Garry Halliday

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1. Why Does Nursing Eat Its Young?

   Garry Halliday replied to Garry Halliday's topic in Educators

   Last week, while working as a substitute clinical instructor in psychiatric nursing for a community college ADN program, two events occurred that illustrate both sides of the "student vs staff" equation. 1. A very busy staff member asked a nursing st...

2. Why Does Nursing Eat Its Young?

   Garry Halliday replied to Garry Halliday's topic in Educators

   You are certainly right about the demands that are placed on us as nurses. It often takes three hands and two sets of legs to keep up with all that we are expected to do, and to doit with sicker and sicker patients all the time. I admire the fact tha...

3. Why Does Nursing Eat Its Young?

   Garry Halliday posted a topic in Educators

   I first heard this statement 20+ years ago from a nursing colleague. Recently, I heard it again from a professor in my graduate program. And, 30 years in the health field have shown me that it's TRUE -- our profession does not treat students and newc...