The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Lectures 2003 Keeping Patients Safe -- Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses (2004) / Chapter Skim
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Introduction--Harvey Fineberg
Introduction--Harvey Fineberg
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I have never understood that opinion because from my vantage point -- occasionally as a patient, more frequently as a practicing clinician, and always as an educator -- I have never failed to be impressed with the significance of nursing to health care, and that is not a sentiment that I am the only one to feel. There is a wonderful expression of the importance of nursing by Lewis Thomas in his Essay on the Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine Watcher in which he observes that hospitals are "held together, glued together, and able to function as an organism by the nurses and nobody else." So, we are not here because there is a question about the fundamental importance of nursing and of nurses.
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I am especially pleased that the members of our panel agreed tonight to participate and to offer their reflections based on the report which has been released, but I want to take a moment before introducing the three who will be speaking to at least identify some of the others here who were members of the committee that produced the report. Andrew Kramer is professor of medicine and head of the Division of Health Care Policy and Research at the University of Colorado in Denver.
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