April 14, 2009 - Off the Charts

Rivets Into Catheters: Auto Workers Retrain as Nurses

A hopeful sign? The Voice of America reports that a group of former auto workers in Michigan, where the nursing shortage is acute, are training to be nurses. Says one, “I don’t have to come home smelling like oil.” The story doesn’t tell us what percentage of these former auto workers are men and what percentage women, but it might be interesting to know. –Jacob M., AJN senior editor

Jacob Molyneux, senior editor/blog editor2016-11-21T13:34:58-05:00April 14th, 2009|career, students|2 Comments

Alerting Nurses to Increased Reports of Sexual Assault in the Military

This post is a bit of a departure for the Word Curmudgeon (in that it’s neither very curmudgeonly nor about some arcane word usage question), but I think it’s a worthy departure and of particular relevance to both military nurses (abroad and stateside) and nonmilitary nurses—anyone, in fact, who treats women who’ve served in the U.S. military. […]