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July 2009 - Posts

ADVANCE Book Club for Nurses

A Nurse's Journal
July 31, 2009 3:04 PM by Gail Guterl
I have never been one for reading memoirs. That may be because contemporary tell-all autobiographies of Hollywood personalities too young to have much to say are so predictable. Thinking exclusively of contemporary memoirs and forgetting some of the great Read More...
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A Closer Look at Nursing's Image
July 31, 2009 2:59 PM by Gail Guterl
It's odd how things happen coincidentally. As I was reading Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All at Risk, which was raising my consciousness as to nursing's image, Nurse Jackie and HawthoRNe debuted on TV. Suddenly nurses from Read More...
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Words Speak Volumes
July 8, 2009 11:04 AM by Pam Tarapchak
I always read the first line of a book before devoting my time to it. If it's creative and pulls me to the next sentence, I'll read the book. I also have a habit of dog-earing pages within a book to mark eloquent passages that resonate within me. In the Read More...
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