Response to We’re All In This Together

I thought we were in this together?

We are all in this together.

Many of us are feeling isolated as travel and education budgets are restricted while patient flow demands, H1N1 and the pressures of work increase. This is a time for us, the chief executive nurses, to take a leadership position in our organizations. Two years ago we reviewed the strategic plan of the Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN). The primary foci for ACEN are to network and set ...

We’re All in this Bus Together

Editorial We're All in this Bus Together The conference day has officially gone into overtime—after all the talks, posters, dinner, and drinks, we're now headed back to our hotels in the city, a half-hour's drive down the mountain-side. I'm a few rows back from the front of the bus, and it's crowded-baron a -Friday-night loud and just as energized. Over the noise, I catch only enough of my seat...

'This All Together, Hon?' Ubicomp in Non-office Work Environments

Ubiquitous computing technologies offer the promise of extending the benefits of computing to workers who do not spend their time at a desktop environment. In this paper, we review the results of an extended study of nonoffice workers across a variety of work domains, noting some key characteristics of their practices and environments, and examining some challenges to delivering on the ubicomp ...

Margaret McCartney: Patients and professionals: all in this together?

What does partnership mean? Together. On the same side. Working as one. At least, that’s what it means to me, so the tone of some of the recent debate on patient empowerment has surprised me. Many articles in the medical press are telling doctors to get out of the driving seat—saying that we oppress patients, who need “emancipation.” Much of medicine is still grounded in paternalism; this is tr...