Wednesday, March 7, 2007

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Study Group

If you are planning to take the next OCN certification exam, you might want to check out this informal group review class facilitated by Debra Thaler Demers. The group meets March 25, from 8 am to 5 pm at CC2103. To RSVP, email Albert at amedina@stanfordmed.org

Staff Support Group

Wednesday, March 7, from 2-3 pm in the E1 conference room, we have a chance to discuss loss and grieving in a support group designed for the nursing staff. Judy Passaglia, palliative care project manager, will lead the discussion.

Dinner and discussion

Robert Lowsky, MD, will provide update on ASH and ASBMT at a dinner at on Wednesday, March 14, at Parkside Grill in Portola Valley. For reservations, call 650-725-3004 by March 8.

Read and Learn

Dr. Kate Tierney keeps offering wisdom, chocolates for right clinical answers and good articles to read around E1. She advertises the last selection in the binder with selected literature that she prepares.

An article from Newsweek: "Fixing America's Hospitals” and "Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Implications for Critical Care Nurses" from the last edition of the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2007. “Nice review of the numerous complications of transplant,” she says. Check it out.

Book Club

The Unit’s book club meets again at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 15, to discuss “Love in the Time of Cholera’’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It’s an ingenious, enchanting and improbable love story that takes place in a fictitious Caribbean setting. It is from a Nobel Prize winning writer who knows how to translate, without sappy or obvious tricks, that inner island of magic in the sea of human hopes. Bring a dish and your thoughts on the book to Laila Craveiro’s house, 3229 Maddux Drive, Palo Alto.


Kids play group

Have kids younger than 6? Join the unit’s monthly play group. Meeting times and locations vary. If you are interested, look for the next email about the group’s goings-on.

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