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An interview with Dr. Elvira Bercochea

My daughter chose to be a nurse in costume for Halloween.  Of course she looks amazing cute in the outfit but it did make me question “what if she really wanted to be a nurse?” How do I feel about that?  Well, if my daughter wanted to be a nurse, there is no doubt that I would support her.  However, […]

Click below to listen to my audio interview with nurse author Elizabeth Scala about her new book Nursing from Within™ is an innovative and uplifting guide for nurses at all levels of the profession. Learn how to shift your inner perspective so you can enjoy the work of helping others, regardless of how stressful or challenging the environment you are […]

There is little doubt these days that one of the most important questions on the minds of nurses is “if I am assigned a patient infected with the Ebola virus, can I refuse to take care of that patient?” The answer is “no!” I know how scary it can be to take care of a patient with a highly contagious […]

My new client, Katie, sits across from me because of a situation that happened at work and resulted in a complaint before the Nurse Licensing Board. She’s scared and crying. I can tell by talking to her that she is a very compassionate nurse and does a great job. Yet, she doesn’t understand why this is happening to her. Like […]

Whenever I have the opportunity to meet a nurse from another country, I always wonder what nursing is like in their homeland. From a number of such international encounters, I found that nurses have the same frustrations no matter where they are in the world. Nurses are frustrated that they cannot speak their mind without risking getting into trouble. They […]

I read an article that recently has gone viral called “Fifteen Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy.”  The list made such an impact on me that I want now to share it with you. I’m not going to go through all fifteen but there are a couple of them that I feel are related to nursing. First is […]

  If you’ve been asked to go into a peer assistance program or if you voluntarily choose to go into the program to protect your license, here some things you should know. First, you will need to sign a recovery monitoring agreement which basically is a contract that you are entering the program and agree to certain of its requirements. […]

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle – Did you know a habit originally was a word for clothing? Some nurses who studied at a Catholic school would know this. But a habit also is “a routine behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur unconsciously.” – Merriam-Webster Dictionary […]

We can learn so much from nature. In nature, things are either flourishing or dying. I take that concept to heart because I want to continue growing and flourish instead of being on the other end of the spectrum. One of the ways to grow is to be a lifelong learner. Certainly, we have to take continuing education classes as […]