medication regulation, helping decrease a nurse's workload and increasing client safety. Technology such as this, combined with economic changes such as diagnosis-related group [DRG] requirements by the government, paved the way for patients to leave the hospital sooner than ever before, increasing the required level of care at home. DRGs, the diagnosis-based payment system initiated by Medicare, caused a decreased length of stay in the hospital resulting in a proliferation of home health services. This changed the face and focus of many nursing careers, including my father's. He started in home health he mid-1990s, learning to interpret the new rules while learning to be a nurse in a new environment. His stories of the joys and pitfalls of home care encouraged me to eventually choose this route as well, and I became involved in caring for people at home. I eventually chose hospice as my passion-a place in nursing where becoming part of a family is almost necessary, and life changes for all those involved In ten years, perhaps you, too, may be writing an article on how it used to be". You will laugh at the procedures you did, at how long it took to get information, and at the medications that were being produced that will be obsolete at the time of your writing. And I hope you will be able to look back on the really important things other nurses taught you; like what it means to "be witha patient and the difference between being a real nurse and a person who performs tasks Nursing has become not just a job or even a career, but part of who I am mostly as a result of the investment of other nurses in my life. As a nursing student yet again, I am reminded that the nursing that my parents and their contemporaries practiced laid the foundation for the type of nursing I practice today. Nursing isnt what it used to be. Or, perhaps, it is more like what my mother envisioned when she started nursing: patients are important and health care professionals can work as a team to effectively advocate for them Vocabulary archaic a.已不通用的 sterile a.无菌的 syringe n.注射器 massage n.按摩 specialize v.专攻,专门从事 bedpan n.(病人在床上用的)便盆 glyburide n.优降糖 glipizide n.格列甲嗪 diabetic n.糖尿病人 nicotine n.尼古丁 resin n.树脂; nicotine resin complex尼古丁树脂复合物(戒烟药) labetolol n.拉贝洛尔 delusion n.欺骗,错觉 grandeur n.伟大,自命不凡medication regulation, helping decrease a nurse’s workload and increasing client safety. Technology such as this, combined with economic changes such as diagnosis-related group [DRG] requirements by the government, paved the way for patients to leave the hospital sooner than ever before, increasing the required level of care at home. DRGs, the diagnosis-based payment system initiated by Medicare, caused a decreased length of stay in the hospital, resulting in a proliferation of home health services. This changed the face and focus of many nursing careers, including my father’s. He started in home health in the mid-1990s, learning to interpret the new rules while learning to be a nurse in a new environment. His stories of the joys and pitfalls of home care encouraged me to eventually choose this route as well, and I became involved in caring for people at home. I eventually chose hospice as my passion – a place in nursing where becoming part of a family is almost necessary, and life changes for all those involved. In ten years, perhaps you, too, may be writing an article on “how it used to be”. You will laugh at the procedures you did, at how long it took to get information, and at the medications that were being produced that will be obsolete at the time of your writing. And I hope you will be able to look back on the really important things other nurses taught you; like what it means to “be with” a patient and the difference between being a real nurse and a person “who performs tasks”. Nursing has become not just a job or even a career, but part of who I am, mostly as a result of the investment of other nurses in my life. As a nursing student yet again, I am reminded that the nursing that my parents and their contemporaries practiced laid the foundation for the type of nursing I practice today. Nursing isn’t what it used to be. Or, perhaps, it is more like what my mother envisioned when she started nursing: patients are important and health care professionals can work as a team to effectively advocate for them. Vocabulary archaic a. 已不通用的 sterile a.无菌的 syringe n. 注射器 massage n. 按摩 specialize v. 专攻，专门从事 bedpan n. （病人在床上用的）便盆 glyburide n. 优降糖 glipizide n. 格列甲嗪 diabetic n. 糖尿病人 nicotine n. 尼古丁 resin n. 树脂；nicotine resin complex 尼古丁树脂复合物（戒烟药） labetolol n. 拉贝洛尔 delusion n. 欺骗，错觉 grandeur n. 伟大，自命不凡