one idea the author shares for fixing nursing. |
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By Thomas Pryor, 02 December 2005 How one family devastated by last year’s tsunami found hope in the midst of despair. |
| 02 December 2005 Fairy tales and science fiction often include accounts of positive, mystical forces that help the heroes in these stories struggle with and ultimately triumph over evil. The positive force portrayed in Star Wars films (Lucas 1977, 1980, 1983, 1999, 2002) can serve as an allegory to describe nursing and its future direction. |
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By Nancy Dickenson-Hazard, 02 September 2005 Did we really learn it all in kindergarten?
Robert Fulghum’s book, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, contains a great many lessons on ethics and morality. This has certainly been true for my family. |
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By Daniel J. Pesut, 02 September 2005 President Dan Pesut's trip to the 2005 Quadrennial Congress of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), held in Taipei, Taiwan. The theme was “Nursing on the Move: Knowledge, Innovation and Vitality.” |
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By Tesfamicael Ghebrehiwet, 02 September 2005 The author, an International Council of Nurses consultant, describes an important resource: The ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses. |
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By Loretta J. Heuer, 02 September 2005 Diabetes lay educators provide essential support and health care information to a migrant population of farmworkers that winters in Texas, near the southern border of the United States, and summers in North Dakota and Minnesota, near the northern border. |
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By James E. Mattson, 02 September 2005 Florence Wald’s decision to resign her position as dean of Yale University School of Nursing in 1968 to lead a research study on the terminally ill led to the first U.S. hospice and better care for thousands. |
| 02 September 2005 In June, 17 nurses from Region 1—from Hawaii to California and Washington state—focused on alternative and complementary therapies while cruising the inlets of Alaska and Canada aboard the Norwegian Spirit. |
| 02 September 2005 "We should be driven by sound logic, a universal code of ethics and moral values." |
| 02 September 2005 Six Eritrean nurses were inducted into the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International. |
| 02 September 2005 Nancy Crigger describes her yearly trips to Honduras as her passion. |
| 02 September 2005 Guided by the vision of Dean Sheila Haas, the Berwyn/Cicero Registered Nurse Initiative began in 2000 with funding from the MacNeal Health Foundation. |
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By Bethel Ann Powers, 02 September 2005 The recipient of the 2004 AJN Book of the Year award for her book on nursing home ethics looks at some of those issues from another, very personal perspective. |
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By Linda Shields, 02 September 2005 Nursing is known as the caring profession, yet nurses participated in the Holocaust. The author describes the historical setting and challenges nurses to consider how they would respond. |
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By Mary Ellen Wurzbach, 02 September 2005 When faced with an ethical dilemma, choosing the right course of action is a challenge. |
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By Chris G. Alumbaugh, 02 September 2005 Three years after graduating with a BSN degree, the author recalls unforgettable moments in her first year as an RN. |
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