Mental Illness Awareness Week – 2017
Take a minute this week to pray for those who are living with a mental illness. According to the National …
Tag Archives: Nursing
Passing Along Advice to My Younger Nursing Colleagues
As I look back over my 40-year nursing career, I sometimes wish I were still in the classroom so I …
Christmas Present for a Nurse or Nursing Student – 2013
For that nurse or nursing student in your life, consider giving them Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor’s Journey of Faith …
Caring Lessons: First Drafts–Nursing Care of a Baby with Hydrocephalus in the 50s
“Just grab the head and don’t let go,” the nurse barked at me. “And the rest of the body will …
What do nurses do? Let me count the ways…
Once upon a time, two women in their late sixties met at church and soon became friends. Letty is now …
Patient Activation – Nostalgia for Dorothea Orem!
Last week I read an article about “patient activation” with some amusement. Activation sounded like batteries. Did patients need a …
Nursing Reunion Becomes Spiritual Retreat
“If only” runs through my mind as I remember our 50th reunion of a week ago. Twenty-nine of forty classmates …
Women, write your life!
I”m working on a speech to nurses about why we should write our nursing stories. I came up with a …
Once a nurse, always a nurse…
I turned on my computer this morning to find this message: Congratulations on Saving Lives for 50 Years! Today marks …
Nurse Staffing Makes Headlines Again
Have you been hospitalized lately? If so, this NPR story about nurse staffing will interest you. How long did it …
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