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FEATURESFay Bower: Not the retiring kind by Carla Hall Cover story. If you expect Fay Bower, RN, DNSc, FAAN, to kick back and take it easy after handing over the reins as acquisitions editor for the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, you don’t know Fay Bower.
Nursing responds: Coming together to improve the care of survivors of adult cancers by Pamela J. Haylock and Carol P. Curtiss The good news is, cancer is no longer viewed as an automatic death sentence. The bad news is, as people live longer after surviving cancer, new health problems emerge. The good news is, nurses are taking the lead in addressing the problem.
By Lois Marshall They call them Sigma Theta Tau International Small Grants, but for nurse researchers and the health of the world’s people, they pay big dividends.
RNL WORLD PULSE: Global leadership challenges of nurses Members of the International Advisory Board for Reflections on Nursing Leadership are located in 14 countries around the world. Recently, they were asked, “What are the leadership challenges of nurses in your country (or global region), and what is being done to address those challenges?” Here are their responses.
Do all the good you can: Volunteering as a leadership development strategy By Anne R. Bavier The author compares volunteering with putting together a jigsaw puzzle. A couple of important differences: There’s no picture on the box and not all the pieces in the box belong to your puzzle.
Working for passion: Finding purpose in Nicaragua by Margie Fincham Thirty years into her nursing career, the author began working toward her master’s degree. Fifteen years later, she “took another plunge” and headed to Nicaragua to bring a few supplies to a clinic that provides free and low-cost health care to isolated villages. Now she’s the clinic’s volunteer healthcare manager. Her motto? Solo el amor prevalece—only love prevails.
by Gina Lypaczewski They may not have called it that, but nurses have been applying CHB—courage, heart and brains—since nursing began.
The world was different in 1922, when the founders of Sigma Theta Tau International graduated from Indiana University Training School, but this small group of thoughtful citizens founded an honor society that—85 years later—is committed “to create a global community of nurses who lead in using knowledge, scholarship, service and learning to improve the health of the world’s people.”
Last updated: 6/28/07
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