Source: History of Care shared from youtube.com
Category: nurse
What ever happenned to wearing white?
My first nursing uniform as an aide was a green dress. Starched. With a belt. The next, as a nursing student, was a blue and white striped dress, covered with a white starched apron. And, finally, how good it was three years later as a graduate to wear white--a long-sleeved, knee-length dress with French cuffs. …
Caring Lessons is “not just for nurses!” (a letter from a new friend in Lafayette, LA)
Lois, I was the single woman at [your grandniece's] wedding last fall. You sat at my table. As a 65-year-old, I quickly find a place to sit rather than stand in high-heels. I enjoyed our visit at the restaurant. When [your niece] gave me your book to read, I was quite impressed. I loved it! …
Writing as a Ministry
One day I was lamenting that I wasn't giving of myself like I used to do when I was teaching nursing. I felt pretty self-centered spending much of my day sequestered in my study. It was Amy, my volunteer publicist, that corrected me: "You're writing is your ministry now." Writing as my ministry. I'd never …
Review: Mary Osborne’s “Nonna’s Book of Mysteries”
What were you doing when you were fourteen? Planning a wedding? I thought not. When I was fourteen, I was in the ninth grade and just beginning to get interested in boys. Living near a grove dense with pine trees, my neighbor friends and I would nestle down on a carpet of pine needles and …
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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Final Stop
"You don't need to be in the health care industry or education to like it," writes Becky Povich, the tour host for this last stop, in her short and sweet review of Caring Lessons: A Professor's Journey of Faith and Self. Last week Wednesday, I introduced you to Becky's blog, her prolific writing, and her …
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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #13 – More about Mental Ilness
Chynna Laird gets it. She understands my passion for nursing and mental health nursing. In fact, it is her passion to help children and families living with special needs, "especially those living with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) and bipolar disorder." Chynna is the tour host today for Caring Lessons. I can tell she "gets it" …
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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #12 – Changing Minds about Mental Ilness
"Changing Minds about Mental Illness" is a topic close to my heart. For a few reasons why, read my guest post on this tour's site today. Also, please read this short essay to find out what you can do to help individuals living with mental illness and their families. If you're a writer and interested …
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Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #11
Two in one day??? Yes, there are two blog tour stops today. The tour will be over a week from today, so savor this opportunity to discover the blogs of these varied and interesting book-loving women. This afternoon's blogger, Audry Feyer, is a woman after my own heart. She lives with a John Deere fanatic! …
Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #10 / Hot Fudge Friends
Today, I'm all about being an older woman who wears purple, albeit with no red hat on my head, and who is thankful for my long-term friendship with Marianna, a person with whom I've walked many miles of fun and silliness and tanked in hard-to-fathom-at-the-time sorrows. So for today's Caring Lessons blog tour, when I …
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