A deep thank you to my friend and fellow writer Michele Murdock who sent me the first Star Nurses publication, which documents the collaborative effort between the Washington Post and the American Nurses Association (ANA) to nominate six nurses from across Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia who “go above and beyond.” Hopefully, we will have…… Continue reading Meet the Six Nightingale Awards Winners of 2020
Category: American Nurses Association
Ramblings on Expanding Nursing Practice
I asked Martha Barry who worked with me at the Erie Family Health Centers in the early 80s, to remind me if the Certified Nurse Midwives delivered babies. Here’s what she said: The model for the Certified Nurse Midwives (CNM) when I arrived was outpatient care only. The CNM did all of the…… Continue reading Ramblings on Expanding Nursing Practice
Happy New Year 2020
Frieda Paton, RN, a writer for Nurseslabs, an education and nursing lifestyle website geared towards helping student nurses and registered nurses with information for the betterment of their nursing careers, wrote the following in June, 2019: WHO Confirms 2020 as International Year of Nurse and Midwife Governments from around the world endorsed 2020 as the…… Continue reading Happy New Year 2020
More on Nurses Week
I am reblogging this post from Lippincott Solutions. My non-nursing followers can read about the history of Nurses Week and the writers among us will be happy to see that Lippincott is asking for “Inspired Nursing Stories” for their annual writing contest. CELEBRATE NATIONAL NURSES WEEK 2017 Tuesday, May 2, 2017 Are you ready for…… Continue reading More on Nurses Week
Netflix Show Gets Aging Right
I am thrilled that the third season of Netflix’s Grace and Frankie is finally here. As one of the first gerontological nurse practitioners to be certified by the ANA back in the 60s and now a 70-something woman, I am depressed that the very same stereotyping and dismissal of the aged I first encountered is…… Continue reading Netflix Show Gets Aging Right
Nursing Stories: Memories of an Older Nurse 