Nursing - A Calling To Care India Debut January 2012

NURSES EXPECTED TO CARE FOR 32 MILLION MORE PATIENTS BY 2014 MIAMI FLORIDA (2/18/2012) — Fresh from her tour in India and just in time for Nurses’ Week, Lauren is all set to talk about nursing challenges at home and abroad. Nursing: A Calling to Care —A Celebration of Nurses, Past, Present and Future, presents a global perspective of nursing as a profession and of the prevailing nursing shortage. See the possible effects in 2014 when Medicaid adds a whopping 32 million people to the US healthcare system. Feel the desperation as India faces a shortfall of 2.4 million nurses right now in 2012. And while the casualties increase, Africa despairingly admits that it would take hundreds of years to train enough nurses to provide a 1:1000 nurse to patient ratio. Are there any practical solutions? And how can your God-given S.H.A.P.E help to provide a whole new look at nursing as a calling rather than just another profession? Written from the perspective of hundreds of years of collaborative nursing experience, Nursing: A Calling to Care — A Celebration of Nurses, Past, Present and Future captures a snapshot of nursing practice in North America, Asia, and other parts of the world. Get the real story — starting with Florence Nightingale, the founder of professional nursing, to men only schools of nursing to the founding of the Red Cross. Find out what Walt Whitman, a New Orleans slave and St. Camillus all had in common and discover why in the 21st century some men still need permission to be nurses. Lauren E. Myers, RN has been in continuous practice since 1989. She is an award winning Christian writer (Reflections: Seeing through the Glass darkly, In the Presence of Grace, God Speaks My Language), pastor, conference and motivational speaker. Nursing: A Calling to Care therapeutically priced at $14.99. Stay tuned for upcoming USA launch. For Interviews, booking or additional information: Telephone: (305) 992-0225

Thanks-Living

Thanksgiving Day is finally here and Web sites from The Times to the tabloids present a dazzling display of recipes with attractive options for the novice and the well initiated. I imagine in another month or so those same sites will be bulging with offers to help us lose weight quickly – but I get ahead of myself. As I browse and do the email equivalent of clipping recipes, I can’t help wondering what would happen in our world if instead of pulling off major feasts one Thanksgiving Day a year we practiced “Thanksliving” on a daily basis.
Such a revolutionary idea would require things like being thankful instead of cherishing a spirit of entitlement or basking in what we have achieved by the bootstrap method. We would allow ourselves to be inconvenienced and start an enduring revolution by practicing being neighborly as Jesus defines it. We would probably understand why keeping two commandments i.e. love God above all else, love people as much as our own selves, work a whole lot better than trying to keep ten, one at a time. I am not dreaming nor am I drunk. It’s just that as a bonafide citizen of another world, I tend to believe my King has the right notion. He says if we live something like the above we would really see His kingdom come and His will be done and the world would take notice that Christ does make a difference.
Happy Thanksgiving!