Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 35:813, 2014 Copyright © 2014 Informa Healthcare USA, Inc. ISSN: 0161-2840 print / 1096-4673 online DOI: 10.3109/01612840.2014.965618
FROM THE EDITOR
Introducing a Guest Editorial by Marian Roman Sandra P. Thomas, PhD, RN, FAAN, Editor
This month, I yield my (metaphoric) editor’s pen to Dr. Marian Roman, a colleague who shares her observations of an interesting—and disturbing—social phenomenon. You are undoubtedly familiar with Dr. Roman through her editorship of the Psychotherapeutics Column that appears periodically in IMHN. She is a seasoned psychiatric-mental health nurse, and (as her editorial illustrates) a keen observer of human behavior. I solicited this guest editorial after Marian and I conversed about her Alaskan cruise. Before her trip, I had described my own cruise years ago, and my awe when viewing a calving glacier. I will never forget the scene of hundreds of passengers
standing on the deck of the ship in complete and reverent silence. The only sounds were the groaning of the glacier and the huge splashes as chunks of it fell in the water. Photographs were made unobtrusively, and no one took “selfies.” When Marian returned from her trip, and I asked her about it, she sadly described her disappointment. I invite your comments after you read her editorial. Declaration of Interest: The author reports no conflicts of interest. The author alone is responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
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FROM THE EDITOR
Introducing a Guest Editorial by Marian Roman Sandra P. Thomas, PhD, RN, FAAN, Editor
This month, I yield my (metaphoric) editor’s pen to Dr. Marian Roman, a colleague who shares her observations of an interesting—and disturbing—social phenomenon. You are undoubtedly familiar with Dr. Roman through her editorship of the Psychotherapeutics Column that appears periodically in IMHN. She is a seasoned psychiatric-mental health nurse, and (as her editorial illustrates) a keen observer of human behavior. I solicited this guest editorial after Marian and I conversed about her Alaskan cruise. Before her trip, I had described my own cruise years ago, and my awe when viewing a calving glacier. I will never forget the scene of hundreds of passengers
standing on the deck of the ship in complete and reverent silence. The only sounds were the groaning of the glacier and the huge splashes as chunks of it fell in the water. Photographs were made unobtrusively, and no one took “selfies.” When Marian returned from her trip, and I asked her about it, she sadly described her disappointment. I invite your comments after you read her editorial. Declaration of Interest: The author reports no conflicts of interest. The author alone is responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
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