Category: NURS608

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I first watched this video shortly after it was released and have come back to it periodically over the last 11 years. It has served as a reminder to “be kind, for everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about.” While the original source of this quote is unknown (it has been attributed to…

This assignment asked us to answer the question, “how can I think differently?” when it comes to nursing theory and its application to practice. After much consideration, I discovered nursing theory is as relevant today as it was in the early days of the Crimean War. Dr. Patricia Benner’s From novice to expert theory, originally…

“With flexibility and persistence, hope prevails.” – H.Rowe During the height of the pandemic, I was working in a pediatric emergency department. As we navigated the rapidly changing direction from our governmental and organizational leaders, we also met countless families who came to us with heightened anxieties and worries with their sick children. I will…

This word cloud displays my nursing values. Acknowledging our values and their impact on how we show up in the world – as humans, but especially as nurses – allows us to be intentional with our words and actions. Curiosity is the most prominent value in my word cloud which is fitting as it is…

In the midst of doing nursing, we don’t often stop to define what nursing is. This assignment challenged me to consider what I *thought* I knew about nursing. In considering this, I was able to determine what being a nurse is to me and identify how aspects of the nursing metaparadigm and other views of…

Originally written by Beth Perry (2009, p. 24), my additional verse, italicized. Beth Perry’s (2009) poem beautifully showcases how nursing is a blend of vast knowledge and human connection; how nursing can be both intimate and objective, the seemingly fleeting and insignificant moments of connection quite possibly being the most significant of all. Perry has…