Don't look back

A look back and a look ahead.

The author reviews a series of predictions made more than two decades ago regarding nursing and nursing administration. These concerned the work of nursing, the workers involved in nursing, the environment surrounding practice, and the nurse's role. While many of the forecasts were right on target, others fell short of the mark; both are discussed in light of the challenges facing nurse adminis...

A look back, a look ahead.

Let's look at human immunodeficiency virus look-back before leaping into hepatitis C virus look-back.

THESE ARE INTERESTING but disturbing times in trans­ fusion medicine. For. better or worse, our decisions and policies are influenced aimosf as much by lawyers, leg­ islators, ethicists, the media, and other "representa­ tives" of the public interest as they are by physicians ' and scientists who have devoted their life's work to the field. The issue presently at hand is the advisability of v i...

Look Back in Reverence

Fortyeight years have elapsed since the founding of the Indian Psychiatric Society. What had been started as a group of barely ten members, has today grown into an organisation which has more than two thousand members, with zonal, state and even city branches. The growth of the IPS in many ways, parallels the growth and changes that have occurred in the field of psychiatry in India. General Hos...

Let's look at human immunodeficiency virus look-back before leaping into.hepatitis C virus look-back

THESE ARE INTERESTING but disturbing times in transfusion medicine. For. better or worse, _our decisions and policies are influenced ·alinosf as much' by lawyers, legislators, ethicists, the media, and other "representatives" of the public interest as they are by physicians and scientists who have.devoted their li(e's work to the field. The issue presently at hand is the advisability of initiat...