Then and Now: Looking back at our hospitals
Updated 8:10 AM;
Today 7:30 AM
Top photo of Seaside Hospital that was located at New Dorp Beach. (The New York Public Library)
Bottom photo: A general photo of the same area. (Staten Island Advance)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. In the years past there was an abundance of hospitals located on Staten Island. Here are some facts about our health care history.
Above, the Seaside Hospital was established at New Dorp Beach in 1886. This was also known as the Children’s Hospital New Dorp.
Seaside Hospital was converted into a privately owned nursing home in 1952
When the tech gods frown on your event | From the editor
Updated Feb 28, 2021;
At least give us this: We tried.
Most of you won’t know what I’m talking about because most of you weren’t there. But it’s really a lesson for everyone:
Sometimes, technology isn’t our friend.
For folks at the Advance/SILive.com, Monday was one of those days Mentoring Monday, to be more specific, a program where business professionals – all women – advise any woman looking for career advice on a Monday morning in February.
This was the second year we sponsored the event. Last year, it was in-person and a runaway success. Then, about 125 showed up for advice from about 60 women who achieved success in their businesses.
Nursing students need hands-on experience (opinion)
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
A lack of hands-on learning deprives students of experiences essential to their formation as nurses. The hard truth is that nursing students cannot learn hands-on care from a book or a computer.
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By Faculty of Wagner College’s Evelyn L. Spiro School of Nursing.
The first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic caused health care organizations, colleges and universities to close their doors to students, including those studying nursing. Across the nation, nursing education moved online and students cared for virtual patients.
While these efforts saved personal protective equipment for the clinicians who needed it most and limited the number of people in facilities to “flatten the curve,’ teaching and learning suffered.