Owner: Digital Doorway URL:http://www.digitaldoorway.blogspot.com Join Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:40:36 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: Views of life, healthcare, nursing and spirituality by a 40-something male nurse somewhere in New England. Site statistics:Click here
Religion and Discrimination in Healthcare 2008-08-25 09:30:22 (Note: This is my fifth post under the auspices of the nurse blogger scholarship which I recently received from Value Care, Value Nurses.)A San Diego fertility clinic that refused to provide artificial insemination to a lesbian woman based on her sexual orientation has tasted defeat at the hands of the California Supreme Court.Guadalupe Benitez was denied insemination by two doctors at the North C Read more:Discrimination
, Healthcare
, Religion
Lobbyists, Health Care, and Open Secrets 2008-08-24 09:20:21 In a report published by Open Secrets
, a non-partisan guide to how money influences politics in the United States, the amount of money spent by lobbyists representing the health care industry is truly astounding.According to a review of lobbyists' spending in Washington, D.C. during 2007, the health care industry itself spent $445 million dollars (nearly half a billion dollars) on lobbying contrib Read more:Health
, Health Care
Phil Baumann, RN 2008-08-23 07:32:44 I recently came upon a nursing blog that is well worth multiple and repeated visits. Please click here to read my review of Phil Baumann, RN's blog, and decide for yourself if you would like to spend some time in his very interesting world.
Change of Shift, Vol. 3, No. 4 2008-08-21 14:56:28 Yes, folks, it's happened again! Change
of Shift
, our favorite blog carnival representing the nursing profession and those who love (and hate) it, is up and at 'em. Please click here to begin your journey into some of the best blogging by nurses on the blogosphere. We guarantee that you will find at least one blog post that really speaks to you!
Hispanics and the U.S. Healthcare System 2008-08-21 14:56:01 (Note: This is my fourth post under the auspices of the nurse blogger scholarship which I recently received from Value Care, Value Nurses.)The Hispanic population of the United States is growing exponentially, and the Pew Hispanic Center chronicles and tracks the collective successes and challenges of this burgeoning American demographic.According to the Pew Center, the Hispanic population of the Read more:Healthcare
, Hispanics
, System
N.Y. State Homes for Adults Under Scrutiny 2008-08-20 12:25:29 Abuse, neglect, illness and a reported death are some of the findings revealed in a review of homes caring for disabled adults in New York State
.Please click here to read the rest of my article on Nurse Linkup. Read more:Adults
, Homes
The Heart as Electromagnet 2008-08-15 22:35:07 Please be so kind as to surf on over to Nurse LinkUp to read a new article by my friend and colleague, Rick Baker---The Heart
as Electromagnet. Rick's website, Quantum Cafe, is also worthy of your curious perusal.
A Visiting Nurse and the Puzzle of Humanity 2008-08-14 12:00:39 Last night, I was doing some visits for the visiting nurse agency who recently employed me. On my fourth and final visit, I had a revelation of sorts.I drove about twenty minutes to reach this patient's home, winding through lovely country roads, past old farm houses and pastures. Reaching his neighborhood of middle- and upper middle-class homes, I was struck by how out of the ordinary this situat Read more:Nurse
, Puzzle
One Hundred Years of Laughter 2008-08-12 19:27:18 Today I had the pleasure of witnessing a joyous birthday celebration.Held at the inner-city senior center where my wife is the director, the party was held outdoors under a threat of rain that was controlled through Caribbean rituals used to ward off foul weather. Despite low-lying clouds almost bursting with moisture, no rain came. The women preparing the festivities had taken time for ritual, dr Read more:Hundred
, Years
Recent News on Obesity 2008-08-12 08:03:19 Please be so kind as to click here to read an article posted by yours truly on Nurse LinkUp about some of the newest research findings on obesity, some of which may seem somewhat counter-intuitive. Read more:Recent
Nursing Away From the Hospital 2008-09-18 18:27:53 I am an occasional guest blogger on NurseConnect. Please click here to read my latest column which was submitted in response to a question regarding my choice of specialty: ambulatory care, home care, and hospice. Read more:Nursing
Bodhisattvas 2008-09-16 18:14:28 What the world needs more than anything is bodhisattvas, active servants of peace, “clothed,” as Longchenpa said, “in the armor of perseverance,” dedicated to their bodhisattva vision and to the spreading of wisdom into all reaches of our experience. We need bodhisattva lawyers, bodhisattva artists and politicians, bodhisattva doctors and economists, bodhisattva teachers and scientists, bo
Digital Doorway at Alensa.com 2008-09-15 09:22:37 A "mirror version" of Digital
Doorway is now up and running over at Alensa.com. Alensa is a Swiss healthcare company which is now hosting a variety of health-related blogs and Web-2.0 functions from its home website. I admittedly know little about Alensa, and will be discovering more about them over time.Meanwhile, if you would like to visit the Alensa version of Digital Doorway, please click here
I Did It 2008-09-14 18:16:55 Well, I did it. After twelve years of eschewing taking a job in a hospital, I have applied for a part-time position in a local inpatient psychiatric unit. Things have been very slow at all of my per diem jobs, and while I'm very hesitant at this juncture to commit to a solid position, finances are telling me that it may be time to at least have 16 or 20 hours of assured work each week. So, this 24
Nurses' Voices, Nurses' Image: Nurses' Power 2008-09-13 16:25:28 (Note: This is my sixth post under the auspices of the nurse blogger scholarship which I recently received from Value Care, Value Nurses.)I have recently been re-reading From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public, by Bernice Buresh and Suzanne Gordon. What I am most struck by is that nurses still have not necessarily found their collective voice, and despite the med Read more:Image
, Voices
Creative Responses to the Nursing Shortage 2008-09-10 17:34:54 I am an occasional guest blogger on NurseConnect, and I invite you to read my latest post, Creative Responses to the NursingShortage
, posted on NurseConnect today. I think the post offers an interesting perspective, detailing ways that individuals, educational institutions, and healthcare facilities are responding to the crisis at hand.
Nine Months' Gestation 2008-09-08 12:01:20 It is now nine months since I eschewed full-time work (after twelve years of having my nose on the nursing grindstone), and I am examining both where I was and where I am now. Questions abound, but answers seem resolutely elusive.There is something to say for the regularity of a full-time job. A steady pay-check is a type of financial stability that most people see as a gateway to economic ease (o Read more:Months
Exchanging Yourself for Others 2008-09-05 23:01:00 When someone is suffering and you find yourself at a loss to know how to help, put yourself unflinchingly in his or her place. Imagine as vividly as possible what you would be going through if you were suffering the same pain. Ask yourself: “How would I feel? How would I want my friends to treat me? What would I most want from them?” When you exchange yourself for others in this way, you are d Read more:Others
, Yourself
Change of Shift Goes Pulp Fiction 2008-09-05 22:07:39 The newest edition of Change
of Shift
, everyone's favorite nurse blog carnival, is now up and at 'em at Nurse Ratched's Place. (Even yours truly got in on the action this time.) Enjoy! Read more:Fiction
, Pulp Fiction
Thoughts Turned to The Gulf Coast 2008-09-03 13:33:55 I am simply thinking today of the many citizens of the American Gulf Coast
who are living as evacuees, wondering when they can once again go home, and when life can once again resume some semblance of normalcy.My thoughts also stray to the vulnerable patients evacuated to safer ground, the healthcare personnel who have risked their own safety to remain with those too frail to travel, and the famil
Cell-Phone Ring Tones: A Cautionary Tale 2008-08-31 17:02:58 Just this past week I was doing some home visits for my local visiting nurse agency. Three out of four visits were for psychiatric patients who live on their own and need daily visits to monitor their medication compliance. I've been doing this sort of thing for years, so I always know what to expect, more or less.While I was visiting my second patient, we sat at his kitchen table as I prefilled h Read more:Tones
My Body, Digitized: Yet Another MRI 2008-08-28 13:57:33 Ah, the whir, buzz, beep and drone of the machine almost drown out all thought. There are no lights, only the sensation that giant magnets embedded in the walls of this machine straight out of science fiction are taking cross-sectional views of my thoracic spine. How nice that I'm not actually being physically sliced in 1 mm-thick pieces. Rather, a virtual model of my spine is being transmitted to
Arousing Compassion 2008-10-06 07:30:27 One technique for arousing compassion for a person who is suffering is to imagine one of your dearest friends, or someone you really love, in that person’s place. Imagine your brother or daughter or parent or best friend in the same kind of painful situation. Quite naturally your heart will open, and compassion will awaken in you: What more would you want than to free your loved one from his or Read more:Compassion
Public Health and Me 2008-10-05 19:34:40 Tomorrow, I begin my position as interim PublicHealth
Nurse right here in my own New England hometown. Having never worked in my town (after almost fifteen years of residence in the area), it will be an interesting experience to actually be a "public figure" for the first time.While my position is indeed interim, I'm coming on board just at the beginning of flu season, and since I'm the individua
XDR-TB and the TED Conference 2008-10-04 20:52:08 In 2007, James Nachtwey's work as a photographer was chosen by the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference in recognition of his desire to use photography to spread recognition of the importance of the battle against Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB). He was awarded $100,000 towards his goal, and the results of his work have now been made public, and a moving website and
The Autumn Harvest Change of Shift 2008-10-02 05:47:38 The newest edition of Change
of Shift
, hosted by yours truly over on Nurse LinkUp, is now up and running for your reading pleasure. Please pay us a visit! Read more:Autumn
, Harvest
Economics and Confusion 2008-10-01 21:48:55 Thinking further about the economic issues that I touched on in my last post, it's so hard to get one's brain around what's happening here in the U.S. this week. With such dire news and warnings of financial Armageddon, how does one tease out the truth from all of the hyperbole?Articles abound about what will happen if the bailout doesn't pass. Blame is passed from hand to hand. But where do we or Read more:Economics
Economics and the Elderly 2008-09-28 18:28:09 (Note: This is my eighth post under the auspices of the nurse blogger scholarship which I recently received from Value Care, Value Nurses.)So, as the bad news splashes across the headlines and the denizens of Wall Street throw up their hands to ward off the falling sky (that they themselves created), the elderly here in the United States are facing some tough economic times of their own as we turn Read more:Economics
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