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Fall 2004
Vol. 2 | No. 1


Happy Un-Retirement
By Jim Duffy
With an unprecedented number of nurses approaching traditional retirement age, Hopkins nursing leaders are looking for innovative ways to keep those seasoned professionals on the job and contributing—well past age 65.

Acting Now
By Jim Miller
Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, who led efforts in Congress to establish the Nurse Reinvestment Act, talks candidly about the act's potential for easing the nursing shortage and its prospects for funding.

The Changing Face of Nursing
By Ming L. Tai
Take a stroll through the school's hallways and you'll encounter an incredibly varied group of students: more men, minorities, and students with degrees in other fields (from anthropology to music) than ever before. We bring you nine of them.

The New Labor Movement
By Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson
Doulas are an increasingly welcome presence for women in the throes of childbirth. Find out how the school's Birth Companions Program is preparing students to fill this unique role in the delivery room.



Hill's Side

Second Opinion
What would be themost successful in resolving the nationwide nursing shortage? Our readers weigh in.

On the Pulse
Nightingala raises more than $270,000...
Howard Hughes Fellows gain a taste for research... Honoring diversity... Giving a hand to violence prevention... Collaborating to identify depression in teens—and more

Live from 525
How one student's research in South Africa forever changed her ideas about professional practice and standards of care.

Bench to Bedside
Rehab referral crucial to cardiac patients... Toward meeting the spiritual needs of the terminally ill... An extra push for colorectal screening... Walking away fatigue during chemotherapy

Vigilando
News and notes from the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association

Defining Moments

 

 

 

 


Staff
Interim Editor: Sue DePasquale| Managing Editor: Ming Tai
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Editorial Assistant
: Jacquelin Gray| Director of Communications: Lynn Schultz-Writsel | Design: Kathryn Vitarelli, Alumni Magazine Consortium

Advisory Board
Sue DePasquale | J. Darius Greene| Jeannette Marx, MS., RN| Ann Murdock, BSN '01 | Mary O'Rourke | Betty Scher, BSN '50| Lynn Schultz-Writsel| |Sue Wright '62

Mission
Johns Hopkins Nursing is a publication of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association. The magazine highlights the activity of alumni, faculty, and students from the School of Nursing. The magazine will track Johns Hopkins nurses and tell the story of their endeavors in the areas of education, practice, and scholarship, including research and national leadership.

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