In the US we used to live in just a few years ago, the public health reporting of communicable diseases both bacterial and viral was such a very different picture from what we’re seeing on the news today. We need to factor in the vast number of people who aren’t being tested and realize how very many more people are actually sick with the coronavirus COVID19 or are positive carriers spreading the disease faster than we can keep up. That number is one we can only estimate in our minds. But the point is, the real picture of this disease is much grimmer than we know – and than we…
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What a way to celebrate the Year of the Nurse and Midwife!
Misinformation about the coronavirus COVID19 has been rampant for weeks, and now that factual and informative information along with strong directives from the CDC has emerged, we’re experiencing the exponential growth we’ve heard about in locations such as Asia, Europe, and Australia. Nurses are scrambling to meet the needs of patients in every possible setting. In this Year of the Nurse and Midwife, no one could have imagined we’d find ourselves in the midst of such a crisis. But nurses are the backbone of the health care system and will work to educate the lay public on how to prevent infection and protect themselves and their loved ones from exposure.…
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It’s the Journey
I don’t know about you, but for me, 2019 was a year I couldn’t wait to see end. It was indeed one of the worst of my life. Getting past some of the dates of those worst days has been difficult too so far. Lots of PTSD. And to boot, 2020 hasn’t been exactly easy so far. Today was an emotional roller coaster with the Celebration of Life for Kobe Bryant. Living in southern CA and being a sports fan, Kobe found a soft spot in my heart. I’ve seen him on the court and in the community. One of the things that hit me today was a quote from…
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Honored to be Included – 40 Top Nursing Blogs of 2020
Recently Carson-Newman University Online notified me that TheNursingSite.com has been included in their list of 40 Top Nursing Blogs of 2020. I was thrilled. You can find the blog at number 3 under General Nursing Blogs. It’s always humbling and an honor to be in the company of so many great nurse bloggers and to be recommended to students by their university. As stated in the introduction if you Gooogle “nursing blog” you get an answer of over 500 million choices to investigate. The count I got today exceeded 608 million. If you drill down to nursing blogs in 2019, you will still find over 68 million entries. To break…
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Setting Intentions for the New Year
I hope everyone had a great holiday season! Admittedly, it was a little rough around the edges for me and my family. We had some losses of family and friends. It’s probably the main reason I haven’t posted in a while, but now it’s time to move forward with the new year and focus on setting intentions. While others are making and even breaking resolutions already, I choose to set Intentions. Resolutions have a connotation for something that needs to be fixed or resolved and in a quick time frame. Resolutions can be too easily rejected or cast aside when it becomes too much to carry them out. Usually, a…