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EDUCATION UPDATES

08/31/2010: The IOM released A Summary of the February 2010 Forum on the Future of Nursing: Education. This publication summarizes the discussions of the Forum, held at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to examine challenges and opportunities associated with nursing education overall. 

08/13/2010: In case you are not familiar, Florence Nightingale died one hundred years ago today. If you are interested, click on this page http://drgwen.com/miscellaneous/nightingale.htm, to see some pictures I took when I was a FN scholar and had an opportunity to visit her gravesite as well as her summer home in Embley Park. I can't believe it has been 20 years since I was there, back in the day when I was a fledgling doctoral student.

During that same year, I recall challenging my stats professor (a cocky doctoral student at the University of Arizona) and asked why he did not include FN in his discussions of stats scholars and he looked at me like I was crazy. There is a wonderful article just released today about her contribution to statistics (my favorite class to teach).  http://gu.com/p/2j28g/tw

08/21/2010: What Make a Great College to Work for: http://chronicle.com/article/What-People-in-the-Great/123651/

08/2010: Obama administration is shaking up for-profit higher education: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-06/for-profit-colleges-tumble-after-american-public-scraps-earnings-forecast.html

04/15/10: AACN has created a new member resource detailing healthcare reform provisions germane to nursing education and practice included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which President Obama signed into law on March 23, 2010. This chart is a tool to understand the content of the bill and future implications for the profession.
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Government/pdf/HCRreview.pdf

Additionally, AACN has created a two-page document that reviews AACN-supported provisions and those requiring further attention. This document can be found here: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Government/pdf/HCRsupport.pdf.

01/10: Educating Nurses a Call for Radical Transformation: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/elibrary/educating-nurses-highlights

HEALTH UPDATES

08/19/2010:New Podcast: The following foods are recommended to help "prevent" cancer.

  1. Soy: 8-10 grams tofu, soy nuts, soy milk, or edaname a day to prevent breast and prostate cancer.
  2. Berries: One cup/day for antioxidants to help ward off cell damage that can lead to cancer and other diseases.
  3. Broccoli: 1/2 cup of cooked broccoli or other cruciferous veggies a day to aid in prevention of colorectal cancer.
  4. Onions: 1/4 cup of onions, garlic, leeks or shallots for several anti-cancer agents.
  5. Tomatoes: 1/2 cup cooked or 1 cup raw tomatoes three times/week to help prevent prostate cancer. Adding 3 daily servings of "rainbow vegetables" (red, yellow, orange, white, green or purple) provides even more disease-preventing micronutrients.

Source: Roethel, K. (August 9http://www.drgwen.com/podcast/womenshealth/2010-08-19.mp3, 2010). 5 of nature's best cancer-preventing food. Retrieved from: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/09/DDP81EMK07.DTL&type=health

01//2010: Share this website as it is important to "rethink" drinking (abstinence is not always the cure) http://rethinkingdrinking.niaaa.nih.gov/