By treating patients like customers, as nurse Amy Bozeman pointed out in a Scrubs magazine article, hospitals succumb to the ingrained cultural notion that the customer is always right. Now we are tol...
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...
Conformity is a mask behind which students can hide their identity or the fact that they haven't yet figured out their identity.
Group membership can modify individuals' perceptions of themselves. Unable to separate their personal introspection from the ways they believe other people perceive them, teenagers may have what psych...
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,
Molly had no desire to be a floor nurse. At every hospital where she had worked, there was a rivalry between the ER and the other nursing departments. We think they’re lazy and they think we’re bitche...
How could he encapsulate in a pithy admissions-interview line all of his unique ideas and interests?
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
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...
If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.
Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or...
In 1967, psychiatrist Leonard Stein described the nurse’s role in an essay entitled The Doctor–Nurse Game. The object of the game, he said, was for a nurse to make her recommendations appear to be ini...
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...
In Ray's work, most black fraternity men, compared to white fraternity men and black men who were not in fraternities, were observed treating women respectfully. Researchers also observed them speakin...
Nursing was a deeply interpersonal profession in which people had to depend on others—doctors, techs, fellow nurses—to do their job well.
In the minds of their peers, too often students become caricatures of themselves.
Instead of revamping school policies to welcome every child, many school systems are bent on revamping the students to conform to their schools.
It is the nurse who holds the hand of a patient without a family, who talks to them while they take their last breaths, who aches for them while they die alone. It is the nurse who cleans the patient’...
It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter ho...
Membership in small groups allows people to feel similar and different at the same time: similar because they are a part of a group in different because the group is separate from the masses.
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