I amAdrienne Zurub, RN,MA,CNOR formerly, a twenty-five year member of the Open Heart team at Cleveland Clinic. As the ceo/coo of UBU ibme Productions & Presentations, I have integrated my diverse artistic talents, skills, and experiences into motivational, leadership, and inspirational Professional Speaking. My background, experiences and training inform my presentations. I am also a Actor/Stand Up Comedian/POet/Writer and undiscovered others.
My Speaking topics center around EMPOWERMENT, and discovering and actualizing the many aspects of yourself. As nurses and caregivers, we have a tendency to put our individual needs (emotional, intellectual, artistic, ...) last, if we choose to address those needs at all.
Topics/Subjects/Presentations can and will be customized to your group or organizations particular needs. Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that all presentations no matter how serious are delivered with humor (I am a Stand Up Comedian) for retention and the joy of learning.
TOPICS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
"Magnet Status" SUCKS! (in hospitals that have adopted the business model of healthcare)
THE CUREFOR THE NURSING SHORTAGE!
ABUSE AT WORK
Nurses and Battered Woman Syndrome!
The Nurse Whisperer: When animals attack. Humorous and serious survival tips for surviving your work day in the OR and beyond. EMPOWERMENT. CORRECTING YOUR SELF-IMAGE.
Create, Reinvent, and Discover your self-confidence and your self- image. Empower yourself, your life and your practice. Incorporates the principles of The Nurse Whisperer.
Thank you for viewing my website! I welcome your comments and suggestions and of course being hired to present for your group or organization.
My most recent book, REFLECTIONS ON DOCTORS published September 2008 by Kaplan Publishing was reviewed by The New York Times.
An essay from my book,Notes From the Mothership The Naked Invisibles is one of two dozen provocative essays.
Check out the review: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/health/28book.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
"The book contains stories that reflect the full spectrum of nursing. Each story teaches the reader a lesson about the nursing profession. I was pleasantly surprised when I opened up the book to the table of contents and noted that my favorite nurse writers submitted many of the stories. Adrienne Zurub, RN, MA, CNOR, who is also the author of the book Notes From the Mother Ship: The Naked Invisibles, contributed a story about working as a nurse at the Cleveland Clinic. She writes in her essay A Truth about Cats and Dog:
“Arrogance, entitlement, outstanding talents (nurses and surgeons), and palpable confidence dominated the entire operating room suites. A nurse pushes herself or himself through this encompassing fog of testosterone. I say testosterone because the surgeons, the ones who are in charge, are all male. To work in this environment, one has to have the personality and the chutzpah-the balls-to think quickly and react perfectly. Weakness or hesitation is normally not considered an option.”
Does this sound familiar to you? I’m sure it does if you’re a nurse."
Comment by: Terri Polick
Terri Polick has been a nurse for thirty years, and is a published author living in Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C. She is currently working as a freelance writer, and is a frequent contributor to Nursing Spectrum Magazine. Terri works at a local community hospital as a psychiatric nurse.
( http://www.nursingjobs.org/blog)
REFLECTIONS ON DOCTORS
Nurses' Stories about Physicians and Surgeons
Terry Ratner, RN, MFA
Editor
Kaplan Publishing
September 2008
$14.94 Paperback/ $16.95 Canada
ISBN: 978-I-4277-9825-I/ Nursing
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Terry Ratner is a registered nurse, freelance writer and creative writing instructor. Her nursing career has spanned more than 17 years at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, a level-one trauma hospital in Phoenix. She as written for many publications including NurseWeek, Nursing Spectrum and John Hopkins Nursing.
I am honored that my Blog post(s) was chosen by this author as one of the grass-roots, outrageously true, informative perspectives on healthcare reform and the nursing crisis.
Blast Through the Obama & McCain Healthcare “Policy” B.S.
10 Blog Posts You Must Read Before You Go Into a Voting Booth in November
Where can you get a real, unvarnished perspective on our healthcare system, and fast?
Further down in this article you’ll find links to 10 blog-posts you must read before you go into a voting booth next month. I’ll warn you: these are bloggers without fear, unlike the candidates. They are not politicians and the Oval Office is not at stake. But first, let’s blast through some of the b.s. that both Obama and McCain have dished out.
The 10 Blog Posts—A Pre-November 4 Reading List
Warning: The following posts are innovative, unflinchingly realistic and even outrageous. Read them as if your life depended upon it. Bookmark or email them to a friend. Herein lies grassroots politics, real dialog and idea exchange too easily buried under our current hollow Healthcare rhetoric:
6. 9 months to birthing my bestseller…, posted by Adrienne Zurub in September 2008. Here is a slightly outrageous and totally irreverent article that rolls together current healthcare reform and the nursing crisis.
CHECK OUT MORE ACTIVISM, POLITICAL AND GRASS ROOTS COMMENTARY AT:
http://emergiblog.com, an awesome book review entitled 'Inspired and Fired.'
Cleveland Plain Dealer the FRONT PAGE!
(and no I was not arrested nor killed anyone!) February 19, 2008
The Cleveland Free Times, February 27-March 4th
http://nursingzone.com
http://nurse-ratched.blogspot.com
Actually, just 'google me'!
PLEASE check my blogs for more information:
http://www.adriennezurub.typepad.com
http://www.meweltanschauung.blogspot.com
http://LibraryThing.com/adriennezurub
http://www.myspace.com/notesfromthemothership
Or make your cashiers check or money order to:
Chase and Wunderlick Publishers
2855 N. Park Blvd., Suite 577
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118-4030
United States of America
