Web Roundup: The Nursosphere, Dying Nuns, Transparency in Medical Pricing
We do our best to keep up with the nurse blogosphere, but it really helps to have regular help from Kim at Emergiblog, who has posted a fantastically varied and snappy roundup of recent blog posts by nurses in her latest edition of “Change of Shift.” (And thanks, Kim, as always, for the mention of Off the Charts.)
A while back, we noted a news story about parish nurses, and asked whether spirituality and nursing are a good fit—so it seems appropriate to mention two stories with some bearing on health care and its intersection with spiritual or religious matters. Daily Dose, the Washington Post blog “tracking the debate over health care reform,” writes that faith groups are increasingly engaged on the health care reform issue and are “pressing the moral urgency” for reform. And the NY Times has a thought-provoking article about nuns at one convent who are facing death “with dignity and reverence” while often eschewing aggressive treatment.
A convent is a world apart, unduplicable. But the Sisters of St. Joseph, a congregation in this Rochester suburb, animate many factors that studies say contribute to successful aging and a gentle death — none of which require this special setting. These include a large social network, intellectual stimulation, continued engagement in life and spiritual beliefs, as well as health care guided […]
