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    • Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae – Nursing (1958-2000)
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      • Chapter 1 – Sweet Little Hoitie
      • Chapter 2 – A Matter of Attitude
      • Chapter 3 – Shift Work
      • Chapter 4 – Rotten Potatoes
      • Chapter 5 – Running Away
      • Chapter 6 – Time-out
      • Chapter 7 – Finding a Friend
      • Chapter 8 – Diploma Mentality
      • Chapter 9 – Breaking the Mold
      • Chapter 10 – Bluffing It
      • Chapter 11 – Meeting Sadie
      • Chapter 12 – Cleaning House
      • Chapter 13 – Liverwurst
      • Chapter 14 – Oscar Mayer Weiner
      • Chapter 15 – Cogito Ergo Sum
      • Chapter 16 – First Shots
      • Chapter 17 – Nothing Physical
      • Chapter 18 – Fancy Title
      • Chapter 19 – No Surprises, Be Legal
      • Chapter 20 – Sister Mary Holy Water
      • Chapter 21 – Getting Organized
      • Chapter 22 – Sadie Tomczyk
      • Chapter 23 — Going Back
      • Chapter 24 — Things I Tried
      • Chapter 25 — Storms of Illness
      • Chapter 26 — Cancer
      • Chapter 27 — Trusting God
      • Chapter 28 — On My Way
    • Reviews of Caring Lessons
      • Endorsements
      • Nursing Program Recommendation
      • Professional Reviews
      • Readers’ Responses
      • Speaking Recommendations
  • Marv Taking Charge
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    • An American at a Russian Bliny Tasting Party
    • Iowa Summer Writing Festival – Personal Essay
    • Thoughts on False vs True Selves on a Snowy Day in Chicago
    • Waters of Bethesda
    • Graduation Water
    • Iowa Summer Writing Festival – Rant
    • Saying Farewell to My Nursing Files
    • Two Nurses’ Karaoke Debut

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Category Archives: caring lessons

Once a nurse, always a nurse…

September 7, 2012

I turned on my computer this morning to find this message: Congratulations on Saving Lives for 50 Years!  Today marks …

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Caring Lessons in the Nursing Classroom

July 23, 2012

Nursing faculty: Are you planning textbooks for your fall courses? I invite you to consider Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor’s …

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“What’s Love Got to Do with It? A Field Guide to the…

July 15, 2012

Sentence in Poetry and Prose” was the catchy title faculty member Juliet Patterson chose for the week session I just …

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Review of Caring Lessons by Mary A. Osborne, Nurse and Author

June 18, 2012

I’m happy to present a recent Amazon review of Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor’s Journey of Faith and Self  by …

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Caregivers Write Your Stories (#3)

June 11, 2012

As a caregiver, do you ever feel like screaming?  I wanted to scream recently on a Grandma/Grandpa babysitting weekend. Wanting …

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Caregivers Write Your Stories (#2)

June 4, 2012

As a caregiver, you might be asking yourself, “Why write my caregiving stories?” I can think of several reasons that …

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Caring Lessons is “not just for nurses!” (a letter from a new friend in Lafayette, LA)

April 20, 2012

Lois, I was the single woman at [your grandniece’s] wedding last fall.  You sat at my table. As a 65-year-old, …

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Writing as a Ministry

April 18, 2012

One day I was lamenting that I wasn’t giving of myself like I used to do when I was teaching …

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Caring Lessons – Blog Tour Over – What Next?

April 16, 2012

I’m finished, ” I announced to my husband late last week. Always appearing a bit skeptical when I make such …

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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Final Stop

April 11, 2012

“You don’t need to be in the health care industry or education to like it,” writes Becky Povich, the tour …

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(For personal contact or to purchase my nursing career memoir, Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor’s Journey of Faith and Self, you may write me at caringlessons@gmail.com. All proceeds go to the Trinity Alumni Nursing Association at Trinity Christian College.)

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