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Nurses Educates *Inspires* Entertains
As a nursing student, I was required to read and study Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s famous work on death and dying. In fact, it is such an important and accepted work in the medical community that several questions regarding it were included on my state board exams. The five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance) outline the process that all humans go through during grief, trauma or difficult changes in their lives.
Humorous Nursing Story
Humor gives us the ability to keep bouncing back: in the face of increasing workloads and dwindling resources; when we’re asked to do the impossible on a regular basis;
Night Shift Nurses see more than Patients
Night Shift seems to bring things out of the dark corners…or does it? Sitting on the front porch of a 155 year old building looking
The Health Nut News
The American Psychiatric Association publishes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV for short). It is an amazing and interesting publication which lists every psychiatric and personality disorder known and unknown.
How a Nurse had to handle a Suicide Event
Where is the support for the nurse? When I started nursing school 1986 I had no idea what I was really getting into. I just
Obese nurses are not a picture of health
Being in the nursing field where we are caring for other people, monitoring their diets, fluid intakes and
watch the diabetic with an eagle eye for proper diets. The nurse her/him self are not following the same nursing care for their diets. Across America dieting is a huge fad and on average every other women/man you speak with are “dieting”. Drinking a diet coke and a candy bar is not a diet.
Nursing Survey says …
Over the last few weeks I have ask nurses of all branches of service to fill out the survey to give them a voice and hear what makes them go back to the job when the shift before was a nightmare. Not one nurse said she did not care any more. They wanted to be able to care more.
Nurses Educates *Inspires* Entertains
As a nursing student, I was required to read and study Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s famous work on death and dying. In fact, it is such an important and accepted work in the medical community that several questions regarding it were included on my state board exams. The five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance) outline the process that all humans go through during grief, trauma or difficult changes in their lives.
Humorous Nursing Story
Humor gives us the ability to keep bouncing back: in the face of increasing workloads and dwindling resources; when we’re asked to do the impossible on a regular basis;
Night Shift Nurses see more than Patients
Night Shift seems to bring things out of the dark corners…or does it? Sitting on the front porch of a 155 year old building looking
The Health Nut News
The American Psychiatric Association publishes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV for short). It is an amazing and interesting publication which lists every psychiatric and personality disorder known and unknown.
How a Nurse had to handle a Suicide Event
Where is the support for the nurse? When I started nursing school 1986 I had no idea what I was really getting into. I just
Obese nurses are not a picture of health
Being in the nursing field where we are caring for other people, monitoring their diets, fluid intakes and
watch the diabetic with an eagle eye for proper diets. The nurse her/him self are not following the same nursing care for their diets. Across America dieting is a huge fad and on average every other women/man you speak with are “dieting”. Drinking a diet coke and a candy bar is not a diet.
Nursing Survey says …
Over the last few weeks I have ask nurses of all branches of service to fill out the survey to give them a voice and hear what makes them go back to the job when the shift before was a nightmare. Not one nurse said she did not care any more. They wanted to be able to care more.
