Millions of nurses have enjoyed Masterpiece on PBS as a way to unwind. Was anyone of us thinking of Bjork-Shiley prosthetic heart valve while we watched? Well, Its invention is part of the reason PBS could afford to produce Downton Abbey.
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Thank you all for your thoughtful comments. I don't have any answers without doing more research for another article. I too will be watching for more answers. I merely wanted to bring up the controversy, and show both sides if I could. The reaction t...
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Batsek2013,BSN,
Thank you for your comments and support. And thank you for what you said about pregnancy and vital life stages. I agree wholeheartedly with you.
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AmoLucia,
Thank you for your comments.
"I will give that there some practitioners in desperate need of some politically correct intensive educational sensitivity retraining." -- that's who I meant to address. Thank you for that.
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Kitiger,
Thank you for all of your good comments. I like your comment about development stages, and thank you for including pregnancy. Thank you for your support words about waiting until someone asks for help.
Aging is not a disease. I feel very strongly about this, and I know many other nurses also do. Still, many nurses have a very different attitude toward seniors, and indeed, they reflect a lot of what society says about our elders. I want to remind my...
Nurses who work with Alzheimer patients and their families do not have to be told about the anguish these families go through as they watch a loved one leave them as they are still physically present. And in the early stages of the disease, the pati...
