Discussing the issue of NHS reform on BBC Radio Wales, Dame June Clark, emeritus professor of community nursing, said change had generally been resisted for "years and years and years".
Dr. Elizabeth Dowdell, a professor of pediatric nursing at Villanova University's College of Nursing, heard the same thing as she was researching Internet risk behaviors and the victimization of children and adolescents.
Ruth Northway, professor of learning disability nursing at the University of Glamorgan, said the impetus for the research came from the people with learning disabilities.
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"I feel there's a lot of education that still needs to take place" in the medical community, says Michele Shaw, a professor at Washington State University College of Nursing who studies exercise in children, with a focus on those with asthma.
Women with metastatic cancer, which has spread beyond the breast and is more likely to be fatal, sometimes feel left out when the focus of awareness is on curable, small tumors, says Christopher Friese, an oncology nurse and assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing.
Former chief nursing officer Professor Martin Bradley is one of nine people awarded an OBE.
Many of you know that I'm a community college professor, and I've had the great privilege over the years of teaching countless nursing students -- and I have to tell you, they're always my A students.
"We expect a tremendous nursing shortage of about 500, 000 people by 2030, " said Professor Stefan Goerres, managing director of the Institute for Public Health and Health Care Research at the University of Bremen.
"What we're talking about is making it more possible to help families to continue the care at home if that's what they want to do--and if they do go to a nursing home, to be better nursed, " says Sandra Black, a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto.
Nursing professor Karen Kehl, in an article called "Moving Toward Peace: An Analysis of the Concept of a Good Death, " ranked the attributes of a graceful death, among them: being comfortable and in control, having a sense of closure, making the most of relationships and having family involved in care.
Chief Nursing Officer, Professor Christine Beasley said there was no single solution and the new proposals were part of a wider set of measures to reduce hospital-acquired infections.
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We do funerals nicely here, elegies and memorials, "celebrations of life, " we call them, whether it's a ninety year old math professor in a nursing home or an unlucky student drunkenly falling into a snow bank or tumbling down an elevator shaft.
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