All Things Considered, February 22, 2009 · No one wants to badmouth Florence Nightingale, but a new degree for nurses is causing bad blood between doctors and their longtime colleagues. The program confers the title of doctor on nurses, but some in the medical profession say only physicians should call themselves "doctor."
Dr. Steven Knope is a family practitioner in Tucson, Ariz. "If you're on an airline," he jokes, "and a poet with a Ph.D. is there and somebody has a heart attack, and they say 'Is there a doctor in the house?' — should the poet stand up?" Knope laughs. "Of course not."
Physicians such as Knope say the title of doctor implies a certain amount of training, hours in medical school that nurses just don't have. Dr. Ted Epperly, president of the American Association of Family Practitioners, says that while doctors place a high value on nurses, sharing the same title could confuse — and even harm — patients.
"I can just imagine a patient of mine walking into my exam room and saying, 'Now Dr. Smith, are you a doctor doctor, or are you a doctor nurse?'"
"I am a doctorally prepared nurse," says doctor nurse Ray Scarpa. A doctor, he says, "is a doctorall -prepared physician."
Scarpa works in the department of surgery at University Hospital in New Jersey. "I am not here to practice medicine, I am here to practice nursing," he says. "And I practice it at an advanced level, and I have earned the right to be called doctor."
For nursing students who begin right after college, it can take about six years to get the degree. While there is some overlap in knowledge, Scarpa says, doctors diagnose and treat while nurses have a wider focus including family, support and community.
Doctors Feel Threatened
The doctoral program for nurses is offered at more than 200 schools and began at the Columbia University School of Nursing. Dean Mary Mundinger says the tension is more about turf than patient confusion.
"It's about status," Mundinger says. "It's about ego, it's about presence. It's about standing in their community."
Here's where physicians and the new doctor nurses agree: Both groups say physicians feel threatened. They see the new breed of nurses as an invasion of their turf.
Fourth-year medical student Janet Pullockaran at University Hospital's emergency room understands the threat. "With all these new people — physician assistants, nurse practitioners coming into the field — maybe our training won't lead to a secure position in the future," she says.
A Role Doctors Can't Fill
But there's a shortage of primary caregivers, and it's possible the new nurses will help fill the void.
Louis Boeckel has throat cancer. He faces people in white coats day in and day out. He just had a tracheotomy and can't talk, so he writes notes on a pad for his wife, Carol, to read. When asked if he's worried about mixing up his physician with his nurse, Ray Scarpa, Boeckel writes, "Best doctor."
Boeckel's wife says they are concerned about who's providing their care, but to them, the title of doctor for their nurse just means he's that much more qualified.
"We view him as a doctor, because he does come and take care of all [Louis'] immediate needs as any doctor would do," she says.
The first exam to certify the doctor nurses was given in November. It's a modified version of a test given to physicians. The next test is scheduled for October, but some physicians are trying to prevent the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Comprehensive Care from administering it.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Jump .....Jump ......into Traffic ...PLEASE
A CL Reader spotted former Kris Kross member Chris Mac Daddy Kelly, 30, at Piedmont park in ATL earlier this week. The former 90s rap star, was just chilling and enjoying the atmosphere. He was still rocking his pants backwards like he did in the 90s.
As of 2007, the group supposedly reunited and are currently working on different projects with Jermaine Dupri. & word is he has his own label called C.co records. No word on what his former group member Chris Daddy Mac Smith is doing.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
K. West New Ole Lady
"Long hair, balhead, shit I don't care, I don't ever remember askin' a bitch for no hair."
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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Store gives coupons for Grape Soda & Cornbread for black history month (snakehandler are you behind this??)
We perpetuate these sterotypes all the time...can we be mad anymore?
One thing is clear about Acme Markets' recent Black History Month circular: It sparked a debate.
Two NAACP chapters have different views about the circular. It has forced Supervalu, which owns Acme, to defend itself against accusations of racism.
All for an advertisement the company says it has been running for seven years and never caused a flap before.
In its Jan. 29 circulars, under a "Black History Month" banner, a set of specials is advertised for products including corn bread, collard greens and grape soda. Since then, the Delaware chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People says more than a hundred people have complained the products perpetuate stereotypes. Delaware NAACP President Cecil C. Wilson called for Acme to immediately run a full-page apology "in all of Delaware's newspapers."
"It's racist, it's insensitive, it's not culturally correct," Wilson said. "Don't assume that to celebrate Black History Month that we must have corn bread. Whoever put this ad together thought it'd be a good joke."
Officials from Supervalu did not respond to interview requests Friday. In a statement, the company said the advertisement was designed to highlight Black History Month and many of the items are products supplied through the company's "supplier diversity program."
"For example, Glory Foods, an African American-owned manufacturer, is featured with four of its products because it is our way of supporting and strengthening their brand with added exposure during the month of February," the statement said.
Supervalu, based in Eden Prairie, Minn., operates 12 Acme supermarkets in Delaware and 118 others in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The promotional ad, which went to 3.5 million households, also advertises a President Barack Obama DVD and plaque, paper towels, dish soap, energy drinks and Jose Ole chimichangas and tacos.
The ad wasn't offensive to Jerry Mondesire, president of the Philadelphia chapter of the NAACP, whose organization has teamed up with Supervalu for events in the past, including in-store promotions.
Mondesire said Supervalu doesn't need to apologize for anything.
"I eat those foods, so it's fine if someone markets those foods to me," Mondesire said of the corn bread and collard greens. "A lot of companies market to African-Americans during the month of February."
Wilson, on the other hand, said Acme shouldn't be discounting any foods specifically because it's Black History Month.
"What they're trying to do is pull in a particular group of people during a particular month to jack up their sales," he said. "If they want to continue to do that, they're going to see a decline."
Acme discounts products tied to 21 other holiday and ethnic celebrations. During Hispanic Heritage Month -- starting Sept. 15, Acme discounts foods such as salsa and avocados. Maria Matos of the Latin American Community Center said those discounts wouldn't offend her. Instead, she'd "head over there to shop in a heartbeat."
But because food isn't tied to Black History Month, the discounts demonstrate that Supervalu doesn't comprehend the meaning of the observation, said Ken Smikle, the founder of Chicago-based Target Market News, a firm that focuses on marketing-industry activities that target black consumers. Any controversy could easily have been avoided, Smikle said, had Supervalu sought advice from a black advertising agency.
"It's not like Thanksgiving or Christmas, and this has nothing to do with the Hispanic holiday," he said. "What's offensive about this is how that store interprets how I or anyone else celebrate Black History Month."
In Colonial times, slave owners would discard the remains of butchered hogs, and slaves would cook and season those parts, such as chitterlings and feet, into delicacies. The Acme ad took on a similar theme, Wilson said, by discounting Acme soda and maple syrup instead of the brand-name counterparts.
"This whole thing is cheapo," he said. "All the products on sale are typically low-grade products that they have to clean off the shelves. I don't know what their motive is, but it still reeks with suspicion."
Jerome Brown Jr. of New Castle felt that the ad was stereotypical, but not racist.
"I have a few friends who don't use any of these items," said Brown, who is black. "Putting collard greens and hot sauce on sale makes it more of an ignorant stereotype -- but that doesn't mean I'll stop shopping at Acme."
Saturday, February 7, 2009
LOR
To Whom It May Concern:
I am a Real Estate Paralegal formerly employed by Citibank, I had the opportunity to work with Rosie **last name deleted** as my assistant while handling foreclosures and commercial loans. When we first started out, Rosie was doing an excellent job, she could be depended on no matter what the situation, shortly thereafter the bitch started to hang out downstairs on the pedway between our office building and the one adjacent to us, she was down there at least 2 times in the morning and 3 times in the afternoon smoking Kool Super Long cigarettes. When the year end came she was almost carted off to jail because instead of paying invoices for the Bank, she was paying her AT&T, ComEd, Cable and Peoples Gas bills from the Banks account. I cannot believe she would even think of asking me to write a letter of recommendation for her, what I recommend is you lock your damn door when you see her coming in your direction and please whatever you do let the dog out or else she’ll never go away. She used to have a noose hanging in her cubicle from the tall wall with a picture of a white man dangling from it. She says she is not a racist, but I sure as hell can’t tell. She would walk down the hall and would not allow them to invade her space, she would stop and place her back against the wall and give them one of those cheap sheepish grins that says “I’m gonna shoot you in the back as soon as you pass me”! Kudos to Rosie for a job she never got done, she got paid but for what, I don’t know.
But hey don’t take my word for it, hire her and see what I mean firsthand. Afterall, there are 2 sides to every story.
Oh by the way, I’m supposed to say she’s an exceptional worker who handled all of her responsibilities in a calm and timely manner. Yeh right, I remember I asked her to help me file some loan documents in August, 2002 she finished the filing in January, 2003, now that’s what I call timely.
Best Regards,
**Mygirl's trifling aunt**
I am a Real Estate Paralegal formerly employed by Citibank, I had the opportunity to work with Rosie **last name deleted** as my assistant while handling foreclosures and commercial loans. When we first started out, Rosie was doing an excellent job, she could be depended on no matter what the situation, shortly thereafter the bitch started to hang out downstairs on the pedway between our office building and the one adjacent to us, she was down there at least 2 times in the morning and 3 times in the afternoon smoking Kool Super Long cigarettes. When the year end came she was almost carted off to jail because instead of paying invoices for the Bank, she was paying her AT&T, ComEd, Cable and Peoples Gas bills from the Banks account. I cannot believe she would even think of asking me to write a letter of recommendation for her, what I recommend is you lock your damn door when you see her coming in your direction and please whatever you do let the dog out or else she’ll never go away. She used to have a noose hanging in her cubicle from the tall wall with a picture of a white man dangling from it. She says she is not a racist, but I sure as hell can’t tell. She would walk down the hall and would not allow them to invade her space, she would stop and place her back against the wall and give them one of those cheap sheepish grins that says “I’m gonna shoot you in the back as soon as you pass me”! Kudos to Rosie for a job she never got done, she got paid but for what, I don’t know.
But hey don’t take my word for it, hire her and see what I mean firsthand. Afterall, there are 2 sides to every story.
Oh by the way, I’m supposed to say she’s an exceptional worker who handled all of her responsibilities in a calm and timely manner. Yeh right, I remember I asked her to help me file some loan documents in August, 2002 she finished the filing in January, 2003, now that’s what I call timely.
Best Regards,
**Mygirl's trifling aunt**
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Would u take it?
IBM to laid-off: Want a job in India?
Employees who would otherwise face layoffs from their North American jobs at IBM are being given the chance to work abroad through 'Project Match.'
By Karina Frayter, CNN
Last Updated: February 5, 2009: 3:57 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNN) -- IBM employees being laid off in North America now have an alternative to joining the growing ranks of the unemployed - work for the company abroad.
Big Blue is offering its outgoing workers in the United States and Canada a chance to take an IBM job in India, Nigeria, Russia or other countries.
Through a program dubbed Project Match, IBM will help interested workers whose jobs are on the chopping block to "identify potential opportunities in growth markets and facilitate consideration by hiring managers in those markets," according to an internal company document obtained by CNN.
The company also will help with moving costs and provide visa assistance, it says.
Other countries with IBM opportunities include Argentina, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates, according to the document.
Only "satisfactory performers" who are "willing to work on local terms and conditions" should pursue the jobs, the document says. IBM would not immediately confirm if it means that the workers would be paid local wages and would be subject to local labor laws.
A spokesman for Alliance@IBM, a workers' group that is affiliated with the Communications Workers of America but does not have official union status at IBM, slammed the initiative.
"IBM not only is offshoring its work to low-cost countries, now IBM wants employees to offshore themselves," spokesman Lee Conrad told CNN. "At a time of rising unemployment IBM should be looking to keep both the work and the workers in the United States."
The Armonk, N.Y.-based company has confirmed recent layoffs but has not provided any specifics on the number of people affected.
Conrad said IBM (IBM, Fortune 500) has laid off more than 4,000 workers in the United States since the beginning of the year, but called that "a conservative number."
"This is unacceptable to the Alliance and we are pursuing this by asking our members and all IBM employees to contact their political representatives to demand an accounting and transparency in job cuts and offshoring from IBM," Conrad said.
First Published: February 5, 2009: 3:30 PM ET
Employees who would otherwise face layoffs from their North American jobs at IBM are being given the chance to work abroad through 'Project Match.'
By Karina Frayter, CNN
Last Updated: February 5, 2009: 3:57 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNN) -- IBM employees being laid off in North America now have an alternative to joining the growing ranks of the unemployed - work for the company abroad.
Big Blue is offering its outgoing workers in the United States and Canada a chance to take an IBM job in India, Nigeria, Russia or other countries.
Through a program dubbed Project Match, IBM will help interested workers whose jobs are on the chopping block to "identify potential opportunities in growth markets and facilitate consideration by hiring managers in those markets," according to an internal company document obtained by CNN.
The company also will help with moving costs and provide visa assistance, it says.
Other countries with IBM opportunities include Argentina, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates, according to the document.
Only "satisfactory performers" who are "willing to work on local terms and conditions" should pursue the jobs, the document says. IBM would not immediately confirm if it means that the workers would be paid local wages and would be subject to local labor laws.
A spokesman for Alliance@IBM, a workers' group that is affiliated with the Communications Workers of America but does not have official union status at IBM, slammed the initiative.
"IBM not only is offshoring its work to low-cost countries, now IBM wants employees to offshore themselves," spokesman Lee Conrad told CNN. "At a time of rising unemployment IBM should be looking to keep both the work and the workers in the United States."
The Armonk, N.Y.-based company has confirmed recent layoffs but has not provided any specifics on the number of people affected.
Conrad said IBM (IBM, Fortune 500) has laid off more than 4,000 workers in the United States since the beginning of the year, but called that "a conservative number."
"This is unacceptable to the Alliance and we are pursuing this by asking our members and all IBM employees to contact their political representatives to demand an accounting and transparency in job cuts and offshoring from IBM," Conrad said.
First Published: February 5, 2009: 3:30 PM ET
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HAVE MERCY
Former-USC Women's Volleyball Coach Cuts Entire ASU Cheer Squad
Rory MacDonald, TrojanWire
FoxNEWS is picking up a story from TheDirty.com that Lisa Love, USC's Women's Volleyball Coach (1989-98), and now Arizona State's Athletic Director, made the decision late Thursday evening to cut the entire cheer squad from next year's event because of a photo that features 6 of the cheerleaders posing in nothing but their bras and panties.
Although only six members of the squad are shown in the photographs, the entire 16-member squad will suffer the consequences, MyFOXPhoenix reported.
The cheerleaders told MyFOXPhoenix that the photographs were a result of college kids goofing off, and they believe the decision to disband the team has been in the works for a while. The photographs are two years old, and were taken at a “cheer party.”
Now to the picture... not that we need to tell you something about ASU cheerleaders is NSFW, but click the Continued... button to see what all the fuss is about.
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