bmaury

I am interested in finding how any of you might have used Nola Pender's Health Promotion model in your school health setting. This is a little research project for me and I would appreciate the input.

I will be graduating from a BSN program in May, and throughout the program, our instructors have stressed the importance of being involved in professional organizations. I have been to a few TNA meetings, and my question is, where are all the nurses? With all the burning issues related to nursing shortages, nurse-patient ratios, ethc., why are more nurses not participating in professional organizations? Are nurses' employers not supporting membership in organizations? [This message has been edited by bmaury (edited March 15, 2001).]

I would like to know what other nurses opinions are in the use of diapers vs. underpads for patients incontinent of bowel and/or bladder. Some coworkers believe diapers make patients skin more prone to breakdown, while others think that merely putting an underpad underneath a patient puts a patient more at risk of skin breakdown. What do you think?