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NURSES OF ACTION

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About Me

A place for the civic and globally minded Nurse to find the resources to use his or her talents and education in a manner that might change the world, especially those looking to work in areas of Nursing outside of the typical hospital or clinic setting.

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Nurses and Nursing students. Scientists, activists, philosophers,...and all brave, bold, driven, ADVENTUROUS, individuals who believe that things can and should change.

My Blog

Daschle lays out new administrations plan to overhaul health care in the U.S.

WASHINGTON  Tom Daschle formally began the incoming administrations arduous quest to overhaul the nations health care system on Thursday, telling former Senate colleagues that the task had become m...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:21:00 GMT

Nurses Named Most Honest Profession For The 7th Year

With nurses ranking at the top of Gallups 2008 annual Honesty and Ethics of Professions survey for the seventh straight year, staff nurses and nursing leaders share their thoughts about how and why...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:16:00 GMT

Nurses and the 2008 Presidential Election

A recent study led by Vanderbilt University professor Peter Buerhaus polled registered nurses about two timely issues -- the state of health care and the importance of the issue in the upcoming electi...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:46:00 GMT

Clinton, Obama, McCain united in a promise to help Darfur

WE STAND UNITED ON SUDAN As we campaign for President of the United States over the next several months, we expect there to be significant focus on the many differences between us. After all, election...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:51:00 GMT

God Grew Tired of Us

God Grew Tired Of Us This is a must see film.  I wept and I am not easily moved to tears.  At least not by cinema, however the film truly touched me and I wanted to share it with you. After ...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:31:00 GMT

Democrats Press White House on CDC Testimony

WASHINGTON - Several Democrats on Thursday challenged White House officials' claim that they removed large parts of proposed congressional testimony on global warming because the material conflicted w...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:04:00 GMT

U.N. Approves more than 26,000 Troops as Police for Darfur

The U.N. Security Council authorized on Tuesday up to 26,000 troops and police for Darfur and approved the use of force to protect civilians in Sudan's arid western region. Expected to cost more than ...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:04:00 GMT

White House is accused of putting politics over science.

WASHINGTON, July 10  Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona told a Congressional committee today that top officials in the Bush administration repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress important publ...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:09:00 GMT

Why Nurse Activism?

  By Laura Goldbaum, RNApril 25, 2005 ''Save one life, you're a hero; save 100 lives, you're a nurse" is a saying popularized by the Nebraska Nurses' Association. So why after saving 100 lives, w...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:39:00 GMT

Famous Nurses

Famous Nurses Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) - This British pioneer in the field (who was also a mathematician) insisted on more sanitary conditions for nurses and doctors during the Crimean War, wh...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 09:50:00 GMT