Permanent rubber duckies.That was my fear for the 1000 copies of Caring Lessons when, upon their arrival, my husband and I stored them in our bathrooms. Alas, the duckies were not to be. With gratitude to many of you—family, friends, and new friends, I can give an “annual report” that, together, we have sold over …
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A Healing Environment on an Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
"Our goal was to make this unit a healing environment," the RN said. She was leading our pre-opening tour of the inpatient psychiatric unit at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Healing. Her word caught my attention. She maybe didn’t know how healing it was just to hear her say they wanted their new milieu to …
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Literary Life Booksigning – 9/10/11
Many thanks to Amy Nagelkirk for setting up this book signing at Literary Life, a delightful bank-turned-bookstore in Grand Rapids, MI, started up and owned by physician Roni Devlin. And thanks to Dr. Devlin for now carrying Caring Lessons! If you've not seen this cozy independent bookstore, you must! Stop in at Wealthy and Eastern, …
Invite: Book Signing in Grand Rapids, MI
Hey, I'm coming back to GR for a book signing of Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self, this Saturday from 2 to 4pm at Literary Life Bookstore, 758 Wealthy St. SE. Phone: 616-458-8418. Read about Literary Life and their description of the event here. Significant trivia: Wealthy Street breathes nostalgia. Forty-nine …
Remember HIPAA when on FACEBOOK
“Just got home. Two hours late! A nightmare of a night shift. Admissions, post-ops, and then a code. And who came to help? A new intern who didn’t know beans. Heading to the beach now to sleep in peace.” I’m exaggerating a bit (I hope), but posts almost like this have crept into our social …
Invite: Book Event, Bourgeois Pig Cafe, Chicago
As featured author on Tuesday, August 23, 7:30pm, I'll be reading excerpts from Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self. See The Reader for details. The Bourgeois Pig Cafe is located at 738 West Fullerton in Chicago. Come early and munch on their yummy sandwiches. The Bourgeois Pig is a cozy, student- …
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Heidi McLaughlin’s New Review of Caring Lessons
With many thanks to Heidi McLaughlin, international speaker and author of Sand to Pearls: Making Bold Choices to Enrich Your Life and Beauty Unleashed: Transforming a Woman's Soul, I present her new review of Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self on Amazon: This book intrigued me. I am not a nurse, …
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Nurses: Write Your Mind Out
Last fall I heard Suzanne Gordon, journalist and long-time advocate for nursing, give a rousing speech to a room full of nurses. I’d read about her, but hearing her enthusiasm rekindled my smoldering fire of the necessity of promoting the professionalism of nursing. Ms. Gordon, as a non-nurse, challenged us to stand up for nursing. …
ICRS #1 – Hopping MARTA to Downtown Atlanta
One big blessing is the best way I can describe my experience at the International Christian Retail Show last week in Atlanta. My friend Marianna Crane, featured in Caring Lessons, and I arrived within minutes of each other and met up at a Delta gate. We hadn’t seen each other in over a year, and …
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A Retired Nurse Remembers
"Where were you the day that Kennedy died?" my dinner guest asked me recently. I wondered why she wanted to know, but, as most of us who were alive then, I could remember exactly. "Sitting at my sister's kitchen table, " I said. "I know you weren't at work that night. And I missed you." …
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