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  • We Agers Are Experts On Our Own Aging Experience

    Originally posted on Engaging With Aging: With that expertise come responsibilities Many of the people who study old people, theorize and write about us, take care of us, or relate to us are not “old’ themselves. They experience old age second handedly. Earlier in my life as a nurse I often had older patients. As… Read more

  • Pope Francis Recognizes Nurses’ “Healing Power of Listening and Touch”

    This story reblogged from nurse.org. NEWS March 6, 2018 Pope Francis Calls Nurses, “Experts In Humanity” – Thanks Nurse Who Saved His Life Angelina Walker Share Now By Angelina Gibson  VATICAN CITY, Mar 3, 2018 – “I thank her and I want you to know her name: Sister Cornelia Caraglio,” said Pope Francis as he… Read more

  • Book tour in Chicago

    Saturday, June 1, 2019 I am scheduling this post to publish on Wednesday, June 5, 2019. That day, I will be in Chicago talking about my book to the Advanced Practice Nurses at Rush University. I have three other venues scheduled before I head home on Monday. In between events, I will spend time with… Read more

  • How PTSD is hurting nursing

    I came upon this post on KevinMD.com, written by a nurse. I am pleased that a physician has provided a vehicle for nurses to tell their stories and, in this case, share the heavy toll that working in a hospital setting can have on nurses.  How PTSD is hurting nursing ANNE NAULTY, RN | POLICY | MAY 22, 2019… Read more

  • The Eric Hoffer Award

    I am pleased to announce that Stories from the Tenth-Floor Clinic: A Nurse Practitioner Remembers is a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist. Read more

  • Nurses Week–Here We Go Again

    Here we go again. It’s Nurses Week and we are still battling a misguided perception of nurses. This isn’t just a week to celebrate nurses for all that we do to keep patients well and safe, not only in hospital settings but on the world stage, and to remind ourselves that for 52 weeks a… Read more