Walt Whitman’s Birthday

Today marks the anniversary of the birth of poet Walt Whitman, who during the American Civil War served as a nurse in military hospitals. Here, an excerpt from his poem “The Wound-Dresser” in the book of his wartime poetry, Drum Taps: I dress a wound in the side, deep, deep; But a day or two [...]

CFS: Indigenous Health Care (Special Issue of Contemporary Nurse)

Advances in Indigenous Health Care – 2nd edn Authors are invited to send a 200 word abstract in advance of submission to the coordinating editor, Prof Kim Usher, kim.usher@jcu.edu.au Deadline for Papers: 1st March 2010 Nurses and midwives closing the gap in Indigenous health Guest edited by Kim Usher (James Cook University) and Rhonda Marriott [...]

RN Among Ft. Hood Slain

Nurses and nurse educators have lost one of their own in the shootings on a US Army base. Russell Seager, an enlisted Army nurse practitioner, VA hospital nurse, and nurse educator, was among those soldiers slain this past week at the Ft. Hood Army Base in Texas. A brief notice can be found on the [...]

English Nurse Detective Novel Reviewed

This brief review by Marilyn Stasio appeared in the 6 Sept. 2009 issue of the New York Times books section: Readers who can’t get enough of Maisie Dobbs, the intrepid World War I battlefield nurse in Jacqueline Winspear’s novels, or Hester Latterly, who saw action in the Crimean War in a series of novels by [...]

CFS: Health Disparities (Hispanic Nurses Conference)

National Association of Hispanic Nurses 34th Annual Conference Hispanic Nurses: Creating Pathways to Reduce Health Disparities July 21-24, 2009, Crowne Plaza Riverwalk Hotel, San Antonio, Texas We invite the submission of abstracts for Podium Presentation and Poster Presentation Submission Deadline January 15, 2009 Click here http://nursing.uthscsa.edu/CE_Events/NAHN.shtml to find details. The 2009 conference will have a [...]

CFS: UConn ATHENA Conference

ATHENA Research Conference – April 23, 2009 University of Connecticut School of Nursing & University of Connecticut Health Center Department of Nursing ABSTRACTS WELCOMED FROM: • UConn BS, MbEIN, MS & PhD students and PhD nursing students from New England and New York Schools of Nursing • UConn Health Center nurses • UConn School of [...]

CFS: Neonatal Narratives

Call for Stories from Nurses. If you are a nurse who has worked with babies in the first 28 days of their lives, Kaplan Publishing would like to publish your true story in New Lives, an anthology of stories by neonatal nurses, perinatal nurses, nurse midwives, ob-gyn nurses, nurse childbirth educators, labor and delivery nurses, [...]

CFS: Final Moments (Book Anthology)

FINAL MOMENTS: NURSES’ STORIES ABOUT DEATH AND DYING Experiencing the death of a patient is a rite of passage for most nurses. Share a story about: * Your first encounter with the death of a patient * A patient who made a life-changing impression on you * How you have dealt with grief * The [...]