The Seven Competences of the Sustainable Professional

Chapter one

One of my heroes

Vita Vanderbilt, age 27, is one of my heroes: I am deeply impressed by what she has achieved, and I will tell you why.

For a few years, Vita has been a registered nurse in a large, modern hospital. In the years that she has been employed there, she gradually started realizing that hardly any cases of child abuse were ever reported in her hospital. At first, she was okay with that; it gave her the impression that child abuse did not often occur in the city where she lived and worked. However, over the years, she began to find it more and more peculiar because in other hospitals, even those in the same region, cases of child abuse were regularly reported. Those cases concerned physical or mental violence, negligence, ...