Be Your Own Nurse

steel fork

Listening to messages

An analogy that I often use to describe my own experiences in tough caregiving situations is to say, “I have a fork in my…
A nurse walking alone down a hallway

Finding Your Connection

In a year of finding center, finding connection is important. Nursing is relational. How do you know that you’re not alone as a nurse?…
Find the center when using social media

A year of finding center

Starting. Beginning. Renewing. It’s a New Year! What’s happening in your nursing practice that needs reflection? How do you “be your own nurse” in…
authentic

Authentic

Merriam-Webster chose “authentic” as the 2023 word of the year. It seems like this word has been around much longer than 2023. It seems…
Patricia Bunge graduated from Toledo Hospital School of Nursing in 1954. She celebrated her 90th birthday this year.

Mrs. Bunge or The Curious Nurse

If not for Mrs. Bunge I would not be a nurse today. Patricia Bunge graduated from Toledo Hospital School of Nursing in 1954.
good morning

Good Morning!

Have you ever found yourself startled when someone says “Good morning” as you pass in a hallway or on a sidewalk? After the deer-in-headlights…
conversation between nurses

Conversations as self-care

One intervention in my nursing practice is to facilitate intentional conversations. When I first started my role as a psych-mental health APRN in 2016,…
nurse reflection

Reflection is nursing practice

Personal and professional self-nursing requires reflection. Yet, in our world today, reflection is seen as something special and ethereal. Only certain people can reflect…
steel fork

Listening to messages

An analogy that I often use to describe my own experiences in tough caregiving situations is to say, “I have a fork…
A nurse walking alone down a hallway

Finding Your Connection

In a year of finding center, finding connection is important. Nursing is relational. How do you know that you’re not alone as…
Find the center when using social media

A year of finding center

Starting. Beginning. Renewing. It’s a New Year! What’s happening in your nursing practice that needs reflection? How do you “be your own…
authentic

Authentic

Merriam-Webster chose “authentic” as the 2023 word of the year. It seems like this word has been around much longer than 2023.…
good morning

Good Morning!

Have you ever found yourself startled when someone says “Good morning” as you pass in a hallway or on a sidewalk? After…
conversation between nurses

Conversations as self-care

One intervention in my nursing practice is to facilitate intentional conversations. When I first started my role as a psych-mental health APRN…
nurse reflection

Reflection is nursing practice

Personal and professional self-nursing requires reflection. Yet, in our world today, reflection is seen as something special and ethereal. Only certain people…

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