Mind/Body/Spirit
A multifaceted gem
Through poetry, Susan Wilcox Stelton, MSN, APRN-BC, CWOCN, reflects on the many facets of nursing.
A musical approach to coping with psychosocial stress
A North Dakota nurse makes photography her second calling
Becky Graner’s photographs capture nature in all its facets – fierce, serene, or on the cusp of extinction.
A nurse-poet writes what she knows
A Nurse’s Guide to Social Media
A nurse’s notes on New Year’s resolutions
A Pioneering Spirit: Leaders as Framers in Turbulent Times
A Pioneering Spirit: The SCARF Model
A Pioneering Spirit: What new graduates need from nurse leaders
A troubled life, a difficult death
A word about patients’ psychic experiences: Listen
Accepting a patient care assignment reaffirms nurses’ contract with society
Achieving a work-life balance
Acts of kindness
Add a dash of spice to your recipe for health
10 tasty ways to improve your health.
After the earthquake: Volunteer nursing in Haiti
This month marks the 1-year
anniversary of the devastating Haiti earthquake. The author describes her volunteer disaster-relief experience
in that country, which changed her perspective on life.
Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia: Discerning the differences
American Nurse, American Talent
An algorithm to help you manage your stress
An encouraging word
An ounce of prevention
ANA advocates for nurses’ health and safety
And the music plays on…
Animal assistants in healthcare
Any nurse can do it: Sustaining change when volunteering overseas
Aromatherapy for you and your patient
Use fragrant oils to soothe muscles, relieve tension, and more.
Baby boom: More photos from the NICU
Baby pictures: Preserving precious moments in the NICU
For one nurse, taking pictures of preemies develops into an art form.
Balancing the wheels of life
Battlefield nursing at the Boston Marathon
BEAM: The behavioral evaluation and addiction management team
Beasts, gods and FaceTime: The anguish of visitor limitations during the COVID-19 pandemic
Beasts, gods and FaceTime: The anguish of visitor limitations during the COVID-19 pandemic
Benefits of feedback for nurse leaders
Beyond thank you: The powerful reach of meaningful recognition
Bonding over body image
Boosting your influence
Break the cycle of stress with PBR3
Only you can relieve your stress, but this little tool can be a big help.
Bringing nursing orientation back to life
Building a sense of community on nursing units
Building a strong shared governance foundation
Building moral resilience to neutralize moral distress
Building Your Communication Skills Part 3
By your patients you’ll be taught
Career Wellness
Carefronting: An innovative approach to managing conflict
Caregiver Resources
Caregiving for a family member can be difficult
Caring during COVID-19
Caring for a homeless adult with a chronic disease
For homeless people, chronic illnesses can be hard to manage. Here’s what you should know about assessing these patients and developing a practical discharge plan.
Caring for my best friend
Caring for older lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adults
Caring under pressure
Cartoonist with a cause
The cartoons of Theresa Garnero, APRN, BC-ADM, MSN, CED, help patients cope with diabetes.
Change maker
Choosing the right conversation
Learn how to resolve interpersonal clashes by choosing the right type of conversation at the right time.
Choosing the right conversation
Choosing your political battles
Civility starts with you
Clinical experience, poetic expression
Clinical humility: A humbled patient care
Cognitive rehearsal
Collaboration: The key to healthcare transformation
Collective genius as a tool for engagement and improvement
Colorful antidotes for a black-and-white world
Combating change fatigue in today’s healthcare environment
Compassion fatigue risk among skilled nursing facility nurses
Compassion fatigue: Are you at risk?
Confronting conflict with higher-ups
Constructive feedback and disciplinary action
COVID-19 vaccine handling: Maximizing doses and public confidence
Creating high-performance interprofessional teams
Creative wellness: A missing link in boosting well-being
Cultivating personal courage
Do you see yourself as a victim? Are you hesitant to speak up, even with your well-being at stake? Learn how to be braver and overcome everyday challenges by discovering your true self, widening your perspective, and challenging assumptions.
Day in the Life: Live tweets as a professional tool
Dealing with difficult people
Defusing lateral violence and abuse
If you’ve been on the receiving end of this behavior, you need to express your needs and set boundaries assertively.
Eating better to help manage chronic stress
Emotional wellness
Empowering nurses to transform health care globally: A United States-Haiti nursing partnership
End workplace violence
Enhance your self-awareness to be an authentic leader
Environmental wellness
Examining nurse comfort eating
Exercise your right to be fit!
Exploring intimacy and mystery in egg tempera
Years of nursing experience provide wellsprings of artistic ideas for Lora Abrador.
Eye of the beholder: Grand rounds at the museum
Face your fears and forge ahead
Facing off against identity theft
Follow this expert’s advice on how to prevent and cope with identity theft.
Faculty role in promoting nursing student health
Far from home, bringing smiles to children’s faces
Fighting the effects of nurse fatigue
Finding meaning after a patient’s death
Five credit card traps that can sink you
Anyone who uses credit cards (and who doesn’t) should read this article to learn about universal default and other credit pitfalls that can endager your financial future.
Florence Nightingale: Moments of interface between past and present
Fostering soft skills is a must for nurse leaders
From dream to device: a nurse inventor’s story
From our readers: Do we really know who our patients are?
From our readers: Harp song — A journey to remember and embrace the heart of nursing
From our readers: How a ‘45-year-old STEMI’ showed me the human side of nursing
From our readers: How mentorship affects retention rates of new nurses
From our readers: My first code—A retrospective report of a premature promotion and a crisis situation
From our readers: Nurses leading from the middle
From our readers: On being an oncology nurse, or humble pie by the slice
From our readers: One nurse’s journey into patienthood
From our readers: One patient’s story
From our readers: Power of forgiveness
The author describes the value of forgiveness.
From our readers: Resolving the forces of bias and duty in caring for incarcerated patients
From our readers: The art of self-disclosure
From our readers: The guilt suicide leaves behind
Dedicated to John, who was loved by so many
From our readers: Two years after the Sandy Hook tragedy, PTSD remains
From our readers: What it means to be a nurse
A nurse shares her meaning of nursing.
From our readers: When your parent is the patient
From our readers. . . Is disaster relief nursing for you?
From our readers…’Twas the night before…
From our readers…A cycle of caring
From our readers…A staff nurse perspective on the IOM Future of Nursing Report
A staff nurse gives his perspective on this important report.
From our readers…At the Bedside
From our readers…Balancing the power in favor of patients
From our readers…Caring for the world by recycling supplies
From our readers…Creative staffing solutions for floating and low census
From our readers…Do veteran nurses really eat their young? Observations of an ‘older’ new nurse
From our readers…How focusing on spiritual needs benefits the nurse
From our readers…How my bad experiences with call lights formed my nursing practice
From our readers…How my students kept me teaching
From our readers…How to volunteer as a nurse abroad
From our readers…Hunger advocacy for nurses
From our readers…I remain in nursing because of you
From our readers…Know your A, B, C, and D’s for patients with progressive disease
From our readers…Lights, camera, action—and don’t giggle!
The author shares the rewards of creating a video about what telephone triage nurses do.
From our readers…Nonadherent or compassion challenged?
From our readers…One nurse’s journey through grief: Loss of a Fort Hood family member
From our readers…Searching for life with man’s best friend
From our readers…Strengthening nursing networks
From our readers…Sustaining evidence-based practice initiatives
From our readers…Talking to patients about a “weighty” issue: Are you ready?
From our readers…The Companion
From our readers…The Dance
From our readers…The nature of grief
From our readers…The secrets of self-nurturing
From our readers…Three elephants for safety
From our readers…Two Poems
From our readers…Value all your skills
From our readers…What bedside nurses can teach nursing leaders
Frontline nurses and transformational leadership
Gaining confidence in public speaking
Getting financially fit
Give yourself the gift of self-affirmation
Harold & Bill: An enduring portrait of another era
Have we lost our ability (and our sensitivity) to communicate in healthcare?
Heavy Reading: Inside Nursing
Helping caregivers cope with death
A one-day retreat called Mindfulness, Meditaion, and Coping with Death helps healthcare professionals deal with patients’ deaths.
Helping homeless pregnant women: A lesson in hope
For some pregnant women, being home for the holidays means staying at a homeless shelter.
Helping patients adhere to a gluten-free diet
Avoiding gluten isn’t easy. Here’s what you need to know to keep patients compliant with a gluten-free diet.
Helping Sandwich Generation nurses find a work-life balance
How innovation and design thinking can improve care
How long has it been going on?
Nancy J. Brent, MS, JD, RN – discusses the problems of poor nursing care.
How shall we mourn our dead?
How to avoid biased thinking
How to create “sticky” messages to influence others
How to ease conflict and experience greater harmony at work
How to get off the anger-go-round
How to give so you also receive
Contribute to your favorite charity and reduce your federal income tax in the process.
How to love and care for yourself unconditionally
How to maintain weight loss successfully
How to make (and keep) a New Year’s resolution
How to practice mindful nursing
How to Rebuild America’s Trust During COVID-19
How to start your personal exercise program
Getting fitter gets easier when you design your exercise program to suit your needs. A fitness expert tells how to develop a safe and effective program.
How to succeed at floating
How transformational leaders address fear amid COVID-19
How working nights can work in your favor
Implementing purposeful daily leadership rounding: A broader approach to measuring quality
Imposter syndrome: When you feel like you’re faking it
In good company: Perspectives on sitting with patients
Informal leaders and cultural change
Intellectual wellbeing
Interdisciplinary rounds in the acute care setting: A powerful tool for student nurses
Interwoven art of understanding
Communicating with crochet.
Introverts can be nurse leaders, too
Joint Commission releases Sentinel Event Alert in response to COVID-19 pandemic
Journaling: A valuable tool for registered nurses
Keeping your compassion
Kick the cigarette habit!
A smoking cessation instructor helps you ditch cigarettes forever. Find out which cessation method suits you best, ways to cope with cigarette cravings, and how to get back on the wagon if you relapse.
Laugh, nurse, laugh!
Lead to succeed through generational differences
Leading at the bedside and beyond
Leading the journey: Engaging staff in process improvement through visual management
Leading through failure
Leading through loss: Lessons for healthcare leaders
Learning from mistakes
Living a healthy lifestyle
Long-term night shift work increases the risks of common cancers in women
Look for inspiration in your fellow nurses
Maintain weight loss successfully – based on a 20 year national study
Make fitness fit into your daily routine
Making New Year’s resolutions? Try these tips from Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™
Making the workplace healthier, one self-aware nurse at a time
Managing chronic pain in the elderly
Chronic pain has widespread effects on older adults. This article describes how to help patients manage it.
Managing stress in health care with meditation: Got a minute?
Mantram repetition: A portable, mindful, contemplative practice for the workplace
Meeting your patients spiritual needs
When a patient says, “I’m afraid I’m going to die,” do you offer empty reassurances? Find an excuse to leave the room? Read this article to learn about simple spiritual interventions that can aid a patient in spiritual distress.
Memory pegging
Forgetting is frustrating. To make memorizing fun, “peg” each item on your to-do list.
Mindful Appreciation
Mindful Awareness
Mindful Breathing
Mindful Immersion
Mindful Listening
Mindful Observation
Motivational interviewing: A collaborative path to change
My First Day in the ED
My Son has Tourette syndrome
Read this nurse’s remarkable story of devotion and acceptance.
My Story: Supporting compassionate connections
Navigating the loss and grief of a nurse suicide
New nursing school graduates: Let the real learning begin
Nine principles of successful nursing leadership
Not just “eating our young”: Workplace bullying strikes experienced nurses, too
Nurse fatigue: The silent epidemic
Nurse Helps Families Who Lost Homes in Santa Rosa Wildfire
Nurse heroes of the Pandemic
Nurse Keith’s Corner: Overcoming 21st Century Angst
Nurse suicide attempt survivors
Nurse suicide prevention starts with crisis intervention
Nurses and customer service: A new annoyance or an old standard?
Read the newest guest blog from Donna Cardillo.
Nurses in a children’s classroom: Showcasing nursing as a career choice
Nurses Really are Superheroes! Nurse Alice Introduces “The Vitals”
Nurses rising
Nurses struggling on the frontline of COVID-19
Nurses with disabilities: Know their rights
Nurses’ essential role in supporting professionalism
Nursing Apps—For Work and Home
Nursing Story Slams: Creating a Space for Nurses To Tell Their Stories
Nurturing the tree of life
Nutrition for night-shift nurses
On breaking a bone for the first time…at age 59
One-on-one meetings: The stitch in time that saves nine
Online health information and self-diagnosis
Our future through my review mirror
Physical wellness: A must for sustained energy
Poetic expression: Verse 2
In her second appearance on this page, nurse and poet Kristina Ibitayo presents three more poems.
Practicing emotional intelligence may help reduce lateral violence
Principled leadership and the imperative for workplace civility
Promoting nurse mental health
Promoting self-caring and healing in your work environment
Make your work environment more soothing and improve your peace of mind by creating an oasis of calm.
Promoting staff interaction to encourage inclusion
Providing ethics consultation in the middle of a pandemic
Providing workplace renewal opportunities for nurses
Raising awareness about health disparities: A call to action
Recovery lessons from the Sandy Hook trauma
Reducing holiday stress
Reflection
Reflections on nursing in Vietnam
Reflections on the heart of nursing
Reiki: Ancent healing art for today’s new healthcare vision
Relax with lavender
Releasing our attachments to the past
Resting not regretting
RNs offer creative solutions to healthcare challenges
Room with a view: Clutter included?
Safeguarding patients: The courageous communication solution
Safety huddles: A safety net for nurses amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Scope and standards-of-practice documents: Guiding you to leadership success
Scrapbooks capture nurses career milestones
Self-management = a balanced life
Shaving as a metaphor for nursing
Silence and Solace
Simple steps to improve your retirement readiness
Situational awareness and the Nursing Code of Ethics
Smart pumps, smart management, safe patients
Social wellness: Nurture your relationships
Soul habits
Spiritual wellness: A journey toward wholeness
Springing into action: How one procedural area kept working during COVID-19
Squashing the communication triangle
Staying healthy: Advice for telehealth nurses
Stopping the pain: The role of nurse leaders in providing organizational resources to reduce disruptive behavior
Storytelling: Resilience and influence in minutes
Stress busters and sanity savers
How to survive your shift unscathed – with less stress
Stress-Reducing Creativity
Take time to appreciate the importance of what you do
Taking the first steps to serving on a board
Tap your way to fast relief
Want to reduce physical and psychological stress? Emotional Freedom Techniques may be able to help.
Tap your way to fast relief
Telling nursing’s stories: Reality or fiction?
Ten tips for transitioning from home care nurse to nurse manager
The Bedpan and its Significance
The caring-quilting connection
Even if you’re not a quilt connoisseur, you’re sure to appreciate the beauty and handiwork of this nurse’s quilt. Its creator sees profound parallels between quilting and nursing.
The Difference Between Being Thankful and Being Grateful
The freeing force of laughter
By reciting wacky dialogue from a scene in a Monty Python movie, Mary Delisle, RN, interrupted the negative thought patterns of a patient mired in dread and dispair.
The importance of being unreasonable
The joys of journaling and poetic expression
A journalist before becoming a nurse, Kristina Ibitayo has never abandoned her love for writing. Her poems celebrate true friendship and probe life’s possibilities.
The little things we do
The mindful nurse
The Most Important Leadership Competencies, According to Leaders Around the World
The pandemic and early career nurses
The Power of Introverts
The power of Lean Six Sigma
The power of the positive
The Relentless School Nurse: #NursesAreNotOK
The Relentless School Nurse: Feeling simultaneously empowered and disempowered
The Relentless School Nurse: Please SAVE OUR SCHOOLS!
The ring
A lesson in loss and love.
The selflessness and dedication of military nurses
The Stories That Never Get Told – Compassion
The times—and the nursing job market—they are a changin’
Donna Cardillo, MA, RN writes about the nursing job market.
The will to live – and living well
The wisdom of renewal
Therapeutic storytelling in nursing practice
Storytelling is a useful way to promote holistic care. The next time your patient shows poor coping ability, you might want to ask him to tell a story about what he’s experiencing.
Thinking it through: The path to reflective leadership
This nurse writes exceptional verse
Nurse Cortney Davis creates deeply moving poems from the pain and pathos that caregivers encounter every day.
Thoughtful feedback loop: A nurse’s approach to personal and organizational improvement
Tips for long-term exercise success
Tired of being tired? Try Pilates!
These basic Pilates exercises will not only make you stronger and more flexible – they will enregize you.
Tired of caring? You may have compassion fatigue
Too young to be a nurse leader?
Touch of kindness
Helping a little victim of sexual assault brings a profound realization.
Unpacking the pounds that weigh you down
Uplifting nurses
Use it or lose it: Physical fitness for nurses
Using power skills for personal wellness
Here’s expert advice on how to manage your own self-care.
Viewpoint: Adding respect to freedom of speech
Viewpoint: Caring Science meets Heart Science: A guide to authentic caring practice
Viewpoint: Lessons learned from nurses in rural Uganda
Violence should not be part of the job
Visitor restrictions during COVID-19: ethical considerations
Volunteering resources
Walking the labyrinth: An exercise in self-healing
Wellness 101: 9 dimensions of wellness
What do nurses want?
What every nurse needs to know about the clinical aspects of child abuse
Child-abuse cases can be the mot difficult ones for nurses to cope with. But with the right knowledge and tools, you can care for abused children more effectively.
What followers want in their nurse leaders
What have you done for you lately?
For your own good, take time for yourself.