Transform Your Soul
Transform Your Soul

Author: Irene Fulmer, RN

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2014-03

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1491716703

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Transform Your Soul: Reflections of a Nurse on Compassion, Healing, and Divine Power offers reflections for anyone who wants to minister to the sick and needy. Writing from a deep longing to honor nurses, Irene Fulmer, a practicing nurse herself, has collected her reflections on nursing into a single volume to inspire others by the richness of this sacred calling of nursing and the transformational power it holds. Nurses are the hands that touch and the voices that bring the message of caring to the sick and dying. They are the key to every kind of healing, for compassion is the true healer within each of us. The daily labors of love, patience, and hard work have offered precious seeds for healing to the sick. In these essays, Fulmer addresses the need to recover the soul of nursing and to reclaim and reintegrate the tenets of Florence Nightingale--timeless and noble ideals acknowledging that nursing is a calling and a spiritual practice. Fulmer suggests that this is the right direction for nursing to take in order to move forward. She also considers the idea that nursing is a reflection of the divine; its calling brings caring and compassion to the sick. Today, Nursing and America are at a crossroads. It must now clarify its destiny and redefine itself or be in danger of losing its soul, its meaning, and its relevance in today's world. There is hope for the future of Nursing and America. As its' soul becomes transformed, all society will experience healing and rebirth. http: //www.transformyoursoul.org/

Reflections on Nursing
Reflections on Nursing

Author: American Journal of Nursing

Publisher: LWW

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781496359063

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Experience nursing-the hardcore and the heartfelt-with these 80 true stories, written mainly by nurses. Let these stories show you the real world of nursing: The compassionate nurse who inspires dignity and strength in a young soldier losing his wife, The nurse who realizes her best friend, a fellow nurse, is stealing drugs from patients, The stellar, life-saving teamwork of doctor/nurse teams based on mutual respect, Nurses learning to deal with issues of respect, power, and experience versus status in nurse/doctor relationships, The retired doctor who recalls the nurse who saved him, as a young intern, from badly mishandling the care of a dying patient, The nurse who willingly took on an angry patient with a challenging case, to offer special help and encouragement, The stories of inspiring patients, who help nurses remember why they became a nurse to begin with, Experience the challenges, insights, and hard-earned wisdom at the heart of nursing. Book jacket.

Reflective Practice in Nursing
Reflective Practice in Nursing

Author: Lioba Howatson-Jones

Publisher: Learning Matters

Published: 2016-02-27

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1473967708

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Would you like to develop some strategies to manage knowledge deficits, near misses and mistakes in practice? Are you looking to improve your reflective writing for your portfolio, essays or assignments? Reflective practice enables us to make sense of, and learn from, the experiences we have each day and if nurtured properly can provide skills that will you come to rely on throughout your nursing career. Using clear language and insightful examples, scenarios and case studies the third edition of this popular and bestselling book shows you what reflection is, why it is so important and how you can use it to improve your nursing practice. Key features: · Clear and straightforward introduction to reflection directly written for nursing students and new nurses · Full of activities designed to build confidence when using reflective practice · Each chapter is linked to relevant NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters

Dear Nurse Me...
Dear Nurse Me...

Author: Wendy Trevarthen

Publisher:

Published: 2022-01-17

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781922714619

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Are you a nurse confused about what lies ahead in your career journey? Have you just graduated and want more pieces of the nurse puzzle to 'click'? Or perhaps you are an experienced nurse seeking solace from others to inspire you to 'just keep going'? 'Dear Nurse Me' explores 6 nurses' journeys as they have travelled through their careers, writing to their younger selves and giving them their words of wisdom. With over 200 years of combined nursing experience, they share with you valuable insights, strategies and reflections that will provide you with a dose of humanity that will infiltrate your soul. While the times have changed, and technologies advanced, the core of the nursing profession has stayed much the same, the never wavering desire to give care and compassion. Immerse yourself into their world and walk away inspired with an undying passion for the nursing profession that will not erode over time.

Nursing with the Hands of Jesus
Nursing with the Hands of Jesus

Author: Marie F. Romagnano

Publisher:

Published: 2004-02

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780974937014

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Sold in 5-packs. A spiritual guide on how to use The Divine Mercy message and devotion for all those who care for the sick.

Collaborative Caring
Collaborative Caring

Author: Suzanne Gordon

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2015-05-07

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 080145462X

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Teamwork is essential to improving the quality of patient care and reducing medical errors and injuries. But how does teamwork really function? And what are the barriers that sometimes prevent smart, well-intentioned people from building and sustaining effective teams? Collaborative Caring takes an unusual approach to the topic of teamwork. Editors Suzanne Gordon, Dr. David L. Feldman, and Dr. Michael Leonard have gathered fifty engaging first-person narratives provided by people from various health care professions.Each story vividly portrays a different dimension of teamwork, capturing the complexity—and sometimes messiness—of moving from theory to practice when it comes to creating genuine teams in health care. The stories help us understand what it means to be a team leader and an assertive team member. They vividly depict how patients are left out of or included on the team and what it means to bring teamwork training into a particular workplace. Exploring issues like psychological safety, patient advocacy, barriers to teamwork, and the kinds of institutional and organizational efforts that remove such barriers, the health care professionals who speak in this book ultimately have one consistent message: teamwork makes patient care safer and health care careers more satisfying. These stories are an invaluable tool for those moving toward genuine interprofessional and intraprofessional teamwork.

The Future of Nursing
The Future of Nursing

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2011-02-08

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 0309208955

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The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.