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Guest post by Beth Boynton RN, MS I’ve been teaching, studying, and developing my own communication skills professionally for about ten years and personally, for a lot longer!  And still, I’m learning.  Assertiveness fascinating to me and although often considered a communication skill or style, is much much more. Assertiveness definitions vary from being firm and confident to being aggressive […]

Recently I learned that nurses at a major health care system in my home State of Indiana are organizing a union. I am most bothered by the fact that the nurses in this health system are so dissatisfied that they believe a union is necessary. I have trepidations in writing this post but feel it is necessary to make some […]

Guest post by Cynthia Howard RN, CNC, PhD, CEO Nurses are practical and purposeful. When your job is the well-being of other people it can be tough to put yourself in the schedule. Most nurses I know find caring for everyone else easy and the very thought of taking care of themselves may seem selfish. Yet, to achieve true balance […]

This past week I went before the Nursing Board. Not only do they hear matters against nurses who licenses are being charged but also cases of individuals who have completed their nursing education and now want to sit for the test. Some have skeletons in their closet such as a previous DUI conviction or some such criminal matter. Once you […]

Guest Post by Jill O’Hara, RN, CHHP, RMT Om, the sound of the Universe calling you! Most nurses are healers by nature, seeking to help others to a place of wellness in spite of the scientific nature of Allopathic medicine. We strive to correct and patch up the injured patients we encounter on a daily basis, hoping for miracle cures […]

Guest Post by Alene Nitzky, Ph.D., RN, OCN Alene Nitzky is founder and owner of Sunspirit Wellness Services, LLC based in Fort Collins Colorado. She provides online health coaching and exercise training. She specializes in working with people who have been through cancer treatment, or are living with cancer or other chronic health conditions. Most people go into nursing with […]

Here is one of my favorite quotes by Carols Castaneda, “The trick is in what one emphasizes.  We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy.  The amount of work is the same.”  This is so true.  Many nurses ask me, “How do I know if I am on the right direction?”  I believe that if you have a […]

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The late comedian, writer and actor Steve Allen once had a group of individuals, each bilingual but no 2 with the same pair of languages, form a circle. In the televised event, he told a joke, in English, to the first one who then told it in a separate language that he and the third person shared. That person then […]

Have you ever been at the nurses’ station and the manager comes over and says “We need someone to stay over and do a double shift.” You want to run and hide, you have plans and you are flat out exhausted. You hope that one of your coworkers will say yes. The first one said “No I can’t, my daughter […]