I'm thrilled to tell you that Jodi Webb at WOW-Women on Writing has launched my blog tour for Caring Lessons. Read about it here. WOW! Nice work, Jodi! Thank you! Plan ahead. National Nurses Week is just around the corner, May 6-12. It's gift time! Buy a copy of Caring Lessons and help promote and …
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Announcing: Caring Lessons Blog Tour Starts 3/12
Remember not so long ago when you'd go to a bookstore and hear readings by authors? Now another form of getting to know the author is available: the book blog tour. Caring Lessons was out awhile before I stumbled on information about WOW-Women on Writing on the SheWrites site for women writers. WOW was highly …
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Are you a nurse?
"Are you a nurse?" asked the woman sitting across from me at Caribou Coffee this afternoon. "Yes, why do you ask?" "I was snooping into your article there on Healthy People 2000." Indeed, I had an article I'd published years ago in the Journal of Gerontological Nursing laid out on the table. My article on …
New Endorsement for Caring Lessons / From a Clinical Nurse Leader
Many thanks to Elizabeth Triezenberg, MSN, RN, CNL at Trinity Health for the following endorsement of Caring Lessons that arrived today. And thanks to the entire group of nurses at Trinity Health who have purchased and read Caring Lessons. I appreciate the support of each one of you and wish you every success on your …
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Nurses: Counting drip rates? A lost art
It’s an overcast chilly day in Chicago, just the kind of day for a good joke. And I got one this morning from a former nursing student at Trinity Christian College, now a seasoned grad. She’d had a “crazy” day yesterday. Here’s why: Our primary IV tubing is on back order. This means we can't use …
Caring Lessons / Radio Interview
Tomorrow, between 3 and 4pm Chicago time, I will be a guest on the Laura Dion-James Show at wrmn1410.com. Tune in online! The topic will, of course, be about my nursing memoir, Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self. Laura is a dynamic motivational coach, author, and speaker. Read more about her …
What do nurses really do?
In my recent post about attending the Illinois Library Association's annual conference, I mentioned that the public's perception of nurses is often formed from the media's portrayal of us. If you have a few minutes, watch this unique video of a nurse educating her companion about what nurses do by correcting his stereotypical misconceptions. Thanks …
Trinity Christian College Dedicates The Cynthia Sander Nursing (Sim) Lab
On Saturday, October 8, 2011, the Department of Nursing at Trinity Christian College held a dedication ceremony for their new nursing simulation lab. Dr. Cynthia Sander, for whom the lab is named, participated in the ribbon cutting ceremony. Dr. Sander chaired the nursing program from 1993 to 2005. All that time, she worked tirelessly to …
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Annual Classletters Bond Nurses
1962—the year Marilyn Monroe died, Johnny Carson started on the Tonight Show, and Alan Shephard became the first American in space, manning a fifteen-minute flight. The year stamps were four cents, gas, twenty-eight cents, and the federal debt, $302.9 billion. And, most importantly for the moment, the year forty-three of us graduated from a three-year …
Caring Lessons Celebrates Anniversary
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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