Pain or Pleasure: As A Nurse We Feel It All

by | 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...

Does Nursing Make You Cry?

by | 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...

Feel the Energy: A Moment at a Time

by | 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,...

Work: Love It or Hate It?

by | 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...

A New Direction for Nursing

by | 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...