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Good “of the Day” #9: Damn Those Odds
Some things are too important to accept defeat or give up. Only you can choose what they are, and only you can stick to them when it gets hard. Persistence is about an important an ingredient to...
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Good “of the Day” #10: Sisters separated 40 years ago find each other at work
This story brings new meaning to the idea of getting “benefits” from work! “After tragedy, abandonment and living in orphanages, DNA tests confirmed the two women’s many coincidences were anything...
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Nurses have A Perfection Problem. Do You?
“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali “It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.” – Suellen Fried PROBLEM: Many nurses hold themselves...
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Nurses and the OCD Trap
“The beatings will continue until morale improves.” The sadistic madness of this statement is obvious, yet in a more subtle form, it’s mainstream thinking in nursing. So desperate to enforce our ideals...
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Good “of the Day” #23 : Clinical Fun!
Sometimes a Treater’s Gotta Know!Filed under: Fun, RN Tagged: Fun, humor, laugh, Nurse, nursing
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Good “of the Day” # 24 : Experience is…
«Experience is the teacher of all things.»— Julius Caesar Source: Experience is the teacher of all things.Filed under: Healthy Mind, RN Tagged: advice, experience, grow, learn, life, quote, Success
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Good “of the Day” #25: Teen Invents Device For Alzheimer’s
“Kenneth Shinozuka is an incredible young man, who loves his grandfather. When his grandfather, who has Alzheimer’s, began wandering away from home, Kenneth wanted to do something to help him […]” For...
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Good “of the Day” #28: You are here for a reason
What’s your reason? Not that you have to pick just one, but it’s a start. First, though, check out this great comic to understand the question better: You are here for a reason So what is it?Filed...
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Good “of the Day” #30: Nurses dancing with a little girl!
Thanks to Marc Messier (@MessierOnFire) for this great link: Nurses dancing with a little girl!Filed under: Fun, RN Tagged: care, coping, dance, Fun, health care, Hospital, life, Nurse, nursing, video
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Good “of the Day” #32: University Student’s Kindness to a Stranger
Thanks to Reshareworthy for this story: “A young man’s gesture of kindness towards a deaf man with cerebral palsy is touching hearts around the world. Canadian university student Godfrey Coutto was on...
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Depression Catch 22: Digging Out
Here’s the Catch 22 of depression: It deeply messes up your life, puts you in a deep, dark hole that only you can see. You badly need to climb back out and get your life back, get YOU back, right? As...
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Good “of the Day”: Psych Nurse Trains Cops
What a great idea! Source: Nurse Helps Prepare Police for Encounters with the Mentally IllFiled under: Healthy Mind, RN Tagged: cops, Mental health, mental illness, Nurse, nursing, police, RN
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Psych! I’m the new ambassador between illnesses and treaters!
I’ve long struggled to find a focus for this blog. It’s easy to offer lots of material, but a focus has eluded me. One that fits me comfortably like a well-worn shoe, ties it all together, defines my...
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Nurses Talking to Psych: The Five Lethal Steps of Stigma
What comes to mind when you hear “mental illness?” Many if not most nurses feel dread. They imagine danger, pain, frustration, hostility, violence, wasted time and energy. For 20 years, I’ve heard...
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Power & fun for nurses! Not just for Halloween
Now that we’ve had our costume and candy fun, what can Halloween teach us? How can we use this fun day to become better nurses? Halloween teaches at least three lessons: It teaches us that joy and fun...
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Top Ten in Mental Health News
The sun affects mental health than we think: Two researchers show how sunlight exposure affects mental health and sleep, and what to do about it. Scientific American shows how our device screens have...
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Pagan Priest Wins Right To Wear Horns For Maine Driver’s License Photo
Originally posted on JONATHAN TURLEY: Phelan Moonsong, 56, has achieved something that no pagan or non-pagan has ever achieved before him. He has been allowed to wear his ceremonial goat horns as a...
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Play to your strengths for the win
We each have different strengths and weaknesses. I, for example, have far more willpower when it comes to buying junk food than eating it. I can skip the purchase, but tend to eat the whole thing –...
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My question to you, dear reader
I tweak this blog from time to time. I remain and plan to always remain a student of such work. Learning is living, and I’ll keep learning and living as long as life allows me. I adapt as I go, and as...
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Flip that old New Year’s resolution thing
New Year’s Day: it’s that magical time when people traditionally make grandiose promises, set ambitious new goals that soon fall by the wayside. Again. How many failed diets, how many unused gym...
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