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Medical, nursing schools need to work together | Healthcare Finance News
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No shit. Ya think?
And it'd be nice to have Nursing's voice taken seriously. Tell the truth- when's the last time (and I love my docs, love love love them) the doctor spent 8 hours at your bedside in ICU, put in your IV in ER, or wiped up your vomit on the med/surg floor? [And if your nurse/nurse's aid DIDN'T, that's not a criticism of nursing. It's a criticism of how thinly stretched nursing is.]
I'm inviting responses, dialogue, criticism, commentary, and your stories. I've got something brewing that can't quite come to a boil, yet, about all this and the health-care/health insurance/public health/personal health debacle/debate that's going on nationally, but I need more points of view, more facets, to properly focus the light so I can see what I'm really looking at.
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Yesterday, in the States, was Veteran's Day. I remember it being Armistice Day when I was very young...
Anyway, one US-centric article and one US-centric memoir-essay about war, and the wish for peace.
The Anguish of War for Today’s Soldiers, Explored by Sophocles.
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: November 12, 2009
A project uses ancient theater as a vehicle for sharing pain, learning and healing. (NYT)
( Full text in case link will not work )
Sgt. First Class Tony Gonzalez, an Iraq combat veteran from Brooklyn who was on the panel, recalled that post-traumatic stress disorder was rarely discussed when he first joined the Army. He described his own pain after his platoon captain was killed and he went to pay respects to the man’s wife, also a friend and member of the military.
And he praised the use of theater to help put a spotlight on trauma.
“I’ve been Ajax,” he said. “I’ve spoken to Ajax.”
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One Grizzled Veteran's Dream
Huffington Post
William Astore
Writer, Professor, Retired Lt. Colonel, Air Force
Posted: November 11, 2009 08:05 AM
( full text in case the link won't work )
On this Veteran's Day, what if we began to measure our national success and power, not by our military arsenal or by the number of new recruits in the ranks, but rather by the gradual shrinking of our military ranks, the decline of our spending on defense, perhaps even by the growing quiet of our legion posts and VFW halls?
Wouldn't that be a truer measure of national success: fewer American combat veterans?
Wouldn't that give us something to celebrate this Veteran's Day?
I know one old grizzled veteran who would quietly nod his agreement.
Professor Astore currently teaches History at the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, PA. He writes regularly for TomDispatch.com and can be reached at wastore at pct.edu.
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Starting on Thursday, November 5 at Boston University, Howard Zinn and producers and cast from THE PEOPLE SPEAK are embarking on a national college tour for Howard's forthcoming documentary feature film THE PEOPLE SPEAK.
All events are FREE!
To reserve a seat in advance (highly recommended) and for more info visit:
http://www.history.com/thepeoplespeakcollegetour
http://www.facebook.com/HowardZinn
( Coming soon to a campus near you! )
And check out The People Speak -- airing on History on December 13, 2009 -- the documentary inspired by Voices of a People's History of the United States and produced by Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Chris Moore, Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn, and featuring Damon, Brolin, Rosario Dawson, Bob Dylan, Morgan Freeman, John Legend, Viggo Mortensen, Bruce Springsteen, Marisa Tomei, and Kerry Washington.
See a sneak peek preview at http://www.thepeoplespeak.com
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ok, nursing/medical shows? get your shit together. it doesn't take that much longer to do things right- trust me, i've been an RN for thirty years. it really doesn't take any time at all to do it right.
what brought this on? decided to check out Three Rivers tonight.
oh, god, the amount of money spent on fancy monitors and yet you can't get the mask on the respiratory patient correctly? you can't wipe off the connections before giving IV meds? you can't put the rails up on people's beds? but you can have fbi escorts through bomb scares, and people go off to surgery without a signed consent or any kind of checklist even a nameband, and the transplant surgeon comes into OR with her hair hanging out of her cap? yes, it's great that you've got a female transplant surgeon- so why does she have to be sloppy? why aren't the nurses on top of their patients' vitals- oh, i know because nurses don't actually do anything, except steal drugs (nurse jackie) or sleep with the docs (mercy).
it'd be SO EASY to do these little things correctly. so easy. and give people just that much more of a fighting chance of understanding how things work when they go to the hospital. which would be nice, yanno? because we have enough to do, doing things right, without cleaning up misconceptions people get from your sloppy misleading television.
just sayin.
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I'll credit Peter Shankman at HARO [Help a Reporter Out] with turning me on to Mothers Emerge Worldwide, an educational and experience-sharing website and fund-raising through micro-business venture. I admire what the founder's done and what the website offers. If you've given birth, are considering pregnancy, or know someone who is, I recommend this new, growing site.
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From their facebook Cause page:(it's a cause I support, IRL)
Help Us Wish John Well & Thank Him For His Service
In today's message:
1. John Abodeely is moving on, let's send him off with a big Thank You!
2. John has a request before he goes.
3. Share your wins with us!
1. John Abodeely has served Americans for the Arts as the Arts Education Manager and is moving on to the Kennedy Center in DC. We support the move and are sad for the loss. He is a consummate professional who has helped the Cause and the arena of Arts Education tremendously. Please feel free to wish him well at jabodeely@artsusa.org by September 25th.
"I've learned a lot. There are amazing people at Americans for the Arts. My colleagues are brilliant, wonderful, smart and have taught me so much That's been awesome. It's an amazing organization." - John Abodeely
Working together, he's helped us accomplish a lot!
2. John has a request before he goes - BLOG-A-THON GOING ON NOW!
This week, all week, 30 arts education experts from around the country will blog daily on Americans for the Arts’ new arts education blog and webpage: www.AmericansForTheArts.org/ArtsEdu cation.
Our esteemed bloggers will be talking about steps each reader can take to ensure the children in their family, schools or community have access to a great arts education.
Our bloggers will include members of the Arts Education Council of Americans for the Arts; Lucia Brawley, activist, actress, and writer for the Huffington Post; emerging leaders Jenna Lee and Kim Willey, both of Washington, DC; Mike Blakeslee from MENC; state advocacy leaders; state department of education staff; teaching artists; local program experts; and, other folks from all over the country.
But they’re just the start. You—and specifically your responses to their posts—are what this online event is truly about. That’s where you can weigh in, offer your own opinions and present yourself as an expert for readers around the country. Solutions do not come from the top down—they come from peers, colleagues, friends, and fellows well-met.
Read, respond, do.
http://bit.ly/nRYTX
3. Share your wins with us!
Based on the amazing feedback we got at the end of last school year, Americans for the Arts has created a portal for members like you to share what is working so that other people can benefit from your success.
Please share that here. http://bit.ly/WOYzB
This year, I am volunteering to help Americans for the Arts create a Toolkit for building an effective arts program in your school. I could use your help. Initially we'll be creating a guide for outlining and managing the project, establishing buy-in from all the parents, educators and students, and following up with agreed actions toward common results. Your involvement could include many forms of activity and support and suggestions are appreciated!
Early next week we'll be floating a petition your way that is sanctioned by the President of Americans for the Arts. With that said, I highly caution you to read the petition before signing it. It asks President Obama to release funds in a very proactive and thus, non-traditional way. I only ask you to support it if you truly believe in it. So, please read through it. Again, I'll send that out early next week.
Thank you for your effort, energy, attention and time.
I am grateful to you for all that you contribute to make this Cause so powerful.
Sincerely,
M******* P*********
Cause Admin
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(reposted in its entirety from ![[info]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) deadlychameleon who is the "I" referenced below)
In regards to surveyfail: http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/SurveyFail
I called the Boston University IRB office. The direct approach works.
They've gotten a lot of emails regarding Dr. Ogas. He is no longer in any way affiliated with Boston University, except as a recent graduate. They have asked him to stop using his official Boston University email address in connection with this project, or his website. He is officially on his own, and this project is NOT IRB APPROVED.
That is the official status as stated by the Boston University IRB office.
The problem with this is threefold:
1. The researcher has no expertise in the area he is researching, nor has he recruited anyone to give him guidance.
2. The researcher has substantial profit motivation to produce work in this area (book contract with Penguin) which may lead to unethical conduct/a tendency to misrepresent his results.
3. The research is in no way overseen by any external body which can examine it for potential unethical conduct.
In addition to all of these, the researchers have now alienated their participant population, who are now very likely to become unreliable participants.
The only way to salvage the study at this point, I believe, would be for them to change it to an observational one.
ETA: if you want to share, please repost with attribution, that way people don't have to click through to get the information. If people need to contact me, they're certainly free to do so, but I'd like the discussion to spread out.
Also, all comments here are based on the information I had at the time of posting - if it turns out to be inaccurate, my deepest apologies. My statements regarding the problems with this research are based on my personal opinions, and should be taken as such.
ETA 2: I need to do other things for awhile, so I apologize if comments go unanswered. I should add that the IRB stated they contacted Dr. Ogas, and confirmed that this was indeed his project (they also gave him some basic methodological suggestions, despite the fact that he's no longer affiliated). They claim he's been very receptive to their suggestions. I say this just to confirm that YES THIS IS HIS PROJECT, and probably not a case of stolen identity.
ETA 3: Oh look who just f-locked his entries. Anyone with screencaps? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
ETA 4: Hopefully the last ETA I'm going to need to make.
I don't even know offhand where the line between unethical and illegal begins here, because they're so far past anything I'd ever do.
To start with:
1. Lack of proper anonymity/privacy protections for participants potentially admitting to illegal activity.
2. Lack of proper anonymity/privacy protections for participants potentially admitting to things that could negatively impact them at work and in their communities were they to become known.
3. Lack of any kind of age statement - this is methods 101 people, you always ask if a person is over 18, otherwise you need parental consent for any research study.
4. Lack of ANY kind of informed consent. No statement that you may withdraw from the research at any time. No statement saying what the research will be used for. No statement of risk vs. benefit. No statement regarding deception. No statement giving the affiliations of the researchers.
This is BAD RESEARCH, not to belabor the point. As one commenter pointed out, it's one thing when it's a survey about ice cream flavors. But the risk level here is fairly high. It's possible for someone to lose their job were this information to become public and identified with a given person.
ETA: Wearing the Juice: A Case Study in Research Implosion, wonderful entry from a research-end person.
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Find out more about National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week and the 5-day free virtual conference with 20 speakers Sept 14-18, 2009 at www.invisibleillness.com.
If you have an invisible chronic illness and are interested in blogging a post please go to:
http://ow.ly/nhgv
thanks, imafarmgirl for the info, and the insight.
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Keep the Arts In Public Schools is one of my FaceBook causes.
To support this cause, I'm listing all my Arts for Children books in this note, and promising 10% of profits from each sale to KAIPS.
Arts&Crafts
Make Sculptures (Art and Activities for Kids) by Solga, Kim $3.00
Make Gifts! (Art and Activities for Kids) by Solga, Kim $3.00
How to Make Soft Toys and Dolls (A Sunset Book) [Paperback] by various $3.00
Draw! (Art and Activities for Kids) by Solga, Kim $3.00
Paint! (Art and Activities for Kids) by Solga, Kim $3.00
I Can Draw Animals (Usborne Playtime Series) [Paperback] by Gibson, Ray $3.00
The Big Book of Soft Toys [Hardcover] by Mabstyler; Kingsford, John $5.00
CRAFT BOOKS: MODELING BOOK (PAPERBACK) by Owen (Modeling clay & more) $3.00
Batik (Start-A-Craft: Get started in a new craft with easy-to-follow projects... $4.00
Stenciling (Start-a-Craft) by Skinner, Betsy; Sapsford, Jamie $3.50
0401E1GY5XQ Start-A-Craft: Puppets by Schneebeli-Morrell, Deborah $3.00
More Lettie Lane Paper Dolls by Young, Sheila $2.00
A World of Costumes in Cutout : All You Need is a Pair of Scissors and Glue $12.00
Poetry, writing & words
Animal Poems For Children by Golden Books $2.00
THE GOLDEN JOURNEY: POEMS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. [Hardcover] $10.00
Poems for Brothers, Poems for Sisters by Livingston, Myra C.; Zallinger, Jean $4.00
Performing arts
Musics of Many Cultures: An Introduction [Paperback] by May, Elizabeth [This is a college text, but makes a wonderful guide to teach from, as well] $7.00
DVDs, VHS, CDs
Jim Henson's The Storyteller: The Definitive Collection [DVD] $15.00
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite; Swan Lake Suite [Germany] [Import] [Audio CD] $4.00
Notes from the Wild: The Nature Recording Expeditions of Bernie Krause $8.00
Also available at EnjoyIt are books for kids about science, myths & fairy tales, geography; books on parenting and fun activities to do with kids; several antique children's books (not perfect first editions, but the kind of lovely old book you want to just hold and read= the kind that makes your hands ache to hold another book, and another), and chapter books/YA books as well.
Remember, 10% of profit from these sales goes to Keep Arts In the Public Schools. Thank you for your support of this Cause.
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Apparel and shoes on sale at Amazon until April 3rd. (yeah, I get referral points if you buy after going in through my portal. geez, don't I sound like a pro, or a shill, or something? lol)
Sample listings:
( A Tolkien Treasury )
Amy's Eyes
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BRITISH COLUMBIA: A CENTENNIAL ANTHOLOGY [Hardcover] Edited by Reginald E. Watters
The five sections of this Centennial Anthology attempt to portray in words and B&W pictures the varied life of British Columbia in both the past and present.
30 Days to a Simpler Life; A Medieval Woman's Mirror of Honor: The Treasury of the City of Ladies; Boycott; Capitol Hill in Black and White; Canciones Infantiles [Audio CD] El patio de mi casa; Child in the Night [VHS Tape] JoBeth Williams; Tom Skerritt; Tim Choate, Elijah Wood IMDb; Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice [Hardcover] Gary M. Tabor; Core Curriculum for Lactation Consultant Practice [Paperback] by Walker, Marsha; Essentials of Nursing Research: Methods, Appraisal, and Utilization; Eve's Bayou [DVD] Jurnee Smollett; Meagan Good; Samuel L. Jackson; Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols by Bynum, Caroline W.; Guide to Rembering Japanese Characters (Tuttle language library); Howard Street by Nathan C. Heard; Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West by Rebecca Solnit; Spiritual Gardening [Audiobook] by Handelsman, Judith (cassettes) among other books, movies, and music.
Open letter to white activists by lj user slit thanks to lj user princessofg who describes it as "Brilliant and timely stuff on coalitions and minority groups...."; in addition it contains excellent thought-provoking writing on "...sex and freedom..." and privilege.
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Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
—Dennis Kucinich (from Perceval Press)
I'm not so inexperienced as to think that it's enough to say "Everyone, keep yourself healthy!" Or so negative as to think that it's someone's fault if I get sick, or so naive as to think that doctors should know everything or so cynical as to think all doctors (hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, nursing agencies) are only in it for the money.
But seriously.
I'm very interested- personally as well as professionally- in how health care reaches people, and what people expect "health care" to be. How do I, a registered nurse, make available my knowledge, skills, and experience, if I'm not going to do it within the confines of a hospital system, the state/federal public health system, or an agency? Can I charge for it? Barter for goods or services? What risk do I assume? What risk does someone I work with assume?
On the larger scale, do we, as health care "consumers", have any obligation to stay as healthy as possible, to reduce the pressure on those who provide us with basic health care? When private industry takes over the municipal water supply or the garbage pick-up, how does a citizen ensure his or her neighborhood, town, city is safe and sanitary?
What is possible, at the overarching level of the State? How feasible is employer-based insurance? Insurance in general? What are the obligations of the individual-in terms of caring for oneself, for one's family, community, the organizations that provide care?
One of the things that came up at dinner tonight was that Kaiser Permanente has figured out that, with only 2 percent of medical students planning to go into primary care, it needs to take care of the primary care MDs it already has, since it "needs to make them last", as my friend put it. She is 63, had, 10 years ago, her own practice, which she had to give up when spiraling costs and sinking reimbursements made it impossible to continue and still pay off her medical school debt as well as care for her family.
You know what I'd like? If you would give me your experiences- good or bad, honest, I'm interested in all sides- with health care, lack of health care, health care access, health insurance (employer or government based, US or in another country)- how it's changed for you over time, or depending on your age, or status (student, military, married or not, employed or not, healthy or not, pre-existing condition or evolving condition). It feels to me like there's something in this- an article, or series of articles, at least, for one of the nursing magazines- and, in some paradise of enough time and energy and focus and luck, a book or two or three (perhaps one for nurses, one for the public, and those children's books I so want to write about being healthy, having a healthy community). But I can't write anything with only my own experience- so if you would be willing to share yours, or even point me in the direction of things you know or have experienced, but anonymously- I would appreciate it tremendously.
Of course, I would keep any confidences. That's my obligation as an RN- but more, it's my obligation to you as a person, one person to another.
And on that note... /ramble.
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have abut 80 pages of Native American Studies reading to finish by next Saturday. Means I must concentrate on this.
Car needs to be smogged (for my EU/UK friends- have its biennial government-mandated check-up and [pray] pass California's emissions standards). This is going to take a bit of finagling of both time (I can't get to work without a car) and money (please, please let it pass without needing major work, or worse).
I really have to not spend too much time with news of politics, the economy, and world events. It's too easy to fall from 'have to get the car taken care of' to 'I'll be homeless living on twigs' if I read from the debates to the bail-out to Zimbabwe. That's false reasoning (or no reasoning, really), doesn't illuminate anything, steals energy I need to do the actual problem-solving required to be a good citizen, and prevents me from having any real understanding of just how dire things are in other places, like Zimbabwe. Not that that couldn't happen here- history proves anything can happen anywhere, as the very good book for Native American Studies is proving (well-researched and well-written, Indians in American History by Hoxie and Iverson). But it's not happening right-this-minute. I do not need to buy up 50 gallons of water and 10 gallons of gasoline (all I have storage for, myself) and curse myself for not drying 100lbs of apples this fall and burying nuts for winter. That's insane.
So, not too much of the 'news' (or as it should be more accurately called, bread and circuses). Concentrate on finishing uni, on staying (getting more) healthy, on saving money for summer.
Back to the book while my girl is still sleeping. She continues to slowly slip; progressive diseases are unforgiving. But her family loves her, and I'm amazed that it's two years I've been working here with them. It's an honor.
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I've mentioned before, I think, about this book about Hans Christian Andersen I found while in San Francisco (of which there are now a very few, not very good pictures, which may or may not be posted at some point).
I enjoy the writer's style- it's a style I grew up with- aspired to!- and find both involves me in the reading and informs me about the subject, while gently showing me ways to improve my own writing. I am equally delighted to know that while she was researching this book- published in 1965- I was pursuing an interest in Denmark which, sadly, had to be laid aside on the precipice of adult life and was not to be picked up again until a few years ago- but I feel as though I can open this book and continue on directly from where I stopped, and that is soothing and happy-making beyond belief, because it feels like I am buying back lost time.
I am parceling it out, this book- it's a reward for finishing a section of uni work. Instead of inhaling it, of moving in and being carried along, I'm journeying with Andersen, walking pace, carriage at the fastest, and it's a wonderful respite from car/uni/television news.
This bit I'm going to share with you tonight (particularly for the struggling writers on my FL, of whatever level of skill or attainment, published or not, in whatever field- fanfiction, academia, journalism) struck me for several reasons: the foreshadowing of a later friendship, perceived by intuition before it became fact. An insightful piece of advice that is no-nonsense, straightforward, and compassionate. And the advice itself, which I find calming for me and which I hope is of some use or value to some of you in your endeavours.
"As a boy of fourteen, newly arrived in Copenhagen, Andersen had once seen Thorvaldsen, who was then visiting his native land. Recognizing him in the street from his pictures, Andersen had taken off his hat to him. Thorvaldsen walked on a few pace, then stopped, turned back, and asked the boy, 'Where have I seen you before? I seem to think we two know each other.' When Andersen later reminded him of this incident, Thorvaldsen smiled, pressed his hand, and said, 'Yes, I must have had a feeling that we two should be friends. ' Thorvaldsen was a leonine character who was popularly supposed to have once told a rival, 'Tie my hands behind my back and I will bite the marble better than you can chisel it,' and he took an immediate liking to his young countryman and gave him excellent advice. He fully understood Andersen's dread of the pedagogic criticism to which he was subjected in Copenhagen and told him: 'Never let that sort of thing touch you. Feel your own strength. Don't be led by public opinion. Go quietly ahead. Peace of mind is essential to creative work. You are unfortunate in needing a public, but this is something the public must never be made aware of, otherwise one becomes prey to its whims. I know what they are like at home. It would have been no better for me had I stayed there. I might have been prevented from working from the nude. Thank goodness I don't need them. If one needs them they know how to torment and irritate one.'"
The Wild Swan: the life and times of Hans Christian Andersen
by Monica Sterling. Harcourt Brace & World, New York. 1965 As always, lots of love, and blessings on your heads. Bertel Thorvaldsen and links to his works here: a general links list and here: images.
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