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• Hot topic or nurses: universal health
• Cultural and religious aspects of end
• SIDS, sleep, & suffocation: the facts
• Political and legislative activity: why
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_________________________________Legislative Activity:
I could not help noticing in the March 9,
is a great tribute to nurses in the Health
talks about the true contribution nurses make to the caring for patients and tells a
Nothing is terminal. Everything is transitional. What looks like the end of the road will turn out to be a
media’s inaccurate portrayal of nurses in TV shows promotes nursing stereotypes
bend.
that diminishes the significant role that
the myth of nurses portrayal in the media
when a group of women, led by Louisa Lee
Schuyler, concluded in a report to the State Board of Charities that the condition of the
public hospitals of the City and County of
NYSNA’s legislative action advocacy is
proposed that a supply of trained nurses
hospitals, and formed a committee to look
into the creation of a training school for
nurses. The Chair of this committee was Mr.
William Osborn and Dr. W. Gill Wylie was
one of the school's strong supporters on the
medical staff at Bellevue Hospital . Dr. Wylie undertook a trip to Europe to visit nursing
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letter of advice and support from Florence
“Nurses Building a Healthy New
(Source: http://archives.med.nyu.edu/collections/findi
York”. The motto reminds us the
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REASEARCH YOU CAN USE:
the support of a single-payer healthcare
Nurses House: A National Fund for
Nurses in Need. Here is a story of one of
******Contributions can now be made online through Groundspring.org/Network for Good. The website offers several ways
memory/honor of another. All contributions
go directly to nurses who are in financial
crisis due to illness, injury, or some other
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Nursing History:
opened in 1873, the first school in United
principles, among other things, called for
strict rules of hygiene and cleanliness, as
This study does suggest that patient’s
well as having a staff of trained nurses
charge of nursing services in the hospital. Plans for the school began a year earlier,
_________________________________ Nursing Humor: You know you are a nurse if… -You believe every patient needs TLC:
-You've been telling stories in a restaurant and
had someone at another table throw up. -Your bladder can expand to the same size as a
-You believe not all patients are annoying .
some are unconscious. -Your sense of humor seems to get more
-You've sworn you're going to have "NO CODE"
ANA’s The American Nurse:
http://www.nursingfun.com/jokes/nurses/youknow
highlighted in a study that analyzed the
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Other Information of Interest:
findings demonstrate that as RN staffing
Highlights from NYSNA New York Nurse
report can be accessed at www.lww- medicalcare.com January 2009 issue.
- ANA has centralized all its quality initiatives in one place on its website.
The address is www.ncnq.org.
-New article in the “Online Journal of
Issues in Nursing” (OJIN): Obesity on