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The Pulse

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July 2002
 
The Spirit Moves Her
As Amanda Burr, RN, recalls, it was 1969 when it became fashionable for caregivers to tell people the truth about dying. She was a nursing student at Columbia University and had just seen Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, MD, author of the seminal On Death and Dying. Read
 
Parallel Universes
Jan Babcock, RN, worked Sunday and gave birth to a son the following Wednesday. Twelve weeks later, she was back at work, answering for the fifth time the question that working mothers everywhere face: resume a career or stay home to
rear children? Read
 
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Call Terri Jacque, RN, to break the uneasy silence when a deaf person arrives at the ER unannounced and in crisis at East Texas Medical Center in Tyler, Texas. Read
 
Smooth Operators
Melania English, RN, an education coordinator and certified specialist in poison information (CSPI), laughed at the notion of a typical day at DeVos Children's Hospital Regional Poison Center in Grand Rapids, Mich. Read
 
Good Chemistry
"I can tell you ways to get high you wouldn't believe," Sandi Schraut, RN, says with such conviction that you know it must be true.

Schraut, 52, deals with the chemically dependent in a 28-bed alcohol rehabilitation unit and 12-bed detox unit at the Anoka (Minn.) Regional Treatment Center. Read