Thursday, March 25, 2010

A Tribute to Male Nurses

If you are currently in the nursing profession, and you happen to be male, you’ve more than likely encountered some form of ridicule, whether it is the more innocuous, “Why would you decide to be a nurse?” to more troubling suggestions about your sexuality. In the movie, “Meet the Parents,” one of the main characters is a male nurse, and he is made of fun of throughout the film on account of his chosen career. While of course, nursing is a predominantly female-saturated profession—in fact, a national registry claims that women nurses outnumber their male counterparts 16 to 1—there are a growing number of males in an occupation that is rewarding on a personal as well as financial and professional level.
 
A nursing blog, AllNurses.com, recently talked about the history of nursing and included a list of famous male nurses. The first nursing school was founded in India around 250 B.C. The blog post quotes a primary source from the first nursing school, which was all-male, that reports men aspiring to be nurses should be “of good behavior, distinguished for purity, possessed of cleverness and skill, imbued with kindness, skilled in every service a patient may require, competent to cook food, skilled in bathing and washing the patient, rubbing and massaging the limbs, lifting and assisting him to walk about, well skilled in making and cleansing of beds, readying the patient and skillful in waiting upon one that is ailing and never unwilling to do anything that may be ordered."

The list of famous male nurses includes Walt Whitman, the eminent 19th century American poet, Friar Juan de Mena, the first nurse to ever administer service in the present-day United States, and James Derham, a slave who worked as a nurse in New Orleans in the 1700s. Derhem eventually earned enough money to buy his freedom, and he later became the first African-American physician in history.

For males choosing to pursue a career in nursing today, there are many resources that will enhance your growth in a female-dominated field. The American Assembly for Men in Nursing (AAMN) is one such organization which seeks to “provide a framework for nurses, as a group, to meet, to discuss and influence factors, which affect men as nurses.” The organization works toward promoting increased male representation in nursing as well. 

For more personal insight into the trials and tribulations of male nurses, read the article, “Male Nurses Need Respect, Too” featured recently on Travel Nursing Blogs .

By-line:
This guest post is contributed by Kitty Holman, who writes on the topics of Nursing Schools. She welcomes your comments at her email Id: kitty.holman20@gmail.com.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

The Moment

As you all may have probably noticed, I'm a very lazy blogger. I am a procrastinator and a bum (I actually have work and school so that technically doesn't make me a bum, but I am LOL!). The only real times where I am able to write heartfelt and really well-thought posts is when I'm paid for it inspired to do so. Every now and then I get so engaged with my thoughts that I just think about them and when ever I deem it important or worthwhile I write about them in my blog. 

A blog for me is a way of expressing my self: a channel  for anger and happiness. Blogging helps me relieve the stress I encounter in every day life and it also helps me write "scholarly" as I always do research before writing anything (especially my nursing related posts, but I sometimes fail to cite my sources).

I have my moments when I just want to sit in a corner and type away all my feelings and thoughts but once that moment is gone blogging seems like a chore than something I enjoy...

The moment is gone... END

Home Made Pizzas Are Better!

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Tony's Pizza. All opinions are 100% mine.

To be honest, I have never made pizza from scratch all by myself. On the other hand, I do know how to bake a warm, cheesy, and mouth-watering pizza right from the freezer. That's right! It's so easy to take all the credit when preparing Tony's Pizza because you will never expect frozen pizza to taste so good!

The nice thing about frozen pizza is that you can always have one prepared eat your own convenience at home. It's like having a girlfriend, even better, since frozen pizza will be there for you 24/7 and it will give you that warm feeling you crave every now and then.Well having pizza delivered is great but let's face it, it's more expensive, the pizza guy is sometimes late, and you can't always get the extra toppings and some other stuff you want in it without having the delivery guy judging you for it.

And I've got to say, there is absolutely no difference between a frozen pizza and a delivered one. I've actually tried cooking the four cheese one from Tony's Pizza and boy oh boy it was really good! To my surprise, it actually looked like the picture on the box and it tasted as good as it looked. It doesn't take long to prepare so it's a perfect meal for those unexpected get together with friends.

Well if you did want to try Tony's Pizza for yourself, then you might want to get one right now since they have the promotion were you can go bowling for free for every purchase of Tony's Pizza. Sounds like a fun event!

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

An Open Letter: Dear Blog

Dear Blog,

How are you? It's been a while since I've shared anything worthwhile with you. I'm sorry, I've been pretty busy with school, work, and basically life. I have a lot of things to say to you but I just don't have time anymore to just sit and be able to think.

I hope that you're not angry at me for neglecting you for so many months now. You've been such a good friend to me. You have listened to all of my problems and worries and shared with me my moments of great happiness and sadness. I know you don't have a choice since I sort of own you but still, having you here by my side is comforting.

But come on Blog! What happened to you? Your recent comments aren't even recent and you just look like a mess. I know that it's partly my fault that you're in this state but come on! You didn't have to resort to blog suicide. I still need you blog, so please don't die on me.


Your Best Friend,

Vincent

Friday, March 12, 2010

Intellectual Rights

If you have visited my blog earlier this week or the weeks before, you would actually notice that my two blog posts about euthanasia and a comparative essay between Shooting an Elephant and A Modest Proposal has been deleted. No, no one deleted them because only I can delete them and no one requested or asked me to delete them. Well the last statement is partly true.

It so happened that those two entries were my papers for my nursing and English subjects. My teacher found them here on my blog and she told me that I should be careful about posting my papers online since someone could actually steal my ideas. Although at first I thought that having someone plagiarize my work would be awesome since it means that my paper was good enough to be copied. It then dawned on me that I might be the one charged with plagiarism and then they could keep all the credit. That would really suck.

This is the main reason why people should place patents on their products and acquire copyrights to their works. Take a look at James Cameron who is being criticized for plagiarism.For someone who took several years to create a movie and be accused of plagiarism is very hard. I don`t know the entire story behind this so I won`t comment that much.