Born and raised in the Bronx, Carol Tishelman, first went
to Sweden as an undergraduate student in women's studies,
consieried a medical career, an dstayed in Sweden working
in a long-term health care facuility. That cmented her interest
in nurisng. A Penn Nurisng alum, she is now an associate
professor and acting dean at the Karolinska Institute
in Sweden.
Speaking of her expatriate status, Dr. Tishelman noted,
"I've felt comfortable in Sweden in the national comitment
to equal access to health care with the commitment to vulnerable
populations that implies. That leads to less dissonance
for me in tems of the values I've been socialized at Penn.
But the healath care system in Sweden now needs to adapt
to be berter able to support very divesee populations with
very divese needs." ... As nursing proceeds towards global
influence, Dr. Tisheman posits that nurses opereating within
different cultures need to recongnize how much they can
learn from each other. |
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DR. KEIKO I. KISHI, GrN'81, Okayama,
Japan, writes that she is making a 15-part television series
on nursing for the University of Air, due for broadcast in
April next year. The Penn School of Nursing is the location
of one of the sessions.
Dr. Kishi notes that she was the
first graduate of the doctoral program in nursing at the University
of Pennyslvania. |
