An Entry in the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge Once you know the meaning of ubiquitous, it will become a favorite word. In the late 80s, I accompanied one of my older sisters on her road trip from Chicago to Seattle to assume a dean's position at a university. She lived in …
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Nurses Week, May 6-12, 2015 -The American Nurse Project: Interviews
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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Nurses Who are Doctors
What came to your mind when you read this title? A physician, or a nurse with a doctoral degree? Chances are your first thought was a physician. With less than one percent of all nurses having doctorates, you may not even know doctoral degrees exist in nursing. You would not be alone. The first program …
Christmas Present for a Nurse or Nursing Student – 2013
For that nurse or nursing student in your life, consider giving them Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self. My career memoir tells my story from nurse's aide to professor emerita and from diploma to PhD. Caring Lessons will inspire the reader that achieving career dreams are possible! I used to tell my …
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BSN to Doctoral Degree Programs
As a retired nurse educator, I’m excited about the trend in nursing to prepare nurses at a younger age for research and, particularly, academic careers. As we older nurses like to say, “in my day” as a new diploma grad in 1962, I never thought about a full-time career in academia. In fact, in those …
Dissertation Revisited
Twenty years ago, I wrote a dissertation to complete the requirements for a PhD in nursing. A flurry followed where I presented papers and posters at conferences on my research. Eight years later, in 1999, I published some of the results in a refereed journal. A highlight for me. Jump to now. A colleague is …
Countdown – 10/6 Weeks Until Publication!
Why the 10/6 today? Because the projected publication date for Caring Lessons was ten weeks from today - 10-1-10. But since we're now running ahead of schedule it's been changed to six weeks or even less. So it feels like having a bona fide book in my hand is really going to happen! Back to …
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