This Month in Nursing eNotes: September 2003 (go to archives)
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Nursing Students Interviewed by OPB About the Image of Nursing
New Master’s Program Offerings on Regional Campuses
Taking the Long View
Reconnect With the Past at Homecoming 2004!
Thinking About Applying to the Master’s Program?
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Nursing Students Interviewed by OPB About the Image of Nursing

How do images of nursing in media contribute to society’s view of the role nurses play in health care? The representation of nursing in media is an ongoing discussion. From the white cap and uniform of the past to the buxom blonde image, nurses are represented with various stereotypes throughout media. Students at the OHSU School of Nursing campus in Klamath Falls were recently interviewed by Oregon Public Broadcasting about their research methods class study on the image of nursing in greeting cards. Read the complete OPB interview about the student study and opinions about the representation of nurses in media at:
http://www.ohsu.edu/son/news/enotes-images.shtml
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New Master’s Program Offerings on Regional Campuses

If you live outside the Portland area and you’re interested in becoming a geriatric or psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, you may be able to earn your advanced practice degree where you live. The geriatric nurse practitioner master’s program specialty is now offered on the Ashland campus and the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner master’s program specialty is now offered in Ashland, Klamath Falls and La Grande.
For information about these new opportunities, go to:
http://www.ohsu.edu/son/academic/ap-newprograms.shtml
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Taking the Long View

When a group of psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners gathered together in Lane County, they noticed something about themselves that was troubling: Each of them was aging toward retirement. They became concerned about who would serve their patients in their community when they and their peers left the field. They committed to being part of the solution. To find out how these individuals chose to make an impact go to:
http://www.ohsu.edu/son/giving/enotes-longview.shtml
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Reconnect With the Past at Homecoming 2004!

It’s already time to start planning for next year's Alumni Homecoming, which will be held on Saturday, May 22, 2004. Please help make this event a successful one by being a class coordinator for your reunion class. The following are the classes that will be celebrating reunions: Winter 1953, June 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994 and 1999. If you would like to help coordinate your reunion, please contact Carolyn (Marlette) Kimpton at (503) 494-4404 or e-mail nursalum@ohsu.edu.

To see highlights from this year’s Alumni Homecoming, go to:
http://www.ohsu.edu/son/alumni/ce-alumniweekend-03.shtml

For more information about Alumni Homecoming 2004 as it develops, go to:
http://www.ohsu.edu/son/alumni/ce-alumniweekend.shtml
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Thinking About Applying to the Master’s Program?

Have you been thinking about applying to the master's program? If you are thinking of applying to a master’s program that begins in the fall of 2004, applications are accepted this October 1 to December 1. Can we assist you in making your application? Do you have questions that we can answer? Are the GREs the part of the equation that you are missing? Let us help. For helpful information about how to apply to the master’s program, go to:
http://www.ohsu.edu/son/academic/enotes-applying.shtml
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