He's critical of nursing home love story

Sunday News Lancaster, PA;  December 23, 2007 ;     308 words ......make some comments based on personal experience. "Love in the world of an...only one, very small part of "nursing home love." It also errs in...bond with a (male) fellow nursing home resident." Actually there...almost 14 years ago and a nursing home resident for the past...

Handling the Sick: The Women of St. Luke's and the Nature of Nursing,...

Nursing History Review;  January 1, 2006 ;   Bullough, Vern L;   787 words ......possible, the authors challenge this elitist view of nursing and cite examples from St. Luke's to illustrate...those who they feel have ignored the reality of nursing history and tried to make it something that it was not. In the authors' views, nursing was a trade, and those who try to make it ...

RISK OF MALNUTRITION IN NURSING HOMES:ILENE R. HENSHAW

Congressional Testimony;  October 22, 1997 ;     787 words ......malnutrition in nursing homes. As the daughter of a nursing home resident I am very aware that good nutrition is critical to the quality of life and care of all nursing home residents. Nutrition directly impacts so...overemphasize its importance. But nutrition, in the nursing home context, is so ...

Wissenschaft as personal experience.

The Hastings Center Report;  July 1, 2002 ;   Jonas, Hans;   787 words ......speak to you about Wissenschaft as personal experience. (1) This is a subject I would scarcely...that involved speaking about my own personal experience. For the end result of intellectual...Weber's address, the reference to personal experience in my title forces me to enter the...

Moving beyond the stereotype; Gender isn't an issue for nursing.(Business)

The Boston Herald;  August 21, 2002 ;   Hurley, Denis;   787 words ......solution to the issue is to have men come into nursing. She contends that better pay and working conditions...life every day he goes to work are enough to keep nursing attractive for him. And, like many other nurses...Mulaison says that, even for men who may have viewed nursing as a profession without ...

SURVEY: GEORGIANS OPPOSE DRASTIC MEDICAID CUTS FOR NURSING HOME SERVICES

PR Newswire;  May 8, 1996 ;     787 words ......undisputed, as nine of 10 (90) Georgians think that nursing homes provide a valuable service. Only 5 percent...5 percent don't know. -- Georgia residents see nursing homes as a viable option for their family members...ill family member, close relative or friend in a nursing home. This option is ...

Learning from experience: students Joy Longden and David Graham gave up...

Nursing Standard;  February 5, 2003 ;     787 words ......who will soon sit his qualifying exams for the nursing studies degree at Glasgow's Caledonian University...local authority gardener before he was tempted by nursing. `When I left school, nursing was definitely not macho enough,' he says. Gradually...wielded a chainsaw, a career in health care and then ...

Coalition Holds Town Hall Meeting on Crisis of Care in Illinois Nursing...

PR Newswire;  May 8, 2003 ;     787 words ......Chronic understaffing is making it difficult for nursing home workers to give residents the care they need...Quality Care, a coalition of senior citizens, nursing home care providers, employees, family members...real crisis before action is taken to improve nursing home care. United for Quality Care ...

"Personal experience with the Whipple operation: outcomes and lessons...

The American Surgeon;  August 1, 2006 ;   Chedid, Marcio F; Chedid, Aljamir D;   287 words ......referal centers. We read the paper "Personal experience with the Whipple operation: outcomes...with the expression in the title "Personal experience". In our point of view, personal experience involves not only the supervision...

Combatting racism in nursing: despite many years of cultural safety...

Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand;  February 1, 2006 ;   Grant-Mackie, Diana;   787 words ......had punished articles about how racism affects nursing in Britain. Encouraged by their response, I visited...in Health in Middlesex, Rena Papadopoulos, and nursing research fellow at the University of Central England...the effects of racism on them personally, their nursing colleagues, their patients and ...

Sturgeon reveals personal experience of superbug

The Scotsman;  June 20, 2008 ;   Hamish Macdonell;   184 words ......the health secretary, yesterday revealed that she had personal experience of the C Difficile bug - which recently killed eight people...is to have experience of C diff in the family. I have personal experience of that. "This is an incredibly serious issue. "It's one...

85 years and counting Mennonite College of Nursing alumni return for...

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  September 10, 2004 ;   Michele Steinbacher;   716 words ......the oldest living alumna of Mennonite College of Nursing. Her compassionate reputation -- showing concern...retirees illustrated the span of Mennonite's impact on nursing. Most know Ropp, class of 1931, as the relief day...Mennonite. Her brother lived in Eureka. At the time, nursing students lived in one ...

Urban Coalition names new president; The group's first non-black leader...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  April 21, 2001 ;   Taylor, Kimberly Hayes;   426 words ...Citing his passion for people and his personal experience, the Urban Coalition has named Lee Pao Xiong to...will leave to take the new job. Xiong said his personal experience prepared him to understand issues of racial strife...

California HealthCare Foundation Funds First-Ever Quality Ratings of State...

PR Newswire;  April 12, 2000 ;     787 words ......the public. The program is called the California Nursing Home Consumer Information System. It will be carried...Gerontological Research and the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR). A comprehensive report on the quality of nursing home care will be released to the public in 2002...way for ...

Does it take a tragedy to get things done?; Chancellor Gordon Brown says...

The Evening Standard (London, England);  March 21, 2002 ;   Jenkins, Simon;   787 words ......Mirror, his voice dropping to a whisper , that my own personal experience ... convinces me the health service is one of the great...clear. The NHS must have more money, a priority fuelled by personal experience. Gordon and Sarah Brown's tragedy in losing their daughter...