Shift Your Community: Spread Joy in Nursing

We’ve talked about this many times on this nurse self-care blog. However, it is so important that I believe it time to do it again. [Tweet “A great way to boost nursing resilience is through gratitude.”] According to Wikipedia, gratitude is a feeling...

Ode to the Waitress

Last month, I posted about an exceptional bus driver who takes such pride in and enjoys his career in such a way that it makes me smile on a daily basis. Well, soon after I published that post my husband and I went out to dinner. We had this waitress, who at first,...

Step 2 in Nursing from Within™: Letting Go

Letting Go. Maybe the hardest thing to do. Especially for us as nurse professionals. We are care givers and we want to help. If a person is suffering; we want to help them feel better. If a patient is hurting; we want to ease their pain. If someone is dying; we do all...

Patty Penner of Heart Light Reiki Joins Reiki Radio

Not in her wildest dreams would she have thought, that at age 55, her life would take such a 360 degree turn… Having worked in about every field imaginable – secretarial, reception, billing, medical transcribing, store manager, retail sales, college...

Ode to the Bus Driver

This blog post is a tribute to the man who drives my parking lot shuttle bus. However, it could really be an ode to any service provider. The cleaning person. Radiation technician. Surgeon. Registered Nurse. I take a shuttle to-and-from my parking lot whenever I work...