Word: professionalisms
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...also account for the impulse to escape: the helpless elderly see the nursing staff as bored and grudging; though many nurses are heroically selfless, some think of themselves as stuck at the bottom of their profession. "Nurses who work in nursing homes traditionally have been stigmatized by their professional peers," says H. Terri Brower, a professor of nursing at the University of Miami's School of Nursing. Says Ruth Tappen, another professor at the school: "Nurses are not interested in working in nursing homes. They don't want to go near the places." In a study of 581 nurses working...
...Given the ugly spate of racist incidents that have marred professional play in Spain, Italy, France and elsewhere in Europe over the past year, it isn't surprising the first explanations of what prompted Zidane's violent reaction painted Materazzi as a foul-mouthed bigot. The English daily The Guardian led things off with a translation of an audio feed picked up by a TV camera, and depicted an escalating exchange in Italian ending with Materazzi calling Zidane a "(expletive) Muslim, dirty terrorist". Other media analyses relied on lip-readers scrutinizing video images, and came away with interpretations ranging from...
Reconciling his belief with his service to genetics proved easier for him than for many of his colleagues. Upon discovering the fibrosis flaw, he remembers feeling that "God had rained down his blessing." But in a profession only 8% of whose élite admit to believing in a God who...
...editors: Re “Theatre Director Dies of Heart Attack,†news web update, June 25: I was never a student at Harvard, but I was a lighting professional who worked closely with Alan P. Symonds ’69 and his students providing them advice, equipment, and support throughout a period of five years while working at a lighting rental company. I have never in my 20 years in the business met a man who so was revered and cherished by so many theater people, professionals, and students alike. Alan was a man who could tell...
“Whether they’re Christian or Muslim or whatever—they get in their profession and can’t back out,†Updike said of clergymen.