Nurse Flourish

05/14/2024

All emotions belong. Life includes joy AND sorrow. Nurse theorist Karen Foli shares her researched perspective and is known for her middle-range theory of Nurses' Psychological Trauma.

 Through popular culture, we are conditioned to value positive emotions and not only to value them, but on many occasions, place them as superior to negative feelings. Of course, the psychiatr…

02/09/2024

Nursing student Courtney Polimeni is the first place winner of the 2023 Dr. Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest. Her beautiful essay is called "The Window".

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01/19/2024

Wisdom on the importance of caring acknowledgment.

How do you help a grieving friend? It's hard to know what to do when someone is going though a difficult time. The thing is, you can't cheer someone up by te...

12/01/2023

Job-related pressures are associated with stress disorders, anxiety, depression, and su***de in nurses. Can you imagine system care of nurses and healthcare workers that includes pets as a protective factor? I can.

What makes nurses vulnerable to burnout and how it impacts the care they provide

05/12/2023

Happy Nurses Day to All! In November 2022, Evelyn Rose Benson, RN, received the NFPs [Nursing Foundation of Pennsylvania] Leadership Award in recognition of her 80-year nursing career. Her many accomplishments are written about here and captured in a video created by her granddaughter, Tova Benson-Tilsen.

Guardian of the Discipline Evelyn Rose Benson I met Evelyn Rose Benson at an annual meeting of the Nursing History Archives of the Boston University Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center circa 20…

05/09/2023

Together we can build an anti-racist healthcare system. Exposed is a groundbreaking documentary that combines the stories of 19 Black, brown and migrant nurses and midwives to speak about their powerful experiences of racism before, during and after the pandemic. The documentary lasts 1 hour. Nurses are gathering on May 20th to discuss this very powerful film.

Our May “Overdue Reckoning on Racism in Nursing” zoom gathering will be on May 20th! We will be discussing the film “Exposed” – a groundbreaking documentary that combines t…

05/08/2023

May we grow in care and understanding. This came from Frederick Craigie today--Fred taught resilience to residents at Maine Dartmouth and was one of my professors in Dr. Weil's program in 2016.

04/12/2023

Using the analogy of a plant, the author invites us to look at our ecological conditions and change them together. She rejects pathologizing wilting plants that have weathered a traumatizing pandemic. She doesn't go along with the main narrative that there's something wrong with wilting plants or people in distress. Distress is something to pay attention to--a telling indicator that environments/structures need to change. We need whole system change that values human good and flourishing for all--including nature

Society’s understanding of mental health issues locates the problem inside the person - and ignores the politics of their distress, says psychologist Sanah Ahsan

04/12/2023

Thank you Tim Sowicz, Ph.D., RN. This central focus is close to my heart: A central unifying force for the discipline of nursing includes “facilitating humanization, meaning, choice, quality of life, and healing in living and dying”. Goals of human good/human flourishing remain the focus and resist interests that are not conducive to nursing practice.

Notable works Contributor: Tim Sowicz, Ph.D., RN Willis, D. G., Grace, P. J., & Roy, C. (2008). A central unifying focus for the discipline: Facilitating humanization, meaning, choice, quality …

04/06/2023

What's most sacred to you? Professor Frederick Craigie offered up this inquiry during the Integrative Health and Lifestyle course for healthcare professionals in 2016. Professor Miroslav Volf teaches the same ancient questions in a popular course at Yale. He's just co-authored Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most. In my curriculum for healthcare professionals and organizations, mattering is given the attention it deserves.

Yale professor and author of “Life Worth Living” Miroslav Volf is sharing his lessons in finding joy and focusing on what matters most to live a meaningful l...

04/04/2023

Healthcare was sick before the pandemic. The Brigham and Women's national research study was just published--it shows that across healthcare roles, including non-clinical roles, workers are experiencing burnout and intent to leave related to work overload. To hear individual perspectives, NPR's On Point just aired a segment on moral injury. I invite you to listen.

In our nation’s for-profit health system, more and more health care professionals say they're being forced to make choices that are bad for patients. Much like soldiers at war, clinicians now report suffering from “moral injury.”

03/14/2023

Years ago, I was in a compassionate healthcare forum with Jan Gunnarsson. He is a wise human being who teaches hostship. His talk is worth a listen.

Jan Gunnarsson is a leading expert in the field of hospitality and service; or hostmanship as he calls it. In his TEDx talk, Jan gives you seven choices that...