I’m a Registered Nurse, have been since 1980. I recently finished my Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing at Sonoma State University. One of the things I love most about nursing as a profession is teaching; one of the things I love most about nursing as an education is how it’s taught me to think in both depth and breadth, and to allow for, even work from, my intuition and my feelings as well as rational science and written knowledge.
I have traveled some, not as much as I’d like to. My work experience includes hospital, clinic, and home care; critical care, walk-in, and long-term cases; premature infants to the elderly, able-bodied and disabled. I write, I teach, but mostly, I listen to what people need in terms of their health and health care, and help them formulate a way to accomplish that.
My life-long passion, since I was 9, is working toward a nuclear-free world. I have enough science to understand the draw of nuclear plants for power, and enough common sense to understand that, once you take into account the whole path of radioactive material from mine to disposal that nuclear is not clean at all. Nuclear weapons are designed to be dirty, which, from a nursing perspective, makes them a danger to public health.
The purpose of An Ounce of Prevention is to raise money for the cause of a nuclear-free world. 10% of everything earned goes directly to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War‘s International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. I recognize that this is work that may take generations and will take many hands. That’s why I dedicate An Ounce of Prevention to this cause: the whole saying is, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”