Nurse comfort…more than helpful hands.

Nurses first focus on patients and often forget about caring for themselves. This article examines the issue of burnout and describes how nurse comfort can combat it.

Challenges and issues facing the future of nursing education: implications for ethnic minority faculty and students.

Current trends in higher education in the United States demand that nursing take stock of how it is prepared or being prepared to face challenges and issues impacting on its future. The intense effort made to attract students to pursue advanced training in science and engineering in the United States pales in comparison to the numbers of science and engineering majors produced yearly in international schools. As a result, more and more jobs are being outsourced to international markets.

Defining elements of success: a critical pathway of coalition development.

In recent decades, coalitions have been established to address many public health problems, including injury prevention. A partnership among the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center and four injury prevention coalitions has documented the developmental stages of successful coalitions. This developmental process was constructed through the analysis of participating coalition documents, such as each coalition's mission statement, bylaws or rules of operation, the use of committees within the organization, frequency of meetings, and additional historical documents.

Faith-based leaders' opinions before and after a youth tobacco prevention workshop.

To determine if religious leaders' (N = 253) opinions changed after a 1-day workshop on integrating a "Students Working Against Tobacco" educational program into Sunday school or other youth programs at church, participants, most of whom were African-American, completed a pretest and posttest survey. Leaders' opinions regarding their expertise in this area reflected more confidence following the workshop. Both before and after the workshop, they were firm in their belief that tobacco prevention programs have an impact and that tobacco use could be prevented.

Sustaining tobacco control coalitions amid declining resources.

Mississippi is unique among the 50 states in settling a lawsuit against tobacco companies earlier than the Master Settlement Agreement, devoting a relatively high amount of per capita funding on tobacco control, and avoiding tobacco-control budget cuts. Using a social-ecological approach combining insider and outsider strategies, tobacco-prevention coalitions in Mississippi succeeded in sustaining funding despite serious obstacles. Lessons learned included taking specific actions to embed themselves in the local community, wisely aligning with legislators, choosing courageous and effective champions, and ensuring that people are keenly aware of their existence and efforts.

Conscience as the voice of God: A jungian view.

Archetypal psychology proposes a genetic basis for experiencing conscience as the Voice of God. Human beings are predisposed to submit themselves to parental directives, but they are also predisposed to submit themselves to some higher, spiritual law. True conscience differs from the Freudian superego in that it sometimes directs one to disobey the prevailing moral code.

The nature experiences of a Mississippi watercolorist.

Watercolorist Walter Anderson, after a series of hospitalizations for mental illness, began a series of private journeys to a barrier island off the Mississippi coast, where he had a number of ecstatic, mystical experiences vis-à-vis nature and painted the myriad images he found. It is argued that these episodes were not pathological. Anderson's relationships with archetypes and with death are presented as central elements of a spiritual journey.