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...Maureen Dever-Bumba, a nurse-practitioner and director of the Kutztown Student Health Center in Pennsylvania, the harsh truth about nursing today hit close to home. After her 72-year-old grandfather was admitted to a hospital with terminal cancer, a technician carelessly gave him medicine that caused disorientation. "He was confused and imagined that he saw bugs on people," says Dever-Bumba, who has been in the nursing profession for 18 years. She remarks, "The care was so bad my entire family had to become nurses for my grandfather because no one else was around to help. The public...
Hearing horror stories like Dever-Bumba's is all in a day's work for Norma M. Lang, dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and a veteran of 35 years in nursing. "People don't trust that someone is going to take care of them," says Lang, 56. "I've heard that around the country." She cited research from her university indicating hospitals that place a high priority on nurses have a 7.7% lower mortality rate than hospitals with no such priority. "Really experienced nurses know when they walk into the room...
...lecturer at Jerusalem's Ecole Biblique, would have reverberated politically and economically through the entire region. And considering that artifacts from as far back as the late Stone Age have turned up in the Sinai , it is perplexing that no evidence of the Israelites' passage has been found. William Dever, a University of Arizona archaeologist, flatly calls Moses a mythical figure. Some scholars even insist the story was a political fabrication, invented to unite the disparate tribes living in Canaan through a falsified heroic past...
Carolyn M. Dever, a fifth-year English graduate student, says English students are not required to teach, but many continue to do so out of necessity. Funding for most graduate students, she says, ends after the second year...
...hobby--they don't pay you if you don't find a section," Dever says...