Morning Vitals: New Year’s Resolutions to Enhance Your Nursing Career and Unify Your Personal and Work Lives
by Last week, I looked ahead toward 2020 and laid out a few goals for Morning Vitals. Setting that in context, with all the talk this …
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Morning Vitals: Looking Forward to Personal Nursing Career Challenges and Opportunities in 2020
A couple of weeks ago, I took a look back at my nursing life in 2019 (see here). As we cross the threshold into 2020, …
Morning Vitals: Looking Back at My Life in Nursing in 2019
Moving swiftly to the end of this year, I’m looking back and looking forward at the same time. This week, I’ll write about my look …
Looking for a Deep Pluralism in Nursing
As long as there have been people, there have been disagreements as to the nature of reality. Each of us takes in a particular view …
Shift Report: Changes Coming to Morning Vitals
Since the beginning of this year, I’ve been working steadily to maintain this blog, which I’ve called Morning Vitals. Thus far, I’ve managed to add …
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Living Life in Real Time: Looking Back While Stepping Forward
I’ve said it many times before, although not necessarily on this blog: It’s crucial to live life in real time, to be neither simply reactive …
Attending Conferences: My Experience Thus Far in Nursing
This past week (June 3, 2019), I attending the Emerging Trends in Nursing Conference at Indiana Wesleyan University (IWU) in Marion, Indiana. The conference is …
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Retracing Personal Career Development in Nursing
In last week’s post, I took stock of where Morning Vitals has gone throughout its first three months. I also expressed my desire to refine …
Psychological Safety and Toxic Culture in Nursing Shared Governance
I recently received the March 2019 issue of American Nurse Today, the monthly magazine of American Nurses Association. The Leading the Way section includes a …
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Model and Process in Nursing Orientation, Part 3
I began this series on model and process in nursing orientation to begin a dialogue on this important aspect of nursing life. Two weeks ago, …
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Model and Process in Nursing Orientation, Part 2
Last week, in Part 1 of this series, I began to explore the idea of models of nursing orientation and various processes of orientation I …
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Model and Process in Nursing Orientation, Part 1
Last week, I mentioned my transition from night shift on a medical unit to day shift with a wound care unit. Thus far, I’ve survived …