October 2005

About this issue: 

Feature

Come Share Our Mission

October 01, 2005
As a nurse, we know you have a lot of choices when it comes to selecting a workplace. So why choose Adventist Health? Because we’re not like everyone else.Our mission and heritage inspire us to care for the whole person—mind, body and spirit. Chap...

More Features

  • ASI Growing:

    ASI members and curious spectators—as many as 3,300 of them—gathered at the Sacramento Convention Center, August 3 to 6, for the organization’s annual international convention, themed “Christ’s Power … Our Hands.”Adventist-laymen’s Services and In...
    Read more

  • Come Share Our Mission

    October 01, 2005
    As a nurse, we know you have a lot of choices when it comes to selecting a workplace. So why choose Adventist Health? Because we’re not like everyone else.Our mission and heritage inspire us to care for the whole person—mind, body and spirit. Chap...
    Read more

  • ASI Growing:

    ASI members and curious spectators—as many as 3,300 of them—gathered at the Sacramento Convention Center, August 3 to 6, for the organization’s annual international convention, themed “Christ’s Power … Our Hands.”Adventist-laymen’s Services and In...
    Read more

  • Still Making House Calls

    When you meet Nina Summers, RN, you are immediately struck by her soft voice and unassuming manner. She doesn’t like crowds. Or general chemistry (more on that later). But each day, her quiet strength brings hope and health to patient after patien...
    Read more

  • A Dream Realized

    When Donna Bechthold, RN, had her first child in 1964, it was a life-changing experience. Not only had she instantly become a parent, but she also realized her dream of someday becoming a nurse.“I had such a wonderful experience with the OB nurses...
    Read more

  • Still Making House Calls

    When you meet Nina Summers, RN, you are immediately struck by her soft voice and unassuming manner. She doesn’t like crowds. Or general chemistry (more on that later). But each day, her quiet strength brings hope and health to patient after patien...
    Read more

  • A Dream Realized

    When Donna Bechthold, RN, had her first child in 1964, it was a life-changing experience. Not only had she instantly become a parent, but she also realized her dream of someday becoming a nurse.“I had such a wonderful experience with the OB nurses...
    Read more

  • Fast Facts about Adventist Health

    October 01, 2005
    • Headquartered in Roseville, California• 20 hospitals in California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington• 16 home-care agencies, offering home health, hospice, personal care, medical equipment and infusion therapy services• Three joint-venture retireme...
    Read more

  • Fast Facts about Adventist Health

    October 01, 2005
    • Headquartered in Roseville, California• 20 hospitals in California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington• 16 home-care agencies, offering home health, hospice, personal care, medical equipment and infusion therapy services• Three joint-venture retireme...
    Read more

  • About Options and Making a Difference

    If you asked Rick Duffield, RN, why he would recommend nursing, he’d tell you the same thing his aunt told him 40 years ago. It’s all about options. In fact, out of curiosity, he recently made a list of all the things a registered nurse could do, ...
    Read more

  • The Healing Ministry of Nursing

    Year after year, nurses are overwhelmingly ranked the most trusted professionals in a Gallup survey that measures the public’s perception of honesty and ethics. When you’re in the business of caring, as Adventist Health is, this perception must tr...
    Read more

  • About Options and Making a Difference

    If you asked Rick Duffield, RN, why he would recommend nursing, he’d tell you the same thing his aunt told him 40 years ago. It’s all about options. In fact, out of curiosity, he recently made a list of all the things a registered nurse could do, ...
    Read more

  • The Healing Ministry of Nursing

    Year after year, nurses are overwhelmingly ranked the most trusted professionals in a Gallup survey that measures the public’s perception of honesty and ethics. When you’re in the business of caring, as Adventist Health is, this perception must tr...
    Read more

Others

  • How Can We Help?

    October 01, 2005
    Information about a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina develops so rapidly that a monthly magazine cannot print relevant news in a timely manner. That is why the GLEANER developed the GleanerNOW! Web site—to provide a place where our members can g...
    Read more

  • The Heart of Health Care

    Nurses are at the heart of health care. They are the warm smile in the morning and the comforting touch at night. They have the uncanny ability to create calm in chaos and settle the nerves of jittery patients. Indeed, they are the very reason hos...
    Read more

  • The Heart of Health Care

    Nurses are at the heart of health care. They are the warm smile in the morning and the comforting touch at night. They have the uncanny ability to create calm in chaos and settle the nerves of jittery patients. Indeed, they are the very reason hos...
    Read more

  • How Can We Help?

    October 01, 2005
    Information about a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina develops so rapidly that a monthly magazine cannot print relevant news in a timely manner. That is why the GLEANER developed the GleanerNOW! Web site—to provide a place where our members can g...
    Read more

  • A Marriage Made in Heaven

    Paul Harvey shared the true story of a woman who called the Butterball Turkey Company hot line that was set up to answer consumer questions about preparing turkeys. This woman inquired about cooking a turkey that had been in her freezer for 23 yea...
    Read more

News