What's happening in the e-Cohort Study?

# Prizes!!! It's not too late!!!

Complete survey 2 between now and September 15 to go in the draw to win gold class movie tickets for two or medical text books - August winners to be published soon.....

# Another publication!

We are proud to announce that we have published another paper and we couldn't have achieved this without the generous support of all our participants - a big thank you to all participants!!

The latest publication: "The internet as a research site: the establishment of a web-based longitudinal study of the nursing" was lead by Prof. Annette Huntington, who is a primary investigator with Nurses & Midwives the e-Cohort study.

Annette, pictured above, is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Health Sciences, Massey University [Wellington Campus]. Annette has been actively involved with the Nursing Council of New Zealand and in 2005 was appointed Colonel Commandant of the Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps.

Please visit the Publications page to see all papers arising from the study to date.

# Last Chance to complete survey 2 !!!!!!!

Survey 2 will soon close and survey 3 is under construction...

Thank you again to all our participants who have completed survey 2. For those who have yet to complete it, please do so as soon as possible - this is the only way we can produce worthwhile research about the Nursing & Midwivery professions.

# A new look study web site - please send in your comments

Well I don't know about all of you, but I am finding our web site a little dreary at the moment - I think it needs new colours and improved functionality. What are you thoughts??? Are there any computer savvy or artistic participants out there who can help??? I need all the help I can get so please send in your ideas, comments and suggestions

Desert Angel - Valerie Browning

"you don't really in the West know, what is death. We know it daily.”

My life among the Afar nomads of Africa...........

In 1973, Valerie Browning, a young Sydney nurse, volunteered to go to Ethiopia to help the victims of a devastating famine. She had little conception of Africa or Africans, and yet the continent and its people would become the guiding force of her life.

Galvanized by the suffering she witnessed in Ethiopia, on her return to Australia she became a human rights and aid activist for the people of the Horn of Africa. Valerie's work led her back to Africa again and again, involving her - at considerable risk to herself - in the armed liberation conflicts of the region. Even as she discovered brutality and corruption at the heart of these political movements, she also found love, marrying Ismael Ali Gardo, whose people, the Afar, roamed Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Sudan as nomadic herdsmen. Ismael's life mission was to help the Afar - desperately poor, uneducated, landless, and the victims of oppression in every country they once roamed freely. Soon it became Valerie's too, as she embraced their culture and threw herself into their cause.

In one of the most inhospitable landscapes on earth, Valerie and Ismael have waged an incredible struggle, bringing health and education to a people who would otherwise have nothing. Valerie's story is both an astonishing adventure and a testament to how determination and passion can achieve extraordinary things.

A place where the temperature routinely sits in the 50s and often hits 60, this Australian nurse, Valerie Browning has dedicated her life to a tribe of nomads in the Ethiopian desert. They're among the poorest people in the world, and life for them is a harsh and punishing experience. But where others might see tragedy and despair, Valerie sees beauty and hope.

Source - http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an42541494

Click here and here to read more about this amazing woman.