On Mother’s Day, I think of the moms of the sick and premature babies I cared for in the neonatal ICU for more than 30 […]
Posts Tagged ‘General’
Our Missed Health Care Opportunity
Austin American-Statesman, December 1, 2011
For the past 17 months I’ve watched through my fingers as Congress has slowly eviscerated a gentle, brilliant, apolitical pediatrician and Harvard professor — Don […]
5 Minutes with Nancy McDonald: On serving in the Texas legislature
NurseWeek, March 18, 2002
How did you become involved in politics?
Part of our professional code of ethics tells us that we’ll strive to “improve standards of nursing practice and promote … efforts to meet health needs of the public.” I’ve always taken that aspect of the code very seriously.
During the 12 years that I was a hospital staff and head nurse, I was also involved in local politics. During that time, an influx of foreign nurses pointed to the need for a clearer definition of nursing responsibilities in the Nursing Practice Act. After joining the Governmental Affairs Committee of the Texas Nurses Association, we set to work to rewrite parts of the act and then to lobby the Legislature for its passage.
Legacies: Venola Schmidt, 1919-2001
The Good Life [p. 16], August 1, 2001
A eulogy delivered by Toni Inglis at Venola Schmidt’s memorial service on June 23, 2001, at First Unitarian Church. The Tuesday after Venola died, former […]
Seeking magnet hospital status: a TNA member’s account of the arduous application process
Texas Nursing [Vol. 74, No. 9, pp. 7-12], October 1, 2000
Let’s face it. The current healthcare environment is not conducive to optimal nurse staffing. A synergy of factors works to exacerbate the staffing problem: a […]
A capital way to serve the poor
The Wall Street Journal, February 2, 1998
[This letter to the editor was in response to a Wall Street Journal feature article critical of the Daughters of Charity for having large financial […]
Serving the public
The Wall Street Journal, July 5, 1995
Having attended the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin, I take exception to the June 7 lead article decrying the perceived liberal bent of […]
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