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COVER STORYby Leslie Flowers Throughout Joanne Disch’s career, the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International has been a constant. Recently named board chair of AARP, she shares her perspectives on leadership.
by Jane Palmer If one mentoring program is good, two must be better. After completing one mentoring program offered by the Honor Society of Nursing, Julie Snethen took the advice of her mentor and signed up for another. She’s glad she did. CEO Nancy Dickenson-Hazard talks about the benefits of leadership programs in a video that accompanies the article. by Claudia K.Y. Lai In climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, East Africa, to help raise awareness of and funds to combat Alzheimer’s disease, the author learned that her upward journey was also an inward one.
by Leana Ria Uys Fifty years after nursing education became part of the curriculum in a South African institution of higher education, the author reflects on what has been achieved and challenges her colleagues to reach even further.
by Cindy Duesing Men comprise roughly 5-6 percent of the U.S. nursing force, and the percentage is even lower in pediatrics. At Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, they’re trying to change that. by Sue Idczak When you’re a nurse and the patient is your mother-in-law, your personal role and your professional role may conflict at times. When the author found herself in that situation, it became an opportunity to learn and teach.
by Deidre M. Blank and Patricia Moritz Two decades after U.S. government-sponsored nursing research moved from the Division of Nursing to the National Institutes of Health, two nurses who observed the process pay tribute to those who laid a lasting foundation for American nursing research and research training at the federal level.
by Ruth M. Tappen Unique in the state of Florida, a nurse-managed memory disorder clinic that offers both diagnosis and treatment is an example of what nurses can accomplish when they dream big dreams.
by Susan M. Hinck and Kathryn L. Hope When nursing students from the United States traded the hills of Missouri for the volcanic mountain ranges of Ecuador, they thought the people would be different, too. Come to find out, they were much the same as themselves.
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