Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

• Facebook is not for dummies

  Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

  Growing up and becoming a nurse during an age when there were rules for appropriate behaviors, I often cringe when seeing how people refuse to act in a well thought out manner. This age of social networking has left people thinking any and everything is alright to post for the world to see.   Four [...]

• Enough is enough

  Friday, June 4th, 2010

  In my sixty plus years the absurdity of life has struck me in the worse way. Because people choose to champion the most ridiculous causes. I know they think they have a stalwart cause, but enough is a enough! It is again the time of the year when young people around the country head off [...]

• Set up to fail

  Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

  Like most of the country and maybe the world, with the advent of computers, I watched a teacher mince, beat, and kicked a student. I was first outraged and felt that nothing could justify her actions. While I still feel that way, I now have a better understanding of what made her snap and snap [...]

• H1N1 flu is going strong

  Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

  Classes have or are just starting in schools across the country and the worse thing to dread is not that hard grading professor or the bully in the hallway. The H1N1 virus is lurking in the dorms and classroom to infect unsuspecting students and faculty.   We all saw the concern that world leaders had [...]

• Are Nursing Ethics Old School

  Friday, April 10th, 2009

  Having retired from a profession I loved after 40 plus years, I miss it. But I wonder if I had a chance to work again, would my work ethics be too old school for today’s world? This is also echoed by others in other professions who are around the same age as me.   I [...]