Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Talking now in his study, frequently interrupted by friends' congratulatory phone calls about the book, Engel offers broad but cautious hints of his newest project. For the first time in his career, Engel may deal with his characters' politics--a significant part of Engel's life but not thus far...
...they are trying to civilize. Two years ago, Willard McGuire, president of the National Education Association, said that burnout among teachers "threatens to reach hurricane force if it isn't checked soon." Social workers and nurses burn out from too much association with hopelessness. Police officers burn out. Professional athletes burn out. Students burn out. Executives burn out. Housewives burn out. And, as every parent knows, there usually comes a moment in late afternoon when baby burnout occurs-all of his little circuits overloaded, the child feels too wrought up to fall asleep...
This is fertile territory for exploration and no recent effort in any medium is more ambitious than Prince of the City, which tells the story of a detective in a free-wheeling narcotics unit who decides to go undercover to battle against police corruption. From the day Danny Ciello (Treat...
Hospitals can raise salaries and increase the perks, but that will not significantly change the shortage of nurses. Studies have shown that it is respect for the profession that nurses desperately want. Why can't doctors realize that we both have jobs to do and neither profession can do...
...dichotomy among nurses has resulted from the fact that many training programs have been taken over by universities. They push their degree programs since they are in that business. Somehow, many of their graduates come into nursing believing that they already know so much medicine that they have failed professionally if they are still taking care of patients three or four years later. Hospital nursing schools, on the other hand, have traditionally taught that patient care is a noble end in itself...