If you’ve ever visited a hospital emergency room, then you know the anguish that comes with sometimes having to wait for extended periods of time to see a health care professional.
Nursing
Anne Dennahower, undergraduate secretary in the Faculty of Nursing, won Monday’s DailyNews trivia contest and earned two tickets to see the University Players production of Some Girl(s), the company’s last show of the season.
A partnership with the de Souza Institute will afford nurses seeking advanced preparation in oncology and palliative care a unique opportunity for professional development at the graduate level, according to the dean of the UWindsor Faculty of Nursing.
Linda Patrick announced Friday that her school will offer a graduate diploma in advanced practice oncology/palliative nursing for students in September 2012.
It’s hard to be sick.
That’s the lesson students in professor Cheri Hernandez’s class “Chronicity in Health Care” took from a project which challenged them to adhere for one week to a regimen prescribed for patients living with chronic illness.
“I wanted them to be better nurses,” Dr. Hernandez said Wednesday, after hearing presentations on the student experiences. “Health professionals who have empathy recognize that complete adherence is impossible.”
Faster, higher and stronger are no problem, but how about cleaner? About three dozen members of the Lancer track and field teams took on a new challenge Friday: litter.
The student-athletes donned rubber gloves, grabbed trash bags, and spread out across campus to clean the grounds.
“We want to show people a different side of the Lancers,” said education major Nicole Sassine, a co-captain of the women’s team. “We’re not just athletes; we give back to the community.”
Mar 20th, 2012
In a fast-paced society that places a premium on youth and tends to dismiss the elderly, at least four UWindsor nursing students are rethinking how they view the aged while pledging to provide seniors the respectful care they deserve once they begin practicing.
“Older people should be regarded as self-reliant individuals who are capable of making decisions about their care,” said Misan Grage, a fourth-year nursing student. “Older people need to be treated with the same respect and level of care as younger people.”
A UWindsor history professor says that a staged reading of his new play, The Metropolitan, combines his own area of research with nursing, drama and social justice.
“It’s a great University of Windsor story where you can get these inter-disciplinary collaborations that are products of a close-knit campus,” says Steven Palmer, who holds the Canada Research Chair in History of International Health.
Feb 15th, 2012
In her book Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora, historian Karen Flynn uses oral narratives to examine the experiences of Black women who trained as nurses in Windsor and Chatham hospitals following the Second World War.
Until the mid-1940s, Black women were prohibited from training as nurses in Canada. The first cohort of Black registered nurses integrated Canadian nursing schools in the early 1950s.
Recent nursing graduate Alyssa Thrasher will undoubtedly spend the holidays looking at her family and her living conditions with a greater sense of appreciation after spending several weeks during the fall on two separate trips helping villagers in some of the poorest regions of Central America.