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How is Nursing Like a Pirateship ?

Nursing Shoes

Compassion Fatigue Series   Nursing Shoes 

Sometimes as a nurse I was told I had a “dark” sense of humor. Is that a reflection of my negativity toward my job and the people in my day or merely a coping mechanism?  What is the difference?  

  Is a dark sense of humor as important as a good pair of nursing shoes?

Mind Body connection with 4 B.A.G.S.

Mind Body Connection Simple with 4 B.A.G.S.

Boot Camp for Nurses I Breathing

Boot Camp for Nursing™ Part I Breathing

How does a nurse fit one more thing into the shift, workday, schedule and lifestyle?
This is a series of 5 simple techniques to strengthen survival skills in your life and career of nursing. Nursing school was efficient in teaching medical nursing education and taking care of the patient. This program teaches and encourages you how to take care of the nurse. Taking care of yourself in the medical profession allow for management of Compassion Fatigue, which is real and affecting thousands of nurses on a daily basis.
Watching my son as an infant when he was sleeping was such a joy. Not because I finally had time to myself, but to watch his tiny body fill his chest and abdomen with air, with him in a little blue sleeper looking so peaceful, so relaxed!

Blog Boot Camp for Nurses™ II Decompression

The BASICs for Decompression.

I have seen some of the worst cases of Decompression Sickness, or the bends, from
my experiences as a SCUBA diver. This article includes 5 BASIC decompression techniques you can use to release your work day and return home with renewed energy.

Nurse interviews President Obama

This U Tube interview summarizes the problems with the profession of nursing today.
It is time for nurses to speak up about their needs in healthcare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWpmO...layer_embedded

This is a fantastic summary. It is time to improve the quality of nurses lives and jobs.

10 Healthcare Professional Rights

Health Care Providers Bill of Rights:

Compassion Fatigue is a sickness plaguing healthcare staff. While there is hope, these articles provide tools to get back on track from Compassion Fatigue. This article is to give health care providers permission to make and create space for themselves in their workday. Awareness of your fatigue and acceptance is, to use an old cliche "the first step."
You may feel like you are struggling, but your co-workers may perceive you as highly functioning.

Tools Measuring Success in Healthcare Part Three

Tools Measuring Success in Healthcare Part Two

Welcome back to Nurse Guardian, LLC.

Nurse Guardian is a company that offers Compassion Fatigue Seminars, Train the Trainer on Compassion Fatigue and Life Coaching geared toward healthcare workers and care givers. This article is part two in a series of three articles.

See Article TOOLS MEASURING SUCCESS HEALTHCARE, ONE posted Friday April, 10th. For part I of this series.

Healthcare Protection During the Swine Flu II

The World Health Organization (WHO) is reporting the importance of not becoming complacent during this Swine Flu epidemic. Mexico has made an announcement they believe the worst is over with the Swine Flu. Like the Spanish Flu of 1918, which started in the spring, it slowed during the hot summer months. Once Fall and cooler weather came, the Spanish flu came back a powerful force
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Here is a link to the CDC website for healthcare providers. The page has information on public health, healthcare associated infections, travel notices including outbreaks and loads of information on vaccinations. If you only have a second, click the link for the travel immunization information.

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http://www.cdc.gov/CDCForYou/healthcare_providers.html

Swine Flu information from CDC

I had a great, great Grandmother succumb to the 1918 Flu Pandemic. Leaving my great Grandmother with her father and sibling to raise. While the situation probably could not have been prevented, this made me think about how important knowledge is regarding the Swine Flu. In 1918 there was no Internet! Can you imagine??

United States Government Recognizes Compassion Fatigue

http://www.healthfinder.gov/news/newsstory.aspx?docID=625911. This is an article based on U.S. government findings on compassion Fatigue.

digitalZENDO: Compression to Decompression

digitalZENDO: Compression to Decompression

Here is a fantastic website for expanding your mind and creating a focus to help with Compassion Fatigue

Compassion Fatigue Four Stages Article III

Giving back to health care Article XVIII

I started my Nursing career with my BSN degree clutched tightly in my hand. The other hand held a tissue, wiping the tears of relief from passing the NCLEX. Hired as a brand new nurse at a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio called Mt Sinai. Mt. Sinai Medical Center was a 400+ bed, level 1 trauma center, teaching hospital. ( the hospital since closed around 1997) I was given the gift of taking clear direction with my Nursing Career.

Tools Measuring Success Healthcare

Many measurement tools look at the “burn out factor” and reasons for “Compassion Fatigue” in healthcare. Compassion fatigue and burn out in health care are very real, effecting our healthcare system.