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BONUS FEATURESA passion for nursing Everyone has a passion. For me, it’s nursing. Nursing is my calling, my mission in life. It is 1983. In a small hospital in rural Mississippi, a brand new nursing graduate reviews her 14 patient assignments. As she walks from room to room assessing her patients, calls from the nurses’ desk are broadcast overhead: The patient in room 12 wants pain medication; the patient in 15 needs to discuss his plan of care; the patient in 20 wants someone to call his family member because he can’t see to dial the numbers; in room 10, the IV pump is beeping. <more> May the force be with you! Fairy tales and science fiction often include accounts of positive, mystical forces that help the heroes in these stories struggle with and ultimately triumph over evil. The positive force portrayed in Star Wars films (Lucas 1977, 1980, 1983, 1999, 2002) can serve as an allegory to describe nursing and its future direction. Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi teaches Jedi knights to struggle in their quest for goodness, knowing that the “force” will be with them. <more> |