One of the fun things about blogging is having easy access to others that blog on topics similar to yours. And this week I stumbled upon a great blog by a nurse that teaches informatics to her nursing students and makes them write a blog for the course. Now, imagine if I would have had …
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Once a Nurse, Always a Nurse
I'm often asked if I miss nursing. Yes, I do. I don't miss getting up early and going to work. Or the evening and weekend work while teaching. But I think when you're a nurse, nursing becomes a part of you. As much a part as your hand or heart. Last week, I had an …
Nurse Turned Blogger
So today I have learned, all by myself, how to add "child" pages under a "parent" page on this blog. Note my spiffy work by clicking "Excerpts" on the header. This "learning" only took two hours. I say this to encourage any illiterates like me that learning is possible. Plus, if the WordPress help menus …
Nurses: Write Your Memoirs!
Nursing memoirs. I dream of two full rows in the bookstores of memoirs written by nurses. I see many more written by doctors. Why not nurses? Why not us? Yes, there are a few anthologies, but this is not like the life story of a nurse. And most of the nursing memoirs out there are …
Student Angst All Over Again
Trying to figure out this blog today reminds me of when I was a returning nursing student--multiple times. But this is a tad more fun because there are no tests. There's just the satisfaction of seeing that my PAGES have indeed been started, my TAG CLOUDS streamlined, and my WIDGETS expanded. My expanded Widgets are …
Subscribe to More Journals?
Writing tip: Subscribe to writing journals. I promised in an early post that I'd describe my "writing process," how I "crawled step by step from teaching nursing to writing memoir." Here goes. As a nurse, I'd subscribed to several nursing journals for nearly 40 years. So, when I decided to begin writing Caring Lessons in …
Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor’s Journey of Faith and Self
My book, Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor’s Journey of Faith and Self, is already available for pre-orders on Amazon, and is scheduled for release in October 2010. Imagine not wanting to be a nurse, teacher, or teacher of psychiatric nursing only to find yourself doing all three--and loving it! In Caring Lessons, I share my …
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