Radical Loving Care
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Days 130-132 The Finest Art
"Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead… Continue reading
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Days 75-79 – Child’s Play
Want to change the life of the patients and staff you work with? Go out and love them. Continue reading
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Days 66-67 What If?
“What if religion was each other? If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words? What if the temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water – the rivers, lakes, and oceans? What… Continue reading
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Days 59-60 “Live Long and Prosper”
The world mourns the loss of a great person, Leonard Nimoy. I wish to honor his memory by sharing this video of Nimoy as he shares his marvelous story. Apparently, Nimoy's parents were Orthodox Jews and immigrated from Iziaslav, Soviet… Continue reading
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Days 54-58 – The Popsicle & The Mayo Clinic
“We’re all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.” – Brene Brown Continue reading
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Days 52-53 The Ballerina
Please Note: This guest essay was written by my colleague Brian Beichner RN This reflection is my personal advice to the nurse that has to deal with the loss or potential loss of a patient. My advice is simple, talk… Continue reading
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Days 45 – 46 The Wonder of Our Lives
This excerpt from e. e. cumming's poem is a favorite. We have a singular purpose in life. We may look far and wide but we carry a simple truth. The root of the root; stay grounded in what… Continue reading
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Days 38-39 Where God Hides
"We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviors. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class… Continue reading
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Days 31-32 Radical Loving Care
"Spirituality is a dynamic and intrinsic aspect of humanity through which persons seek ultimate meaning, purpose, and transcendence, and experience relationship to self, family, others, community, society, nature, and the significant or sacred. Spirituality is expressed through beliefs, values, traditions,… Continue reading
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Days 24-25 A Defining Moment
I wish that you could see what I see; the radiance of your soul. This afternoon a call came in from our hospital liaison nurse, she was asked to coordinate a discharge home for a 50 year old woman with… Continue reading
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