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collage
by Tom Cocotos
Fall 2004
Vol. 2 | No. 1
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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.
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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
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