by Elizabeth | Jun 11, 2014 | Blog, Nursing career |
Those who have worked for any length of time in their nursing careers know that there are moments that can be painful and there are times of great joy. Being a nurse, we experience life, death and everything in between. It can be quite difficult to keep that...
by Elizabeth | Jun 9, 2014 | Blog, Nursing career |
I started sobbing on my meditation block this morning, which was something I had not done ever before. Yes, I sometimes sit there distracted in thought. Occasionally I will get sleepy and my head feels heavy. Other times I feel a tightness pinching underneath my right...
by Elizabeth | Jun 6, 2014 | Blog, Nursing career, Reiki |
It’s 4:35 pm on a Friday afternoon. Typically I avoid working this late. However it has been a crazy, scattered past 24 hours. I know this is a nursing blog, and sometimes we want to indulge in things that are off topic from the usual nursing career advice,...
by Elizabeth | Jun 4, 2014 | Nursing career |
I’ve written in my books, articles and blog posts several times before about the nursing profession and how a career in nursing can be difficult work. Well a nurse colleague of mine sent me an article with a subject line that read ‘I think you will enjoy...
by Elizabeth | Jun 2, 2014 | Nursing career |
How do you get to-and-from your job? If you’re like me, you may drive yourself to work each day. Back-and-forth. Up and down. North and south. I was telling my husband’s sister the other day, as we drove down the Pike- “I take this way to get to work...
by Elizabeth | May 30, 2014 | Blog, Nursing career |
This time of year the stores are all filled with bright blue helium balloons, black square caps and cakes of every shape and size. Yes, that’s right: it’s nursing graduation time! I want to congratulate all of our newly graduated nurses and wish you the...