“Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.” CareRaceSupportEmotionalDisciplineOfficeSurvivalIllIncomePermitClothingsShelterNurtureDisabledNursingTransportationRace CarEmotional Support Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter
“Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.” ArtMadeStatesWholeCarePainNightWaitingDarkSecretSweetPureAngelSightAriseCuresAwakeHollowNursingNoonConsoleSuspendedSlumberRestoringWeavingHandmaids Author:Bram Stoker
“By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.” PeopleHomeCareSocialPoorPayClassMiddleResourcesDignityEntrepreneurPatientRateProfitMiddle ClassTreatmentCitizenshipConsumedNursingDefaultAntithesisMedicaidNursing HomeBilling Author:Robert Kuttner
“Nursing may be the oldest art, but in the contemporary world, it is also one of the most invisible. One of the most invisible arts, sciences, and certainly one of the most invisible parts of our health care system.” WorldMayArtCareInvisibleContemporaryHealth CareNurseNursingHealth Care System Book:Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines Source: Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines