Nurses Week – 2013 – Honor the Nurses You Know
Category Archives: nurse
Nurse Turned Inpatient
If you live with a chronic illness, you know that nothing surprises you. You are used to new symptoms arising …
Patient Activation – Nostalgia for Dorothea Orem!
Last week I read an article about “patient activation” with some amusement. Activation sounded like batteries. Did patients need a …
Unwelcome Itchy Visitors
I wish I had something more soothing to write for you today. But last Monday, after a three-day hissy fit …
Nurse Shares Her Experience of Dying
As she lay dying from pancreatic cancer, Nurse Martha Keochareon wanted to do more than plan her funeral. So she …
Aging Gracefully at Seventy
When I first read Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique in 1970, I cried with relief. Friedan had interviewed suburban housewives …
Pray for Meaning and Peace
The New York Times reported yesterday that people in Newtown, CT, do not know the right thing to do now after …
BSN to Doctoral Degree Programs
As a retired nurse educator, I’m excited about the trend in nursing to prepare nurses at a younger age for …
Nursing Reunion Becomes Spiritual Retreat
“If only” runs through my mind as I remember our 50th reunion of a week ago. Twenty-nine of forty classmates …
A time to be born and a time to die…
We buried my nurse-mentor sister on Saturday, and we bury a beloved cousin tomorrow. As I sit at my desk …
