waffle

With all these intellectual, political and argumentative posts recently,  I have been losing interest in joining in the discussion. I’m finding it a little less a discussion and more like a my dads better than yours situation. I am quite sure that I am not alone, therefore I want to write a post about plain old mental health nursing. (Not that there is anything plain about it). Read the rest of this entry »

A little over a week, the great Doc Crippen pleasured us with this guest post.

Within the commentary of this discourse, I believe it was firmly and established that this offer of…

I will bet you all a virtual pint that more than 75% of newly qualified nurses are under 25.

…was irrefutably and evidentially proven to be in err by Gallowgate and seconded by Zarathustra with this:

Gallowgate said…

According to the now defunct NMAS (Nursing and Midwifery Admissions Service) website: In 2007, 15226 of accepted applicants were 25 and under and 10260 were 26 and over.

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Get fresh at the weekend, as Mel and Kim once said. So here’s the inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines, doing a very energetic routine to “Jump” by the Pointer Sisters

They were previously a huge internet hit with their version of Thriller.

So what do you think? Is this the answer to the mental health crisis in our prisons?

For those of you with a classical education you may like these Latin sayings which I found here . My particular favorites are:

QUI ME AMAT, AMAT ET CANEM MEAM
Love me, love my dog.

LUKE SUM IPSE PATREM TE
Luke, I am your father.

POTESTATEM OBSCURI LATERIS NESCIS
You don’t know the power of the dark side.

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