According to the American Nurses Association, the US needs 1.1 million registered nurses over the next eight years. If you are, or know anyone who is, interested in nursing, but don't feel you know enough about it to make a career choice or switch, the interviews of nurses conducted by The American Nurse Project are …
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Three weeks ago, I posted "Dissertation Revisited", ending with a plea for help with APA format. A former student responded via email. Her memory serves to remind us "former teachers" that our students actually do remember some things they're taught! I had to laugh when you asked for help with APA format. When I put …
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With many thanks to Heidi McLaughlin, international speaker and author of Sand to Pearls: Making Bold Choices to Enrich Your Life and Beauty Unleashed: Transforming a Woman's Soul, I present her new review of Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self on Amazon: This book intrigued me. I am not a nurse, …
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After yet a few more fun book launching events--a read at the Palos Heights Library and a book table at a conference sponsored by the Park Forest Nurses Club, I took a break with my husband for a road trip west. The fall color changes were almost complete, but the rolling hills of newly harvested …
Being new to the process of publishing, I didn't know (or didn't remember) that I'd get the galley to proof. But I did and now I'm working on it. Caring Lessons is now typeset, and I'm very happy with how it looks. My publisher, Deep River Books, has done everything I've suggested. Imagine my grin …
I'm in to the nursing shortage tonight, partly because I've heard some horror stories again about people's experiences where they needed a nurse and encountered someone without the education or licensure. I'm not out to paint nursing as all rosy. The economic downturn right now is affecting jobs. Read or listen to this newscast: Shortage …
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has updated their fact sheet on the nursing shortage, a fact sheet that I've used before for obtaining shortage data for the promotion of Caring Lessons. Check out their website: AACN - Media - Nursing Shortage Fact Sheet As one of the growing population of older folks, I …
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