Unless you've been living under a rock the last two weeks, you know that Apple unveiled its newest gadget, the iPad, a tablet-sized companion piece to the iPhone.  Five minutes after the unveiling, everyone in healthcare began debating its crossover capability.  Everyone from physician groups to the American Hospital Association has ...

Nursing’s ranking as the most trusted profession in America the past 8 years in Gallup’s annual Honesty & Ethics poll is testament to the reverence with which the public holds the caring profession. It’s a sentiment nurses return each day when they go to work. In fact, for some that sense of commitment to caring about and for ...

On his first nursing mission to Nepal in 2007, Joe Niemczura, MS, RN, wondered how he would make his mark on the indigenous people. ''I wasn't there to do the nursing, I was there to teach the locals what they need to do,'' he explains. But as he arrived at the host hospital in the town of Tansen, he had no idea how he would build ...

AIDS seemed to be a hot topic Wednesday at the National Black Nurses Association Convention in Toronto. The last full day of the conference commenced with a spirited skit that raised awareness about how nurses can best encourage testing and navigate sensitive issues in caring for patients with recently diagnosed with AIDS. The topic came up again ...

Foreign languages are a way of traveling without leaving home. There are subtleties in language that can only be understood within the context of culture, words that cannot be precisely translated. It's a journey to some undiscovered syllabic territory. Like spoken music, language pulses with a characteristic rhythm and cadence that somehow belies ...

''Some people thought this would be a dinky little school,'' laughs Ruth Barnard, PhD, RN, former University of Michigan professor who, upon ''retirement,'' accepted the challenge of helping to establish a BSN-granting nursing school on the island of Haiti. Working through the non-profit Haiti Nursing Foundation, that's exactly what she and ...