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Public Health in Azerbaijan: On the Road with AJN Contributing Editor Jane Salvage

Jane Salvage in Baku, Azerbaijan

We recently received the following account of a visit to Azerbaijan from AJN contributing editor Jane Salvage, MSc, BA, RGN. At the time of writing, Salvage was a consultant for the noncommunicable diseases programme, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe. She now works as the policy lead in the support team for the Prime Minister’s Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in England, and fears that seeing Baku in the springtime will have to wait a year or two. This post is fairly long, but we feel the range of local detail included by Salvage gives a fascinating glimpse into what it’s really like to work in the field of international public health policy. (Note: we’ve retained some UK-style spellings.)

Did I pack the toilet rolls, diarrhoea pills, and dollar bills? These are essential survival items for my trips to Russia and other former Eastern Bloc countries. I’ve added many things to my travel checklist since my first visits in the 1980s—gadgets like the computer and phone charger—but the core kit stays the same. I never know quite […]
2016-11-21T13:36:18-05:00April 6th, 2009|Nursing, Public health|2 Comments
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RealityRN.com: just right for students and new nurses

I wish there was something like RealityRN.com available back when I was a new nurse. In addition to reading the site’s great articles on career management, participants can post their own stories or questions about nursing and get feedback from one another in a safe, friendly environment. There are also useful videos and humorous postings. (The very good video series on how to deal with preceptors would have helped me back in 1996. I just recommended them to a friend of mine who was fired from her first nursing position due to a conflict with a preceptor.) While the site is geared toward new nurses and students, experienced nurses will find it interesting too and can use it as a venue to mentor novices who are struggling with their new roles.

Christine Moffa, MS, RN, is AJN’s clinical editor. She will be giving periodic updates and recommendations, so check back.

 

"Nurse Moffa," AJN's clinical editor, with pals Rico and Giusepina “Nurse Moffa,” AJN’s clinical editor, with pals Rico and Giusepina

 


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2020-02-07T11:22:11-05:00March 24th, 2009|students|0 Comments
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“Nurses don’t teach. They educate!” OK, but…. (A style update from the Word Curmudgeon)

I had a few comments but no death threats after my first post, about “nurse writers.” That fact gives me the courage to tackle another grammatical pet peeve of mine. Let me admit, up front, that probably no one else in the world cares about this, and no one else appears to have written about it. This could mean either that I’m really astute or completely wrong.

Education is central to what nurses do. Nurses educate. They work hard, as we do here at AJN, to elevate the image of nursing and nurses in the public eye (as well as the eyes of the medical community, policymakers, and politicians).

It’s understandable, then, that when nurses want to talk or write about something as central to nursing as patient education, they would choose the verb “educate” rather than “teach.”

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2020-02-07T11:22:39-05:00March 23rd, 2009|nursing perspective|1 Comment
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State Boards of Nursing: Can They Protect the Public from Unsafe Nurses? An Audio Interview with Dr. Maryann Alexander, RN

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The March 2009 issue of AJN includes a study by Dr. Elizabeth Zhong and her colleagues at the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). This study of nurses who were put on probation for professional misconduct by six state boards of nursing found that nurses with a history of a criminal conviction were more than four times more likely to recidivate than nurses without such a history. The obvious conclusion: state boards need to do background checks on nurses applying for licensure or license renewal. […]

2020-02-07T11:23:50-05:00March 13th, 2009|Nursing|0 Comments
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At the IOM Integrative Medicine Conference: Nursing Crucial to Model of Care

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On February 25-27, 2009, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened the “Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public” in Washington, DC, to advance the science, understanding, and progress of integrative medicine (“health care that addresses together the mental, emotional, and physical aspects of the healing process”). 

             I’ll cut right to the chase—I have a problem with the term “integrative medicine,” and I’m glad to report that I wasn’t alone. On day one a number of the 650 diverse practitioners chimed in about the lack of inclusiveness in that terminology. Dr. Beverly Malone, the CEO of the National League for Nursing, voiced a strong statement that the term was not inclusive and requested that “integrative health care” be used instead. She reminded everyone of the historically critical role nursing and other health care professionals have played in the development of this model of care. By the end of the meeting the consensus was that the field should be called integrative health—not CAM, not integrative medicine. We’ll […]

2020-02-07T11:31:04-05:00March 10th, 2009|career|2 Comments
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