NY Nurse Practitioner Helps Shape Lives

Miraclebody Jeans ran a contest in April 2010 to search for women who make a difference and help shape lives. Megan Sikorski of New York was one of the four women chosen.

Megan is a Nurse Practitioner in pediatric oncology and bone marrow transplant at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in NY.  She is also a volunteer doula who specializes in working with under served single pregnant teens. Congratulations Megan!! You do make a difference!

FREE Web Seminar on Retirement for Nurses

A FREE web seminar on Planning for Retirement: A Guide for Nurses and Other Busy Women will be held next Thursday, July 29 at 2:0 PM EDT.

According to the sponsors, the US Department of Labor, EBSA, the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) and the Center for American Nurses, "Planning for a secure retirement can be challenging for women. Women are twice as likely as men to live in or near poverty in old age, and many women who were never poor during their working years, will find themselves struggling to get by in retirement. The time to start planning for these years is now."

Changes

The Nursing Site Blog will be restored in the next few days. Please be patient
Thanks
Kathy

New Patient's Bill of Rights

A new Patient's Bill of Rights has been made possible as the health care reform act begins to be enacted beginning in September. Read this list of consumer protections and help your patients understand their new rights.

The Nursing Site Rebuilt

TheNursingSite.com has now been redesigned and rebuilt. If you are trying to link to a URL and getting a broken link, please refer to the Article Index to locate the files. Articles are now stored as .pdf fies and will require a .pdf reader to open such as Adobe Reader.

Some links from the articles to other articles may not yet work, but those files can be found in the Article Index as well. 

Happy July 4th

Happy July 4th! Have a safe and happy holiday!!! Take a moment to give thanks and say a prayer for our military nurses. Here's a great post from Sara Ellis that puts it all in perspective. Thanks Sara!

Troubles with Hosting

If you've been trying to access The Nursing Site, and even this blog over the last few days, I appologize for any issues.

I am setting up new hosting for The Nursing Site so that eventually it can be more efficient and I can update the site more easily. However, this is taking forever to accomplish!!!

Somehow the hosting folks have now lost my nameservers info for the blog too and so we're experiencing some intermittent troubles. Hopefully it will all resolve SOON!!! I'm soooo frustrated with it, and I'm sure you are too.

Thanks for hanging in there with me.

HAPPY 4th of July!!!!!

Meg Whitman Taking on California Nurses-- Political Suicide?

Meg Whitman has chosen to take on the California Nurses Association in her campaign to become the next governor of California. She didn't learn that this can be a very dangerous thing for CA politicians to do? Nurses are joining teachers and other unions to donate millions and campaign for Democratic candidate Jerry Brown. Read more.... 

National Nurse Act Needs ANA Support- NOW

The ANA has elected a new president to serve for the next two years. Her name is Karen Daley. I know that there are many of us who hope that the new board will be more devoted to supporting nurses and the nursing profession and less affected by the power and role as others have been in the past.

To that end, I sincerely hope that the new ANA Board will look closely at the National Nurse proposal and add the ANA's support to this very important issue. Kim McAllister at Emergiblog has written an excellent open letter to the ANA asking for their support of the National Nurse campaign. Read and comment on her blog.  And you can email Karen Daley at ANA to ask her for ANA's support.

The National Nurse Act of 2010 now has 15 Congressional members signed on in support!!!  Please contact YOUR Congression representative and ask him/her to support this measure. (I wish I could say I have been successful in gaining the support of my representative, but he is only interested in measures that support his interests and those of special interest groups who financially back him.) Read more about how student nurses view this issue.

Edith Shain-- VJ Day Nurse Dies

Edith Shain was kissed by a U.S. sailor in Times Square on VJ Day August 14, 1945, and the picture has been an iconic image of patriotism and nurses ever since. The sailor was never identified.

Famed photographer Alfred Eisenstadt  snapped the picture for LIFE Magazine as part of the celebration of the end of World War II.

Shain was a registered nurse at the time of the photograph. She passed away last week on June 20, 2010, in Los Angeles.  She was 91.  Read more about her life at her official family website.

photo: from Wikepedia