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 ‘Nursing’
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 […]
“I Promised Myself That It Would Happen” What happens when a will the size of Texas faces off with the great state itself.
American Journal of Nursing [Vol. 102, No. 10, pp. 106-7], October 1, 2002
It would be difficult to say where Sister Angela Murdaugh, MSN, RN, CNM, FACNM, has made a more profound difference: advancing the profession of nurse […]
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.
Nancy McDonald: Icon of Texas Nursing
Texas Nursing [Vol. 84, No. 10, pp. 3-7], December 1, 2001
[This article was also published in the March 18, 2002 NurseWeek, p. 10-11.] About a year ago, I worked in the same NICU bay at […]
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 […]
AISD must retain its registered nurse staff
Austin American-Statesman, June 6, 1996
On the heels of a stunning victory for Austin schoolchildren – the citizen vote approving $370 million in bonds for school improvements – comes an […]
Nursing not the place for hospitals to cut costs
Austin American-Statesman, November 16, 1993
The lead article in the Statesman’s Oct. 31 Business section about the problems facing Seton and its new CEO, Charles Barnett, really hit home. The […]
Nursing is nursing, not doctoring
The Wall Street Journal, September 23, 1993
Having practiced neonatal nursing for the past 13 years, I am continuously frustrated by this nation’s ability to cure 500-gram infants vis-à-vis its glaring inability […]
Empowerment of Advanced Practice Nurses: Regulation Reform Needed to Increase Access to Care
The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics [Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 193-205], February 1, 1993
[This policy article appeared in this law journal the same year that Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Task Force on National Health Care Reform met. Task force […]
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