alan headbloom

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1. Nursing Admissions/Admitting Nurse In Gay Marriage States

   alan headbloom replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

   A male's legal partner is his husband. A female's legal partner is her wife. "Spouse" would be simpler for forms if it doesn't matter the

2. Cross-Professional Competence: Playing well with other team members

   alan headbloom replied to alan headbloom's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for the great feedback. Our team has gotten hold of a set of instructional handouts and DVDs (not cheap!) from the University of Toronto. (The Canadians seem to be leading on a host of...

3. Cross-Professional Competence: Playing well with other team members

   alan headbloom posted a topic in General Nursing

   Our interdisciplinary team is putting together materials and exercises to teach health science students Cross-Professional Competence (CPC): concepts of communicating between members of the health...

4. Posting advice: "I can't do this, ...I don't understand you"

   alan headbloom replied to cmonkey's topic in General Nursing

   This is not true. There's not "a ton." There is one. Cmonkey left out one article (a), probably a typo. Just

5. Effective PowerPoint Presentations

   alan headbloom replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   Vicky, I was thinking of using some of this in a workshop on giving PowerPoints. Whom do I credit? You? Others? Thanks,

6. Bathing Classmates and Other Personal Boundaries?

   alan headbloom replied to brownhairedgal's topic in General Students

   When my wife was in med school (in the 80s), they used to practice small procedures on classmates. She did more "personal" exams on her husband (at home),

7. Effective PowerPoint Presentations

   alan headbloom replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   That's why everyone should have an applied linguist in his/her corner!

8. Effective PowerPoint Presentations

   alan headbloom replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   Vicky, Good tips. One correction, though: sans serif is harder for non-native speakers to read. If the PowerPoint has large enough fonts and sharp projector focus, the serifs connect letters within...

9. Racist Patients

   alan headbloom replied to Williss2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   While the U.S. population is currently 34% "minority" (non-Anglo), only 10% of U.S. nurses are non-Anglo. Until there is a better representation across the board, there will be lots of racial...

10. Advantage for Speaking Spanish?

    alan headbloom replied to Multicollinearity's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Multi, Be careful with self-study materials. You can learn phrases, but without a native-speaking coach, you won't know when to use your handful of expressions. Just because you can parrot a handful...

11. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    alan headbloom replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    1. ALL of us have communication handicaps. Some of us use $10 words or jargon--over the heads of our audience. Others have incorrect grammar and spelling (skim the 200+ posts above for plentiful...

12. "English Only" Rule at Work?

    alan headbloom replied to Nurse!Nurse!Hello?'s topic in General Nursing

    Morettia, Wow, what a scary experience for you. I'm glad it turned out okay for the patient. Why do you think the five Indian nurses weren't helping out with the code? Did they not understand the...

13. "English Only" Rule at Work?

    alan headbloom replied to Nurse!Nurse!Hello?'s topic in General Nursing

    I think the reason for the strongly visceral reaction--in both the case of nursing and golf--is that monolingual Americans feel threatened and intimidated. [strike up the theme from Twilight Zone.]...

14. Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act, HR 5924

    alan headbloom replied to alan headbloom's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Dear Hoosier, I do not represent employment agencies though I do make my living training people from all sides of cultural difference how to get along. I absolutely agree with you that communication...

15. Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act, HR 5924

    alan headbloom replied to alan headbloom's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Where are the Foreign Nurses? by Carl Shusterman Any topic involving immigration is sure to spark a debate these days - including the topic of foreign-trained nurses. Do foreign-trained nurses depress...