Since I am about to release the second edition of Patientology, I looked up my reviews of the first version. I was pleased that they picked up on the salient points on what I was trying to say. I think it is an important topic – and so did they. Although she does not say...
Category: Nursing Issues
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What is an ‘academic nurse’?
Academic robes on the left are doctoral robes
Academic robes on the right are for the masters degree
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Joe Biden and the American Academy of Nursing
This morning I received an excited email from the American Academy of Nursing – the Powers that Be in nursing. The jist of the message was how excited the board members were with President Joe Biden’s list of executive orders. I have always suspected that I did not think or value many of the things...
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Growing up with Asthma
Asthma is a terrible, frightening disease. It is all about not being able to breathe–to not be able to take a breath. Exhaling is long, but inhaling is brief and unsatisfactory with your breath choking you. And it goes on and on with an interminable sense of never being able to breathe again. As a...
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Causal Relationships between Diabetes and Heart Disease
The USDA committee that writes the Dietary Standards for Americans has consistently refused to use the research on the low-carbohydrate diet in making its dietary recommendations. Are they responsible for all the deaths from diabetes and heart disease? I think so.
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DID YOU KNOW?
I am passionate about Patientology – a focus on the patient and not on the system. Explore with me the various ways in which the patient is ignored or neglected
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Does the “Good of the Many Outweigh the Good of the One?”
I am probably not quoting Star Trek correctly, but you get the idea. When do the needs of one person outweigh the needs of the community? It’s a question I struggled with throughout my career as a nurse educator. What to do with the poor student? In the days when nurses were trained in hospitals,...
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A Plea to Catholics for the Physically Handicapped
When I was growing up my brothers and I frequently heard admonitions to be ‘courteous to others’ which meant, for my brothers, lessons on how to be a “gentleman.” My mother frequently reminded my brothers to stand when a woman entered or left a room, to take off their hats indoors, give up their seats...
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Rebecca “Becky” Self: Her Story
My family called Rebecca Self, Auntie Billie. She was not a blood relative but she was such a close friend to my parents, it seemed too formal to call her “Mrs. Self.” Becky Self was an army nurse. During World War II, she and her husband, Leonard, were imprisoned with us in Cebu and Manila...
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You are the Triage Nurse in the ER
You are working the night shift in the emergency room. Four ambulances arrive at the admitting door at the same time. The attendants say they have gunshot wounds to the head. All four patients are critical. Which patient do you see first, second, third and last? This is the job of triage. There is not...
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