Archive for September, 2008
Monday, September 29th, 2008
What Exactly is Happening With the Economy?
Why not just give the public the $700 billion and help us get out debt under control rather than bailout multi-millionaires? Or, is that business as usual in the US government?
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Am I Really Getting a Nursing Education?
I can read the damn PowerPoints; I don’t need to drive an hour each way to have someone do that for me. And I have classmates who drive even further. The concept that we have to sit in a classroom while the instructor reads slides, with little elaboration, is disrespectful of my time and energies. I want to be taught.
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Remembering 9/11
I would like to think that if those many people who died that day could somehow come today and provide their own perspective, they’d condemn the actions we’ve taken in the name of Homeland security as being an affront to the freedoms for which they had to die.
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Why Be a Nurse?
While wandering around the ‘net, I found this rather intriguing link that got me to thinking about the question of the title.
You’d think as a practical nursing instructor I would be constantly asked that question, and constantly recruiting for the profession. And, you’d think by now that I’d have a whole list of reasons why [...]
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
What I Don’t Know ….
I thought I had a fairly good understanding of endocrinology. After all, I’ve worked in nursing for 25 years and I teach the stuff, for crying out loud. But, apparently I don’t.
