For twenty-some years I taught nursing students. The curriculum in the four colleges where I taught addressed the different roles of the nurse, such as the nurse as caregiver, teacher, researcher, leader. Not once--and I chaired or had input into curriculum committees all of those years--did I think of addressing the potential role of the …
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Hope College Tonight
A note from my Facebook page yesterday: "I'm eager to "promote nursing" again and to see old and new friends at Hope College tomorrow night-April 13, 6:30pm, Science Center, Room 1000. I feel like that old saying about farm boys--you can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of …
Hope College, 4/13/11, Writing a Nurse’s Life-Why?
The next event for Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self will be on Wednesday, April 13, starting at 6:30 in the Science Center, Room 1000, at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. If you can, use Word Power Point to open the following sharp poster they've made. PresentationFlyer-LoisRoelofs If not, check under …
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Nursing Book Events — North Park University/Hope College
Besides the fun of speaking at these two events, I'm meeting some old friends and schoolmates who plan to attend. A nice way to spend spring! April Sunday, April 3, 2011, 3pm Speaker, Induction of New Members, Kappa Nu Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International North Park University School of Nursing Isaacson Chapel/Nyvall Hall 3225-West …
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Book Signing at Hair Salon
Many thanks go to Krystyna Velasco! It was a delight to meet a steady flow of other customers - 28 in all! - from 4pm to 7pm today. I found we all appreciate her, not only for how she produces magic with our hair, but for her hospitality--her love for each of us and her …
A Salute to Babysitting Grandmas
Once upon a time when I was in my late twenties I was the mom of a toddler and a newborn. I remember being on duty 24/7/365, similar to when I worked in nursing except I did not have every third weekend off like we did in the early sixties. I remember cloth diapers, sterilized bottles, …
Thanks to Women & Children First Bookstore!
Yes, I had the reading of Caring Lessons today at the Women & Children First bookstore on North Clark in Chicago. As a first-time author, I appreciate their cordial willingness to host me. And I'm thankful for new and old friends, plus two of my former writing teachers, that showed up. The staff told me …
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Last call / Women & Children First / Reading
Presto! My attempt at an advertising flyer follows. Click here: Women & Children First - Sunday, 2/13, 4:30pm Take a respite from the cold and warm up with chatter at this Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self event!
Promote book via snowplow!
After being busy last week with three events for Caring Lessons, yesterday I started getting ready for the next reading at Women & Children First here in Chicago on 2/13. I wanted to make a one-page flyer to bring to a few colleges of nursing for them to post on their student bulletin boards. And …
Giga Alerts Finds New Review of Caring Lessons
So, do you know about Giga Alerts? A free web alerting service that tracks your name, for example, when it shows up on the web? I get an email every few weeks that shows where my name--because that's what I've asked them to track for me--shows up on the web. To get even more results, …
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