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FEATURESKen Dion: Touching lives at the point of care by James E. Mattson Cover story.
In the ongoing battle to improve health care, it’s nurses,
contends Kenneth W. Dion, RN, MSN, MBA, who are on the front lines.
From their unique bedside vantage point, where they deliver the
lion’s share of patient interventions, nurses can also recognize
needs that may be opportunities for innovative products that improve
patient care. Learn more about this successful nurse entrepreneur.
by Michelle Lilly Anne Wilson wasn’t known for photography until she submitted
a photo of her husband and daughter, Katherine, to the 2006 Lilly
Oncology on Canvas competition and garnered a “Best of the
United States” award. Katherine Wilson, a member of the
Honor Society of Nursing, died not long after earning her BSN
at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but her zest
for life and commitment to promoting research to fight lung cancer
will never be forgotten.
by Denise L. Hawthorne and Nancy J. Yurkovich Before 1992, these Canadian nurses didn’t think of themselves
as activists. When they began advocating on behalf of hospice,
however, in Richmond, British Columbia—population 182,000—they
discovered that, through collaboration, they could make a difference
in their community.
by Eileen Thomas and Hee Sun Kang One nurse came from Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States,
the other from Seoul, in the Republic of Korea. They met at the
17th International Nursing Research Congress in Montreal, Québec,
Canada, and found they had a mutual interest in attitudes and
behaviors of women with regard to breast-cancer screening. Three
months later, they were collaborating on research and making plans
to publish a manuscript. Small world.
How do you establish a chapter of an organization that promotes
individual merit, recognition and achievement—the Honor
Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, to be specific—in
a culture where group success is valued more than individual success?
It’s not easy, but proponents for a chapter in Japan—from
both sides of the Pacific—accomplished that task by searching
for and finding common ground between East and West.
by Barbara Elisse Najar and Heddy Bishop Hubbard To gain perspective, it sometimes helps to back away from one’s
work and look at it from another angle and greater distance. That’s
what Sonj Hall, an Australian nurse researcher did as a Harkness
Fellow studying at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,
part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Now,
she’s back in Australia, putting her new knowledge to work
in advocating for better health care for underserved groups. by Kelly J. Gonzales She went to Venezuela to serve as a pre-op and post-op nurse with Operation Smile, a humanitarian agency that provides craniofacial surgeries for children all over the world, but in helping to heal a little girl she found healing for herself.
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