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There was a good piece in the Detroit News recently about how Michigan hospitals have brought the rate of infection among intensive care patients down by 80% in the last year. That's positive action I'd say. This improvement occurred in a state where the nurses of several major hospitals have gone out on strike over working conditions during the same period. Nurses in our state are routinely asked to work ridiculous hours due to what administrators claim is a shortage of available nurses. Yet, the nursing schools are always crammed full of promising recruits, so it's only after they get into the field that they get discouraged and drop out--due to the same administrators and their actions.

Posted by Mike at October 24, 2005 6:10 AM

question for TP: Have you ever given a presentation without a ppt ?? Where the fodder was only words, emotions and expereinces weaved with story telling ??

Posted by /pdd at October 24, 2005 12:52 PM

Thanks for continuing to talk about the Bird Flu. If you do a presentation based on the ppt you posted, would you consider posting an audio file?

I think it would be a great public service.

Posted by John at October 24, 2005 8:36 PM

pdd, many without PowerPoint, probably hundreds. My PPs, unlike most, are not cluttered charts and graphs, but invariably simple quotes in bold colors. I look at it as sharing my notes (if I wasn't using PP) with the audience, realtime.

Posted by tom peters at October 25, 2005 6:33 AM

I recently attended the National Homecare & Hospice convention in Seattle. Tom Peters was one of the first speakers I heard when I arrived and want to say,"Thanks" for the enthusiasm and message based on humanity vs money motivation. I have been a home care/hospice nurse for over 15 years and have seen the medical system enter a "black hole" and experience implosion on itself. The reason for this, I believe is that the greed of the leaders has driven the poor descions they have made in the healthcare industry. The writing is on the wall that the "boomers" are going to put the game of healthcare on "tilt". Pratical business solutions based on human needs is the simple commonsense way to approach this delimia. As I work deeper in the bowels of "corporate America" I realize that the management and administrators are similar to the "Emperor With No Clothes". They keep looking at the amount of money they can make, "the bottomline", instead of meeting the needs first on a human connection with the understanding that abundance always follows. It's a law of the Universe. We cant change that!
The main reason I wrote this comment is because I connected with Tom's passion for excellence and believe he is gaining many merits for the sacrifice of speaking to others for the good of all. I understand weariness as most nurses that practice the art of nursing do. Stay on the "path", Tom. It is a good one.
I would also like to know more about Planetree.
Thanks

Posted by Robin Pagenkopp RN at October 30, 2005 2:27 PM