When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals' Medicare reimbursement on patient satisfaction survey scores, they likely figured that transparency...
I love the free entertainment that patients provide. People say and do the most ridiculous things, and I’ve got a front row seat to the absurdity. —A Colorado travel nurse
Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.
He comes in entirely as an outsider. He lets his mind wander. He’s not endangering his academic position because he doesn’t have one, and he can take those risks,
The human brain takes in information from other people and incorporates it with the information coming from its own senses, neuroscientist Gregory Berns has written. Many times, the group's opinion tr...
Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.
No student should be encouraged -- by anyone -- to change himself until he's normal, a term that says everything and means nothing.
If schools celebrated student scientists the same way they celebrate student athletes, more students would be encouraged to pursue the subject. Instead, science is considered nerdy because schools hel...
What made Einstein special was his impertinence, his nonconformity, and his distaste for dogma. Einstein’s genius reminds us that a society’s competitive advantage comes not from teaching the multipli...
In the midst of a crowd, an individual's layers of restraint peel away, revealing potentially barbaric instincts and a susceptibility to a crowd contagion.
In 1984, when the legal drinking age was raised to 21, underage students moved their partying from bars to private houses, which changed the Greek experience profoundly. Now fraternities had dispropor...
Nonconformists aren't just going against the grain; they're going against the brain. Either their brains aren't taking the easy way out to begin with, or in standing apart from their peers, these stud...
Wish I could start a revolution for ER nurses specifically; we are the rock stars of nursing, but are treated like the red-headed bastard stepchild. —a North Carolina ER nurse
Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.
Conformity is a mask behind which students can hide their identity or the fact that they haven't yet figured out their identity.
Exclusion is common behavior. But that doesn’t make it unchangeable. And that doesn’t mean that anything is wrong with the cafeteria fringe.
Straight white males need supportive communities, too.
A St. Louis oncology nurse quoted Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl to States News Service in 2012: ‘What is to give light must endure burning.’ I think people who care for others und...
Molly had heard that some staff nurses treated agency nurses poorly, but she was surprised now that it was happening to her. If the agency nurses weren’t there, the staff nurses would have a much high...
Someone else's success is not your failure.
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