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Nurse Helps Families Who Lost Homes in Santa Rosa Wildfire
In October, thousands of homes in Santa Rosa, California were lost to wild fires. Payton Walton, a nurse who lives in Marin and works...
The Difference Between Being Thankful and Being Grateful
In her article on the Odyssey website (a collection of writing from young people), Tessa Masula contemplates what it means to be thankful versus...
Volunteering resources
More than 1.3 billion people across the world lack access to basic healthcare services – mostly because the number of healthcare workers is not...
Mindful Appreciation
Tip 6 of 6 Mindfulness Exercises You Can Try Today
In this last exercise, all you have to do is notice 5 things in your...
Mindful Listening
Tip 4 of 6 Mindfulness Exercises You Can Try Today
This exercise is designed to open your ears to sound in a non-judgmental way, and...
Mindful Breathing
Tip 1 of 6 Mindfulness Exercises You Can Try Today
This exercise can be done standing up or sitting down, and pretty much anywhere at...
Laugh, nurse, laugh!
Victor Borge, the famous Danish comedian, pianist, and conductor once said, “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” Infusing laughter and humor into your...
How to ease conflict and experience greater harmony at work
Jeanette manages to beat traffic, clock-in on time, and begin her day. Everything is running smoothly. Then she and another nurse argue over who should...
Clinical humility: A humbled patient care
There's a story that goes something like this: An elderly man falls down a flight of stairs at home. In the emergency department, he’s...
Give yourself the gift of self-affirmation
We’ve all had days that push us toward the edge. The chaos likely starts around mid-shift and may go something like this: Radiology calls for...
The selflessness and dedication of military nurses
Thirty years ago, Brigadier General Sarah Wells began the tradition of gathering nurses together to place flowers on the graves of nurses who served in...
Building moral resilience to neutralize moral distress
Moral distress occurs when one recognizes one’s moral responsibility in a situation; evaluates the various courses of action; and identifies, in accordance with one’s...
Look for inspiration in your fellow nurses
In a perfect world, we nurses would be inspired daily by our patient experiences. They would come in such abundance that overtime, computer crashes,...