I found this article last February. It saddens me that we nurses are still at the mercy of others trying to define and rename us. Nurses do have many roles and titles and I suppose the general public still gets a bit confused. (See Jane Van De Velde’s guest post last week) My simplistic, but…… Continue reading WHAT A NURSE DOES BEST
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ONCE A NURSE, ALWAYS A NURSE By Jane Van De Velde, DNP, RN
My nursing career has taken me down many paths over the years. Presently, I am a Reiki Master Teacher as well as the founder of a nonprofit organization called The Reiki Share Project. People often ask me what I “do.” And I usually begin by telling them that I am a registered nurse. Their next…… Continue reading ONCE A NURSE, ALWAYS A NURSE By Jane Van De Velde, DNP, RN
A Nurse By Any Other Name—
I read the New York Times article, A Small Picture Approach to Health Care last week with so what’s new thoughts hopping in my head. Sure, the economics of funding health care services continues to be a challenge but we nurses can see the real change agent of this model’s Advocate Health Care approach is the…… Continue reading A Nurse By Any Other Name—
Getting Older: Charting the Uncharted 