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Dreaming in nursing
I woke up at 0430 this morning with my heart pounding. Occasionally this happens, I have a “nightmare” about nursing. In this particular dream, I was working a night shift and at the end of the shift I was chatting with the nurses. I was getting ready for report, and I couldn’t remember seeing any […]
Physicians become more like nurses!
April 12, 2013
by Jane K. Dickinson
I was so excited to see this article today! My first thought was, “Wow! They are finally teaching physicians to be more like nurses!” These principles are the very same ones I learned in nursing school twenty years ago. Did you? Do we still use them in nursing? Healthcare has evolved over those twenty years, […]
What Not to Say to a Nurse — Hooters Opens Nursing School
March 9, 2013
by monashattell
“Male Nurses Make More Money” was published last week in the Wall Street Journal. As a registered nurse and a woman, I was angered and appalled at the comments that this article spawned, about the sexualized physicality of women nurses. Here are just a few of the comments: “Just another happy old guy” wrote: “I […]
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Becoming the Transformed Nurse
“Nursing worldwide has been so confined and controlled by external material, physical reality, found within Westernized medicine and institutions, that it has almost lost it own heritage and purposive existence. It has been so consumed by the modern demand for technological competencies it now is faced with having to restore the under-developed ‘ontological competencies’ so […]
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Language in Nursing Practice
January 29, 2013
by Jane K. Dickinson
I have found myself on a journey that I can no longer avoid. In 1992 I gave an inservice on language to a group of staff nurses on a pediatric unit in a large, teaching hospital. I was then a student in an MSN program (Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist Track). The focus of my talk […]
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The nursing revolution will not be televised: Part III, the work of consciousness evolution
If you are following these postings, you may have begun to wonder, ” well how can I, an everyday nurse, take on the enormity of changing myself; I have always been this way, these are engrained patterns, and I don’t know how to change”. I have outlined a few steps here, though the reader is […]
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May 6, 2013
by Carey S.
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