Select all that apply: patient care beyond the test
Multiple choice tests are among nursing education’s most recognizable stressors (or stigmata), up there with nursing care plans, and incessant group projects. Some see…
Can You Imagine?
The Growing Narratives of Men in Nursing
Male nurses, at any given point in their interaction with patients, family, colleagues, and strangers, have most likely answered many mundane and sometimes sublime…
When the Teacher Becomes the Lesson
Whether they are aware of it or not, I think health professions educators like myself teach with the notion that some of our students…
Video: A closer look at patient refusal
In the August issue of American Nurse Journal, Fidel Lim, DNP, CCRN, the author of our Can You Imagine? Nurse Influencer blog collaborated with…
By your patients you’ll be taught
When I was 20, I got my first job as a public health nurse for the Philippine National Cross. For a monthly salary of…
American Nurse Heroes: A Love Letter to Nursing
Late last month, the documentary film American Nurse Heroes, produced by HealthCom Media and Al Roker Entertainment, in collaboration with the American Nurses Association…
My experience on American Nurse Heroes
In a clinical encounter, nurses get to interview a patient, asking them the most private of questions, and with the help of a stethoscope…
Just Saying: Florence Nightingale’s Aphorisms
It is Nurses Week, and I can’t help but write about Florence Nightingale. A few years ago, I projected a slide bearing the well-known…
Above and beyond bed bath
The first time I heard “It’s not in my job description” invoked was during an interaction with a colleague in my very early days…
The Culture of Safety: Huddle and Muddle
The notion of culture of safety implies not merely the absence harm, injury or preventable death, but also the unmeasurable feeling that one is…
The Bedpan and its Significance
During the holiday doldrums I came across a 2015 Smithsonian magazine article entitled “The strange saga of George Washington’s bedpan.” The article was a…
In good company: Perspectives on sitting with patients
A quick Google search for “patient sitter jobs” yields 47 million results. A similar search for “registered nurse jobs” produces 454 million results. These…
Select all that apply: patient care beyond the test
Multiple choice tests are among nursing education’s most recognizable stressors (or stigmata), up there with nursing care plans, and incessant group projects.…
The Growing Narratives of Men in Nursing
Male nurses, at any given point in their interaction with patients, family, colleagues, and strangers, have most likely answered many mundane and…
When the Teacher Becomes the Lesson
Whether they are aware of it or not, I think health professions educators like myself teach with the notion that some of…
Video: A closer look at patient refusal
In the August issue of American Nurse Journal, Fidel Lim, DNP, CCRN, the author of our Can You Imagine? Nurse Influencer blog…
By your patients you’ll be taught
When I was 20, I got my first job as a public health nurse for the Philippine National Cross. For a monthly…
American Nurse Heroes: A Love Letter to Nursing
Late last month, the documentary film American Nurse Heroes, produced by HealthCom Media and Al Roker Entertainment, in collaboration with the American…
My experience on American Nurse Heroes
In a clinical encounter, nurses get to interview a patient, asking them the most private of questions, and with the help of…
Just Saying: Florence Nightingale’s Aphorisms
It is Nurses Week, and I can’t help but write about Florence Nightingale. A few years ago, I projected a slide bearing…
Above and beyond bed bath
The first time I heard “It’s not in my job description” invoked was during an interaction with a colleague in my very…
The Culture of Safety: Huddle and Muddle
The notion of culture of safety implies not merely the absence harm, injury or preventable death, but also the unmeasurable feeling that…
The Bedpan and its Significance
During the holiday doldrums I came across a 2015 Smithsonian magazine article entitled “The strange saga of George Washington’s bedpan.” The article…
In good company: Perspectives on sitting with patients
A quick Google search for “patient sitter jobs” yields 47 million results. A similar search for “registered nurse jobs” produces 454 million…
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