"Let's Get Real" - Destroying-Restoring Community in Nursing

Destroying Civilization, Destroying Nature

Restoring dignity: community arts in leprosy control.

The evolution of health care is closely linked with the community arts. In Greek mythology, Asclepius, son of Apollo, is commonly referred to as the god of medicine and healing. The World Health Organization and most professional health organisations use, as the traditional symbol of healing and medicine, the staff of Asclepius, which is depicted as a single serpent encircling a staff. The serp...

Negative Frequencies Get Real

A soliton is a localized “lump” of light that is the product of wave effects in a nonlinear medium and can, under certain conditions, emit low-intensity, positive frequency resonant radiation in its wake, due to the phase matching between its momentum and the dispersion of the medium itself. Writing in Physical Review Letters, Eleonora Rubino at the University of Insubria in Como, Italy, and co...

Community health nursing education: where we are going and how to get there.

This article discusses practical aspects of providing community health nursing (CHN) education in community-based care in partnership with a community. Changing from traditional CHN clinicals to more current models involves a shift in values and implementation of principles leading to the change. These values are: refocusing the purpose of CHN education; broad (generalist) scope of practice; pr...

Nursing students to get tuition fees paid.

NURSING unions have praised government moves, announced last week, which mean more money for nursing students.