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		<title>Post Olympics Excitement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently we’ve had two interesting opportunities to reconnect with some of the athletes. On the first occasion we met Clara Hughes at The Green Living Showin Toronto in April where she was a prominent guest speaker. She was dynamic, excited, very well prepared and spoke easily to a rapt audience of several hundred people for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beverleysimpson.com/2010/05/19/post-olympics-excitement/</link>
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		<title>Leadership and Patient Safety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We often hear about the need for leadership in health care practice. Yet for many, the word leader is just another buzzword. We often think leaders are born not made, and leadership is for others with important titles, nice offices and assistants at the door. Our experiences with the Dorothy Wylie Nursing and Health Leaders [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beverleysimpson.com/2010/05/07/leadership-and-patient-safety/</link>
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		<title>A New Organizing Framework for a Complex World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking at my desk some days makes me despair. I never seem to get ahead of all the things that need doing. I’m beginning to think I need a new system to deal more effectively with it all. Some days there’s no doubt in my mind that the complexity of our brave new world and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beverleysimpson.com/2010/03/16/a-new-organizing-framework-for-a-complex-world/</link>
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		<title>Big Olympics-Style Party!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After an interesting day of work yesterday – more about that later – and a 5:30 am start we were weary volunteers who would have liked to get home and put our feet up in front of the TV. But we had been invited by a dear friend who is in charge of the BC [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beverleysimpson.com/2010/02/26/big-olympics-style-party/</link>
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		<title>Efforts for Greenest Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those who know me know that I am a mad recycler/composter -have been for 35 years or so. I remember working as a volunteer when the kids were little for a Pointe Claire, Quebec upstart organization called STOP – the Society To Overcome Pollution. Seems a hundred years ago &#8211; it fact it was about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beverleysimpson.com/2010/02/23/efforts-for-greenest-games/</link>
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		<title>Sunshine and Excitement in the City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gorgeous Vancouver day today! The sun is out, the sky is clear, the mountains seem closer to the city than ever and the views are spectacular. The weather has brought out lots of strollers into the streets of the Athletes’ Village. You realize how spectacular this city is when the weather is nice! We are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beverleysimpson.com/2010/02/19/sunshine-and-excitement-in-the-city/</link>
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		<title>Feeding the Hoards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the many challenges for VANOC is feeding hoards of volunteers 3 times a day at several different venues. I don’t know how many volunteers are working in the Athletes Village on any given day but the number is in the hundreds. Apparently there are 20-25,000 volunteers across all the sites. Each individual receives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beverleysimpson.com/2010/02/18/feeding-the-hoards/</link>
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		<title>Is Time Right for More Polyclinics in North America?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons I was very excited about my volunteer assignment in the Polyclinic in the Athletes Village was the opportunity to really experience inter-professional practice in action. It has been many years since I practiced clinical nursing and worked side by side with other health professionals in the field. Here was the chance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beverleysimpson.com/2010/02/17/is-time-right-for-more-polyclinics-in-north-america/</link>
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		<title>The Polyclinic is Getting Busier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was a busy day at the Polyclinic. More and more people now know what’s available here. Dentistry is very busy as is the Optometrist especially with the Eastern Block countries. Physio and massage are booked regularly and appointments at Radiology (Xray), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and CT scanning are getting busier. Along with athletes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beverleysimpson.com/2010/02/16/the-polyclinic-is-getting-busier/</link>
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		<title>Downtown on a Sunny Sunday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we had a day off and took the kids downtown to ride the Canada Line, see the torch (it’s surrounded by a chain link fence for safety reasons apparently), catch the Olympics vibe (amazing!) check out the Canada North pavilion (excellent!), maybe see the medals at the Mint pavilion if lineups not too long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beverleysimpson.com/2010/02/15/downtown-on-a-sunny-sunday/</link>
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