Band-Aides and Blackboards from the perspective of the children and teens

January 28, 2009

Band-Aides and Blackboards

About The Contents

Welcome! This is a site about ...any ole type. Its goal is to help

people understand what it's like, from the perspective of the

children and teens who are doing just that. These kids have become

experts at coping with problems that most of you have never heard of.

They'd like you to know how they do it, and they hope that you'll be

glad you came to visit. I've divided the contents into three ponds;

one for kids, one for teens, and one for adults. Figure out which you

are, and jump in!

Questions you might be asking yourself...

and my answers...

Should I trust what she has to say?

I hope that you will. I've been working with children and teens in

hospitals for a long time...over 30 years (yikes!). I have a great

job--teaching college students to be the best nurses in the world. I

am a registered nurse, and a doctor who has studied about health

education instead of medicine. Did you know that there were different

types of doctors like that?

Where did she go to school?

I went to Charity Hospital School of Nursing in New Orleans,

Louisiana, and then to Florida State University in Tallahassee,

Florida, and then to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and much

later, to Teacher's College at Columbia University in New York. This

project began as part of my dissertation, and it has just kept

growing and growing ever since. Whew, that was a mouthful, wasn't

it?!

OK, OK, I'll go now and take a look.

Great, I hope that you'll send me a note if you have any more

questions. Thanks for visiting!

Want to check out the Spanish version of this page?

To the Frog Ponds To send me a note To the Site Map

Joan Fleitas, Ed.D., R.N.

Associate Professor of Nursing, Lehman College, CUNY

Bronx, New York 10468

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