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This website is continuously being updated with new and revised courses. New • Hot topic or nurses: universal health • Cultural and religious aspects of end • SIDS, sleep, & suffocation: the facts • Political and legislative activity: why ANA CE offerings:
_________________________________ 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 ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ 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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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 ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ 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 ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ 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

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